Sunday, December 31, 2017

Zeig Dein wichtigstes Foto 2017

10:02:00 PM

Wir hoffen, dass Ihr alle gut ins neue Jahr gekommen seid. Wir möchten das alte Jahr aber noch nicht ganz hinter uns lassen, sondern Euch dazu anhalten, noch einmal zurückzusehen auf Eure fotografischen Arbeiten von 2017. Nehm Euch etwas Zeit und seht Euer Archiv durch: Welches Bild aus 2017 ist für Euch besonders wichtig?

Stellt Euch vor, alle Eure Aufnahmen des vergangenen Jahres würden vernichtet und Ihr könntet nur eine Aufnahme retten. Welche wäre das und warum? Ganz egal, ob es ein besonderer Moment für Euch war oder eine besonders gelungene Aufnahme. Wir möchten sie sehen und die Geschichte dazu erfahren!

Teilnahmebedingungen

  • Suche Dein wichtigstes Foto heraus, das Du 2017 veröffentlicht hast.
  • Poste den Link dazu in einem Kommentar.
  • Beschreibe in ein paar Sätzen, warum Dir dieses Bild wichtig ist und wie es entstanden ist. Achtung: Fotos ohne Beschreibung werden nicht berücksichtigt.
  • Mit dem Kommentar stimmst Du einer möglichen Veröffentlichung auf kwerfeldein zu.
  • Der Einsendeschluss ist am Montag, den 8. Januar 2018 um 21 Uhr.

Wir freuen uns darauf, in ein paar Tagen wieder Eure persönlichen Rückblicke zu lesen und in Bildern zu schwelgen, die für jemanden ein ganzes Lebensjahr repräsentieren und immer in Erinnerung bleiben werden. Und wer weiß: Vielleicht brennt sich das eine oder andere dieser Bilder mit seiner Geschichte auch bei uns ein.

Am 12. Januar präsentieren wir Euch an dieser Stelle die ganz subjektive Auswahl der Redakteure aus Euren Bildern. Die spannendsten, berührendsten Geschichten und die gefühlvollsten, eindrucksvollsten oder einfach lustigsten Fotos.

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It's The End Of The Year As We Know It

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It's The End Of The Year As We Know It

2017 has been an interesting year in so many ways. On this New Years Eve Day, I wanted to take the opportunity to review some of my favorite photographic happenings and announcements from the year.

Smartphone camera sales continued to grow this year. By some estimates, fully eighty-five percent of photos worldwide are now being shot with mobile phone cameras. That's a truly incredible statistic that, in part, is reflective of the simple fact that all of us have one of these things in our pocket all the time. But it's more than that. The technology of everything digital just continues to get better and better. Early smartphone cameras were useful in a utilitarian sort of way, but not much more than that. Today's mobile phones can take excellent images at resolutions rivaling many dedicated DSLR cameras.

But it doesn't mean the year didn't also continue the trend of improvements in more traditional camera formats. For my fellow Nikon shooters, the big news of course was the release of the amazing new Nikon D850 with a whopping 45.7 megapixels, full 4K UHD video, and enough other technical innovations to make even non-Nikon users privately drool at least a little. The Sony a9 full-frame mirrorless camera was probably the other big announcement in camera bodies this year. Mirrorless cameras have been slow to catch on, but this may change things. I'd look for more mirrorless news in the year. 2017 also saw the trend towards drone photography really take off, if you can pardon the pun.

On the software front, 2017 was the year that saw the final (at least for now) chapter in Adobe's efforts to move all of us Lightroom users to the Cloud. Sadly, the boxed version of Lightroom is no more, but the new Lightroom Classic Creative Cloud is far from all bad. I appreciate that Adobe continues to innovate and produce tools of such quality, and the ability to get those updates in an ongoing, and more timely, fashion is definitely welcome. Prices for the Adobe Photography Plan don't differ that radically from traditional upgrade pricing for those who depend on both Lightroom and Photoshop. Granted, not everyone sees it this way, and this year has also seen the release of potentially promising alternatives with perhaps my favorite being Luminar from Macphun. Yes, Luminar does now run on both Windows and Mac OS.

This year also saw the final demise and rebirth of the Nik Collection of plugins and imaging software. Over a period of several years, programs from Nik Software (originally Nik Multimedia) such as Color Efex Pro, Viveza, and Silver Efex Pro were staples of many digital photographers. Then in 2012, Google acquired Nik Software, and the future of the Nik Collection started becoming increasingly in doubt. This summer, those doubts turned to sorrow as Google announced that they would cease updating the Nik Collection software, eventually dooming it to die of neglect. But not long after, DxO, makers of DxO Photolab, surprised the photography world by announcing that they had acquired Nik from Google and that they were "actively working to release a new Collection in mid-2018." This should be interesting.

The End of the World As we Know ItThis year saw the publication of the final issue of Popular Photography, the venerable mainstay of photography magazines. Once the uncontested circulation leader among photography periodicals, Pop Photo ended publication after a continuous eighty year run dating back to 1937. When I first got interested in photography in the 1980's, I subscribed to Pop Photo, both for their article content, but also for the back half of the magazine filled with ads. I can see curious in today's internet world, but there once was a time when such magazine ads were an integral part of buying camera gear. When you found a competitive price, you called that company up and placed an order by phone. Quaint by modern standards, but true. As all those advertisers began moving to the web, the magazine increasingly became unsustainable.

Not all news regarding photography magazines in 2017 was bad though. This year saw the launch of League Magazine from Darwin Wiggett and the League of Landscape Photographers. With a tagline of "photography for good, not evil," the new magazine aims to "use photographic art as a tool to make us more mindful and ethical in our approach toward nature." A worthy aim, and if the first issue is any indication, a great magazine.

For me personally, the highlight of the year had to be the total solar eclipse on August 21. If you've never seen a total eclipse of the sun, words really can't do it justice. Even a partial solar eclipse doesn't compare in the least. During a partial eclipse, it's hard to tell anything at all is happening unless you have a solar filter to see the encroaching shadow of the moon eat into the sun. During the totality of the August 21 total solar eclipse, it was impossible to miss the fact that something profound was happening. The light of the sun was turned off, during the day. It was as if someone hit the dimmer switch on the sun, and the whole world faded to black. Roughly two minutes later, it seemed as if that person pushed the dimmer switch back to the "on" position. I witnessed the eclipse from along the banks of the Snake river separating Oregon from Idaho, with no one else around. When the sky turned dark, it all seemed somehow primal, as if part of some kind of science fiction doomsday blockbuster or something. Truly a remarkable and magical experience.

More happened over the year than I could possibly cover here. No doubt you have your own photographic memories of 2017, but thanks for indulging me in sharing some of mine. Here's to looking ahead to a great new year in 2018.

It's the end of the year 2017 as we know it. And I feel fine.

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Photography Highlights Of The Year 2017

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So as another year buffers itself into our collective memory cards, we can take a little time to chimp through some of the major events of the year. And what a year it has been. Major camera manufacturers work in product cycles, top end Nikon and Canon cameras usually get replaced every five years or so. This year was not one of those years yet there have been some major surprises along the way. The DSLR market refused to let go of its tenacious grip, despite mirrorless giving us ever more potent reasons to switch. In the software world Adobe’s grip on the market may have slightly loosened with some of their recent decisions. A few of the editing upstarts are beginning to exploit that. Let’s take a short trip down the memory lane of 2017 and look at some of it’s highlights.

There have been some pretty amazing camera releases this year. Perhaps the biggest surprise was a return to form by Nikon with their acclaimed D850. Combining huge amounts of Nikon technology with a 47mp sensor and 4K video all in a D800 sized body the D850 is currently one of the best DSLRs on the market.

If the D850 was the highlight of the DSLR world, there are several highlights in the Mirrorless genre. Sony had two hits this year with the a7R III and the a9. Both pushed the boundaries of technology again, the a9 bringing incredible shooting speeds for sports photographers and the a7R III increasing dynamic range and image quality over its already sterling predecessors.

