snow-covered apples 2012-12-08

Once again, winter has arrived...

around the airport (EDDS) 2012-02-16

In the afternoon I went to the airport to test a new lens. The pictures of the planes can be found here. The landscape around the airport consists of villages with fields in between and is called filder plain. The first picture is a view in the direction of Neuhausen auf den Fildern:

sunset

The church spire of Filderstadt has lights on its top due to its proximity to the airport:

Urach waterfall 2012-02-12

The waterfall near Bad Urach is frozen these days. Alongside the way from the parking lot to the falls itself runs a small creek. Frozen water forms bizarre sculptures around it.
The following two pictures demonstrate the edifference between long and short exposure times when photographing running water:

1/8 sek · f/32 · 60 mm · ISO 100

1/1000 sek · f/2.8 · 60 mm · ISO 100

Pictures from a walk over the fields around my home village 2012-02-11