After struggling with dull family kitchen knifes for too long I decided that I needed my private one. After some research I chose a Japanese knife with western handle, a Kagayaki CarboNext Gyuto from JCK with a blade length of 240 mm. You can see more in this flickr album …

Who doesn’t like some fluffy snow in the blue evening light?

More impressions from the photo walk Pat David did at Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 in Leipzig – you might notice that I prefer shooting people over buildings.

Faking the looks of a miniature shot with its shallow depth of field is quite easy in raster image editors like GIMP, but sometimes you might want to do that step directly inside of darktable. While that is not as flexible and fast for single images when you have a …

I wished cell phones had decent cameras …

More pictures from the trip to Aachen.

More pictures of the night glow.

It’s interesting what you can find when walking in the woods – more pictures.