ImZwiespalt

Summer is almost over, I had the chance to take a lot of pictures.

From the little bit of money I earned during my internship I bought myself a new camera, a Canon 1100D, my first DSLR. It's the cheapest DSLR you can get, but it does a great job for its price. Taking pictures with a DSLR is a really great feeling, I just can't stop.

I'll still use my old Powershot as long as it works, because it is a really good camera, takes nice pictures and has the advantage of being light. For some things, like hiking and climbing, a DSLR, even a small one like mine, can be too bulky and heavy.

Anyway, the new camera is even more motivation to take pictures and pursue my hobby.

I have not been very active on dA recently but now I think I will upload some pictures again. I have recently been to Slovenia, an amazingly beautiful country. I took some nice shots there, already uploaded one, some more to come.
And I'm also going back to Salzkammergut, this time for work, and hope to get some photo opportunities there.

So here's to a more active summer!

As you quite likely have already heard, there is a devastating famine going on in Somalia. Everyday, lots of people die of hunger and at the moment, it seems to be hard for the helpers to even get there.

The obvious way to help these people is by donating money to an organisation which can bring help to them. It's very important to find an reliable organisation which really uses your money to help the starving people. The International Comittee of the Red Cross for example is an organisation which can really be trusted.


But there is also another way how you can help: with your art!

There is a project which has impressed me, organised by the group EL-SENSE. It benefits the french organisation "action contre la faim" (www.actioncontrelafaim.org/urg…), the theme is "Africa in our Life" and you can submit photographs and collages.
I think this is a great opportunity to be creative and help people at the same time.

As I have understood, there will be a book and an e-book with the pictures which will be sold online, which is how the money for "ACF" will be collected. So even if you don't want to submit a picture yourself, you can still support this great project by buying one of the books.

Please consider submitting an image or buying the book once it's done. I can really recommend looking at the images already submitted (at el-sense.deviantart.com/favour…), there are some great artworks there!


And please, spread the word!

Thanks for reading and for your help!

Well, I've been thinking about my photography and what kind of things I want to shoot.
As you can very obviously see in my gallery, almost all of my current work was done in the nature, mostly in the mountains. This is because I am a real nature nerd and during my summerjob, I saw some great landscapes.

But while I really like my nature photography and want to keep working on it, I also want to do other things.

On my list there are:

architecture (there's lots of great architecture in Vienna so this is something I will do once I return there)
street (again, this is best done in Vienna, lots of interesting subjects there)
portraiture (while I can do that here too, I'll probably wait till fall when my flatmate is around again. I think she'd be a great model)
conceptual shots (probably some to be found here to, let's see)

Maybe I'll add some more things to this list but that's it for the moment.

I'm spending a few days at Altaussee in Styria. It's the wonderful place where fav.me/d3myfpk and imzwiespalt.deviantart.com/art… were taken, so expect to see lots of new pictures!