On Wednesday, May 18th I got the chance to shoot two beachvolleyball players during their training session. Here are some of the results. You can see some more pictures on my Flickr account. Related links: sport set @flickr

Sunshine! Nothing more to add =) The Picture was taken using a AF-S Nikkor Micro 105mm + Nikon D700 with ISO 100, f/3 and 1/2500 exposure. You can see some more pictures on my Flickr account. Related links: flowers set @flickr

As promised in my post from 12/20/2010 I’ve released my modified OCL 2.0 grammar file I’m using for my bachelor thesis on github. I’ve made some changes in order to cope with the changes introduced in OCL 2.0, as well as to address some shortcomings the original version had. For more details see the README included in the repository. Cheers, Raphael Related links: ocl-sablecc @ github.com

A follow up photostudio with Marie. The location in Denmark is great and we decided to try us on action photography. A selection of our pictures is available on my Flickr account. From left to right: Skegglar, Tinna, Pjatla - and it’s one of the rare occasions where I’m pictured as well =) The picture was taken by Marie Kolonko, using a Nikon D60 at ISO 200, f/5.6 and 1/2000 exposure. Read more

Early in the morning we went for a stroll before getting ready to learn/ work. Altogether 8 people and 4 dogs - we had a bunch of fun =) Taken using a Nikon D700 at ISO 250, f/4 and 1/1000 exposure.

Just now I’ve finished refactoring one of my clients projects. Refactoring your own code can be tedious from time to time but it’s important. But why is that? Most of the time refactoring your own code does not help you become a better programmer. It does not help you earn money since most of the time you won’t be able to charge for any of it. I argue it helps raising your reputation - in two ways. Read more

Without much ado, here’s my flickr and jekyll powered photoblog. Taken using a Nikon D700 at ISO 1600, f/4 and 1/100 exposure. The lens used was a AF-S Nikkor 105mm Micro.

For quite some time now I’ve been working as an administrator to keep servers up and running. What bugs me most is remembering all those different root passwords, which at least need to be typed in once, after a remote ssh session has been started - to launch an interactive sudo shell via sudo -i. I used to store all these passwords in a note in my 1Password keychain - a safe solution, yet one that requires too much work to retrieve a password if I wanted to work on a server. Read more

Most of the time when I wanted to take pictures of people and animals my old camera limited me. Mostly because of two reasons: it is auto-focus only, and the auto-focus is quite slow at that, too. That is why on December 18nd I started taking photography serious. That’s the date I ordered my new Nikon D7000 DSLR. Before ordering I went through quite a lot of reviews, tests and discussions. Read more

I hope you can enjoy the festive period with your family and friends. If you happen to find some free time in all the turmoil you should consider taking a look at your year 2010 - its soon coming to an end, and I’m sure that there were plenty of good, bad and interesting events for all of you. 2010 was a rough but nice year to me: I worked quite hard for a big IT project at empuxa GmbH which kept me busy for nearly three-quarters of the year. Read more