http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:hepiladron&section=today deviantART RSS for by:hepiladron en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:55:23 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/20521157/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/20521157/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:44:38 PDT
I haven't done much photography lately. But that shouldn't keep me from submitting something as there's still some old stuff that'd be worth submitting. It's just that i'm either too lazy to do that or too busy doing other things.

I just started with my masters thesis.

I'm not making as much progress in archery as i would like to make. I did a lot of cycling and occasionally went jogging this summer. It's nice to notice how a hill that felt steep and tiring in spring feels now much less so.

I hope you're all doing well & stuff!

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/17522977/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/17522977/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:06:55 PDT


Last Thursday i went to Mulhouse, France, just accross the border. I went there with a friend who's an experienced archer to buy a recurve bow. I got a beautiful blue riser (thing in the middle) and some kick ass limbs. I also got a stabilization system by a brand called SOMA. How cool is that? (This is only funny if you've read Brave New World, which i hope you have, cos it's gooooood!).

I almost spent a months wage in that shop. (worked 60% between terms)

Now i hope i can improve my form over the summer. Maybe shoot 30 and 50 meters outside a few times. And then be ready for my first tournament when the indoor (18m) season starts this fall.

Not much going on in terms of photography at the moment. All the beautiful spring flowers got covered in snow.

But a lot of programming, which i think is also a form of art.

&

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/17086000/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/17086000/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:56:04 PST
I reached 5'000 Pageviews a few days ago and around the same time i reached 10'000 deviation views. That's a lot of views. And some people seem to like my stuff and faved it and commented on it. That's a very nice thing to do. Thank you!

I've been reading about pattern formation on butterfly wings. Distalless gene and its role in spot formation and stuff like that.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/16532232/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/16532232/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:05:57 PST
Browsed through my photos yesterday and there's some good stuff i never got around to editing and posting on here.

I might pick up a good monitor at the end of the month. One that can be calibrated so the prints look similar to what was on the screen.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/16000773/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/16000773/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:19:25 PST

New pictures hopefully coming soonish (after my exams).

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/15014700/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/15014700/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:35:39 PDT The old one's dying. But it served me well for four long years.

Busy doing non-dA stuff. See you later!

Stay beautiful.

Jürg

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/14562109/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/14562109/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:42:31 PDT
[link]
[link]

I'm thinking of buying a good LCD monitor. And then get some device to calibrate it, so the colours are accurate and prints look like the picture on the monitor.

The LCD market is confusing. The first thing you look at usually is resolution, size and price. And then you wonder why one monitor is smaller and has lower resolution but is much more expensive than another one. So i did a lot of research today. Seems like the thing you want is a monitor with IPS panel technology, as that has better colours. But it's more expensive. But i think i found something. [link]

A laptop screen just isn't the right thing for editing pictures. Not that a new monitor will improve the quality of pictures i post here by much. But it certainly will make it a lot easier to get the colours and contrast right in prints.

I'm also thinking about getting a photo printer. I certainly don't one something cheap where the ink cost a fortune. I'd rather pay more for a bigger printer with bigger ink cartridges. But i'm not sure if i take enough pictures worth printing to justify the cost of such a printer.



]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/14466890/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/14466890/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:58:04 PDT

Now i've got to to post 8 random facts about myself. Haha! Whoever started this dind't really think about it, didn't they. The only way to do this is if you have a list of all the facts about yourself and then use some method like throwing many dice to chose from them. If i just chose these "random facts" myself they can't be random, that's not how the mind works.

I'm not really into these tagging games, so i'm not going to post the rules which i'm going to break by not tagging anyone.

So here's 8 facts about myself. You can pretend they are random if you feel like it.

1. I've never been outside of Europe, but i've been to a place in Greece where you can see all the way to Asia.
2. A bit over 2 years ago i took medication so i wasn't depressed all the time. These days i think i'm actually a rather happy person.
3. One of the reasons i got my first camera was because i planned to take pictures and then use them as references for painting and drawing.
4. I'm physically in a better shape than at any point in the past 5 years!
5. I only shave once or twice a week.
6. I've never been in a relationship.
7. I plan to get a super job and earn lots of money once i have my masters degree.
8. The colour i wear most often is blue.

If you want to take part in this game but haven't been tagged by anyone you can pretend i tagged you.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/13547926/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/13547926/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:26:04 PDT
I had my last exam yesterday. Went pretty well. It looks like i can get an interesting, challenging and well paid job for the summer.

I thought i'd do one more of these feature thingies before my suscribtion runs out later this afternoon. Thanks again to the nice people who bought a suscribtion for me!

*deedee20382
Deb lives on the other side of the mountains. 2nd Deviant i met in person. He camera got stolen and she now owns a dSLR but doesn't post enough pictures!


:decTehSext:
Cheryl has been on my watchlist since her very first days on dA. Nice friend and it's always nice to see someone grow as an artist.


=roseonthegrey
Jean is a newer dAFriend of mine. Her photography is based on strong concepts and great execution. I like her geek humor and the battles() we sometimes have in pseudoJava.


~Fezzgator
Ryan is another newer dAFriend. He knows a lot about butterflies and has been a great help identifying the ones in my pictures! He also takes good pictures.
http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/13096467/ Sat, 26 May 2007 03:52:52 PDT Free lunch
Wednesday i got free lunch @ Google Zurich. If you ever get a chance to go look at one of Googles offices you should do so. Pool billiard table and other fun stuff. Free food. One guy even brought his dog to work. No that's what i call a good work environment.
In the afternoon we went to GIS-Luzern. The boss there said they're having trouble filling open positions. So i guess that's pretty good news because it hopefully means that i won't have problems finding a job once i have my masters degree.

Workload
Writing my bachelor thesis. Sorry if i'm a bit late with replies and looking at your new work.

Lookit!



Butterfly on passion flower!!!!

Clubs:
]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12686057/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12686057/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:11:41 PDT
~cahoot painted my blue morpho butterfly! She's the greatest!

dA has been kind of sluggish for me lately. Comments taking forever to get submitted and some ending up not beeing submittet at all. Pages taking forever to load... Not much fun.

Really busy with university stuff.

I joined some clubs cos *WaitingForTheWorms said they are great clubs to be in and asked me to join.

Clubs:
]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12308269/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12308269/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:30:59 PDT Let's celebrate with a little butterfly collection. There's always one of mine in every three pictures. Usually the worst one.

In related news: some very, very, very nice person bought me another three months of subscription.

Owl Butterflies

Three different species of Owl butterflies. The owl butterfly is the biggest butterfly you're going to find at a butterfly house. There are some Moths that are even bigger. I likes shadow and rarely opens it's wings.


Longwing Butterflies


Different species of Heliconius. The longwing butterfly gets very old for a tropical/subtropical butterfly (several moths as an adult butterfly). Easy to recognice by the shape of their wings.


Lacewing Butterflies

One of my favourites. A red lacewing and two leopard lacewing. But that's only a guess because the only one i can identify with any certanity is the malay lacewing.


Emerald Swallowtail
... ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12271683/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12271683/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:21:00 PDT Stay tuned.

- Jürg

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12152487/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/12152487/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:39:22 PDT
With the subscripton some very nice person bought for me ending on the 30. i decided it's about time to feature some deviants and their work in my journal.

=cheekylittlemonkey
Annie is a talented photographer, a source of inspiration and a good friend. She is a big butterfly lover.


*CirceMoon
Erin played a big role in my getting interested in serious macro photography. She was there with advice when i upgraded to the Canon 20D dSLR. She's kind of crazy. She used to riskes her life on an almost daily basis to bring us wonderful pictures of dangerous snakes. These days she photographs all kinds of animals.


*liviaa
Livia was the first Deviant i met in real life. She lives in beautiful Villeneuve at Lac Lemand. I already went there twice to meat her and look at her amazing art.


*alfrancis
Alison is one of the most beautiful girls on dA. She's also a very nice person and has a gallery full of interesting photographs and paintings.
http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11946710/ Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:17:00 PST

We had five days of winter after i posted my last journal. Now it's back to where it was before. An early spring. The first fowers are coming out and i'm planning on documenting their arrival - with a camera!

inspiration:


]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11422119/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11422119/ Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:38:04 PST
The first part of January is supposed to be the coldest time of the year.
You're not supposed to see any insects outdoors between December and March!
Crazy.

inspiration:


]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11253651/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11253651/ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:55:41 PST My newest lens



It's an old design. It's made of good quality plastics. But the focus ring is tiny and it you can't use the focus ring while it's on autofocus. It's tiny compared to my other two lenses. 35mm is a bit more than the standard 50mm with the x1.6 crop factor of the 20D. Nice focal length. The optics are good. It's certainly quite usable at f/2 and it's very sharp stopped down a bit. It's pretty flare resistant.

The reasons why i went with this lens:

it's fast (two stops faster than my zoom lens at 35mm)

nice focal length

good price

can focus as close as 25cm resulting in 1:4 magnification

I just put all my extention tubes behind this lens and i think the magnification is more than 2:1, more than what i get with my macro lens and the extention tubes. Focus distance: 2cm.


Subscription

Some may already have noticed that there are pictures and i've been using html tags in this here journal. Somebody bought a subscription for me for my dAnniversary. Which is a really nice thing to do. I haven't figured out who bought it for me, but i have my suspects.
A "thank you very much" to whoever did it.


& a happy new year!

winter's coming!

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11241914/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11241914/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:47:19 PST
On this very special occasion i wanted to say thank you to everyone who looked at, commented or faved my work. And a special thank you to all my watchers for their endurance and the support they give me.

Today's hopefully also the day i'm gonna reach 3'000 pageviews. Only thirteen pageviews to go, we can do it!

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11162912/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/11162912/ Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:48:13 PST
I was really busy with university and didn't spend much time on here. Haven't touched my camera for weeks...

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/10506365/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/10506365/ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:20:53 PDT
XVIII looks good, but at f/2.8 there's not enough sharpness to make a big print look interesting for a clos look. But luckily i'm not planning to look at it from a few cm distance.

XIV looks great. f/10 and the butterfly's just about to jump out of the picture. There's sensor dust which is hard to notice and a few artifacts from .jpg compression and/or enlarging.

XIII looks good. The colour's a bit into the yellow ish, but hardly noticeable. It's also not as sharp around the butterflie's eyes as i hoped it would be. Another case of focus beeing just mm off.

XII looks incredible. The colours are popping, sharpness and DOF close to perfect. I think this could be enlarged waaaay further. It's hard to beleive that I took this picture.

Uni started again and it looks like it's going to be a very busy term with loads of work to do.

I decided to take a course in archery. They offer about every kind of sports anyone could possibly be interested in at university.

A week ago i met a really nice deviant
She's camera less at the moment because her's got stolen.But she's planning to buy a dSLR and once she's got it we're going to the butterfly house together.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/10279954/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/10279954/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:35:21 PDT There was this guy Gregor with us. His father is greek. He's been to greece a gzillion times. He know what to order in the restaurant. Here's something delicious he introduces us to the first night out.

[b]Tirokafteri[/b]

INGREDIENTS
8 oz package cream cheese
1 lb feta, crumbled
1 cup lemon juice
1/4 tsp ground White pepper
1/2 cup olive oil
1 cup half&half
4 roasted red peppers, diced 2 tsp.
Tabasco sauce


METHOD
Soften cream cheese in large bowl with mixer. Add feta, lemon juice, and white pepper. Slowly add olive oil until all og the oil is absorbed. Mix in half&half until the miture is smooth and soft. If the mixture is hard, add a little more half&half to soften. Add roasted peppers. Serve with bread.

Greece is awesome. Here's where we went day by day:
1. Athens. Dinner on a roof top terrace with view on the acropolis.
2. 550km up the east coast to Tessaloniki. Lunch in a cute village in the mountains.
3. Another 300km to Alexandopolis. Ferry to the island Samotrake.
4. It rained all day.
5. Boat trip (dolphins!). Loads of driving around by car to make up for the day lost due to rain.
6. We went through stoney goatland to some remote beach. Late afternoon ferry to Alexandropolis.
7. Early morning flight to Athens. Akropolis was free entrance that day. Loads of people. We found the best Gyros ever! Yummy! Evening flight to Santorini. I didn't ask for a window seat but i got one. With island/sunset view!
8. We climbed around in some cliffs and looked at the stones and formations. It's a shame we don't have any vulcanos in Switzerland.
9. Touristic boat trip in the caldera. North wind. The sky was incredibly blue! A view to die for!
10. Climbed around on the remains of a dead vulcano. There were ruins of the town all rich people of the island used to live in. They gave it up because of earthquakes. Swimming at the read beach.
11. Early morning flight to Athens. Some of use decieded to rent a bus to take us to the south of Attika to the temple of poseidon at cap Suonion. Beautiful place! Flight back home in the afternoon.

