Thin_Ice

I bought a used 17.5. Can’t go wrong with that one if you like the 35 mm FOV. i use this lens for almost all my photography.  You can check my forum activity for some posts with images.   You can ...

Hi, Some pics of the Putrock festival 2018 for c&c I was lucky and had press acces :-). Steven Putrock Beringen 2018. “Mijnstage” ‘T hof van commerce @ putrock2018 Stage in an abandoned industrial ...

Off topic , but for the iphone fans: Iphones and other smartphones are not built for everyday use at school in belgian wheather.  Only motorolla has half decent wheather protection. Aside from the ...

Lars, Try to contact or follow the autors of this book: Die Geologie der Alpen aus der Luft (Deutsch) I have also seen a “making of” aricle, but can’t find it. Ruedi Homberger is an experienced ...

Smartphone is  like shooting  a wide angle prime : the default wide angle view helps seeing the image.   In wide angle street and family photography they are hard to beat in good light. i buy my ...

I forgot to mention:   Starbursts, not only in night shots. Even bright daylight on reflections on water. With a bright light source in the frame, try to turn the diafragm until the starbursts are ...

Major mistake! This voigt will be addictive and make a change of systems nearly impossible. When you like the voigtlander rendering, you will be looking at leica and medium format soon.  But it ...

Excellent work!   Incredible how you always blow us away with your far above average travel & documentary photography. The ferris wheel and the salt harvest are my favourites Is it acoincidence ...

There is no wrong side of 70.  Keep on going strong, just like the 505! 29er is managable.  49er and the foiling moths are difficult beasts, especially in our gusty conditions... steven

Hi John, you covered the event very well. I also have to thank you for showing that the pana 100-400 is the best choice in mft for this kind of photography if you can,’t get close. I had a look at ...

Especially the bright fresh powder snow under blue sky needs some compensation while metering, but i have to remember when coming out of the shadow.

These are the mountains in the Fanes, Senes, Braies natural parc between Marebbe and Cortina.   Lago di Braies is just at the other side of the mountains.   We stayed at Pederu at the end of the ...

The problem is that my em5 doesnt like the cold any more.   Depending on how cold it is, my shutter fails above 1/2000...   the cp filter and stopping down helps to keep shutter speed down a bit.

Three pics from my ski mountaineering week in the dolomites. I had very few keepers.   Fresh snow on monday and bright blue sky the rest of the week makes lightning a challenge. Guiding for my 16 ...

Edited and slightly cropped.   Omd em5 with voigtlander 17.5 Alpe di fanes

Tom, i was not aware that officially no photographers are allowed on a jury rib. i can understand your point at a world cup or eurocup level, and maybe at a national championship in very ...

John, Do you have to stay that far away from the regatta course? In the Netherlands there are some photographers at regatta’s that use to post their pics for the participants. I think they can get ...

Great pics from the regatta. We are had some ice on our lake last week.   In the next weeks we will be sailing our lasers, 29er and 505 again :-), but the water is still  aaaghrrrrrr.  Cold! Steven

Wikipedia probably has the answer.... They are housed for about eight months of the year and fed largely on hay, supplemented with cereals. They are grazed outside in the summer, and to prolong the ...

Went to iceland in 1992 as a student with a nikormat full mechanic slr with a 35 mm prime. Lifted and across the country.  Great experience! During the 2 weeks i was there, i ve seen every season, ...