Winter out of focus

It's become rare to really have a lot of fresh snow in Salzburg city over night, so for once date and time in the photograph may be acceptable.

At the moment it is -5° C / 23° F, and people start complaining about the cold. Well it is winter after all, isn't it? We've just gotten out of practice.

Happy New Year!

May there be light at the end of whatever tunnel, a clear view of the road ahead, and not too many traffic jams.

I've calmed down now, found the conditions at the Zen monastery not all too inviting – no headsets or earphones while raking the Zen garden, no admission for Macs older than OS X 10.5, no photographs while meditating … So here's for a new year of practical life in the everyday world! wemo

True blue, v. 3

Blue_Obertauern, in color-corrected version by hannsotte.blogspot.com

wemo has announced his retreat to a Zen monastery, but made sure there would be wireless internet around and renewed his Apple Care support lease.

The rest of the blog team will stay in lieu and meditate on the color blue.

Soundtrack: Fine Young Cannibals Blue

Chorus:
Good god, all my tears
There’s no denying life
Would be better if I never ever had to live with you,
Blue - it’s a colour so cruel

From Lyrics.Time

True blue, the crisis, or DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE

This is the blog administration speaking; wemo's been taken to a protected shooting range by the back office crew, to confine him to a safe place in order to get to grips with his anger at a supposedly unlawful intrusion from an otherwise friendly blog.

Now he has uncovered under his long desert-colored coat: 1 Winchester rifle, 1 AK47, 2 .45 Colts, 1 Glock, and a few knives, and is firing at various distances at: Swastikas, portraits of late actor John Wayne, printouts of the unlicensed 'color-corrected' version of his Blue_Obertauern photograph. We know, this will calm him.

Meanwhile a third version of the photograph has been submitted, that is in serious discussion by the rest of the blog-team. There could be a way to even interest stubborn wemo in a re-thinking of his views on photography. Let's see.

Signed Mister Mister, a.k.a. blogwart

True blue?

The blogwart would have said, hey, you gotta take some of that blue out of this picture. Well, Photoshop Elements are somewhere ready to be used. But: this is snow under a blue sky just before sunrise on the shady slopes of the valley. It is so blue, only what our brain does when we're there, is to correct the snow into what we think should be white. Does a photographer need to do so? I don't think so.

Photoshop Elements still unused.