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keywords: description:Travel and Landscape Photography Stephan Russenschuck Photography Travel and Landscape Photography HomePlaces Iceland High Arctic Far South Mexico Altiplano Cuba Ladakh Nepal Sikkim and Bhutan Sri Lanka Myanmar China Namibia Italy Venice New York USA National ParksThemes Classical Architecture Modern Architecture Mountains in Color Mountains in Monochrome The Path to Buddha House of Christ Portraits Rust Trees Cars Doors Signs Street Art ScienceNewAbout Photo Essay: Cliff Jumper, Galle Fort, Sri Lanka June 18, 2020 2 CommentsA run, a jump, and a dive into chest-deep water, more jumps from rocks lower down, and a climb back to the top of the ramparts of the Dutch Fort in Galle, Sri Lanka.
First, I thought it was a crazy idea to pay $ 20 for an attraction that would risk someone’s life for a photo. I have been doing this since I was 15 says Asanka, 26, who could almost be Bob Marleys son.Other jobs are hard to come by he says, while showing me his portfolio with the details of his jumps. And many people just try to sneak an image without paying.
Checking out the viewpoint and lighting, I took a number of portrait shots of Asanka and made an appointment for the next morning. No one had yet obstructed the jumper’s start-up track to the edge of the rampart. I had prepared myself calculating the flight time and checking the buffer depth of the camera.
The view point was obvious and after a quick test for focus and exposure, Asanka took off his slippers, speeded up, and took off like an eagle. SR
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Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Sri Lanka, Travel photography Altiplano Watercolors May 19, 2020 1 CommentWhen the sun goes behind the clouds, many photographers pack away their camera. But there is no bad light, if only one finds a subject to match. Soft light is perfect for landscape photography during an overcast day, or after sunset looking east (which implies shooting at “sunset point” in the morning*). Soft light is also beautiful for portraits, except perhaps for very rugged men.
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Posted in Image quality, Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Color Management, Image quality, Landscape, Travel photography The Sheltering Desert April 4, 2020 0 CommentsFrom Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter to David Muench, many photographers have been attracted by the desert landscape.
The main reasons that I love the desert are its simplicity, quality of light due to low humidity in the air, and the ability to get away from the masses; if only you hike a mile. The absence of vegetation reveals the underlaying geological structures; the bare bones of Earth laid out in front of us.
On a recent trip we almost got trapped because of Covid-19 travel restrictions. For a second, I considered renting a campervan (aka RV) and hide in The Sheltering Dessert. This is the title of a book by Henno Martin (1910-1998), a German professor of geology who, along with Hermann Korn and their dog named Otto, lived for two years in the Namib desert.
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Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Colorado, Desert, Landscape, Namibia Wy I Decided to Shoot Film Exclusively March 27, 2020 0 CommentsI have recently abandoned digital photography and will sell all my digital cameras.Andreas Gurski shoots film and earns millions, so there must be convincing arguments.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Uncategorized Tagged 4x5, D850, Image quality, Linhof, Medium Format The End of the Dollar Sadhus January 18, 2020 0 CommentsThe Pashupatinath temple complex, located on the banks of the Bagmati River is on every visitor’s itinerary when stopping over in Kathmandu, either on the way to or from a trekking tour.
According to the legend, Shiva and his companion Parvati were so delighted with the place that they took the form of gazelles and enjoyed themselves in the hills by the river, thus the name Pahsipahti, which literally means “lord of the animals”. Already in the 5th century the kings of Nepal took the holy place under their care and expanded the temple complex with the Shiva temple as the main sanctuary (access strictly restricted to Hindus), as well as numerous secondary temples, hostels, kitchens, hospices, and cremation sites (ghats). Nothing is more worth living for a Hindu than to die and be burned in this place, as it is said that anyone who is cremated here goes directly to Nirvana. The ghats upstream were formerly reserved for the higher casts, the lower casts had to use the ghats downstream of the bridge. Until a few years ago, pilgrims also took a bath in the river, but it is now so polluted that even the hard-boiled no longer dare to do that.
For the Hindus from Nepal, a trip to Pashupatinath may replace a trip to Varanasi in India. It is therefore also a place that attracts Sadhus, the holy men that are walking the earth, smoking marijuana and hashish to gain religious illumination and liberation from the reincarnation cycle. By default, they have no wishes, no friends, and no enemies. The Shiva followers paint three horizontal lines on the forehead, the Vishnu devotees paint three vertical stripes in white-red-white for the deities Ram, Sita, and Laxman. Others rub their body with ashes that represent their death to the worldly life.
