Unbelievable but it's still winter in Karlsruhe, and I never thought I would ever go outside voluntarily by that weather... but somehow I planned to shoot a fountain near my favorite sauna location in Karlsruhe for some time, so why not shooting it covered with snow? Today comes the first picture... I hope to post more of them soon!

That's what I keep on asking myself since mid January. If I had known earlier that winter would seem to last indefinitely, I would have gotten myself a good pair of warm shoes — That way, I could at least have spent more time shooting outside without getting cold and wet feet!

Anyway, today comes another image from past friday's "quick winter shooting"...

Having had some rising temperatures (+8°C) one week ago, snow returned to Karlsruhe the day before yesterday... I even managed to go out in the cold for taking a handfull of pictures, with maybe two or three keepers.

For the picture posted today, I decided to introduce a new tag called "Colour Mapping"... I'll use this one for tagging pictures that are post-processed with a technique I saw from David J. Nightingale. As far as I could "reconstruct" this technique, an image is desaturated in a first step using a channel mixer (or whatsoever) and is getting individual curve adjustments for its single colour channels, c.f.

http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/1002101657.php

I know the last posting is more than two months old... but I warned you, that pictures might get added only irregularly. Indeed, it has been much too cold outside for doing some shooting lately, and apparently winter will not be ending in the next days!

Anyway, since (for a change) we had some snow in Karlsruhe this year, I thought of posting a snow shot. Note that I could take this image without having to leave my office, which is heated to cosy 26°C :-)

This is probably the last shot from my autumn sunday a couple of weeks ago. It hasn't much to do with autumn, but I wondered what colours I would able to get out of such a subject.