Snow photography with some pretty clouds

Took a little break from studying and went outside to take some pictures in the snow and of the snow. These are only a few of them, like always there are also posted on my deviantArt. Espicially a lot of sky photographs this time, the clouds were looking very lovely with the sun and all. [...]

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It’s snowing! A Blackbird sitting on a tree

Yesterday morning it started snowing and, euhm… it didn’t stop. It kept snowning and snowing for a few hours. When it – finally – stopped I grabbed my 500D and took some snow landscape shots when all of a sudden this Blackbird (Turdus merula) came sitting on our tree. I was only able to take [...]

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Moon and Stars photography

Tonight I took my first pictures of the moon. I took pictures of stars before but not as good as this time. It still isn’t good but I’m getting there . I really need one of those telezoom lenses. These are shot with a Canon 500D, 50-250 IS lens. For the moon the shutter speed [...]

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Canon EOS 500D, my pride, my love.

My old reflexcamera, a Fuji FinePix s5800 was a bit outdated. Bought it on eBay back in 07 for less then $200. Recently I’ve bought a new toy and so I though I’d dedicate my first real post to it. A Canon EOS 500D and o boy it’s good. It came with a 18-55 kit [...]

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