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Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Nepal, Travel photography A Happy GAS-Free New Year January 1, 2020 0 CommentsNow that I have survived the fireworks and its lingering fine-dust of strontium, barium, and sulfur, I wish you all a happy, GAS-free new year 2020.
Good health, good light* and good files. SR
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GAS = Gear acquisition syndrome
*The bulb that were forced to use, number one, to me, most importantly, I always look orange. D. Trump
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Firework, GAS, Remedios What If I Could Keep only One? Mid Term Assessment of the Nikon Z7 September 28, 2019 1 CommentReaders of this blog may have noticed that I followed the crowd and went mirrorlesslast November. Not in the sense of jumping ship to Sony (as seemingly all bloggers and youtubers these days), but adding the Z7 to the Nikon DSLR kit.
I was recently asked: what if I could keep, or better, carry only one? I am afraid that there is no simple answer, though I would be inclined toward the Z7 since I added the fabulous Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 S lens. Still, I refrained from the clickbait title “The End of the DSLR” for a good reason.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Uncategorized Tagged DSLR, Mirrorless, Nikon Z7 The Color Balance of the Night Sky July 1, 2019 0 CommentsNight sky over the Altiplano. Composite image of two exposures: One with and one without the star tracker. Nikon D850, 28 f/1.4 G at f/2, 30 seconds.
On a recent trip to the Altiplano of Bolivia and Chile I took along a star tracker. This was appropriate for a place, world famous for deep-sky astronomy, star gazing, and night-sky photography. The air is dry (at around 10% relative humidity), there is very little light pollution and the cold temperatures at altitudes above 4000 m prevent air stratification. In addition, the night-sky on the Southern hemisphere contains interesting objects, such as the Magellanic Clouds, and the Omega Centauri Cluster.
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Posted in Image quality, Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Night-sky photography, Star tracker The Last Sheet of Quickload (Part 1) June 25, 2019 0 CommentsLinhof Technika with the last sheet of Quickload about to be exposed. Notice the envelope retracted from the holder.
On a view camera a sheet of film must be loaded into a holder. This can be done in the complete darkness of a proper dark-room, in some odd, windowless hotel bathroom, or using a film-changing tent. After the camera has been set up and focused, the holder is inserted into the camera, the dark slide removed from the holder, and the exposure is made. The dark slide is then reinserted, and the film holder removed from the camera.
The standard (Riteway, Fidelity, and Toyo, among others) film holders hold two sheets, one on each side of the pressure plate. The Grafmatic holders held six individual sheets but they were not very reliable. Consequently, one has/had to carry multiple film holders, extra sheet film, the changing tent, and an empty box to store the exposed film. This kind of nuisance kept me away from the view camera for some time.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged 4x5 Sheet film, Fujifilm, Large-format photography, Linhof, Quickload Rust June 14, 2019 0 CommentsCementerio de trenes, Uyuni, Bolivia
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy. Matthew 6:19.
Rust consists of hydrated iron oxides Fe2O3and iron oxide-hdroxide Fe(OH)3.With sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any object made of iron will convert entirely to rust and disintegrate, because the porous surface layer provides no protection to the underlying metal parts.
Rust is also a metaphor for more general forms of decay (such as in “Rust Belt”, denoting an area of the American Midwest that has experienced economic cutbacks) or it may be associated with (an image of) faded glory.
Having photographed an abandoned whaling station in South Georgia, the train cemetery in Uyuni, Bolivia, wracked cars, and rotten steel doors, yielded a body of work that merits its dedicated gallery; Rust in the Themes section.
Check it out here. SR.
Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Antarctica, Rust, Travel photography, Uyuni Animitas June 11, 2019 0 CommentsCase study 1: Animita, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
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Animitas are abundant along Chilean highways. These shrines to the victims of car accidents are not graves but mark the spot where the body was separated from the soul.*It is believed that the souls may still wander around and therefore be able to interact with the visitors to these sites.
Animitas combine Christian symbols with secular memorials and other artefacts, in some case the wracked car. There are also animitas for marking other types of violent death, and for this reason the Catholic Church does not officially recognize animitas.
As animitas are often seen shoulder to shoulder, they indicate that it be very dangerous to travel on the roads in Chile and speed limits are taken as mere recommendations. Indeed, the WHO estimated death rate of 12.5 per 100 000 population per year is the highest rate among the OECD members; compare that to a rate of 2.7 in Switzerland.
I captured this small series of images around San Pedro de Atacama, where long steep grades allure drivers to speeding, while the break pads are overheating.
