Watermarks

As you can see from the photo, there will be one small change from today. Something I wanted to avoid for a long time, but will do it from now. All my new photos will have a watermark on them. Maybe it won’t look like this one, as this is only the first iteration.

I have seen many times, people sharing my photos without giving me credit, and I usually don’t mind. But as now some of them also started adding their own logo to the photo, I had to do this. I wonder what kind of person you have to be to take someones work, add your logo to it, and then represent it as yours….

More explosions

And here is another photo from the New Years fireworks in Bratislava. They really were wonderful and I really like that each photo I posted of them, has a different color to it :)

Blue lit tree

This is a blue lit tree I found in a side street in Vienna. It actually looks to be a popular restaurant, as I could not take a shot without someone walking in or out. Took me few attempts to at least have the door close in the photo :)

The 2012 Photoblog Award

I can’t believe my blog was selected as one of the 20 best photoblogs of 2012 by Photoblog Awards. It came as a really big surprise for me. It’s a great end to the last year and great start to a new one. The compelte list can be found on the Photoblog Awards page.

Small nativity scene

I visited Vienna for few hours yesterday, and of course I also took few photos :) This is a small nativity scene in the St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna. There were two of these, one of each side of the cathedral. This HDR is only from a single RAW file, as no tripods allowed and for this I held the camera down on a railing. Looks quite good for a 2s exposure :)

Colorful explosion

I promise, this is the last fireworks photo from me (for now :) )

Red Explosion

This week will be mostly about fireworks shots. For those interested, they are not really HDR. All are created from a single RAW file, in which I expanded the dynamic range in Lightroom and in Photoshop.