Blue’s the colour of the sky
In the morning, when we rise
In the morning, when we rise
That’s the time, that’s the time
I love the best
– Donovan
Meet me there…
Category: Seascape
And the wind cries Mary
Will the wind ever remember?
The names it has blown in the past
And with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers “no, this will be the last”
And the wind cries Mary
– Jimi Hendrix
Peace of mind
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
– Dada Vaswani
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
– Nastassja Kinski
The beauty of the sea
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay
“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
― Nayyirah Waheed
Lake access
“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of a place could be photographed.”
— Annie Leibovitz
“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
— James Lalropui Keivom
Into the blue
This morning at our lake. No sound. No waves. No sailing boats. No tourists. Just this one fisher boat heading for the harbor. A bit of mist and fog in the distance. Quiet and peaceful. Tranquility.
Happy days. Reinhold
Save time in an image…
If I could save time in a bottle… 10 seconds were enough to save this time in an image.
Already pretty cold in the morning. Fog is slowly creeping through the landscape. I guess autumn is coming. Hurra. The “green” time is over.
It is time to take the dust of my gear, get my rucksack and head out of the door. Catching time.
Happy days. Reinhold
Lighthouse in the distance
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
— Elliott Erwitt
Lighthouse, Dangast, Wadden Sea – Fuji X-T1, 70mm, f 9.0, 1/250sec, 3-image pano
Thanks for your visit. Happy days! Reinhold
Save the date!
Poster design… my way to combine photography, design elements, fonts and quotes. These posters can be used as home decoration, for events, important dates to remember and for marketing purposes.
In this case: Whale day, February 15, 2K20. It has been observed the third Saturday in February since 1980. Get involved!
Nothing left to lose…
If you got nothing in the foreground, nothing in the middle and just a horizon line in the background you have nothing left to lose… so I took an image of the wet sand reflecting the sunset. We are still having an endless period of bad weather, cold with lots of wind and rain and gray skies. Not ideal for landscape photography. Hopefully my design will brighten up your day and will create a smile on your face while you are listening to the music. Happy days. Reinhold
Christmas Calendar – 7/24
My Christmas Calendar 2018 looks like this… so far
Timeless Galleries – my new online gallery
For the last weeks I worked primarily on my
- homepage -> www.reinholdstaden.com and on my
- online gallery -> www.timeless-galleries.com.
Timeless Galleries is still a prototype I work on. The shop feature is not activated and the user interface and experience is not finalized yet. The page works on smart phones, tablets and desktops. In the final release I will offer “guest galleries” for interested photographers and artists.
Happy days. Reinhold
Tranquility and Silence
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It is October. Nearly all tourists have left the coast line. The tide is coming and going. It is colder now, the wind is blowing from the North and nature is preparing for autumn and winter. Now I have this location of tranquility and silence nearly on my own. A creative and inspriring space for 6 months. The Nationalpark Wadden Sea.
I am thinking about a photography workshop during these months. Not me teaching photography but 4-5 photographers who like to exchange and share ideas and their way of photography with others. May be just enjoying the company of others who think and speak photography. 3 days in a location at our lake with tours to the lake, the moors and the National Park. Lots of photography. Good food and some drinks in the evening. I plan to hire a 9-seater van and would be the driver during these days. I know these places can be very challenging. Wind, rain, cold… but also blue skies and sunshine. Nearly unpredictable. But I would never run a workshop in the main season. Not sure if people would enjoy early starts, extreme conditions, long hikes and late evenings. That is why I always put this idea back into the “one of these days” folder.
This idea is in my “pipeline of things to do” for quiet a while. I should sit down, make a plan and come up with a concrete option. And get it out of this folder.
Happy days. Reinhold
Beach Art (4 images and shooting overview)
Found yesterday in the National Park Wadden Sea – North Sea – North Germany.
Shooting overview:
Greetings and happy days from a stormy coast. Reinhold
Subdued Emptiness
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
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Location: Schillig, National Park Wadden Sea, North Germany