* The word animita comes from the Chilean word “anima”, that is, “soul” in English.
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Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography, Uncategorized Tagged Animitas, Chile, Travel photography Portraits of the Revolution March 2, 2019 0 CommentsPortraits of the Revolution, 2016
The northern districts of Havana are an architectural treasure of colonial style, neoclassic, art deco, Spanish baroque, modernism and, surprisingly little brutalism. The 50 years of neglect have preserved Havana as a unique place without the architectural atrocities found so often in our modern cities. This architectural heritage, the abundance of American cars from the 1950s, and the life and character of its inhabitants make Havana one of the visually richest and photo-friendliest places to visit. At first sight, one has the impression that nothing ever changes; some of your images may have been shot last week or fifty years ago. But change happens, some of which I was, unintendedly, able to capture in a series of images.
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Posted in Architecture, Photoessays, Travel photography Tagged Cuba, Havana, Still life Badass Fins and Badass Distortions December 16, 2018 0 Comments1959 Chevrolet Impala, La Habana Centro. Nikon Z7, Z 24-70 f/4 @ 24 mm. Distortion correction with the generic profile in ON1. Nothing is really straight in Havana, but it is not that warped.
The word badass has both negative and positive connotations, unlike the separate words badand ass suggest. The positive meaning describes something impressive, admirable, and cool. The negative meaning refers to something frightening and tough.
The tail fins on the 1959 Chevrolet Impala (here in La Habana Centro) are badass. Fins started to appear on American cars in the early 1950s and peaked at the end of that decade. The pinnacle is the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville. The fins supported the concept of design obsolescence; although quite technically similar, the cars and their fins grew bigger every year, so that customers could clearly see the difference between the models.
The geometric-distortion aberrations* of the Nikon 24-70 f/4 S for the Z6 and Z7 mirrorless cameras are definitely badass, whether or not they are a matter of concern will be the subject of this post.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Travel photography Tagged Distortion, DSLR, Image quality, Lens test, Nikon Z7 Two Photo Matrices December 1, 2018 0 CommentsBaywatch. Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Click to enlarge.
This post is not about linear algebra in digital-image processing, written as matrix operations, but matrices of images of a similar subjects, texture, or color; a special type of conceptual photography.
Some genres of photography, such as macro, landscape, architecture, and sport are easy to identify. Portraits are more difficult to categorize, coming as head-shots or environmental portraits, candid or arranged, as part of the street photography genre or as studio work for commercial purposes.
Conceptual photography is an even more ambiguous concept. A photo is said to be conceptual if it is used to illustrate a specific idea, helps to communicate a message, and tells a story with a singleimage.
But Bernd and Hilla Becher are also ranked among the conceptual photographers. They are best known for their series or of images, for example, water towers, gas tanks, and blast furnaces, organized in arrays of 9 to 16 images. I have found this type of photography at the same time challenging and easy.Challenging, because it requires a family of objects that are sufficiently uniform to work as a series, and yet diverse enough to remain interesting. Easy, because each single image is not required to stand on its own, which in turn relaxes somewhat the need for composition and technical perfection, the latter simply because each of the images can be printed smaller.
The Bechers have said that they try to arrange shapes and render them comparable. To do so, the objects are isolated from their context and freed from all association. Consequently, their shooting style is based on strict procedural rules including a standardized format, frontal view, absence of human presence, and identical lighting.
Going not quite so far, what I denote as photo matrices has found its way into galleries and poster shops, for example, “Doors of Marrakesh” and “Cats of Santorini“.At a recent trip to Florida (USA) and Havana (Cuba) I could not resist. Now I just need to find some wall space and someone who tells me the brand and model of the cars. SR
Americans in Havana, La Habana, Cuba. Click to enlarge.
Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography Tagged Conceptual photography, Cuba Beware of the Mirrorless Hype October 7, 2018 2 CommentsMy Laotian photo model: Nikon Z7 with 24-70 f/4 @ 70 mm, f/5.6
I thought long and hard about the title of this blog, which is a record of my first impressions with the Nikon Z7 kit, including the FTZ adapter and the Z 24-70 f/4 lens. The title shall not suggest that the Z7 is a bad camera, far from it.
