Back with a bang (600mm f/4 & 14mm f/3.5)

Good photo god, what an incredible odyssey!

As you might remember: first my brand new D7000 + gimmicks get stolen. I had a hard time coping with this fact. Then I bought a new D7000, a new 50mm f/1.4 (this time a sweet AF-S Nikkor), a new battery grip and a new flash (SB-700 instead of SB-900). Then, the new D7000 decides after a short working phase to take some days off because the flash stopped working. Off to Nikon Service Point Vienna and another 2 ½ weeks without camera - FINE!

Now FINALLY everything is back in my hands, everything is working and everything is fine. So here's a quick recap of the last few weeks:

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Dead, hollow, abandoned (Linz, Pt. I)

Due to recent real estate investments of my employer I had the opportunity to shoot at a very interesting location: The empty, abandoned offices and production halls of Quelle (German mail order company, became bankrupt some time ago).
Actually, it's not that abandoned, there are plenty of construction workers ripping out the walls and copper cables to renovate the buildings.
Nevertheless, the feelings remain the same: Loneliness,  silence and the devastating effects of stupid financial decisions.

There are some great places to shoot. E.g. the vast tunnel system that makes you feel like you're in some secret military bunkers.
The dirty, empty offices where a lonely ceiling fan is still spinning.
The shallow maintenance corridors between the walls that are covered in dust and spider webs.

Just take a look at the photos to see what I'm talking about!

And yes, that IS a shopping cart in an office! And no, I don't know why it's there! :D

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Autumn morning

Initially, I planned to do some morning fog photos today due to yesterday's weather forecast. But - as usual - those forecasts hardly come true. Nevertheless, I got up early, grabbed my gear once again and headed off into the woods.

Well, enjoy the photos ...

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Spotlight on and guide me through the night!

Ok, we were sitting around yesterday evening, drinking beer, playing FIFA, having a good time and listening to music. Then the song "Lichter meiner Stadt" (~ "Lights of my city") started playing and I felt this urge to go out and shoot something - with my camera of course :)
So I grabbed my gear, a good friend and some beer and we headed off into our neon-lit hometown. What followed were ~ 5 hours of walking around at the railway tracks and the main road, a broken beer bottle and some hundred available light/long exposure photos.

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October's end

The last week of October had some amazing weather conditions. Frost, first snow, and fog along with some amazing towering clouds.

I'll keep it short, here are the photos:

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digging around in the archives ...

So here's the story: I used to organize my photos with ACDSee Pro 3 (excellent software, I like it more than Adobe Bridge or Lightroom). Recently my external HDD crashed, gladly I was able to restore almost all of my data (just ~12 photos are lost).
Anyway! Now I've got to reorganize my whole archive and stumbled upon some older photos from 2008 to early 2010 and now I feel like sharing them :-) ...

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Mission accomplished!

Took some photos, did something for my stamina (photo tour by bike), took a dive in the river (with camera) - That's the summary of yesterday's photo trip! It has been quiet a busy day but I'm pleased with the results:

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