Lavender Season

Lavender Show - Pawel Uchorczak (500px)

As every year the image sharing platforms are filling up with lavender field photographs again.

While last year I went on a lavender photography field trip to the south of France myself, I am following the season this year through photo streams.

The colors are impressive. But, how much digital editing is behind those eye catching images?

I definitely have to go back there in season in order to better explore the color and light space.

Eyes - Iza Lyson (500px)

Sunrise and Dramatic Clouds over Lavender Field - Valentin Valkov (500px)

Computer Desktop Wallpapers

Personalise your computer screen with a photograph.

Here is a selection of three of my best photographs prepared to match your computer screen.

As with my earlier offering of smartphone wallpaper images the selected three images all are telling an individual story by means of the subject, the photographic technique applied, and the story to be told around the individual location and situation when taking the shots.

Download your specific wallpaper image from the downloads page of my website. Click the download button on the right.
If your computer screen resolution is not listed please get in contact with me through the contact form on the website.

"Winter-1" is a view from Mount Rigi in central Switzerland right after sunset on a very cold evening in February 2015 using my digital DSLR equipment.
The raw image is the same as in my smartphone offering allowing to setup your productivity devices in a consistent manner.

More images from the same day can be found at link.

"Sea Goldie" is an underwater image of schooling coral fish on a reef in the Red Sea in Soma Bay, Egypt. Sea Goldies are reef fish living around hard corals. They swim out forming these orange clouds when feeling safe. If bigger fish or scuba divers approach the entire school immediately swims back to hide within the coral.

For more underwater photography from the Red Sea follow this link.

"Lavender" was taken mid July 2015 along the Route de la Lavende in the south of France. The image is a crop from a scan of a Fujichrome Velvia 50 scan. The photograph has been taken with an old Hasselblad 500 c/m camera on film.

More images from the lavender bloom at link.

Smartphone Wallpapers

Are you tired of standard smartphone wallpapers coming with the recent version of the operating system?

Here is a selection of three of my this years' best photographs prepared to match your smartphone screen. - Three images all telling an individual story by means of the subject shown, the photographic technique applied to capture them, and the story to be told around the individual location and situation when taking the shots.

Download your wallpaper image prepared for your specific phone from the downloads page of my website (see screen shot below) at http://www.andreasrmueller.com/#!/p/wallpapers
If your smartphone model is not listed just pick one with matching screen resolution or drop me a note through the contact form on the website.

The selected images are representatives of all three photographic techniques I have been applying throughout this year.

"Winter-1" is a view from Mount Rigi in central Switzerland right after sunset on a very cold evening in February using my digital DSLR equipment.

More images from that same evening can be found in my image archive at link.

"Coral" is an underwater photography shot from a trip to Raja Ampat and the eastern Maluku islands in Indonesia. This image has been taken at one of the most beautiful dive spots called Gorgonian Passage in the Misool area using a digital DSLR in underwater housing and external strobes.

For more interesting underwater images follow this link.

"Lavender" was taken mid July in the area of Valensole in the Provence, France.

This detail image has been captured on film using a all mechanical Hasselblad 500 c/m camera.

More analogue photography from the lavender bloom.


This is a first selection of three smartphone wallpaper images. - More to come!

www.andreasrmueller.com - Downloads page for smartphone wallpapers

Landscape photography in the Provence, France - Lavender fields

The Provence in the south of France is well known for its scenic landscape. Especially during the months of June to mid of August when the wide fields of lavender are in full bloom. Not only the visual experience of endless fields in different hue of pinkish purple through violet color, depending on species, light condition, and location, but also the fragrance experience is extraordinary and incomparable.

For more comprehensive travel information on the lavender routes including maps follow this link giving detailed description of the area, the agricultural aspects around lavender cultivation, and roundtrip ideas by car, bike or by foot.
For the full experience it is crucial to be at the right spot during the right time. Depending on elevation, cultivated plant species, and microclimate of different locations the flourishing season and harvesting time of the lavender is different.
The area around Valensole offers a landscape with fields of lavender, one after the other until the horizon. In this area there are spots ideal for spectacular images during sunset. Harvesting season in this area starts depending on weather condition begin of July. Recommendable are also the more elevated regions of the Luberon from Forcalquier towards Banon and Sault. Here at elevations up to 1'000 m.a.s.l the harvesting season starts end of July, begin of August. For more details on flourishing season, here a map with respective indication:

Source: mouveyouralps.com

The here featured images - see gallery below - have been taken on a weekend short trip from July 24th to July 26th 2015 following the lavender routes "la route de la lavende" in the Luberon, across the plateau of Valensole, and following the routes north towards the village of Sault. The trip has been planned well ahead using above mentioned sources of information.

For maximum and most natural color experience a Hasselblad 500 C/M camera with Carl Zeiss 80mm f2.8 Planar T* lens using Fujichrime Velvia 50 and Velvia 100 film was applied.

Camera: Hasselblad 500 C/M

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More images from this two day photography short trip can be found in my digital landscape gallery. This set of photographs have been taken using modern digital equipment.

Camera: Nikon D800

#lavenderfields #Provence