Oh, A little bit of music, but I'll allow it 😂

Glad you liked it! Hope it helps!

Thank you, glad you like it!

It really is! Thank you.

The tricky parts are getting the miters exactly right and then gluing the individual frame parts together. Else it actually is quite easy, but time consuming. I hope you manage to give the documents and certificates the frames they deserve. Thank you!

I take the liberty of copying my answer to the same question below: Various reasons. Don't have to worry about shutter speed/camera shake at minimum ISO, especially when shooting with longer lenses. For architecture it's easier to get those vertical lines straight in camera. For complex architectural situations like the "concrete maze" images in this video, where positioning is a question of centimeters if not millimeters, it helps a lot to arrange the elements exactly as I want (in "concrete maze I" the left edge of the dark block in the center was tricky to position, especially in relation to other elements like the corner of the dark lintel in the upper right part. The tripod was a blessing here). And then habit. I reckon for 50% of the images, the tripod isn't really necessary. Better don't ask me how many times I carried the tripod all day long through the snow without using it once :) And one aspect I want to add: Using a tripod helps me to slow down, gives me time to think about what I really want, to then create a suitable composition.

Thanks, it's my favourite too.

Messi messi Alex :)

Thank you very much Rolf! I'm glad you mention black and white, because I was so flashed by the colors that I did not even think once about b/w conversion (which I usually do first). I will have a look after my (well deserved, I can tell you) holidays. Cheers

Das freut mich, vielen Dank - ich geb mein Bestes!

Merci!

Freut mich, dass es dir gefällt, vielen Dank!

Haha, that would fit to keep the second best kept Swiss secret (after the Appenzeller cheese recipe) - the Toblerone ingredients - save from any unwanted access. But all things change and 1990 the brand was bought by a US company and since 2023 parts of the production moved to Slowakia, which had the effect that the brand lost its "Swissness" compliance and they're not allowed to use an image of the Matterhorn in the Logo anymore.

@@thomasrhinow A chocolate company in the UK was sued by Toblerone for using the exact same Alps triangular shape. They got past the legal problem by saying the shape was inspired by the Malvern Hills in central England. They now easily outsell Toblerone by some margin, as they are half the price and twice as big. I rather imagined that building being empty apart from a Toblerone in a glass case and a Cuckoo clock on the wall - not that I'm disparaging the cultural uniqueness of Switzerland 🔺🔺🔺🔺😁

Thank you! This is one of my favourite images.

Hallo. Ich verwende Tesa Tack Klebeknete. Funktioniert super, hält allerdings auch nicht ewig, wie man im Video sieht. Ich habe gelesen, dass es Flecken auf der Wand hinterlassen könnte - ist bei mir aber nicht der Fall (die Wand ist ja allerdings grün, bei weissen Wänden hab ichs noch nie verwendet).

Thank you Miro! What would your choices be?

@@thomasrhinow - First of all, let me say that I don't mean anything bad, the photos are really good and I would never have remembered some of them, such as the name RGB, which are the primary colors in the photo. When I wrote that I would choose differently, I meant exactly that, I would never have remembered the above and one of my choices would certainly have been to exclude the sun from the frame in the photo with the door on the left (4-5 photos in a row) if it was possible. The whole point is that I want to say that three or four of us can photograph the same thing and the photos will be different, that's exactly what I wanted to say with the fact that my choice would be different, we don't see the same things and that's the beauty of photography. I didn't mean to offend or be rude, I just wrote poorly.

Vielen herzlichen Dank, Klaus!

Many thanks for the heap of superlatives, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! Cheers

No way I would sneak in there! This is a government facility with priceless objects in it - that's clearly too high a risk for me. But there are regular public tours, which I might take part in.

@@thomasrhinow A tour sounds like a good idea. Looks like it’s built to protect for sure.

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

Yes, it's a method for people who don't want to (or can) spend a lot of money for tools. But what you don't pay with cash you pay with time instead - because it takes a while to build a frame using this method. I reckon you're much more efficient with your tools. Cheers

:)

Thank you very much, Kees!

What a great and encouraging feedback, thank you so much Lutz! It's flattering, but with iron man you're giving me a little too much credit, because I admit that I sometimes make it look harder in the videos than it actually was :) Cheers

Thanks a lot Rolf! You know, I prefer giving lesser value to an image that maybe deserves more over ending up with a bunch of mediocre prints.

That's what I thought myself. The light cutting through this narrow valley dotted with crags was stunning. Unfortunately, apart from the constrained movement, the available focal lengths didn't fit well either (18mm & 100mm). I toyed with the idea of trying to get to the grassy ledge at 5:55, but was too tired to risk it.

I have to admit, I'm a bit crushed about the Milky Way picture. That was an excellent opportunity that I blew. But hey, I'll learn, hopefully improve next time and definitely keep this impressive night sky in my best memory. Cheers Miro!

Thank you! Would like to create more videos, but I'm currently lacking the most precious thing: time

Glad you like them!

The location is awesome, but unfortunately it became an Insta-Spot around 2 years a go - as a local told me. I didn't know and was completely unprepared for the campsite that presented itself a couple hours after I pitched my (then lonely) tent. This was the first time I experienced something like this in the Swiss Alps and I was quite shocked. This is a confirmation that I will continue to never give the exact locations of my landscape tours. Cheers

@@thomasrhinow I can imagine, we had a similar situation here after all the fun of 2020 when people couldn’t travel abroad and headed for the local rural spots.

Thank you very much! Unfortunately, the foreground quality of the milky way shot is abysmal. Not sharp and noisy as hell. Otherwise it would be a print for sure. I should have taken a dedicated foreground shot and then merge the images in post. I'm not an experienced night sky photographer, so this was a good learning lesson :) Cheers

Leider schon vergriffen :) Danke!

Ja, das war schon speziell. Normalerweise hängt dort drin unbezahlbare Kunst.

Danke!

Schweigen ist Gold - Danke :)

Das freut mich, danke!

Danke!

Danke! Das war in der Region Adelboden - die genauen Routen möchte ich hier nicht veröffentlichen (Stichwort "Insta Spots" - man weiss ja nie, ob ein Video plötzlich zu grosser Reichweite kommt).

@@thomasrhinow Vielen Dank!

Glad you enjoyed it! cheers

Glad you like the videos and images! Thanks for letting me know.

Thank you so much for your nice words! It's great to know that I can spark inspiration for creative work.

Thank you!

Cheers

Happy to hear that, thank you!

Thank you Kees! Yes, wind is a pain - but besides focus peaking there's also burst mode which can help to (randomly) nail focus. Fortunately the wind was not constant. Cheers

Thank you!

And I thought my 70s lenses were oldtimers :) While many new camera features are pure marketing gimmicks, focus peaking is a real improvement for once, and I appreciate it more and more. Cheers

Thank you! Challenging, yes - but also very relaxing abd fun.