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In continuing to review also paper magazines I read, I’ll sum up what I got out of the December 2008 issue of the German language Naturfoto magazine. I think I will start rating the individual issues and later create a statistic of how interesting I found the read – because somewhere in the back of my head something is whispering that I do not get enough out of every read to justify the, well, time spent on buying and reading… maybe it’s better get out and make some photos myself…
- There is an amazing photo of a griffon vulture sitting in the top of a tree, with two crows next to him being obviously annoyed by the presence of that large guy – and probably not used to him, because this photo was made on the German island of Neuwerk, near the mouth of the Elbe river. Griffon vultures are not common in northern Germany
This reminds me I should put Neuwerk on my places to visit list! - On meta data management, they have a sidebar on the commercial initiative of the Metadata Working Group including Adobe, Microsoft, and others. They have published a specification document (downloadable as PDF) on how to handle photo metadata using Exif, IPTC, and XMP. I’ll put that on my backlog to check out – my meta data management certainly is not up to industry standards yet…
- German Internet FotoTV has made a program on sharpness in pictures and sharpening methods. This sounds interesting, but I am not a subscriber to FotoTV (yet?), and this is not pay per view. Too bad.
- There is a long and very nice article about photographing cranes in spain – in the Laguna de Gallocanta. They even claim this is the best place in Europe to go photographing cranes. The article was written by Dieter Damschen, who is working for a photo tour organization Reisen In Die Natur, who – surprise – offer guided trips there. Hmm. Goes on my places list. (Yikes – the trip costs 1640€ for a week including flight).
- In the ad section, Naturerlebnisse as a tour organizer struck me with an offer for a Helgoland trip in January. So I might be a bit late
, but of course they have more offerings on their website. Noted. - Next to that, another company offers
trips to Greece. 800€ without flight for one week. Hmmm. Might be nice. They advertise bee-eaters and pelicans (Great White as well as Dalmatians). - While we’re at it, at the Hungarian National Park Kiskunsagi there is the offer of a nice accomodation called Somodi Tanya. (in their ad they say it’s in the National Park Fülöphaza. I have never been in Hungary, I think I have to check a map. And I have to do a bit more research to find out the right links for this.)
Overall rating? Well, some great photos, but the ads seemed to offer more take-away value than the articles. This gets a 3 out of 5 star rating.
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