Berny27's blog/

bin seit kurzem bei ipernity - warum: erstens, weil es schön ist, die festgehaltenen eindrücke mit anderen zu teilen (geteilte freude ist doppelte freude) und zweitens, weil ipernity eine wirklich sympathische community ist und es spass macht, in euren bildern zu stöbern. ach ja: und danke chrissi, meinem sohn in berlin, er hat mich erst auf ipernity aufmerksam gemacht (mitglied chris82).

warum ich gerne fotografiere? unter anderem wahrscheinlich, weil ich angst habe, den spannenden, schönen, eindrucksvollen.....moment, den ich gerade erlebe, zu verlieren. ich erinnere mich gerne (das heisst nicht, dass ich so ganz in der vergangenheit lebe).....

ich bin absolut kein profi, verwende meist nur 1 objektiv und nie ein stativ. bis 2007 machte ich ausschließlich Dias mit einer Minolta X700 und einem 28-85 objektiv, einige wenige mit einer kleinen Canon Powershot. endlich hab' ich nun eine Nikon D80 mit einem Nikkor 18-200 und das digitale zeitalter hat mich erreicht.

werde in der nächsten zeit ein paar dias digitalisieren und meine alben füllen (Vietnam, Cuba, Kreta, etc.), daher gibt es beim hochladen keine "gerade linie", mir macht's spass, manchmal dieses, machmal jenes bild auszugraben oder auch neue hochzuladen.

liebe grüße aus graz - euer Berny

I made two trips through the whole country 2005 and 2007 (the last bigger trip with my old Minolta X700). The posted images are scans from slides, so I apologize for the rather bad qualitiy.......But I really love this country and so I "must" do it......

Cuba is almost "finished", hope you enjoyed some of the impressions. Next "project" will be Patagonia primarily and some other parts of Argentina and Chile. "Project" means I will scan the slides of our adventure in the year 2000, when we travelled from Buenos Aires to Salta in the north-west and the Puna plateau in the Andes, then south along and in the Andes Mountains till Tierra del Fuego and the most southern City of the earth, Ushuaia, about 8000 km by car. Your comments - and critiques - are welcome.

After a short start in Buenos Aires we took a flight to the northwest of Argentina, to Salta. From there we rented a car and went up to about 4200 m altitude (too fast, I admit), to the Puna and San Antonio de los Cobres.

Now finally we crossed the Rio Colorado, south from here Patagonia begins with the Provincia Neuquén.

South Patagonia, many treasures are waiting in the area of Lago Viedma and Lago Argentina, El Chaltén, where we have seen strange giant clouds or the calving Glaciar Perito Moreno.

After the long trip through Argentina and Chile, in the future I will post some photos from a 10000 km-tour through the western USA. My friend and I rented two Harleys in San Francisco, a Road King and a Fat Boy....

We went up the west coast on Highway No. 1 through California, Oregon and Washington, then took the way along the canadian border to Alberta and the Waterton Glacier National Park, then south to the Yellowstone and all other National Parks in Utha, Arizona and Nevada and back to SF via the Yosemite NP. Besides two technical breakdowns of my Road King it was a wonderful trip and I hope you will enjoy some pics.........Again the images are scanned slides from my old Minolta X700 ;-)

Thank you very much for all the nice comments to the Argentina pics, I'm really glad about your visits.....:-)

I currently post photos from the Yellowstone National Park, where I've been 2 times, so I will insert also pics from my 1st visit there, just after the big fire.

Dear Ipernity-friends!

Have a nice time here the next 2 weeks, I will go to Crete for a real necessary vacation and sure I hope my camera will find some nice scenes.

See ya'
Berny

In my stream I posted some scanned slides from a trip long ago, so don't wonder, if something seems not brand new. I like this variety between nature and big cities, between technical details and cute animals and so on......After my holidays in Crete I cannot wait to post the new impressions, but after that I will proceed with Toronto, the CN tower for instance. Thank you for all your nice and interesting comments!

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 ;-)

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......;-)

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.....

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.......

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.