The D850 has gained many admirers. www.nikon.com

Panasonic continued their love affair with video by introducing the GH5 with 6K video capability and 4K at 60fps in 10 bit. A quiet year by Fuji on the consumer front was tempered by the release of their GFX 50S medium format Mirrorless camera. Its 51mp sensor combined with stellar Fuji lenses and a highly competitive price for that segment of the market has made it a desirable piece of kit.

Medium format comes to mirrorless. http://www.fujifilm.com

Third party companies have gone from strength to strength in 2017, spotting niches in the market that the OEM companies have not filled. The big third party companies such as Tamron and Sigma have all added some great lenses to their ranges. Sigma have expanded their Art series lenses whilst Leica have been releasing some superb, high quality lenses over the last year. Sony have gone some way in answering critics of their lens range with some excellent additions for their a series cameras. Fuji GF lenses for their GFX camera have also been very well received.

Sigma Art lenses go from strength to strength. http://ift.tt/2bIKYtO

This market sector continues to be dominated by

high end

products. Much of the lower end of the market has been lost to smartphones. At the top

end

companies are producing compacts for enthusiasts and professionals. Canon gave us the G1 X Mark III, Fuji continued the X100 line with the X100F and Sony the DSC-RX10 IV. The RX10 IV also continued the trend of adding high quality super zoom lenses on compact bodies.

Sony continue to innovate in smaller cameras too. http://ift.tt/1dH9IhZ

The mobile device arena continues to innovate and grow. The photographic abilities of phones from Samsung, Apple, Google Huawei and LG have impressed. The top of the range iPhone X introduced twin stabilised lenses 4k/60p video and its portrait mode. Google expanded on the success of it’s Pixel with Pixel 2 combining clever technology with good optics and sensor. It also introduced a portrait mode and a 9 frame HDR feature. Its safe to say that mobile photography is going to continue being an important aspect of the business for years ahead.

It is possible that 2017 might be the year that Adobe “jumped the shark”. Whilst introducing the new Lightroom CC – certainly not the same as the old Lightroom CC – it quietly mentioned that it was dropping support for the stand alone version of Lightroom. This angered many enthusiast photographers for whom Lightroom was a budget way to get Photoshop style editing without paying Adobe a subscription.

Fortunately other companies are beginning to step up to the plate. MacPhun announced and released Luminar 2018 on both Mac and PC platforms. In addition they announced they would be adding an image management module to it. Serif Affinity Photo 1.5 released for Mac and PC offering Photoshop level tools for a budget price. On the freeware side, Gimp and RawTherapee continued to improve their usability and range of tools.

The pace of technological advance in photography shows no signs of slowing down. This year has brought us some truly innovative and diverse cameras as well as some interesting options for photographic editing. Of course this is only a very subjective review of the year’s highlights but feel free to let us know what were your highlights of 2017.

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31. Dezember 2017

4:01:00 AM

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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Nikon D850 is Camera of the Year in Japan

10:29:00 PM

One of the more exciting bits of news to make the headlines this year was the announcement in July of Nikon’s new D850 camera, a device much anticipated by fans of Nikon and the photography world alike. The announcement of the D850 also happened to coincide with the optic’s giant’s 100th anniversary.

The Nikon D850 is a full-frame DSLR camera with a first-ever back-illuminated image sensor for vast image quality improvement. The sensor was the first to achieve 100 points on DXO.

It should come as no shock, then, that this camera is the number 1 camera in Japan and the camera of the year per DC.Watch reader’s poll. The D850 handily bested competition from Sony and Canon.

Image via Nikon website.

Not only is the camera the camera of the year according to this reader’s poll, it is also beloved by retail stores: Nikon has struggled to fill pre-orders for the new gear which has led to increasingly stoked demand for it. In the United States, this trend has continued but Nikon expects to reverse it in 2018.

In 2018 Nikon expects to end the shortage for D850 cameras in probably the most welcome news of all to those waiting to get their hands on the new camera.

Critical reception is overwhelmingly positive for the camera, with particularly high marks given for landscape and wildlife photography.

