Tip - How to make BW photo

The BW (Black&White) photography has always been an amazing field of the photography and it will always find its place even in the new era of digital cameras. There are certainly many people including me who have not experienced the age of classic analogue photography and started to take pictures mainly due to the availability of the digital technology nowadays. However the digital cameras are still not in the same league as the analogue cameras especially when it comes to the BW photography – and it is not only the lower dynamic range of digital sensors compared to film although the latest digital cameras are now very close to the analogue cameras in their characteristics...

Gallery – USA 2006

Gallery – Norway

With a big delay I put into the gallery some other pictures from Norway – the country where I spent 2 years during last five years of my life and where we are going to stay for at least next two years. As I have been photographing almost exclusively birds during last year, the pictures in Norway gallery come mainly from the time before or from the trips that were not focused on photographing birds. Some pictures are from Bergen...

Christmas Eve has come…

Im not very old to be retrospecting but even I already remember the freezing and snowy Christmas in the times when I was a little boy. Today at Christmas Eve I went out to search for a bit of peace but insted of that the noise of ATV (quad-bike) distracted me from not far away. Christmas is supposed to be a time of calm and peace but not everyone is happy at this time – from behind the hill I could hear the noise of hunting-gun shooting – deer is not safe even at Christmas time! There is no snow around and as I remember this is not an exception in the recent years...

Gallery – birds of Wales

I have already written about our trip to Wales in articles Puffins at Skomer Island and Gallery - United Kingdom; now I finally processed all the pictures of birds from Wales. Besides some other pictures of Auks from Skomer Island I also added some more pictures of gulls into the gallery and some Passerines too and also a few Waders...

Birdwatching

Photography and watching of birds are close-knit but it is very difficult to do both activities properly at the same time – either you focus on bird photography to get the best shot of one species with many birds you simply pass over or you are a real birdwatcher but seldom make perfect picture of the bird....

Photo story – Crossbills invasion

This strange term is well known to the people in the areas where Crossbills are not very often seen through the year but appear in great amounts in certain time with good harvest of pine seeds in the coniferous forests. Although Crossbills are quite common birds in Norway, for me the last weekend was under the sign of my personal Crossbills invasion...

Beyond the camera – Edwin Kats

I encountered the work of this talented photographer recently during browsing the Image critique forum at www.juzaphoto.com. Although Edwin is quite new on this forum, his pictures appear pretty regularly in the „Photo of the week” section of this website...

Gallery – United Kingdom

STOP SHOOTING BIRDS

This new project of authors Jan Veber and Marie Cibulková touches a delicate issue of illegal trapping and shooting of birds in Mediterranean. Although this activity on Mediterranean islands is as unlawful as in other countries of European Union, every year about half million of birds of passage terminates sadly their pilgrimage there...

Jostedal in Autumn colours

The Jostedal valley, that borders the largest european mountain glacier Jostedalsbreen from Southeast is one of many beautiful places in Norway that are worth to visit. Although the main touristic season is on mainly during Summer months, the best season for photo-trip is by no doubts Autumn – thick fog is coming back to the valleys, streams and rivers fills up with water again and the trees change their colours to red and gold...

Gallery – Canada

The pictures from Canada presented on this website come from the 3-weks trip to British Columbia in July and beginning of August 2008. The very first part of our trip we spent in Vancouver and then headed to Vancouver Island with beautiful beaches near Tofino. After coming back to the mainland we drove inland and visited the most famous parks of tha Canadian part of Rocky Mountains – Kootenay, Banff, Yoho and Jasper National Parks. On the way back to Vancouver we had stopover in the Okanagan Lake area ...

Gallery – birds of Runde Island

Summer is the time of travelling and thus I was not able to process and upload all pictures of birds, which I made this year on Runde Island in Norway, unitl now....

Gallery – Australia

Pictures from Australia are from August 2006 when we spent about one week in Melbourne and then visited the best spots of Victoria during several days car trip. Although there was hot summer in Europe, the southern part of Australia was waking up from wintertime and the waters of Southern Ocean were also pretty cold. Australia is a land of contrasts, as we could feel during our drive from the Ocean shore inland towards the desert mining town Broken Hill...

Beyond the camera - Olivier Seydoux

In these short profiles I would like to introduce some of the photographers, whose work is an inspiration for me and whose pictures are always pleasure to look at. Let me begin with French photographer Olivier Seydoux, whose pictures I found last year during browsing the PBase internet gallery...