Christmas Day in Olympia Park

sarasphotos

Hi All,

related to my previous thread, here are a few other pictures from our walk around the park. The weird wood structure is a ramp they built for a "Red Bull Crushed Ice" competition - the ramp will be filled with ice so that (young idiotic) men can skate down.

1) a Lightroom pano, stitched together from 5 hand-held photos



2) the light's starting to change...



3) the birds take flight



4) the weather was so clear that the entire chain of the Alps were visible, from Austria to the Allgäu



5) this is the Zugspitze, the highest peak in the German Alps



6) Sunset



7) weird knitted tree covers



8) sunset through the trees



9) silhouettes



10) another through-the-trees shot



All hand-held using my faithful Panasonic Lumix G5 with the 14-140 (28-280 equiv) F4.0 zoom.

Criticism and comments welcome.

Cheers, Sara

Stumblebum

Lovely set Sara!!
$4, #6, #9 and #10 are my favorites!clap
For #4, the pointy thing on far left, I would explore if it can be cloned out as it is getting attention....
Cheers!

Thelensspot

Nice set Sara.
3, 4 and 9 are my favs! with #9 being the Grand Prize winner!

Take care,

Wayne

Earache

All are beautiful... Love, love #9 Sara... the body-language of the silhouettes is great!
#2 is very nice also, and, because it shows more of the building, I like it better than the closer shots in your other thread (imo color works better).

sarasphotos

Taz, Wayne & Eric, thanks for the comments. re: #9 - we rounded a corner in the path and suddenly the sihlouettes on the opposing hill were in front of me. Of course I took several shots, my goal to get the kite in the frame with the guy flying it. Interestingly enough, I find it the pictures without the kite have more dramatic tension.

Taz, thanks for the heads up on that church spire. I have now cropped it out (and bumped up the orange luminosity a bit:



Cheers, Sara

Stumblebum

Love the reworked version! Cheers!

black mamba

Got yourself some really good stuff in this series, Sara. I was interested in the long-range view of the German Alps. I'm actively planning now for a trip next Summer that will traverse the entire length of the Alps....essentially from start to finish. I believe it entails running through parts of 7 or 8 countries and covers around 700 miles from start to finish. It will be a relative slow-pace affair as I intend to devote two weeks to the venture.

Have a great new year,

Tom

sarasphotos

Tom, that sounds like a great trip. One thing I would recommend is to bring good rain clothes (dress in layers) - the weather can be very iffy here in the summer. I'll belooking forward to your photo report!

That evening we were very lucky - as I said the Alps were completely "out". I stood on a bench with my friend holding onto my waist and zoomed out and rotated as smoothly as I could. The panorama was not so great because some people were standing in the way (how dare they!) but a couple of the shots turned out ok. Because my lens is so slow I had to bump to iso 1600 which in my camera means I have to do considerable noise reduction.

Cheers, Sara

CCoop

I'm blown away by the composition and lighting in #4! Can't even look at the rest as I'm still taking this one in! Stunning! --Carter

sarasphotos

Hi Carter, thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you liked the photos!

Cheers, Sara