Nikon is known for bringing some for bringing some of the best gear to the market and the D850 continues this tradition.

The most exciting part of all of this is anticipating the response of other makers like Canon and Sony, who will undoubtedly want to topple the D850 from atop its perch.

While reviews and accolades are not all there is to making a successful device, it certainly helps the marketing department generate heat for commercials and the like. After all, who doesn’t want to say that they made this best camera on the market?

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browserfruits 52.2017

10:01:00 PM

Bevor sich das Jahr dem Ende neigt und heute Abend gefeiert wird, gibt es für Euch noch einmal die browserfruits. Vielleicht findet Ihr ja an diesem letzten Tag des Jahres noch etwas Zeit, Euch durch die Linktipps zu klicken. Wenn nicht, kein Problem, morgen sind sie auch noch frisch. In diesem Sinne: Rutscht gut rein und ein frohes Neues!

 

Linktipps

• Die Süddeutsche Zeitung hat ein Interview mit der Fotografin Elfie Semotan geführt. Leider geht es darin weniger um sie selbst, als um die Männer, die sie kannte. Dennoch eine Empfehlung. → ansehen

• National Geographic hat die Gewinner*innen des Wettbewerbs „Natur Photographer of the Year 2017“ gewählt. Wer gute Tier- und Landschaftsbilder zu schätzen weiß, sollte sie sich unbedingt ansehen. → ansehen

• Es ist die Zeit für Rückblicke. Buzzfeed zeigt eine Liste der einflussreichsten und beeindruckendsten Nachrichtenbilder von 2017. → ansehen

• 18 Cent für ein Stockfoto? Alan Smithee berichtet über seine Erfahrungen mit Adobe Stock. → ansehen

• Einen kleinen Einstieg über die richtige Belichtung von analogen Filmen gibt es bei Marcel von Kleinbildphotographie. → ansehen

• Auch die Fotoplattform Flickr hat eine Zusammenstellung der 25 erfolgreichsten Aufnahmen von 2017 veröffentlicht. → ansehen

• Forscher*innen der Universität Harvard arbeiten an Linsen aus Metamaterial, die Glasoptiken ersetzen sollen und die Fotografie revolutionieren könnten. → ansehen

• Alles ist besser mit Katzen. Nach diesem Motto hat Alfra Martini berühmte Plattencover mit Kätzchen aufgepeppt. → ansehen

• Eine Fotoreportage über Tombohuaun, ein abgelegenes Dorf im Dschungel von Sierra Leones östlicher Provinz. → ansehen

• Das Unicef-„Foto des Jahres“ zeigt die 5-Jährige Zahra aus Syrien, die in Notunterkünften und Flüchtlingslagern aufwachsen muss. → ansehen

 

Buchempfehlungen

„Weitwinkelfotografie“ : Dieses Buch hilft dabei, die vielen Facetten der Weitwinkelfotografie besser zu durchschauen und zielgerichteter einzusetzen. Chris Marquardt erklärt technische Grundlagen, gestalterische Richtlinien und die Genres, in denen der weite Winkel gewinnbringend eingesetzt werden kann: Landschaft, Architektur, Straße und Portrait. Zwei eigene Kapitel zum Thema Tilt/Shift, inklusive Perspektivkorrektur und Spiel mit Brennweite und Schärfeebene, runden das Buch ab. Es ist im dpunkt.verlag erschienen und kostet 32,90 €.

„Der kreative Fotograf“ : Dieses Buch versteht sich als Einladung zu neuem Denken, bewusster Wahrnehmung und dem Spiel mit unserer Fantasie. Es zeigt ganz praktisch, welches kreative Potenzial in uns steckt und wie man es für neue Bildideen nutzen kann, unabhängig von Kameratechnik und Genres. Das Buch ist im Verlag Rheinwerk erschienen und kostet 39,90 €.

