Nature and mountains: trip to Oberstdorf - Germany {personal photography}

Its been a bit quiet here lately as I being away to a short trip overseas to nature and mountains, skating and yummy food, fun and freedom in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was a breath of fresh air to finally get out of New Zealand after few years not been able to travel and do things that I love.

I went to participate in adult ice figure skating competitions that been rescheduled from 2020 and take a first time after pandemic 23-28 May 2022. It was a pleasure to meet all the amazing people, push myself in trainings and competitions {its was hard after lockdowns and not enough competitions experience, but we all pulled it out as a hero on ice}. It was important for me to come back to Europe, my homeland and feel again all this beautiful nature and breathe it all in! it feels and looks absolutely different from New Zealand. We been in a beautiful place of Bavaria, surrounded by mountains in a cosy town of Oberstdorf {you can literally walk through the city in 15-20 min from one side to another}. So beautiful and peaceful, great to recharge after all the hard work!

If you ask about competitions results - it went well {I took 4th and 7th place in a new for me category}, but mainly it was a great learning curve {learning never stops!} and great inspiration!

Enjoy a quick highlights {I did took my camera with me, but pulled it out only a few times}

By the way, if you like to push your photography to the next level, my next online workshop “Love, Light and Laughter” at Click Photo School begin 11 July, not long to go!

And just in case you would like to see couple of photos from competitions by talented Luca Tonegutti, here we go {photo proof lol}:

Morning Fog. Landscape nature pictures. LEVIEN & LENS PHOTOGRAPHY

Im into 365 Project as you know :)

SO this morning I been driving to preschool for top kids and it was really hard to see anything within few meters distance. Fog seems like problem for driving but paradise for photography :) Ha-ha!

So straight after saying "goodbye" to kids I just popped into my house, grabbed camera and moved to closest reserve where I think I could find nice trees which compliment the foggy background.

Yes, I even not took any breakfast yet :)

Here is the results of this mini-adventure:

What do you think: colour or black and white? (hard to choose) 

Beauty of simplicity. Auckland photographer - LEVIEN & LENS PHOTOGRAPHY

We have busy life and a lot complicated questions to decide. So sometimes is really good to look at simple things and find this beauty of simplicity.

Its can be a macro photography with attention to one subject - focus on one thing and blurry background, simple idea, simple composition.

Apple on the bench 

Apple on the bench 

Its can be one subject on the simple background. 

grass nature

Its could be simple shape - circles or leading lines:

circles and lines

Attention on one person doing some simple and understandable things (like this child below playing piano). 

piano
boy at the window

Picture should speaks to you with these simple and clear moments. 

boy playing piano
nature
girl at the window
landscape
jump

So lets put attention on simple moment around and have a rest from our busy lifestyle :)

Talk to you soon!

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Beauty in details. Nature and landscape photography Auckland

Did you ever notice little things around you: flowers, branches, trees, clouds, sky? It's a lot beautiful natural details around us. But we too busy to notice it. We hurry, have a lot of things to do, problems, stress, and also when you have little kids its not an easy task to find time for yourself and look around, feel beauty and relax :)

As you know Im doing 365 project with daily shooting. I photograph mainly my kids, clients and some lifestyle moments. But sometimes I try to think out site the box and looking for new subjects. It's the beauty around us, nature. You could find it at the beach or park, or just in your yard near the house. I will show you some pictures that I have done just next to my house just one meter from each other. It's a real beauty.

You just need to see it and capture it!

Little tips: use your camera's manual mode, change aperture (small number 1.4-2.8 for blurry background, or over 8 for sharp to see details - like airplane in the sky below)

Here little gallery of things what I been shooting just in few days time apart from each other and around one spot.

 

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