Many interesting stones were observed. Much delicious food was eaten. Hundreds of photographs were taken. Maybe i can find one or two that are good enough to post here.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/9892620/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/9892620/ Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:24:37 PDT This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams



So true!

Off to Spain on Thursday for two weeks. I hope the weather's better there. It's raining all the time here!
Then back home for ten days.
Then off to greece.
Sounds like a fun month.

Apperantly there's a new Douglas Coupland book and nobody told me about it! Have to pick that up when i'm back.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/9105276/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/9105276/ Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:26:44 PDT
got me featured at big hugs to her! ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8728528/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8728528/ Wed, 10 May 2006 09:04:16 PDT

Today was all georeferenced databases, spatial joins, relational joins and other tricky stuff.

Tomorrow's field trip day.

And then it's weekend.

I went to Livias place last Saturday. Her stuff's is amazing. And she's a great person.

I'm a bit behind with commenting back and looking at your new deviations. Someday soon i shall catch up.

Have a nice day.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8630668/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8630668/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:19:20 PDT
Sometime soon i shall go have a look at Livia's atelier. She's one of my favourite artists on dA! She lives in a beautiful place, so i can combine the visit with some landscape and flower photography.



Happi hepi.



Free 's for everyone! ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8353278/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8353278/ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:26:00 PDT This might actually turn into a series.

Much fun was had yesterday in the garden working at minimum focus distance. What i learned was: It's not easy to focus on the eyes of a butterfly, but try focusing on the eight eyes of a spider the size of an eye of a butterfly...!

I found a Kenko extention tube set on ebay for a good price. Extention tubes make the distance between the rear element of your lens and the sensor plane bigger, which results in a closer minimum focus distance. You loose infinity focus, but that doesn't matter with makro work. With the set i will be able to get as close as roughly 1:1.5 !

First day of the new term today. Met some lovely people again. But nine hours without a break for lunch still is a bit much for a monday!

Hope you're all doin' fine!

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8285070/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8285070/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:37:45 PST

I chose my new glasses today. They look cool. And what's even cooler is that they don't just use any glass. They put Zeiss glass in it! (Zeiss probably beeing #2 when it comes to ultra sharp (and expensive) lenses for 35mm SLR cameras.)

I should post more pictures. I have some stuff that i haven't gotten around to post yet. See you later. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8262127/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8262127/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:12:23 PST
Bees are so busy. As soon as the first flowers are out they at work again. And they only stop every once in a while to clean themselves with their legs.

I saw the first butterfly of the year on monday. It was an orange brownish one.

Exam on monday, and i feel reasonably well prepared.

Today it's much to windy to take photographs of flowers.

I was at the orchid exhibition. And i didn't bring my camera. Hundreds of different orchids and hepi had no camera. But orchids aren't that fun to shoot. They are wonderfully beautiful, but go little detail close up. And their curved petals demand a big f-stop number, which makes things difficult in the light of a big hall. We did buy two orchids. A red one and a violet-brown-white-green one. I might post pictures of those.

I enjoy listening to the new Trespassers William album 'Having'.

's to everyone who needs some.

Have a nice day. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8174698/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8174698/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:12:06 PST <- spring

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8075130/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/8075130/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:11:59 PST
(Yes, i was driving slowly and carefully (No, not slowly and carefully enough))

That was before the real big snow. We got 70cm in 24 hours! That's a whole lot of snow. I built two snowmen when it started as the snow was just the consisty you want it to be for snowmen. And now they're in snow up to the waist. I might start an expedition to the river tomorrow to get some snowy pictures.

I gotta take my statisics exam again at the end of the month. I was really lazy during the term and the subject not beeing interesting didn't help either. That kinda sucks, but isn't much of a problem. Wont stop me from taking pictures.