The internet is already flooded with hands-on VLOGs from paid-for press events, unboxing videos, and full reviews of the Z7 image quality, although the only available software yet to digest the Z7 RAW files are ACR and Nikon NX-D. But as long as we cannot look behind the curtain and check the amount of in-camera cooking of the RAW and JPEG files, and there is no way to calibrate the color, it makes no sense to post 100% crops of sample images. And I can’t really call this a review.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality Tagged Image quality, Mirrorless, Nikon D850, Nikon Z7 Stacked Arctic Landscapes August 22, 2018 0 CommentsBalancing rock: Kollorsuaq, Greenland, 16 mm, f/8, stack of 6 images
Im back from an expedition cruise to the Baffin Bay high up in the Arctic between Canada and Greenland, a trip that brought me back to the roots as a landscape photographer.
Landscapes have been my exclusive subjects for more than 20 years when shooting film with a 45 view camera. Landscapes require detail. A beautiful scene, matching light (there is no such thing as bad light as everything boils down to finding a subject that matches the light), a solid composition, and exceptional detail in both the shadows and the highlights can create another level of viewing pleasure; the finished print revealing more detail than was perceivable with the naked eye.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Photoessays, Travel photography Tagged D850, Focus stacking, Greenland, Landscape Photoessay: Swiss Surprise Championship July 10, 2018 0 CommentsSwiss Surprise Championship
I know nothing about sailing, except that if the air flows along a curved path (sailing close-hauled), there will be a pressure gradient perpendicular to the flow direction, which together with the keel resisting the lateral forces, causes the boat to sail upwind. But there is theory and practice; in a once and never again attempt I drifted to the other side of a small lake and had to walk back.
Though it helps to know something of your subject (and the rules of a regatta) before taking up a photographic assignment, it can be fun to get out of your comfort zone. There is no such concept as slowing down, to which I normally adhere to, when you stand on an unstable zodiac, the subjects are moving, and you must compose and focus hoping not to be washed overboard with the equipment around your neck.
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Posted in Photoessays Tagged Event photography, Nikon D810, Olympus OM-D, Sailing Concours d’Elegance Suisse with the Nikon D850 June 30, 2018 0 CommentsUnder a far too bright sun (from a photographer’s point of view), the classic car competition Concours dElegance Suisse at the Château de Coppet attracted 85 historic cars classified in 15 categories, all defined by a Jury that is also involved in the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy and the Pebble Beach Competition in the USA.
While the 60th anniversary of the legendary Aston Martin DB4 and the Ferrari 250 GT Coupe Pininfarina were celebrated by two dedicated classes, the exhibition also included gems such as the Hispano Suiza H6B, Delage D8-120, Bugatti Type 57 S, and the Mercedes-Benz 500K, among others.
This event was a good occasion to bring out my new Nikon D850. Shiny cars in the bright sun are indeed a torture test for the camera’s dynamic range. Judged in many reviews as perhaps the best (last) DSLR on the market, it is surprising that the D850 is still not on stock everywhere. And with the recent QA problems, I had to wait until I could test the flange and sensor alignment in the shop before pulling out the credit card.
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Posted in Equipment reviews, Image quality, Photoessays Tagged Classic cars, D850, DSLR, Focus stacking, Image quality, Olympus OM-D The Real and the Fake Fishermen of Sri Lanka May 1, 2018 0 CommentsBrowsing for locations to photograph in Sri Lanka, one quickly comes across the photo by Steve McCurry, taken in 1995, which shows stilt fishermen off the Sri Lankan south coast. I am not ashamed to admit that this image put Sri Lanka on my bucket list.
As the world increasingly aspires to the same globalized modernity that diminishes cultural diversity, I am drawn to old practices and traditions and to see them with my own eyes/camera before they disappear.
Having visited some other locations in Asia (in particular in Myanmar) I know that McCurry has staged at least some of his images, though I am not sure if the stilt fishermen were already mere tourist attractions in 1995. Today, they definitely are.
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Posted in Photoessays, Travel photography Tagged Sri Lanka, Stilt fishermen Photoessay: Semana Santa April 8, 2018 0 CommentsSemana Santa, Granada. Alhambra brotherhood.
Spain is famous for its Holy Week (Semana Santa) traditions. It’s a tribute to the passion of Jesus by Catholic brotherhoods, with processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city during the week before Easter. The brotherhoods have their origins in the Middle Ages, though a number of them were created later during the baroque period.
Elaborately decorated floats (pasos) with wood or plaster sculptures of Jesus and Virgin Mary are carried through the streets from their parish church to the cathedral and back. The Pasos can weigh up to five metric tons. In front of them walk the Penitentes, dressed in long robes, followed by women in black carrying candles, groups of Nazarenos, and brass bands comprising up to a hundred persons. Good Friday (commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus) is the climax, when the processions leave the churches at midnight and arrive at the cathedral at about 2:30 in the morning.
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