this film is just amazing. i got goosebumps when he jumped. great piece of work by both the diver and the cameraperson.

quick update: eva and i have moved and are more or less finished with the move. flo & ursi came for dinner last night and brought some flowers with them. i love the way the colours just pop against the black background of our *massive* windows.

more tulip pictures on my flickr page.

what a weekend. police band concert on friday evening, playing and emceeing is very hard work. went down really well and was an enjoyable evening.

skiing on saturday at the stubaier gletscher (pictures to follow). “junge solisten am podium” by the innStrumenti chamber orchestra was the evening’s entertainment on saturday.

sunday was a lazy day, spent most of the afternoon playing around with the latest, greatest version of lilypond. the evening was spent at a concert by the kammerchor walther von der vogelweide, conducted by claudio büchler, also the conductor of the uni orchestra.

this was quickly done in the improvised kitchen studio before dinner:

fruit and veg, originally uploaded by tiamak.

the tomatoes and the garlic in the basket have been surprising me every day with the simple colours, so i decided to knock together a quick studio in the kitchen. a large cardboard back-wall made from a weetabix box, lit by an overpowered sb-900, another sb-900 with a dome diffuser off to the right, kindly held by eva. not perfect, but not too shabby for a job knocked together in 3 minutes…

the picture at the top was taken during a short break from transcribing music. the sun hit the glasses just right on my laptop case, and luckily i had my camera sat next to me.

well, the last photo blog-post was from the landesfestumzug. since then, i’ve had the chance to photograph some tame wildlife, sports action, concerts, candids and some sailing.

IFI staff day, 24/09/2009

we had an IFI staff day towards the end of september. it was an organized trip with an action-packed morning, good lunch, followed by a lazy afternoon with huskies and birds of prey and a bbq to round it all off. here are some pictures:

IFI Staff Day — Hochseilgarten Kramsach

Fun and games and lots of adrenalin at the high-rope course in Kramsach.

IFI Staff Day — Husky-Ranch Angerberg

Relaxing afternoon with huskies.

IFI Staff Day — Birds of Prey

Impressive demonstration of owls and eagls.

IFI Staff Day — Archery Session

Playing with bows and arrows before a BBQ at the high-rope course to round off the day.

surprise class regatta, YKA; 26-27/09/2009

the YKA hosted a surprise class regatta at the end of september. i sailed with andi on graffiti again (the same skipper i sailed with on the lago di garda at the end of august). we won the regatta, which put andi in the overall winning spot for the austrian class association.

saturday was windy-ish, on sunday we spent most of the day hanging around waiting for wind. when it did turn up, it was flukey and turned and died down just before the only race for the day was about to be started. gave me a chance to get some pictures while out on the water though:

Surprise Regatta, 27/09/09

Regatta for the Austrian Surprise class hosted at the YKA, 26-27/09/2009.

Weltfest at the Treibhaus, 02/10/2009

emir, a good friend and great percussionist, volunteers at the integrationsbüro here in innsbruck. they organize a large “world festival” every year; this year, emir asked me to join the photography team of 4 photographers to photo-document the event. we basically spent the evening enjoying the festival and taking bucketloads of pictures. i really enjoyed the evening, and hope to be invited back again next year. here are all the pictures:

Weltfest 2009, 2/10/2009

I was asked to take pictures at the Weltfest in the Treibhaus.

a separate post will follow soon with the pick of my favourites and a bit on equipment and workflow.

hintersee, nr mittersill; 14/08/2009

this one’s been on the backburner now for a long while. when eva and i were tripping back and forth between tyrol and salzburg for two weeks this summer, we also detoured to one of my most favourite locations in the mountains – the hintersee near mittersill. this is a tiny little mountain lake created by an earthquake 800 years or so ago and a fantastically picturesque location. there are some very nice landscape pictures and a couple of quirky ones of eva here:

Hintersee, 14/8/2009

Short walk at the Hintersee near Mittersill with Eva.

that concludes the looooooooong backlog post. to quote the master of available light, joe mcnally, “more tk…”

this is just too fitting for what’s currently happening at university. no further comments needed.

saturday afternoon, we went to ebbs for coffee and cake. the place we went to (i can’t remember the name) has an amazing view of the inn valley around kufstein:

Little chapel

View southtowards Kufstein

on sunday, i had a surprise call from my mother that she was in kufstein. so, after breakfast, off for coffee. i knocked down the saturation on this picture in camera, trying to emulate the washed out colours of canons:

Caroleat Müllers Café

in the afternoon, we went for a walk up the thierberg in fantastic weather. it was signposted as 35 minutes, but it only took us about 20. would have been quicker if i hadn’t stopped every now and then to snap:

Cross

Stairs

the view from the top of the watchtower is fairly amazing:

The 2 KaisersZahmer Kaiser & Wilder Kaiser

there’s also a small little chapel as part of a hermitage. all in all, it was a fairly busy but relaxing weekend.

pictures

13 pictures from the weekend. nothing spectacular, but i’m slowly getting the hang of getting things right first time in camera.

Kufstein, 5-6/09/09

Weekend in Kufstein with Eva.

last sunday, eva and i went for a long-ish hike at the krimml waterfalls. there were bucketloads of tourists, but seeing as it had rained the day and night before, the waterfalls were really impressive. ok, the hike may not have been as long as it was if i hadn’t been taking so many pictures, but after running the RAWs through DxO, i ended up with a few good pictures.

the amount of spray in the air was fun and gave rise to some rainbows:

A little fall of rainEva enjoying the spray

Rainbow

pictures

nothing spectacular about the technique, no experiments, just happy-go-lucky snapshotting really, but i think the results are worth looking at. more on the “new” presentation of the pictures to follow in a different post.

Krimml Waterfalls

The highest chain of waterfalls in Europe. Hiked to the top of the falls with Eva.

coffee is good. but too much can be funne. i certainly need to cut back on my coffee consumption. i think i’m leading the table this month; we got a new coffee machine at work and it makes good coffee. but it’s strong. and now i’m rambling. back to work.

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

got this one from the trombone-l. apparently i’m a philadelphian. that must be one of the only places in the us where they still speak real english.

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Stability results were high which suggests you are very relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.. Orderliness results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment. Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

trait snapshot:

messy, disorganized, social, tough, outgoing, rarely worries, self revealing, open, risk taker, likes the unknown, likes large parties, makes friends easily, likes to stand out, likes to make fun of people, reckless, optimistic, positive, strong, does not like to be alone, ambivalent about chaos, abstract, impractical, not good at saving money, fearless, trusting, thrill seeker, not rule conscious, enjoys leadership, strange, loves food, abstract, rarely irritated, anti-authority, attracted to the counter culture

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anyone who’s ever visited me in the past knows that my room was a scene of “creative chaos”. that has changed. over the past month i’ve been tidying and getting rid of stuff. and now my room is quite comfortable and livable. and i’ve finally proved that my floor is not a rumour and that my desk is plain wood (for people who didn’t quite know). to prove the point (and to play around with my new old camera) i took a panorama picture.
technical note: camera is an IXUS 55, the software i used to stitch is hugin.

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“See the people in the windows? They’ll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what’s going through their minds, knowing that they’re on the plane that brought him home,” he said. “They’re going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They’re going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.”

Maj Steve Beck USMC

this picture is from a very moving presentation by todd deisler and jim sheeler from The Rocky Mountain News. they won a pulitzer prize for the full feature in april 2006. this is a side of war not seen very often, i was moved by the article. btw, u.s. memorial day was on monday…

• slideshow of the pictures
• the full story
• report on the pulitzer prize

a big thankyou has to go out to a good friend from 47words for pointing out a greivous thinking error on my part regarding css. thx, nolan… the background picture was taken by sym on the hohe munde. thx also to him.
the thing is not quite finished. in fact only two parts are done so far, another 16 or so to go. the css isn’t quite finished yet, but that will happen organically. i hope…
and now off for a beer then home to put some order in the chaotic hole some ppl like to call my room. i call it home and it’s getting there. eventually.

intentions and the rest

i’m wondering if i want to make a statement with this thing. let me think about that for a while. i’m sure i want to say something to the world. even if it is only a BIG (-ish at least) sign saying “here i am”.
i think i just want to share some of myself with the world. show what i do, maybe inspire other people to follow my philosophy in life (which still needs to be formulated after 26 yrs — maybe this experiment will help). i’ll probably put up entries about my hobbies, nothing too personal (i’m still a bit leery about this whole online exhibitionism thing).
i think i would welcome comments and the freedom to come crashing down on unwanted or unsolicited weirdness with a heavy click on the delete button here in my personal little corner of the web.
regarding the design: y’all hang with me for a bit — it will change. this thing has only just been installed and i need to work out the templating system yet. but it will change. expect something spectacularly simple yet elegant and functional. and mindblowingly cool while we’re at it. i’ll think of summat…