Living in a city that is located at the sea and that supports reading a book by the sea is a game changer for me. It is not just that the distances are short. Also the streets and the public transport invite to enjoy Kiel‘s little beauties. Grapping a book, getting on your bike and just not worrying too much about being harrest or run over is something so calming that it feels very normal. Having save streets and seeing that politics and city administration work hand in hand to get rid of the still many dangerous and troubling parts of bad infrastructure coming from a car centric mindset that was dominant in the past an that is still very dominant in the two other cities where I have spent most of my lifetime. Bremen and Stuttgart.
Enjoying the urban outdoors in Kiel starts with the journey not at the destination.

#Kiel #Radkultur #Kiellinie #Bicycle #Kielliebe

#FujifilmXT3 #FujinonXF16_80f4

Heute ist ein guter Tag fürs #Fördeplanschen! Für #teamsonnenaufgäng reicht es zeitlich schon eine Weile nicht mehr, seitdem die Sonne so früh aufgeht. Aber wir nehmen sie auch wärmend über dem Horizont! #Kielliebe #Kiellinie #winterbadenisover

1/250 | f? | 200mm | ISO1250

I didn't take the chance to talk to the cyclist. I didn't dare to. Now I wish I had.


If you recognise yourself on the picture please give me a sign. I would love sharing the original and a print with you and I would like to ask, if you would be fine with unbluring your face.

#Kiel #Kiellinie #Cycling #KielCycleChic
#FujifilmXT3 #PentaxM200f4SMC

The thing with the 200 mm lense is, that it narrows down my field of view by a lot. That limitation forces me to very new perspectives. I either focus way more on details or I have to move away quite often, to have a chance to get the scene into the picture. This changes the way I analyse my sourrounding, because I can either look at details within a 20 meters range or I am looking and scence and objects that are further in the distance. A bike withought rider would need to be 20 m away. Maybe more, otherwise there is no chance to fit it in the frame.

Also the proportions from objects in the back and in the foreground to the actual object in focus are very different to wider lenses. I imagine this picture taken with the 23mm lense: the car would take way occupy way more area, father and son would be way smaller in comparison and the boats in the back would be in the picture with a lot more of their detials without adding any more relevant information - hence they would bring distrection from the actual scene.

Technically one could have the same effect with a wider lense by croping in, as @rstub mentioned here: https://pixel.tchncs.de/p/rstub/931959487367050992 before. Appart from the los of effetive sensor area or say pixels it is also a difference in approach. A wider lense wouldn't offer that limitation in first place. And I would describe limitations as an offer... a feature, not a bug. At least for me as learner, not a pro, this helps me to make me aware of relevant settings and options that I tend to forget or not even recognise with a wider lense.

There is another feature (not a bug) to the 200mm. I take less pictures and with the manual focus I have a lot of missed focusses as well - even though my focussing is constantly improving, I still miss more than I manage to focus spot on. It forces me to take more time and evaluate in advance where, how and also wheather to bring myself into position for the shot. It is slowing me down in a very positve way.

#Kiel #Kiellinie #CompressionEffect
#Fujifilm #FujifilmXT3 #PentaxM200f4SMC

A sure sign that spring has arrived in Kiel is when the boat swarms return from their winter quarters and start mating.
#visualzen
#modernart #photography
#kiel #derechtenorden #schleswigholstein
#kiellinie #balticsea #ostsee