Berny27's blog ^pro

Sometimes it's really funny and exciting to dig in mountains of old slides.....with mountains. My "hiking"-camera at that time was a Minox 35, so you can't compare the quality to digital photos nowerdays, but anyway, hope you enjoyed especially the wonderful South Tirol.
Now I have to prepare my second Photobook about Vietnam, which includes the South. It will be a present, so maybe I will post some new or old photos with new treatment the next week.....and I created a new album "Bikes of burden" ;-)

I have to say a biiiiiig "THANK YOU" for bringing 500 pics in the group Frontpage and What's Hot with your visits, favorits and kind comments. But does the number really matter?

When my son Christoph (Chris82) brought me to Ipernity last year, I never dreamed about frontpage, I never had published one of my hobby pics. And after that time I have now to admit, there are many many much better amateur and professionial photographers in Ipernity, so that I really do not deserve this number 488. Not only those, who have an "all time ticket" for the frontpage, but many other artists, who bring there pics never or very rarely to What's Hot. So I will place some links in the future here in this blog and you are invited to do the same, to those "hidden" great artists. These links follow no ranking! The problem with the "Frontpage and What's hot" is, when you have not the time to sit hours and hours in front of your computer and comment many many other members to get back comments again (which sometimes leads to "comment hunting"), there is almost no chance to come into the group.

So my first links are (alphabetical - not in order of quality) - and these are only examples!:
http://www.ipernity.com/home/33759 (armin fuchs)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/designldg
http://www.ipernity.com/home/79116 (emmi)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/fisheye-pi
http://www.ipernity.com/home/gustavo_bogaugon
http://www.ipernity.com/home/kigaliwire
http://www.ipernity.com/home/mauli
http://www.ipernity.com/home/michelbeauvisage
http://www.ipernity.com/home/urban-style
http://www.ipernity.com/home/windeck
http://www.ipernity.com/home/witte

NEW 25/10/09:
http://www.ipernity.com/home/tonioloursin (AnthonyX)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/plume974 (dominique)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/121073 (du Tabac)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/elfo
http://www.ipernity.com/home/gaizka
http://www.ipernity.com/home/lucdurocher

NEW 01/11/09:
http://www.ipernity.com/home/126919 (Glen Lizardi Flores)
http://www.ipernity.com/home/chris82
http://www.ipernity.com/home/archifio

have fun all together
your Berny

I use the Photoshops raw converter to load CR2-Files from my Canon camera into Photoshop. After saving the postprocessed image and uploading to Ipernity, the saturation and contrast is very low, the image appears different from the original - which leads to a lot of anger ;-). Finally Philpp my son detected the problem, which I want to share with you.

After loading the CR2-raw file into Photoshop CS4 the profile is automatically set to 'Adobe RGB (1998)'. You must change it to 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1' using the menu 'Edit/Convert to Profile/Destination space'. There you can select the proper profile from a drop down menu.

as every year in Western Crete.....So I have to say goodbye for 2 weeks "unfortunately"....enjoy the rest of the summer and have fun with Ipernity,

always your Berny

The cleanest nuclear power plant of the world is surely Zwentendorf in Austria. It never came on stream because the people of Austria said NO in a national referendum. I had the possibility to visit this monument with my sons Chris and Phil and to shoot some interesting photos. A special thank to Johann Fleischer, the chief engineer there, who was an excellent guide for us.

After my stream about Istanbul (yes, it will end some day) I will post some photos, in the meantime visit the album of Chris82:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/chris82/album/130484

have a nice weekend all ;-)

Did you know, that the name was still Konstantinopel in 1930? Now its Istanbul, 12.5 mio. population and a lot of history. Stressful job, so we were there only for 4 days, but we were on the run from early in the morning till late in the evening, so we could get many many unforgetable impressions. Impressions from the historic buildings, wonderful mosques (not only the well known Blue mosque) and palaces (not only Topkapi), byzantine traces, impressions from a boat trip on the Bosporus, from friendly people, from the strong islamic influence and from the modern Istanbul too. It will not be my last visit there. A wonderful place to explore, worth a visit.

Equipment: Canon Eos 5d MarkII (I never read the instruction, I think I should do that), 24-105 and 400mm lenses, no flash. Most of the people photos were shot "from the hip", without looking through the lense, Lomo-like, but postprocessed. Before the trip I bought some guidebooks (Vis a Vis is very good) and maps, afterwards I bought the DVD Topkapi with Peter Ustinow, a cult movie.........

