The better side: Springtime with my Sigma camera! ...

In that thread everyone is welcome to show how nice and brilliant pictures can be taken with Sigma cameras. I do this with my good old SD1 Merrill.

These pictures are from springtime, too, but from the past years. In centre Europe all is small and narrow; there is no distant "View to the Kilimandscharo" or Mt. Mckinley, but nevertheless winter and spring time can exist side by side. This picture reminds me of verses of the poem "The Easter Walk" in "Faust" from J.W. Goethe:

» From the ice they are freed, the stream and brook,
By the Spring’s enlivening, lovely look;
The valley’s green with joys of hope;
The Winter old and weak ascends
Back to the rugged mountain slope.

From there, as he flees, he downward sends
An impotent shower of icy hail
Streaking over the verdant vale. «

View from the Vallée de Thur to Markstein mountains (Alsace, France).

That picture I do also love very much. The yellow colour of the plants (Hieraticum *not* dandelions) was rather difficult to perserve in SPP.

Impression of mountain pasture at springtime

Some weeks later, I took a picture not very far from the place of first picture - but down from the mountains to the valley. It's my opinion, that with no one of all my other camera systems I could have taken such a "popping 3D" picture. Although the picture is not "final tack sharp" (handheld) and there is little haze in the air, the image has incredible depth. All the buildings, trees, cars and trucks look like in a diorama picture.

Dans la vallée de la thur

(The rectangular structure in the middle of the pic is the graveyard of that village.)

That yard you may detect at once at the following picture, which is definitely not taken at springtime I happen to find it, as I was looking for the first one.

Be happy with your pictures and your brilliant Foveon camera!
Johannes

Same scene after fresh snow