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lots of snow means lots of photowalks in the snow. i like the noise it makes under my feet when it is fresh :)
i’m in a bit of a photography phase, i think. the scanner helps, but the city is definitely working its charm on us. i changed the layout a bit so that the photos are larger – things might be a bit wonky here and there :)
i’m becoming a tree top collector, but i can’t help it. everywhere i go, there are trees waiting to be discovered :)
more proof:
i think it’s only going to get worse when spring comes. can’t wait! :)
yesterday we went to austria for a night balloon festival, which was going to be great: 40 or so balloons in a little village in a mountain, lighting up their ‘fires’ in the night to the sound of music. just dreamy… but when we got to the hostel we had booked, we realized it was actually 20km from the festival, far up a hill… it was dark already and snowing, and i was afraid we would get stuck somewhere in the middle of the night. so… yesterday we went to austria and instead of seing a balloon festival, we spent a night in a hostel.
and it was well worth it, if only for the trip! :) just two hours away from here, austria is this snowy fairyland, filled with monochromatic sceneries and people who don’t speak english. so intriguing.
anyway, pictures. this is the view to which we woke up in the hostel, which made it all worthwhile:
and the road we had to go on for over a kilometer to get there:
it doesn’t seem as menacing in the morning, but at night, i was pretty scared. it’s all the way up a steep hill in what looks like just a path someone drew in the snow!
on the highway, mountains and pine trees covered in snow and mist all the way there and back:
and the tunnels. we made 20 km in tunnels in this trip *gulp*, the most menacing of which being the karavanke tunnel:
(pardon the specks in the pictures, the water in the windshield was frozen most of the trip… :))
my most precious christmas present this year was a scanner, the mighty canon 8800f. since leaving china, i have been searching for a way to get negatives scanned, quickly, cheaply and with quality, but the results (and the options) were often demotivating. so i ended up dragging film along, shooting less and less of it in the past few months.
i know a lot of people that are able to work magic with a digital camera, but i’m not one of them. to me, digital is efficient and cheap – but it doesn’t quite translate the feeling i get from analogue… and so, i’m quite happy to now be able to shoot and scan again, to my heart’s content.
the only problem i’ve found so far has been dust. it’s everywhere and i can’t seem to keep it out of my negatives, no matter how much i clean them… tips?
the muted colors outside :)