Sand In My Shoes

SONY NEX-5 (55mm, f/6.3, 1/160 sec, ISO200)

I’m stuck at home as probably half of the planets population because of a tiny but deadly virus. So I looked back at my travels of the last couple of years when I captured my trips  with Fuji cameras. I decided to make a blog post with links to my personal favourite blog post. Here they are. My favourite 6 out of over 600. Continue reading

Winter Wonderland, Moscow February 2012

FUJIFILM FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2, 1/60 sec, ISO640)

The most important factor in traveling photography is: Luck! I have been to Moscow a couple of times before in the winter but it was always too warm thanks to global warming. I think I have said that already. But it fits as this post is the second part of “Blue Hour At The Red Square” I posted about two weeks ago. It was the third night in Moscow. St. Valentin’s day. When I woke up in the morning I knew it was going to be a good day. Finally it was snowing in Moscow! Continue reading

Blue Hour at the Red Square, Moscow February 2012 ( X100 )

FUJIFILM FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO500)

I have visited Moscow a couple of times but thanks to global warming it took till last February to have some really cold weather. Finally I would get the chance to see the Red Square covered with snow. Not on the first evening though. The day my plan arrived it was -33 degrees Celsius in the morning. It was close to the end of a cold wave coming from Siberia. The massive drop in temperature covered almost all of Europe. There were people dying in Poland and Ukraine. Continue reading