Long time no entry… Christmas was great and stressless. Shame I did not shoot the tree; it was marvellous. So huge and large and … wow! Next year I will do better.
Gerd watching the race
On the 26th we went to a horse race in Neuss and I must say I really enjoyed the trip. Ok I did not win anything, but I did not loose, too
. My brother Gerd was staying with us for Christmas. He knows everything about races and explained it all to us. Weird thing. The atmosphere was quite strange. Women with fur coats sitting on old rotten seats from the late 70s.
A proud winner
It was my first sports shooting, too. Definitely not the kind of thing I would love to do every day, but I was surprised how many images came out sharp. It was also the first time I used my Image stabilizer in the second mode.
It was one of the rare days when I leave my studio to shoot outdoors. As I mostly do food and stills, I do not need to do outdoor shots that much. But driving through the streets I realized that I could hardly find a house without Christmas decoration. And there were so many of these funny toy Santas climbing up the house. I have never realized this Christmas deco hype in Germany before…
So I went home to get my cam, a Sigma 80-400 OS Lens and tripod ( you never know), found a house with gorgeous decoration and started shooting. As soon as had I arranged my tripod and pulled my huge camera out of my bag, a police car stopped next to me and a policeman got out of the car looking at me very suspiciously:
He did not really understand why I wanted to shoot the Santa, so he decided to raise another topic and talk about photography. He was quizzing me to death, and I decided to be a good girl and answered all his questions (what kind of camera, why this camera, how much was it, why not Nikon, what kind of lens blabla..).
What a relief, He was gone and I was about to concentrate on my subject again, chose f11, zoomed in when suddenly the door of the house with the Christmas decoration opened and an angry little grandfather appeared. He was very angry and shouted: “Anything wrong with my house?”
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