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EOS Movie Theater

Had the chance to take a peek at the EOS Movie Theater yesterday. First opened in 1921, it showed silent movies with live music (counting up to 60 musicians!). It was in pretty much continuous operation until 2004 – making it one of the oldest operational movie theaters in Vienna. The movie theater is protected [...]


Simplicity

Went out to the Bikepark Semmering last night to shoot a few pictures at the 24h downhill race that went down this weekend. As expected for such a shooting, the car was packed with gear. The trolley filled to the brim with assorted lenses, an Elinchrom Quadra pack and two additional Nikon flashes for light, [...]


Zoom, zoom, zoom

After shooting a few panoramic images in Iceland, I figured I’d need a reasonable way of displaying them. And since screen resolution doesn’t really let you appreciate the amount of detail in 4×5″ slides, why not find a solution that also works for zooming into other large sized images? I’m now playing with the Zoomify [...]


Iceland

How do you describe a country where elements collide, fire and ice wage war, where the sun doesn’t set in summer and night falls for half a year in winter? You don’t. You stand back in awe and hope your feeble attempts at capturing its beauty photographically, although doomed to fail, at least convey a [...]


Kjölur

Taking a break on the Kjölur highland route near Storisandur. Eating skyr for lunch. Wind blowing, rain pounding on the jeep. iPod playing Zoë Keating’s Tetrishead. Perfect.


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