 

Ausstellungen

Joel Meyerowitz. Why Color?
Zeit: 9. Dezember 2017 bis 11. März 2018
Ort: C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 22-24, 10623 Berlin

Torbjørn Rødland
Zeit: 9. Dezember 2017 bis 11. März 2018
Ort: C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 22–24, 10623 Berlin

12. Aenne-Biermann-Preis
Zeit: 13. Dezember 2017 bis 11. Februar 2018
Ort: Museum für Angewandte Kunst Gera, Greizer Str. 37, 07545 Gera

Peter Dammann. Hinter dem Palast steht noch ein Haus.
Zeit: 12. Dezember 2017 bis 22. April 2018
Ort: Jenisch Haus, Baron-Voght-Str. 50, 22609 Hamburg

Madame D’Ora: Machen Sie mich schön!
Zeit: 21. Dezember 2017 bis 18. März 2018
Ort: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg

 

Drüben auf Instagram

@marinaweishaupt – Marina Weishaupt zeigt auf Instagram Landschafts- und Reiseaufnahmen.

 

Videos

Ein Video über das Projekt „Atlas of Beatuty“.

 

photoshopCAFE erklärt, wie man ein Bild ohne Qualitätsverluste mit dem Highpass-Filter nachschärfen kann.

 

Ein kleines Videotutorial mit Lichterketten und ein wenig Werbung.

 

Das Titelbild stammt von Jakob Owens. Vielen Dank dafür!


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Yongnuo Introduces New 14mm Lens

8:01:00 AM

The expansion of options in the camera lens market segment keeps going unabated, with Yongnuo’s latest joining the wide-angle game.

Renown for their affordable and competitive lenses, Yongnuo has expanded their product lineup to include a new wide-angle lens that will give photographers another option to choose and this one at an affordable and competitive price.

And this is even better news for some: If you’re an architectural or landscape photographer shopping around for a new wide-angle lens then a new offering from Yongnuo might just be what you need. If you have put off that new glass purchase, you might want to take a look at Yongnuo’s option.

The recently announced YN14mm f/2.8 lens from Yongnuo, compatible with Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras, gives users a lightning quick maximum aperture of f/2.8. According to photography press blog DigitalRev, this allows for fast shutter speeds in low-light conditions and for shallow depths of field.

Image via YongNuo HK.

The YN14mm f/2.8 has an autofocus system with a DC motor. The design includes 12 elements in 9 groups and a multi-layer coating to improve image quality and reduce ghosting and flare with a 7-bladed diaphragm for bokeh and “an abnormal dispersion element to help reduce optical aberration.”

The lens also has a focus distance indicator as well as a USB port for connecting to a computer to update the optic’s firmware in what DigitalRev says is a “future proof” for the device. With a focal length of 14mm the YN14mm f/2.8 has a 114-degree field of view, an aspect that makes it suited for landscape and architectural photography. No pricing information is available as of press but the new glass is expected to hit shelves in January 2018. Yongnuo, affiliated with Shenzhen YongNuo Photographic Equipment Company, Ltd., is a relatively new player in many consumer markets but has made a splash in the past decade. It is expected their presence will only grow with the introduction of new products in varied market segments.

Image via YongNuo HK.

Image via YongNuo HK.

Image via YongNuo HK.

Image via YongNuo HK.

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30. Dezember 2017

4:00:00 AM

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Friday, December 29, 2017

Google’s AI Vision Confuses Turtle for Gun

8:01:00 AM

Reports about advances in artificial intelligence come in on a daily basis.

The rise of increasingly advanced AI has also caused worried speculation from people such as Bill Gate and Stephen Hawking but it might also have everyday folk concerned about their jobs and futures in a world dominated by smart machines.

You can breathe a little easier today as the pending AI takeover might be a little further off than expected.

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) discovered that Google’s AI Vision was more easily fooled than they anticipated.

The team fooled the AI using a similar technique that hackers use to obtain user passwords – a brute force attack. In cracking passwords, this method employs multiple inquiries until the correct password is discovered through repeated trial-and-error runs.

Image via Negative Space from Pexels.com.

