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A week in Gstaad

Feb 142013

Short photo-story of one week in the Zweisimmen/Gstaad region in the Swiss Alps. Eight days packed with fresh snow and the occasional ray of sunshine.
Just shows that one doesn’t need good weather to take fun photos.

View from the Hamilton Lodge.

Zweisimmen – Golden Pass railroad HQ.

Travelling in the luxureous 1920′s first class Golden Pass classic rail car.

Black & White trees.

Summer hut in winter times.

Gstaad Palace.

Tons of snow!

View over the Zweisimmen area.

And another view over the Zweisimmen area.

Chateaux d’Oex balloon festival as seen from the Golden Pass train line.

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Weekly Random Shot: Tokyo Subway

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Oct 132010

A JR Railways service man watches over a departing subway train from the Ueno station in Tokyo. I was a bit lucky in getting this particular image becasue I noticed the whole setup really moments before the train departed (I just missed it actually, which is not a problem because in Tokyo there usually is another one within minutes).

I had already to set my camera to -2/3 exposure while shooting some images in the station and started clicking away immediately when I saw the train departing. Out of 5 shots this one came out perfect. Shot at f2.8 at -2/3 of a stop which resulted in a 1/20 sec exposure. Exactly right to get the man frozen and the departing train blurry.

Afterwards I showed the image to the man but he was not very amused, I guess taking pictures slightly sneakily is not really appreciated but sometimes there is no other way. Other that that he didn’t complain or get angry so I have this cool photo as a result.

Some other railway shots from that day: