Hi friends, few minutes ago I renewed my DA membership. Over the next weeks you get a lot of new work from me.

You wonder where he was for so long? In my life, much has changed, I bought an apartment, sold all my camera equipment (Yes the D700 with all my glasses!) because I needed money for my kitchen
Now I', back with a second hand Nikon D80 and a (new) Nikkor AF-S 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II.
But even my photography will change. The last years I made mainly hdr and ldr in visible light but in the future there will be only infrared (color and b/w) photography.
For this reason, I converted my d80 last night to an infraredcamera. The hotmirror filter is replaced with 720nm glas (shot some pics from the conversion, want to see?)

That's all for now, I have to ride out for shooting btw.
here is my first infrared photo with my D80IR:


Yours sincerely,
Christian

So friends, I'm back from my USA-journey. I did a circular 4000 miles tour through the western countries or rather California, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Nevada.
Wow it was extremely impressive and it feels like I did ten million photos
Keep yourself ready to enjoy the best of them in the next few weeks / months.

A small excerpt from my background wallpapers created from photos of various places of the earth. You can download them in a size of  2560x1600, fit for all 16:10 widescreen displays up to 30 inch!

The Contest ends in 8 hours, last chance to enter!


Here is the pronounced contest!
The theme is "Make a Zombie".
Contest starts: now
Deadline is: Sunday 9th. August, 12 PM (UTC+2) (yea I give you more time)


About the contest:
The theme is photo-manipulation: Make a zombie with a given stock subject.

First, you have to download the source stock here: Stockpack ZIP 39.2 MB!
This ZIP-file contains stock images (c) by me, 3 different poses in jpeg and dng format.
These images are available to you for this contest, don't use them outside of this contest!!

The Rules:
You use THIS stock images (choose one) as main subject of the photo-manip.
You make this man into a zombie, yea bloody, cruel, nasty!
You bring that man in a dark environment!
You can use other stock parts for this transformation, as long as they are free!
Use only free stocks!
You can use your own stock!
Upload your finished manipulation here on DA under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Send me a message with the subject: Manip-Contest and a thumb or link to your work.
Tell your friends about this conteset


If you need a small example how a zombie might look: Left4Dead Zombie.

Be creative, it's up to you!

The winner gets:
one month DA subscription,
six limited 6 by 4 prints of my work
journal feature from me


If anyone still wants to donate a prize (like prints, journal feature, subs) contact me.


Please read the rules of this contest careful!  Submissions not complying with the respective rules are rejected!</u>

Hi Friends! Last week I asked you about a photo-manip contest. 34 deviants said Yes, of course, I would participate and 33 deviants said No, that is nothing for me. So I will start the contest this Friday, July 31th, 7:30 PM (UTC+2).  Deadline is Wednesday August 5th, 12 PM (UTC+2)!

About the contest:
The theme is photo-manipulation: Create a zombie

The Rules:
I upload on Friday 7 PM (UTC+2) a stock image of a man, here on my DA account and link him to this journal.
You use THIS stock image as main subject of the photo-manip.
You make this man into a zombie, yea bloody, cruel, nasty!
You bring that man in a dark environment!
You can use other stock parts for this transformation.
Use only free stocks!
You can use your own stock!
Upload your finished manipulation here on DA under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Send me a message with the subject: Manip-Contest and a thumb or link to your work.
Be creative, it's up to you!

The winner gets six limited 6 by 4 prints of my work and of course a feature.




A small excerpt from my background wallpapers created from photos of various places of the earth. You can download them in a size of  2560x1600, fit for all 16:10 widescreen displays up to 30 inch!

Here are a few pictures from my Belgium and Netherlands tour... yes its architecture photography, unfortunately not my specialism, but you should judge for yourself:




A small excerpt from my background wallpapers created from photos of various places of the earth. You can download them in a size of  2560x1600, fit for all 16:10 widescreen displays up to 30 inch!




Hey, if you want a feature in my journal then write a comment on this journal with a LINK (no thumb) to your deviation. I'm going to visit every picture and add some of them to my journal. So, hurry up and send me your links!

Well, now it's time to announce winners! The two winners were determined by digital dice. Made this on an old, for me almost forgotten way, I was looking for a nice place, lighted a candle and let the dice speak. The talked to me and here is the result:



Tada!

First Winner: ~c31marius with
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Second Winner: ~niwaj with


Each wins a 3 month subscription to Deviant Art. This will be redeemed during the day (09-06-20).

All 55 contest entries can be viewed here: [link]

Thank you all for participating in my contest. I look forward to the next contest that I can achieve to you!


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... As an encore two more: the first because of the originality and the second is simply sweet (I like rabbits).
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Submissions Closed for the contest!
We have 55 entries, tomorrow I dice the winners so it remains for another day exciting


The first place win a 3 month subscription to Deviant Art.
The second place win a 3 month subscription to Deviant Art.
Now there will be two winners and prices!
The winners will be determined by dice.
Each participant has the chance to win!
MY top five entries and the winner receive a journal feature.
Deadline is June, 18th (12pm UTC+2).

The theme for this contest is Spring (springtide). Anything goes, as long as it is showing something spring coherent.
I accept photographs, drawings, 3D art and manips. Only one entry per DA Account! (If you send more, the account will be disqualified)

To enter the contest, just send me a note with a thumb or link to your entry.

He has arrived ...

... my new Mac Pro. After two weeks of endless waiting the postman brought me my baby! I am soooo happy with it, this large sum of aluminium is like a drug .. hehe okay I give you some specs:
8-core: Two 2.26GHz, Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 processors
8MB of fully shared L3 cache per processor
Integrated memory controller (I know AMD had this long before)
64-bit data paths and registers
6 GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
640GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB cache
Cinema Display 30 inch (have it for years, but still works)
Thats it ... for the moment

Now its time to install all my stuff, btw... tonight I go to a P!nk concert, she sings in my hometown nuernberg.



My widescreen photography is available for desktop wallpaper use. You can download them in a size of  2560x1600, fit for all 16:10 widescreen displays up to 30 inch!

Clubs:

The winners from  *signmeupscotty`s December Mini Contest are:


Clubs:

~theWulffmann caught my 10.000 page view screen shot and won a one month feature. Here it is:

Clubs: