Nerd Rage

This is a very spar­tan (and dark) guard room some­where in the maze they call Cas­tel Sant’Angelo in Rome. There were these two stone benches and a lit­tle fire-pot, and that’s it. Must not be a lot of fun to guard the Pope, even when the infi­dels don’t attack… This was taken with ISO400, which …

This was taken on a bike tour through the Neuer Garten in Pots­dam…

To mourn (or cel­e­brate) his depar­ture from the office next to mine, upon com­ple­tion of the first draft of his dis­ser­ta­tion, I felt I should post a few more shots of my dear col­league Cici Hoden­maier, who is also present here on flickr as christ-ian. This very hand­some shot of him (and no, he’s not …

This panorama, shot from the top of St. Peter’s Basil­ica, shows pretty much all that there is to Vat­i­can City. Taken dur­ing our recent trip to Rome. Stitched from 4 hand­held shots. The cor­ners are miss­ing, but I didn’t want to crop it any more than I already did…

It’s been a while since I posted the last ver­torama, but there weren’t really that many square motifs where I went. Enter the sun­set view from the See­brücke (pier) in Binz on Rügen! Even though it looks very roman­tic, it was freez­ing (well, not freez­ing but pretty darn) cold out there with a stiff breeze …

So yeah, this looks a bit dif­fer­ent. But I’ve been to the Hel­mut New­ton - SUMO exhi­bi­tion today and felt inspired to try some­thing new, Newton-ish (the only thing miss­ing to make this indis­tin­guish­able from a real New­ton is prob­a­bly a healthy amount of ISO1600-like noise and the model being nude…) This was taken on …

This was the first glimpse of the Colos­seum we had dur­ing our stay in Rome ear­lier this year, just hav­ing exited the sub­way sta­tion. It was a Sun­day which I guess meant that there were no cars allowed in parts of the inner city. That’s why peo­ple are walk­ing all over the road – but …

Here’s a panorama – didn’t have those for a while – stitched from 4 por­trait shots. This is the view from the ter­race atop Cas­tel Sant’Angelo (right below the angel) look­ing west toward Saint Peter’s basil­ica. I shot this on the day we went back to Ger­many, which was one of two days we had …

Here’s a panorama – didn’t have those for a while – stitched from 4 por­trait shots. This is the view from the ter­race atop Cas­tel Sant’Angelo (right below the angel) look­ing west toward Saint Peter’s basil­ica. I shot this on the day we went back to Ger­many, which was one of two days we had …

Here are some can­non­ball stacks in one of the inner court­yards of the Cas­tel. I tried to do some seri­ous bokeh here, but I was too far away from the front stack (in order not to have much else than the sec­ond stack in the back­ground) and could not go above f/4.8 aper­ture at the …