Alte Zürcher Blog - Flowers and Trees

Züriberg Trees

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:45:00-0400

No more colour! It's official

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:03:00-0400

Yesterday I posted a colour photo. I spent a while adjusting the colours, which were rather subtle, and previewing the results in Mac and Windows browsers to try and get a best common denominator. However after looking at the image on several other peoples PC's I was amazed how much they still varied based on hardware and software. It's hopeless - I give up. So here's some nice leaves that came back in a recent bunch of black and white negs.

Tree

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:43:00-0400

Garden

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:44:00-0400

Hönggerberg

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:21:00-0400

Nice clear spring morning so I went up the Hönggerberg looking for the view posted by z a few days ago. No luck though, so I took some trees instead

Frosty Morning

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:00-0400

Some berry things

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:48:00-0400

Grasping for illumination from my botanical readers.... (They're red, by the way)

This might also be of interest to Ham, Chuckeroon and other OM devotees. It was taken on a walkabout with the Zuiko 200mm F4 attached to the Canon EOS5D. This is the start of a wee tribute I'm making to the Zuiko/OM-system tradition. I hope to publish some thoughts on my collection of Zuiko lenses over the next few weeks (on another blog, yet to be born)

Christmas Tree

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:56:00-0400

Christmas was white frosty and cold, although it didn't snow on the day. This is another photo fropm the hills above Zurich

Trees

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:47:00-0400

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago, just outside Zurich, and for some reason I've become obsessed with it. I have no idea why, and this is just one of many treatments I have tried, some even in "colour". So I've posted it here to see if anyone can give me a clue. If everyone else thinks it's plain boring then I will make an appointment to see someone...

Another autumn

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:33:00-0400

A slight pun in the title. Everyone is posting autumn photos, so this is my contribution, and yes, yet another season has come and gone...

By the Glatt - part 2

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:11:00-0400

A few yards from the previous dark, urban image, we come across a scene of bucolic serenity, straight from Hobbiton

Autumn colours - Lindenhof

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:04:00-0400

Flowers

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:15:00-0400

Some more shrubbery, caught in a patch of sunlight outside a florists. (I have no idea - I'm sure someone knows. I posted it in colour to make identification easier)

Speug

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:44:00-0400

Not my usual sort of subject, I caught this speug (sparrow in scots, prounounced spyug) perched in what looks to me an uncharacteristic position. Normal habitat in Zurich is on cafe tables hoovering up left-over croissants. This looks like a Scottish speug on it's summer hols

Flower II

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:41:00-0400

More flowers. This time photographed with Leica M4-2 35mm Summicron Tri-X