Matterhorn - Toblerone Mountain

The Matterhorn, 4'478 m 

(45°58′35″N 7°39′30″E)

Pictures shot from Gornergrat Kulm using iPhone 6s and Camera+ app. Anticipating weather using MeteoSwiss app. Knowing the light situation using The Photographer's Ephemeris app. Learning the mountain geography using Peakfinder app.

Matterhorn: Portrait photography

The Matterhorn (4478 m) is one of the world's most iconic mountains. It is part of a scenic mountain landscape in Switzerland.

There are several photographers who have portrayed this exceptional mountain peak.

Nenad Saljic - Matterhorn: Portrait of a Mountain

A portfolio of pictures in black and white. The Matterhorn is shown under different weather conditions which make the images especially artistic choosing the monochromatic technique. The shown portfolio exhibits long time exposures at night as well as shots under bright sun light. The impressive cloud formations add an intense dynamic component to these still images.

Thomas Heitmar - Matterhorn Collection

A collection showing the Matterhorn and it's reflection on the surface of the various mountain lakes in the area. The portfolio exhibits photographs under different light conditions. It is impressive how different one and the same image composition can be depending on season, time, light condition, weather, and probably exposure settings.

Per Kasch - Matterhorn

Some pictures taken from still typical but unusual angles.

Urs Zihlmann - Zermatt

Postcard images from this beautiful landscape taken during different season around the year.

Matterhorn - Landscape Photography

The Matterhorn is one of the most iconic mountain peaks of the Swiss Alps. It is probably also the mountain in the Swiss Alps where you could find most photographs taken of.

Next weekend I am going to visit Zermatt and the Gornergrat. I hope to get some decent shots of the Matterhorn and its surroundings. - Hopefully the weather is in favour.

My usual search for "Matterhorn" on 500px.com yields a huge number of very impressive images.

The Analog/Digital Hybrid Workflow

Recently I decided to further integrate my analog/digital hybrid photography workflow.

Shooting film is a complete different experience than shooting digital. It takes lot more time, awareness, and slowing down the entire creative process.

After having shot the images on film, I am still getting them developed by a commercial laboratory. - However, I am already in the planning process of setting up and learning my own film development chemistry process.

The developed film - negatives or positive slides - is then digitised on a scanner.

I recently invested into an Epson perfection V800 Photo scanner which allows me to scan my own photographs at resolutions as high as 9600 dpi.

It is indeed a very time consuming process. But, it is also a good feeling to have more control over my entire development workflow.

While using the scanner for my recent Hasselblad 500 c/m medium format photography work, I also started to scan old self-developed 35 mm negatives from my early days of photography back in 1993.

The results are pretty amazing.
...I will soon be sharing some results here...

Shark Dancer - "The Shark Whisperer"

People of West-Papua - People Photography

From my scuba diving trips to West-Papua in Indonesia I have a collection of portrait images of local people. - Visit my gallery at link.
These images have been shot when visiting villages along the West-Papua coast line on a boat trip to the very remote Triton Bay in 2009.

Unfortunately we never visited the mountain regions of the West-Papua main land.




Most of these people did not see any tourists for several years and hence were very curious to know how this works with all the cameras we were carrying along.

A special experience was the curiosity especially of the kids when starting to communicate.
Immediately we were invited to meet the chief of the village, to visit the local school - which apparently was missing a teacher at the time, or the medical center - which was missing a doctor.



Interesting was also to see the mixture of people living in these remote villages.
Some of them were clearly of Papuan origin while others seemed to be immigrants from either the Maluku Islands, Java, or Sulawesi.

Along the coast the immigration and influence from eastern Indonesia is clearly visible while original Papuas preserving their tribal traditions live more in the mountain regions.

Searching for "West-Papua" in the "people" category of 500px.com yields some very impressive portraits.

The Dani by Evi Arbay (500px)

Dani warrior by Mikael Thorvaldsson (500px.com)

Papua Kids #2 by Massimo Rembrante (500px.com)

Black and White Film Photography

...night city... by Igor Philipenko (500px)

old by Long Pham (500px)

.\ by Vincenzo Vitale (500px)

Passengers waiting for the train at platform by Conan Kay (500px)

Taxi Driver by Rican Kumas (500px)