Bernd
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Bernd Jansons
Australia
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Bernd Tschakert
United Kingdom
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Bernd Saller
Germany
219 creative works found
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Urban cityscape as viewed from the observation deck of the Shinjuku government tower (the south one, I think) in Tokyo, Japan. (Admission is free to both towers’ observation decks, so if you’re ever in Shinjuku, bear that in mind. Bear in mind also that your chances of the weather being clear enough to see Mt Fuji are cripplingly small. I certainly didn’t see it!) Anyway, back to the shot: I like it, it’s pretty cool, and I just adore Tokyo; but I was really, REALLY surprised when it won the October pentaxforums forum challenge poll, for the theme : “Cityscape” 8)) So in that regard, I guess it is the most ‘popular’ photo I’ve taken, as well as one I like!
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The reason why I like this shot is because it’s a photo of a Sydney icon that many people have, but a view of which that hasn’t really been captured. I also like it because I really approached the taking of this shot correctly. From knowing the right lane to be in, to having all the settings in the camera properly preset, to having the right camera and lens ready. And then I got lucky – the cloud cover was just right to avoid blow-outs and just for ONCE there was enough of a break in traffic that cars didn’t get in the way. I know it’s not quite perfect but it’s pretty much exactly what I set out to photograph. this photo won first place in a Pentaxforums.com members competition on the theme Symmetry in February 2008. Woohoo!!
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More art than photo, really… took this in a near-whiteout at Perisher, and extracted the main tree by massively increasing contrast and levels. Hence the slight fuzziness, hence the large drop-off in detail behind the tree, and hence (I think) the rather pleasing effect!
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Time stops
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Thanks for all the comments! This is a macro closeup of the lava lamp on my desk, taken a little while after I shook it to make it DO something! The photo was rotated 180 degrees to take advantage of the light reflecting off the tapered part of the glass, which I thought made it look more like the bubbles were being ‘spawned’. Saturation was increased, but the colours are real.
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Although they (the City of Sydney) do a great job every year, I think putting a large beating heart on the bridge was one of their best ideas to date. That, and ‘Eternity’. I also like how, if you look along the left of the top of the arch, you can just see the tiny little bridgeclimbers going about their touristy business. Expensive (and you can’t take a camera), but a pretty cool thing to do.
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A moment of contemplation
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I’m not sure at what point I decided to approach the ‘In the Moment’ challenge numerically (one person, two pigeons, three lions) but it happened!
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Why yes, this would make a great Valentines Day card. Thanks for asking!
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Absolutely fascinating building at 1 Lime Street which sadly is often overlooked in favour of The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) (bah!) nearby. Designed by Richard Rogers and completed in 1986, like the Pompidou Centre in Paris a lot of the items usually found inside buildings (stairs, elevators) are actually on the outside. Pentax istDS with Sigma 10-20mm lens.
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Yes, the inflight movies were boring. That’s why, when I spotted ice crystals forming on my aeroplane window and realised I had my Tamron 90mm macro lens handy, I decided to dedicate some time to capturing some of them properly. This was probably the best one. The vaguely rainbow-coloured background is based on the actual even more vague colours bounced off the window (ie. this photo has had its saturation enhanced)... but really it’s the natural and random formation of the crystals and their ‘artistic’ placement that I was captivated by.
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Actually it’s a view up the atrium of the Galleries Lafayette* (previously incorrectly referred to as ‘Printemps’) department store in Paris, France. They’re remarkably indulgent about tourists taking photos from the balconies on each floor (and in my case, although not for this shot, from the floor of the cosmetics department looking upwards). *The view from the roof is pretty spectacular, too, by the way – and it’s free!
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Are multiple overlapping CCTV Cameras getting you down? Does the thought of not just stereo 3-D capture of you walking down a perfectly normal street in daylight, but three if not more multiple freaking angles increasingly annoy you? Are you willing to let even more civil liberties slide by? Damnit, just swallow this capsule and let yourself be microchipped already. It’ll solve a lot of problems, and if nothing else a lot of people who are paid to monitor the things will be able to get some sunlight again. Remember : if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?
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Sometimes you just can’t script these sort of photos. I’d taken a couple of the empty footpath featuring just the door with the chalk writing. Then, out of nowhere, people with suitcases! Awesome 8) Location: Drury Lane, London.
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You step out of a limo and suddenly are assailed by a barrage of camera flashes, noise and fans. On one level it must be a nice validation, but on another surely you’d prefer it if things were a bit quieter? Hard to imagine what this feels like… Features (and could arguably be the standout image) in my 2010 Movie Premieres Calendar
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Amsterdam, 2008
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Taken in the town of St Cristina, 2009. The snow was falling lightly and a figure was pushing a pram down an otherwise deserted walk. I mean, yes, behind me there was a bustling town filled with car traffic, buses sloshing through snow and people wearing garishly gaudy ski gear. But for a moment… just a moment, the world was beautiful and quiet in black’n’white.
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It’s Oscars time, so I figured I’d post some of the shots I’ve been lucky enough to take at various movie premieres in London over the past year or so. This is Nicole Kidman – 1 Oscar Nominations and a Win (The Hours – 2003) Photo taken at the Premiere for Australia And features in my 2010 Movie Premieres Calendar
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Three hours in Verulamium Park suddenly got worth it in the space of 1/750sec.
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Quite an amazing avenue of trees in Cambridge, England. I took the shot of the green-covered trees and speculatively went black’n’white and was quite impressed at the almost perfect division in the photo : dark trunks vs white, Bright sky vs dark. The only minor issue – somebody had parked their RED BMW right in the middle of the path. Sure, you can edit these things out, but come on. In my world, wearing or dumping anything red in a tourist zone is a capital offence. No offence 8)
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It’s a glacial lake in Iceland, some 400km east of Reykjavik. The drive alone features volcanic beaches, swamps, mountains, grasslands, moss-covered boulders, occasional snow, icecaps and glaciers. That somehow, Iceland can top EVEN THAT and bring you an iceberg lagoon is pretty staggering. It doubled for Siberia in the film ‘Tomb Raider’ (2001) and was also the scene of a race between a jet-powered kayak and Richard Hammond driving some kind of four-wheel drive vehicle on the show Top Gear. And even though the weather wasn’t pure blue sky like I might have wanted, the sense of vastness, of even clouds seemingly unable to resist being drawn into the marvel, is pretty hard to resist
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The highest peak in the alps around Val Gardena, Italy (also known as Groedn, Austria. It’s a World War I thing. Language-wise, the area is if anything more German/Austrian). The view from the Marmolada was pretty staggering, the altitude was high, the ski back to the chairlift long, and (after I mistakenly skied past the chairlift) the challenge of getting back to the hotel before the whole region shut down was intense. And although I failed to make it back all the way and had to settle on a taxi, the photo was arguably worth it. It also achieves a rare (though dubious) personal photographic honor. For the last three ski trips, my favourite mountain photo has been my computer’s desktop theme for more or less a full year until the next ski trip. And this is the one for 2009. Below : the one for 2008: / Below : the one for 2007: / (interestingly, the ones for 2007 and 2008 were both taken on cheap Nikon point-and-shoot digital cameras. 2009 was taken on a Pentax DSLR. Which proves that even cheap point-and-shoots are no slouches in the right conditions)
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Katherine Heigl at the Premiere of The Ugly Truth> She seems very nice – very expressive and effervescent. And pretty. Very pretty.
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