Poland

Just booked my flights - I´m off to Krakow next month, on a two week language course in polish.

Bargain hunting

can be fun :).

Got this Mountainbike for 5.50 € at e-bay yesterday evening and took it home with me en route on the way back from my parents house - so I didn´t even have any extra transport costs.
I want(ed) to use it at the garden nursery where I work. I really need a bike there and my first one has been ruined by the people who "borrowed" it, and the one I´ve got there now is a bit to good for the rough life a bike has to lead there.
The only "problem" is that I now really feel like using my new aquisition in the woods next to my house :
And that I´ve got no idea how to fix a rack for all the stuff I need to carry through the greenhouses.

Bautz & Rusty

a Jack Russel & a Magyar Vizsla bitch. Together with Heiko & their owner, a friend & colleague of mine, the five of us took a nice walk along the river Ems today.

It´s spring!

Life is like a dandelion - when the time has come everyone has to fly on their own.

Hurra!
My favorite season!

Well, it was until I started working in a garden centre. For now spring means work. And work.
And even more work. But at least this year the kind of work I´m doing is a bit more to my liking, even if it´s really (physically) arduous most of the time.

I´ve only worked from 6 til 11.30 today and it almost feels like a day off.
I´d really like to go and see my family now, especially my niece Jonna, but they´re all on holiday together at the moment. Hope the weather cooperates and they´re enjoying their stay at the seaside.

Object(s) of desire

There are three things I " like" to spend money on: Travel, Animals and Photography.

Right now I really want a new telephoto lens.
I have got one , a Tamron 100-300 mm, but since it fell down in Kopenhagen zoo when the strap of my backpack severed it doesn´t work properly anymore.
And I never really liked it.

If I´d hit the jackpot I´d go for a Canon EF 400mm 2.8 L IS USM which costs about 7000 Euro .
And a 300 mm, and a 600 mm...

Since that´s completely out of the question in the real world I´m now trying to make my mind up what I really "need" * and can afford.
(* Honestly? Does one really NEED a Telelens? )

I´ve managed to reduce the choice to two lenses and am now trying to decide between a
1. Canon EF 100-300mm 4.5-5.6 USM (o.k., sensible, more or less affordable, about 250 Euro ) and a 2. Canon EF 70-300mm 4-5.6 IS USM (Object of desire, not sensible, about 450 Euro. I´ve been scanning the 2nd-hand market for weeks).

This really isn´t of any interest to you?
Isn´t it me who keeps quoting that "A technically perfect photograph can be the world’s most boring picture." (Andreas Feininger)?

I know, I know, and the time I spent on lookjing for equipment I should really spend on photography, cause at the moment I´m not really content with my photos.
But I still had to get it off my chest :).

And to add at least something that might be of interest to you - if you´re into photography- there´s a site with "Photoquotes" on the net.

Green

fotocommunity

Winter Wonderland

Heiko loves snow

I wonder what happened- saw this dead deer in the frozen river Ems today: