The painted ladies

Posted on November 3rd, 2013

On my last trip to San Francicso I took this shot near Alamo Square. I always thought the houses have their name because of the different painted fronts. But after a short reading on Wikipedia, I know now that the name comes from other painted ladies
Okay anyway, this is a very famous subject of San Francisco for photographers and if you get to stay once in the ‘Fog City’ you should visit this place at Alamo Square.

The Milky Way is coming up

Posted on November 3rd, 2013

To get a good image of the Milky Way in central Europe is very difficult. The light polution is dramatically high. Even in the alps you can see the glow of the civilisation at the horizon. The best way ist to find a place without any bigger settlement in southern direction. After checking a map I decided to take a hike in the Wägital. After a hard way up with my 20kg backpack and building up the tent, was it nearly midnight. But you could see the Milky Way by eye.
I took this picture with my old starscape technique, where I shoot 16 images for a stacking job. This is only to reduce the high ISO noise. Each image by 16mm f2.8 30s at 3200ISO.