Two islands, two oceans. I scannes some "old" slides, Madeira was a trip with rented BMW F650 bikes in 1998 and Hawaii was a visit in 1989, on 4 of those wonderful islands, Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the big island Hawaii.
Both trips lead us in volcanic areas, on Hawaii with active volcanos and an eruption, which I could see live. Most of the lava erupted from Kupaianaha flowed directly to the sea. Steam explosions at the ocean entry fragmented the lava, creating black glassy sand that collected to form new beaches.
Madeira gives you wonderful opportunities for hiking in bizarr volcanic landcapes, wonderful flowers and exciting roads especially for motorcycles, for cars its sometimes a little bit narrow.
The scanned slides have not the best qualitity, but with my new software Vuescan, which works perfect under 64bit Vista and Windows 7 too, and my old scanner Canon FS4000 the results are pretty satisfying, at least for remembering a great time.

The cement factory in Kaltenleutgeben (Lafarge-Perlmooser company) near Vienna closed 1991 and decayed more and more since then. At that time it produced more than 1 million tons cement yearly. Nevertheless its a great industrial abandoned location with giant towers, halls, hidden rooms, machines, silos, electrical equipments and switchboards, for me a 'cement city' or 'cement ghost town'. Its not really safe there because of the undsoundness of structures, so its not open for public. I hope you enjoy some of the photos.........Its a historic place, where exploitation of lime began in the 15th century, 1848 the first furnaces were built, and only several years later the first cement factory.

My son Philipp travelled through the south of Japan for 5 weeks. He visited Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokio and other smaller cities and used his Canon 40D to make some nice photographs of this impressive country. I have the honor exceptionally :-)) to choose several raw pics and to make my own treatment. Thanks for the comments so far, they are mainly for the photographer!

Its a sad thing, that some users are posting unlicensed stolen pics from the internet, even downloaded windows wallpapers. Many other users do not recognize it and give this pics nice comments and favorites, which leads to an appeerance even in "What's hot". This is cheating and unfortunately the Ipernity team does nothing against it so far.

One of these users is donlorenzo!
www.ipernity.com/home/donlorenzo

See this contribution of Midwesternstock:
www.ipernity.com/doc/16840/3837582?from=3855684&at=1231654896

We have only ONE world to coexist, so we have to share it peacefully!

A wonderful island with wonderful people, beautiful landscapes and a lot of history. 2003 we travelled around and across the whole island by motorcycles, Hansi with an Africa Twin and I with a Kawasaki VN1500, which was really too big for all the small roads and street. We went by bike from Graz to Livorno, took the ferry to Palermo and the rest you can see on some scanned slides from that jorney. I still used my old Minolta X700 and mainly Fujichrome films. May be its not the right time now fro summer pics, when most of all ipernity members post christmas and winter pics, but anyway, hope you enjoy the impressions.

Several short visits to the area of Vienna were to OMV refinery near to the airport Schwechat (do you want to buy the Austrian Airlines, now for sale?), the Centre of Vienna near the Rathaus and Votiv-Church and the partly abandoned Railway Museum Area in Strasshof. The amazing old steam locomotives and traines in the large area outside are worth a visit for all friends of railway on the one hand and abandoned scenes on the other hand.........

The old railway Station was built at the end of 2. world war. Currently you can see there 80 locomotives and 180 wagons. If someone needs further information: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heizhaus_Strasshof.......

This stream is a jorney through the past,.....as you can see in the pics of the 2 WTC towers for instance. Scanned old slides bring me back to the years 1986 and 1989, when I visited NYC, "The Big Apple", Washington and Baltimore on the East Coast. We see mainly urban landscapes and few people, may be at that time I was not so interested in capturing street scenes(?).........The pics were taken with my old analogue Minolta X700 and a Minolta 28-85 lense. Its a skyscraper world, which is sometimes beautiful, especially the old buildings (Art Deco-Chrysler building e.g.), sometimes a little bit creepy.....

After arriving from Crete we visited the old harbour Albern in Vienna, built in 1939, with old abandoned cranes and huge granaries, a short visit, but much to see for the photographer ;-)
Many thanks for all the nice comments to the (long) Crete-stream, it was a pleasure to travel with you......;-)

I wonder, how many photos have been taken on this wonderful island. We were in Falasarna, where we go now since 16 years, a great place direct above a cliff with a big sandy beach, mountains in the background and marvelous small mountain roads and hidden gorges to explore. Crete is full of old rusty cars, trucks, full of nature and even in autumn there are green forestes. Hope you enjoy some of my amateur captures, this time taken with a Nikon D80 and the one and only 18-200 Nikkor. I'm too lazy to carry lenses or a tripod with me ;-)