How this works with photo recognition is that the AI has a starting photo, what you want the machine to recognize, and a terminal photo, what you want to be recognized as the first photo. In between the initial and final images you insert other images, shifting each one pixel at a time, until you arrive at the final image.

In the example the team filmed, they used a picture of a dog and slowly shifted it to a scene of two skiers on top of a mountain. The AI recognized the picture as having a dog even when it was fully transformed into the alpine scene. The CSAIL researchers said this demonstrates that AI through machine learning still has a lot of flaws and probably should not be relied upon for sensitive applications like security.

Transition from dog to alpine skiing scene demonstration video.

The team also did a demonstration with 3D objects, showing how a turtle could be used to manipulate the AI into thinking it was a rifle and a baseball as an espresso.

Transition from baseball to espresso demonstration video.

CSAIL’s findings are quite interesting given the nascent beginnings of this type of technology in devices like smartphones and other facial recognition applications. It shows that AI and machine learning have some time to go before it can be totally relied upon and that maybe the promised dystopia ruled by robotic overlords may be an overblown fantasy at this point in time.

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Taking Too Many Selfies Now an Official Mental Disorder According to Research

7:02:00 AM

Selfies are probably one of the more annoying trends to emerge from the rise of smartphone cameras, but they’re a mostly harmless phenomenon. That doesn't mean they don't merit some form of study.

As Michael Zhang with PetaPixel reports, a fabricated 2014 story about the American Psychiatric Association identifying the mental disorder “selfitis” has apparently sparked actual research into the phenomenon.

The research team, consisting of Janarthanan Balakrishnan of the Thiagarajar School of Management in Madura, India, and Mark D. Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, United Kingdom, revealed their findings in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

Their paper, “An Exploratory Study of ‘Selfitis’ and the Development of the Selfitis Behavior Scale,” attempted to quantify a person’s selfie taking behavior using a Selfitis Behavior Scale that the team created.

Image via Stokpic from Pexels.com.

The bespoke grading system would gauge the level of selfitis behavior using objective criteria the team developed. Using elements like environmental enhancement, mood modification, and self confidence, the researchers then gauged 225 students according to the scale of borderline, acute, and chronic.

According to PetaPixel, “Of the participants, 34% were borderline, 40.5% were acute, and 25.5% were chronic. Men were found to exhibit selfitis at a higher rate than women — 57.5% compared to 42.5%, respectively. Younger people in the 16-20-year-old age group were also found to be the most susceptible.”

In an interview with the New York Post, Janarthanan Balakrishnan said: “Typically, those with the condition suffer from a lack of self-confidence and are seeking to ‘fit in’ with those around them and may display symptoms similar to other potentially addictive behaviors…Now the existence of the condition appears to have been confirmed, it is hoped that further research will be carried out to understand more about how and why people develop this potentially obsessive behavior and what can be done to help people who are the most affected.”

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29. Dezember 2017

4:01:00 AM

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

instakwer #25

10:15:00 PM

Vorgenommen hatte ich mir für die heutige Bildauswahl frohe und bunte Aufnahmen, die etwas mehr Farbe in die triste Winterzeit bringen. Aber Ihr seid einfach nicht in der Stimmung für Kitsch. Ich habe mich weit durch die Bilder mit Hashtag #instakwer gescrollt, aber Ihr habt in den letzten Wochen das ewige Grau ganz ehrlich festgehalten.

Deshalb fällt die Bildauswahl heute weit trister aus als geplant. Kahle Bäume, graue Himmel, ein wenig Schnee und vor allem ein Gefühl, das auch mich in diesen Tagen überkommt.

Eine Person vor einem kahlen Baum Verschneite Tannen

links: © salufi, rechts: © thomasmader

Nebelige Landschaft Eine Frau im Schnee

links: © lifeisbetterupnorth, rechts: © ljubagonchar

Nebelige Landschaft

© djamd

Möchtet Ihr auch Bilder einreichen? Dann taggt Eure Aufnahmen auf Instagram mit dem Hashtag #instakwer und vielleicht seid Ihr schon beim nächsten Mal mit dabei.


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The lens in focus

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.” — Unknown

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