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Don't miss the exhibition Dichtelust – forms of urban coexistence in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, open until 5.5.2019. The exposition is curated by Andreas Kofler with support from Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement Basel-Stadt. It features the amazing new Basel map by Min-Young Kim and Ahjin Kim of 3rei5uenf6echs, covering four whole walls …
Kingfishers visiting Basel Zoo.
Some recent bits and pieces: Heiniger AG has a discount on some Fujifilm cameras and lenses, until January 10. One of my photos is on display in Copenhagen :-) I liked Jardin dès planètes, an installation by Littmann Kulturprojekte: Worth a visit: 'Wünsch Dir was / Take your pick' at Museum der Kulturen …
Jazzcampus clearly was my highlight of the first Open House Basel. The concert stage The black box workshop room, where we got to listen to Café Da Mañha with Debora Monfregola. Don't miss them if they play near you, they sounded great! The recording room A big thank you for the very interesting tours to Ruedi …
MOO has new paper and formats for postcards :-) The square (above) and 2:1 formats (below) are very welcome additions. Haven't tried A5 yet. I'm blown away by the new Super paper that I used for the square cards. It's a very smooth surface, almost chalky to touch. And it makes the photos look like …
Revisiting Nicola Hicks at the sculpture parc Kloster Schönthal. Recovered Memory Crouching Minotaur --- I hope that they will succeed in bringing back Zilvinas Kempinas' Kakashi, which looked amazing in Aarhus. It would be great to be able to see it from above.
Jonas Rask's review and example pictures helped me make the decision. tl;dr Is it worth its price? If you're into macro photography I'd say yes. Unboxing It's heavy! The sound and feeling as if something in the lens is loose is normal and disappears when you turn on the camera Settings Too little haptic feedback …
On Parpan Rothorn with the 16-50mm and the 100-400mm/xf1.4x. I find it amazing how easy the capricorns are to miss on the red stone. Panorama stitched with Affinity Photo.
Hat tip to the great Art Wolfe, taken at Parpan Rothorn.
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