Have fun. Be careful. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7953958/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7953958/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:51:21 PST
i took pictures.

there's going to be a butterfly picture each day until i run out of pictures or until i don't know the roman numbers anymore.

on totally unrelated news: Switzerland vs. Canada 2:0 (ice hokey, olympics) ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7861554/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7861554/ Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:57:16 PST

Podzol
Albeluvisol
Luvisol
Phaeozem
Chernozem
Kastanozem
Bodosol
Solonetz
Solonchak
Calcisol
Durisol
Gypsisol
Ferrasol
Acrisol
Lixisol
Nitisol
Alisol
Plinthosol
Cryosol
Arenosol
Andosol
Vertisol




]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7846579/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7846579/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:46:12 PST
1307 pageviews, only 30 to go until 1337!

1111 deviation comments

100 mm focal length on my macro lens

18 days 'til my b-day

12 es for my dear dA friends

7 s for my dear dA friends

3 days 'til my exams

1 missing gallery here: [link] (where will i go to to get inspired now?) ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7809345/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7809345/ Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:09:09 PST
]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7533086/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7533086/ Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:43:14 PST
I got around on the internet quite a bit in recent times. And i found some quite interesting sites when looking for lens & other photography gear reviews! Wanna know what lens to buy. How to properly light a subject? Whether Canons "L" lenses stand for Luxury or Low-value? The principles of composition? How to do extreme macro? Why most landscape shots turn out boring?

Here's some links i found very useful:

Lenses:

For accurate and rather technical lensreviewes go to Photozone.de [link]

For plenty of user reviews and user ratings go to fredmiranda.com (careful, plenty of "L" snobs here) [link]

For well written and illustrated reviews with sample pictures go to the-digital-picture.com. Also features a lens recommendations for given needs and fields of photography [link]

An explanation of the often rather confusing lenspricing [link]

The Canon lens FAQ is her (also featuring general SLR, flash and filter FAQs) [link]

Canon SLR lens forum at dpreview.com (once again: attention "L"-snobbery) [link]

Why it doesn't have to be an "L" [link]

Some useful review, especially affordable wideangle solutions: [link]

The lens with the selective focus. Much fun to be had. Lensbabies.com [link]

Makro

Ectreme Macrography using a reversed wideangle lens [link]

some macro philosophy and techniques: [link]

some more macro technique from close-up lenses to real macro lenses: [link]

The macro forum at fredmiranda.com is amazing. Any questions you have are likely to be answered. Also features amazing examples of basic macro composition by Tom Hicks. You gotta sing up to view it. [link]

Lighting

Guides for lighting in portrait photography (that will help you understand light better in all areas of photography). [link]

Lighting technics forum at dpreview.com [link]

Tutorials, essays, lessons, guides,...

Inside-out cropping [link]

Can composition be tought? (and much more) [link]

General photograqphy technique, perspective, light... [link]




I'm sure i forgot quite a bit. I will update this post if i find something good that's missing or if you dears can provide more links!

On related news, i got my lensbaby + macro kit yesterday and it's really as much fun as it promised to be. Sharp pictures aren't everything. With this baby you can easily produce beautiful artsy out of focus picture with a very interesting sweet spot of focus. I will post result soon. My sister loves this lens. She's not much into photography, but she got the hang of it imediatly and took some shots that are better then mine so far!

Have a blast. Enjoy live my dears. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7508728/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7508728/ Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:13:55 PST [link]
I wanted one since i first saw the webpage. Now they got a retailer in switzerland (only a few km from where i live) and a macro set!
Much fun to be had.
Yes, i put a $150 heavily distorted lens on my $1000+ digital SLR.

The new year didn't start so well. But i try to see the good side. There's much more room for improvment that way!

Sleep well dears. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7423492/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7423492/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:43:34 PST

I hope you all had a nice christmas as well.

Pictures coming soon. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7237259/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7237259/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:45:55 PST from the mileage
on my speeding heart

Dear dA friends, how are you all doing?
I haven't really had the time & energy to use my shiny new camera regulary, which is a shame. But intend to do so real soon.

I also made a folder with my favourite songs from the year. It includes the following goodies:
13&God - Men Of Starion
Aarktica - A Wash A Sea Goodbye It's Me
British Sea Power - Please Stand Up
Cat Power - Love & Communication
Isobella - Whale In Lake Ontario
Malory - Endora
Manual - Neon Reverie
Metric - The Police And The Private
M.I.A. - Amazon
Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla
Stockfinster - All Becomes Music
Televise - Mercy Seat

If you belong to the cool people who listen to good music and want to check this out send me say so here and i'll send a not with a link to download.

Have a nice day.

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7050702/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/7050702/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:31:44 PST
01. Good music. Especially shoegazer, ambient electronica and post-rock.
02. The planet earth. It's a beautiful and interesting place. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
03. Kurt Vonnegut. The best writer and a man with tons of brilliant ideas.
04. A nice breakfast after a good night of sleep.
05. Nice people who know live's not all that great but still have a good humor.
06. Penut Butter that comes all the way from the Netherlands.
07. Knowing how things work.
08. Art.
09. Cold nights with lots of stars.
10. Sexy French exchange students.

3 things that make you happy:

01. Beautiful things.
02. Paroxetine (C19H20F1NO3, Cl, 0.5 H2O)
03. Photography

3 things that anger you:

01. Ignorance
02. Nice people who like total jerks.
03. TV


10 things that you hate:

I don't have the energy to hate things.

3 facts about your name:

01. I don't have a middle name.
02. Jürg is a variant of George, some guy who killed a dragon and became a saint for it.
03. I have two dots above my u!

5 facts about yourself:

01. I'm rather intelligent but have very little ambition.
02. Girls like me but still wont go out with me.
03. Sometimes i get depressed.
04. I'm a 3rd semester Geography student with a average above 5.25 (4 beeing passing and 6 being the maximum (no one got that))
05. I painted my room in a very light yellow that is almost white a few weeks ago.

2 things you expect (at least for now):

01. Beeing a procrastinator.
02. Not finding the right girl anytime soon.

4 random thoughts:

01. The world's not in a good state. Not at all.
02. "We're here to help each other through this thing, whaterver it is"
03. I should do lots of stuff this morning that i probably wont do in the end anyway.
04. The fog's really thick. I'm looking forward to the first snow.

Song you're listening to (give artist)

B. Fleischmann - First Times (from his new album, out early 06)

Time?:
9:30 AM

"If you're bored enough to read this, do it." - =RecensAetas ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6924385/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6924385/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:25:05 PST
Got there in the morning. Heathrow -> Paddington. Paddington station is the best place to arrive in London. This big hall, industrial style. Rain dropping from the roof into buckets. Industrial decay. It's a shame i couldn't take any pictures. My small camera wouldn't have been able to handle the light.
Wandered around the city in the morning. It rained from time to time. I didn't go to the touristy parts. I walked around in new living areas at the Thames. Warehouse, falling apart - modern high security Apartment building - Warehouse. Old next to modern. Expensive next to useless. That was rather impressive.
Met my friend Sam ( ~schlocky ) at 2 in the afternoon at Euston station. He hadn't slept all night due to a combination of esseay deadlines and coffee. Then we met Mark from Whales and later on Sams friend Sonia. She lives in an apartment right next to the river. And they've got a private pier, which you can see in my "London Sunset" picture.
The gig that evening was great. I finally got to see Malory and Ulrich Schnauss. And Sennen were really good as well. After the show i talked to everyone. Ulrich is a nice guy and really humble. Daniel and Daniela from Malory are great people. And Daniela was really hot on stage as well! Later on Robin, the organizer, introduced me to Simon Scott from Slowdive! Slowdive are one of my favourite bands of all time! Simon was a DJ between sets. He gave me the three mix CDs he made for the night and i've been listening to those a lot in the last few days.

After the show we hung out on the private pier. But it was pretty cold. Didn't get much sleep that night.
Next day was more peaceful, with a short trip to camden market beeing the only touristy thing we did. My friends were all "Oh, that's posh" and "that guy has got it made" when we walked around one of the more expensive areas in the evening, which i thought was pretty funny. "Fucking posh" is one of my favourite things to say now.

Next morning i got up at 5:30 only to find out the tube wouldn't open until 7:00. But there was a fox in the tube station! He could get in and out through a small hole. No picture of that either. I managed to get to Heathrow in time anyway, by taking a bus to a place where there were cabs.

Weeee! Great weekend!



Also, i met a really really nice girl last week. Wish me luck! ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6780861/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6780861/ Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:40:59 PDT
I think i've got dust on the sensor. But i know i can fix the bad spots in the good pictures.

Tons of goodies coming!

Tomorrow i'm going to paint my room a light Yellow. Almost white but not quite.

It was the first time i did some serious landscape shots with the 20D. And i've got to say the 17-85 mm lens is a great landscape lens. 17 mm is wide enough for almost everything. And 85 mm is a nice focal length if you want to focus on something and do not want to have to much scenery in the background to distract from the surface.
I'm fascinated with perspective. How the background moves away or comes closer. How you can make things look huge or really small compared to each other at 17mm. It's quite fascinating. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6735894/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6735894/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:39:36 PDT [link] ) on Friday 21st. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6721355/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6721355/ Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:32:28 PDT
I was on my way home from a party out in the woods. Some of my friends are involved in organization of the party and they asked me to take pictures. I'm using one picture i took as my wallpaper on my desktop right now. I might upload that latger.

Anyone else lonely and laking any motivation?

The new camera's fun though. As is helping my friend Maria prepering for the exams she has to take a second time.

Religion: The First Church of God Almighty The Utterly Indifferent

Music: Playing thousands of mp3's on random.

Distraction: Douglas Coupland's 'Shampoo Planet' and Age of Empires III

Tryin' to find meaning in a meeningless world. I need to find someone i can love.

Good luck. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6596887/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6596887/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:36:58 PDT Start.
Music is quite important to me, so those who'd like to get to know me better pay attention.

Some lists:

Mah top 10 favourite bands
1. Cocteau Twins
2. R.E.M.
3. Disco Inferno
4. Slowdive
5. Manual
6. Ulrich Schnauss
7. Talk Talk
8. The Zephyrs
9. Japancakes
10. The Chameleons

Other stuff i love: Cranes, Malory, Isobella, The Beatles, Blur, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Chapterhouse, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Durutti Column, Bark Psychosis, Mogwai, Sigur Rós...

Mah top 3 favourite songs
1. Slowdive - 'When The Sun Hits'
2. Cocteau Twins - 'Lorelei'
3. R.E.M. - 'Walk Unafraid'

Mah top 20 favourite albums
1. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
2. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
3. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
6. Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
7. Manual - Until Tomorrow
8. The Zephyrs - A Year To The Day
9. Disco Inferno - Technicolour
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
11. The Zephyrs - When The Sky Comes Down It Comes Down On Your Head
12. Patti Smith - Horses
13. Manual - Ascend
14. Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
15. Japancakes - If I Could See Dallas
16. Slowdive - Pygmalion
17. Bark Psychosis - Hex
18. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
19. R.E.M. - Up
20. Cranes - Adoration

Top 3 things Alison related
Artist: Alison Shaw (Cranes)
Song: Slowdive - 'Alison'
Album: Malory - Not Here Not Now (Alison Records)
Band: Alison's Halo

Top 4 Instruments
1. Pedal Steel Guitar
2. Cello
3. Piano
4. Steel Guitar

Album of the moment
Sigur Ros - Takk...

Links
hepiladron @ audioscrobbler: [link]
hepiladron @ rate your music: [link]

Add lists of your own!
End. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6527588/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6527588/ Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:53:14 PDT
What else is new? Pretty much nothing. It's cold today. And rainy. Perfect weather to get depressive, but i wont do that.

No book to read right now. I've been reading some novels by Douglas Coupland lately. He's a funny but also thought provocing writer. Last thing i read was 'Hey Nostradamus!' which is about a highscool shooting and the life of a survivour who lost his wife (secretly married in Las Vegas). Good read. 'All Families are Psychotic' was way funnier, which doesn't surprise when looking at the topics. Coupland doesn't come anywhere near Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I'm pretty much obsessed by Vonnegut right now. He's funny. He's serious. He tells the truth. My favourite writer ever. I'd all read his books within a few days if i didn't have to order them. So that's another thing worth looking forward to. The arrival of the next Vonnegut book i ordered.

Here's a small list of funny books that deal with serious topics i enjoyed a lot:

1. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Bluebeard
An WWII veteran and techically (but only technically) brilliant painter looks back at his live. Growing up as a son of survivours of the genocide on turkish Armenians. Working for a ultra-realistic painter and control freak. Carmouflage in WWII, the only thing he ever was good at. And an involvemet in the abstract expressionist movement.

2. Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic
Craziest book ever. A mother, a Father and his new trophy wive. Two sons, one criminal, one suicidal. And a doughter, a successful scientist and a soon to go into space as an astronaut. Despite of having only one had. The all meet up in Florida for the shuttle's start. Add a crazy girlfriend, a religious wife and a boring husband. One crazy thing happens after another bringing them together and making them look over all the bad stuff they've done to each other.

3. DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
Vernon, living in the barbecue sauce capital of Texas, gets accused of beeing his friends accomplice in a highscool massacre. He tells the story in his own words, in the language of a teenager, how he goes to Mexico. How he get's cought. A book in a refreshingly young language that deals with the columbine massacre, small town southern america and the role of the media.

That was that. I just hope there are some people watching me who are interested in literature so i didn't type all this for nuthin'.

Free 's for all! ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6464910/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6464910/ Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:45:39 PDT Camera and lenses:
Digital SLR: most likely the Canon EOS 20D
A walk-around lens: most likely the Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
A makro lens: most likely the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

Accessories:
A good tripod
Camerabag for camera & 2 lenses
Additional battery
Circular polarizer filter
at least two 2GB memory cards

Other fun things that i wont get just now cos this hobby is fucking expensive:
Ultra wide angle lense
Telephoto lense
A good flash

That's going to cost, like, a million trillion dollar. Who do i know that i can sue to get that kind of money?

So that's that. I decided my room needs to be painted yesterday, so that's what i'm going to do. I'll get back to you guys for suggestions of patterns and desings i can use. I don't want it to be plain white.

A to all my dA friends & lovers. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6422091/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6422091/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:09:50 PDT
Yeah. Any opinions? Are digital SLRs fun? Eh? Would i need tons of different lenses if i want to keep up some diversity? (Look at my gallery, i photograph all kinds of stuff)

Well, that's that.

This weekend i saw the cutest kid ever. A distand relative. She was 2 1/2 years old and she was always smiling. I was stupid enough not to have her pose for my cameran. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6394545/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6394545/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:52:46 PDT
Erin's forum thread: [link]

Erin's journal entry: [link]

The poor couldn't leave the city because they didn't have the money. Evacuation shouldn't be private. Even in corporate America of the 21st century. These people didn't ask to be born in the first place. And now they lost everything they had. Can't blame them for looting. Most are only taking food and water anyway. These people need all the help and sympathy they can get. DA as a community could/should do something. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6333800/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6333800/ Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:27:58 PDT
One to everyone reading this. And one to everyone who comes up with a clever response to it. And by clever i mean wierd and pointless. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6286255/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6286255/ Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:33:10 PDT
I took over 900 pictures in the last two weeks. That means i still have tons of material to go through and maybe i can find a few things good enough to post here. That said, i've still got a few ideas for new stuff. So the next few weeks are likely to be busy dA-wise.

I collected quite a bit of serpetinite. Serpetinite is a stone consisting mostly out of the mineral serpentine. It's usually green or black, but i also found some with light blue, white and violett parts. And i only took the ones with the most interesting textures. I want to use them to creat some kind of artwork. Not sure what it's going to be...

]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6230405/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6230405/ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:45:23 PDT

I'm inspired. I've got tons of ideas and projects. Lets hope some of them get finished at some point.

I'm looking forward to see what you guys submit while i'm gone. (especially the ever so sexy and creative Alison )

Post links of deviations you think i should see that are not your own!

A big to all of my dA friends and whoever else reads this. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6207550/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6207550/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:53:33 PDT
The people i watch have been very busy posting new deviations. I'll try to catch up, but i can't promise anything... ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6158357/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6158357/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:43:04 PDT
Meanwhile check out these two oustanding artists:

Alison: ~alfrancis

Thierry: ~ttoomuch

& one of my favourite flower photographs: [link] ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6017545/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/6017545/ Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:41:20 PDT ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/5457042/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/5457042/ Wed, 25 May 2005 11:59:01 PDT

Well, not that anyone reads this stuff...
The new album by Malory called 'The Third Face' is awesome. If you're a fan of good music (like for example Slowdive) you should check it out.

Also: life does not suck, even though it sometimes feels like it does.

Also: Ian Crause is possibly the greatest musician ever. If you don't know who Ian Crause is and who Disco Inferno were you should find out as soon as possible!

Listen: live can be improved by listening to the right music at the right time.

I plan to take up drawing and painting again some time in the near future.

That's it. ]]> ~hepiladron http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/4202450/ http://hepiladron.deviantart.com/journal/4202450/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:59:27 PST
Happy new year! ]]> ~hepiladron