The pictures were taken on a Sunday this month, October 2008. Barcelona has lots of Street Art, but at Sundays it uncovers all its gems. Then you see that Barcelona is literally covered with graffiti all over. Why? Because most shops close at Sunday and lower their blinds. That’s where most of the artwork is hidden the whole week.

Have fun with 1,5 minutes of my favorite works.

[Update] I’ve added some of the shown pictures in high res at my Flickr account.

[Update 2] Remember, to watch the video in HD you have to activate that option inside the video.

[UPDATE: HD is deactivated by default and there is no option to change that. So if you want to see it in HD, you have to activate yourself by hitting the HD-button inside the video.]

The Botanical Garden – Jardí Botànic – in Barcelona is located in Montjuc, the same area where the Olympic Games were hosted 1992. It is a huge garden with collections of Mediterranean plants from all over the world. I enjoyed a wonderful sunny day walking between those unknown plants… perfect motifs for shooting some photos. In the video a share my favorites, mostly macro photos.

Duration: 1:14 Min.
Format: 16:9
Resoultion: 720p
Codec: H.264

Everything changed, when I had to decide how to setup my new DSLR to get specific results. Suddenly you need more time to take a picture, but also you win the time to think about it. Time to have a closer look to the motif. And because time goes by often way too fast these days, I use photography to slow it down. Works perfect, at least for me :-)

Together with a couple of friends who are all at least as passionate about photography, we started a new project called “Fotolism.us“, which is a Blog of and for other passionate photographers. My first post is a panorama of San Francisco at night, taken from the island Alcatraz. Hope you enjoy it. The Blog is written in German, but remember: Photography talks international language :)

Olis Blog: 5 faszinierende Photo-Projekte

it really was a nice time… nothing more to add :-)

full-size photo (4272 x 1176)

Entrance to the Park: “The four Guardsmen”:

another Giant Sequoia:

Dead Sequoia: (Search for me in the picture *g*)

The largest Tree on Earth: “General Sherman”

Nearly forgot: As in most National Parks, there are wild animals around. Sequoia has lots of wildlife, but the most exciting animal to see there is one of the brown bears. And we saw two of them :) First a very young one and later the day a full grown bear:

Joshua Tree (a.k.a. “Wonderland of Rocks”) was a great National Park and perhaps the best campground we visited. And it would have been even better, if were rock climber. If you love rock-climbing this is the place to be :-) Sadly we neither had the skill nor the equipment to try this part. Nevertheless Zion had some unique rock formations and beautifull (desert-)vegetation.

Ingo in the “Wonderland of Rocks”

Sunset at Grand Canyon:

Colorado River at Horsehoe Bend:

“touching” Colorado River at Lees Ferry:

Antelope Canyon:

The narrow, steep and unpaved trial was sometimes a little bit scary. You shouldn’t have fear of heights because the trail runs up directly to the canyon wall. Looking down some hundrets of meters wasn’t uncommon:

Hoover Dam:

Hoover Dam Generators:

The Valley of Fire has its name because of these red glowing rocks: (absolutely no photo editing!!!)

 

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Nearly every Hotel/Casino here would make a nice picture, but no reason to bore you :)
This Hotel is the “Excalibur”. Crazy, hu?