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There's no future there's no past Beating hearts are all we have Getting stronger break by break From all of these mistakes I've made  Mistakes I've made/©Eelke Kleijn
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After a very busy and energy-guzzling week I am too tired to go out and to catch the last autumn colours. As the next two weeks will not bring any changes I'm enjoying the photos of the trips which I made this year. When I visited the Luberon area, I 'met' a lot of Hoopoe's and Golden Oriole's. Unfortunately the Hoopoe's were very shy and kept a big distance.....but they came down; the Golden Oriole's were only singing high in the trees. Last week my plans for next year changed unwillingly; instead of the Luberon area I will visit the Var region and instead of an accommodation with 2,5 hectare I will have a 5 hectare garden (that's until now the only positive change).  Hoopoe - Canon 7D, tripod, remote release, 35-350 mm, 1/350, F6.3, ISO500 As I visited the Var region in the early '90s and in 2000 for the last time, any suggestions for butterfly-spots and old rusty car-wrecks are welcome!
Every autumn I'm searching for a nice group of Fly Agarics and almost every autumn I try to photograph them in the dark with passing vehicles. This year I found a beautiful big group near a busy road in a village not far away; when I returned the same evening all of them were destroyed. I walked around and just at the moment I became desperate, I fortunately found some Fly Agarics near some traffic lights.  Canon 7D, tripod, remote release, 20-35 mm, 21 sec., F 10, ISO100 The advantage of an urban area is the presence of (orange) light which has the comfort to see what you are doing. The opposite happened when I was photographing a small group near a road in the middle of nowhere. I arrived at sunset and with a shuttertime of 30 seconds and live view I could'nt see anything. I used the level tool in my camera for the correct horizon and waited for some cars.....unfortunately it was not a busy road and I waited a long time.  Canon 7D, tripod, remote release, 10-24 mm, 25 sec., F 3.5, ISO100 To be out alone is not always funny as the second evening a car stopped on the wrong side of the road and inspected my car......I was 'hiding' in the dark and very curious I was waiting what would happen.....the car came back and after few hundred meter it stopped again and turned around.....that was the sign for me to run back to my car.
I arranged a personal bodyguard and returned to the same and some other place but although a new mushroom joined the group not much cars were passing that evenings. To get the best stripes three cars in both directions had to pass. |
Jibt dir dit Leben mal een Buff, denn weene keene Träne. Lach Dir'n Ast und setz Dir druff und baumle mit de Beene.
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