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Yesterday was a very slow, cold, but beautiful day. One of the days that is there to enjoy to its fullest. A day that isn't demanding anything. A simple day. A day like they used to be.

Testing some prints tonight. I've been entertaining the idea of ​​switching my Etsy shop from digital downloads to prints for a while now. It's going to be one of my New Year's resolutions.

Winter has fully arrived now… and is gone again. Rain came after that. 😢

#photography #winter #wintervibes #winterwonderland #landscape #winterlandscape

A close-up of a round object completely covered in delicate, needle-like frost crystals, creating a textured, shimmering surface against a soft, icy background.

First frost of the year

#photography #frost #hoarfrost

Does anyone have experience with wood-eating fungi? Could this be Fomitiporia erecta?

#fungus #fungi #askbsky

Autumn colors!

#photography #autumn #autumncolors

Foggy morning

#photography #bwphotography #fog #foggymorning

Vagabound staring through the window

#photography #cats #blackandwhite #bwphotography

A red squirrel perched among green leaves and twisted branches, its bright eyes alert and curious as it looks toward the camera.

Haven't posted a squirrel in a while. Let's change that! 😉

#photography #wildlifephotography #squirrel #redsquirrel #hazelnut #nikon #nikonz6mk3 #nikkor200500

Black and white photo of a person standing on a balcony, framed by the ornate stone architecture of an old building. Sharp sunlight and deep shadows create a dramatic contrast across the facade.

London is a city full of contrasts in every possible form and shape.

#photography #blackandwhite #bwphotography #streetphotography #urbanjungle #london #contrasts #fensterfreitag

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

Black and white photograph of a man in a suit walking along a glass walkway in front of a monumental steel sculpture and modern building facade, creating a striking contrast between human scale and architectural mass.

City life is all about contrasts. Massive steel and glass rising above, while people move through it in their daily rhythm. Not made of steel and glass, and tiny in comparison. The architecture sets the stage, but it’s the flow of passersby that keeps the city alive.

#photography #streetphotgraphy

Black and white photograph of passengers inside a London Underground train, seen through the reflective window, blending sharp details with ghostly overlays of reflections.

Embankment

#photography #London #Metro #LondonUnderground #londonundergroundphotography #omsystem #om3 #mft #microfourthirds #olympus1240pro

I asked #ChatGPT to count the windows on that image. First it said 12. I asked if it is certain about that. It corrected itself to 15 and offered me to show where the windows are. Here we go. 😉

Black and white photo of a modern building facade with 16 round windows arranged in a grid pattern across a corrugated metal wall, reflecting the sky and surrounding structures.

#silentsunday #photography

A close-up black and white photo of a rusty metal grid with a delicate spider web intricately woven across its bars, softly lit by natural light in the background.

The mornings are getting a bit chilly again!

#photography #bwphotography #spiderwebs #blackandwhitephotography #omsystem #om3 #mft #microfourthirds #olympus25mm1.2 #niftyfifty

A detailed photograph of a blood moon during a lunar eclipse, glowing in deep red and orange hues against a dark night sky.

Lunar eclipse, aka blood moon – as seen from Germany last night.

#photography #moon #lunareclipse #luna #bloodmoon #bloodmoon2025 #omsystem #om3 #mft #microfourthirds #olympus150600 #olympus150600mm

I know, it's not yet #silentsunday. But I won't be sitting in front of the computer tomorrow.

#photography

I thought the large hadron collider would look differently! 😉

Thanks! 🙏

This solidifies my assumption that the RAW engine is the problem. If Photomator and Pixelmator Pro would like to compete with Lightroom, Photolab, aso, they need to either improve Apple's RAW engine or implement their own.

I've been playing around a bit more. It doesn't matter if you export the image as jpeg, heic or tiff. The quality is compromised for all of them. It also doesn't make a difference if you export the image with Photomator or Pixelmator Pro.

Yes, that's a crop. The full photo is okay. But I noticed a few days back, seeing images on a bigger projection, that something was a bit off. The images appeared a bit blurry. So I started testing. And now I can unsee it again.

Right, I'm talking about DxO Photolab. Leaves a good impression!

The best thing you can do for your mental health: Go outside! Every step helps, and every breath of fresh air makes a difference. No matter if you go alone or with someone else. Just go outside.

What I see here is a huge discrepancy on Photomator's side. I really love the usability of Photomator, but this together with the still missing OM System RAW support for OM-3 and OM-5II mixed with the total silence since Apple bought them is a brutal deal breaker for me. 😢

#Photolab 9 vs #Photomator. I hope you can still see the difference once Bsky is done with the image.