Industrial beauty
Industrial panorama pictures shot in the Glarus valley of Switzerland, rich in mountains and enterprises.
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Green sex at the garden: Frühlingsfest Botanischer Garten Zurich!
Spring came, and with its colours and scents and pollens. Let them all flow ! If you wanna give a closer look to our green neighbours, join the Spring festival of Botanical Garden Zurich on this Sunday the 27.4.2014 named: Frühlingsfest Botanischer Garten zum Thema «Blüten» Below pictures of the main actors of the festival: do you wanna know their names? Join the festival and meet them personally!
Here download the flyer (in German), here a mosaic of the pictures above and here check the website of the Festival. All pictures shot with D800 + the “macro” 50 mm f/1.4 – click to enjoy the pictures in full cropped format!
Macro pictures in space with D800 plus 16-35 mm f/4: a very close view to the International Space Station
Close to the shores of the North Sea, the European Space Agency develops the future research projects aboard the International Space Station.
The ISS high-definition model at the ESTEC
Inside the Esa Columbus module, ISS astronauts run scientific experiments and investigate how (absence of) gravity affects life development.
The ISS Columbus module
Together with the 1:1 Columbus module replica , additional ISS modules are present:
Detail on the shared environments on the ISS
The x-y-z communication doors between the ISS modules
One of the ISS passive connecting modules
Inside the ISS “cupola”, the space observatory where astronauts shoot pictures also to Earth
All macro pictures shot with hand-held D800 and 16-35 mm f/4. Although the 16-35 mm is a wide-angle, it can be used to shoot close-up details thanks to the minimal focusing distance of 29 cm, with a max. magnification ratio 1:4
What might be the D800 1/8000 for?
It for freezing time! If the light is strong enough for low ISO… if the subject is as thin as a f/2.8 focus plane… then the 1/8000 time option of the D800 let you capture unusual points of view. Like these upside-down single droplets out of a fountain . Click the picture to magnify. Here below the full size picture: find the waterman!
Urgency in a changing world: the ant case.
I don’t have all the time in the world to collect the flower nectar I need …
… I work in a fast changing environment which turns from juicy and colorful …
… to white and dry …
… so dry that it vanishes with the weakest blow! Click to magnify each picture shot with a Nikon 16-35 mm f/4
