soccer.
austria vs germany.
goals scored at half time: zero.

but still half the time to wait for a wonder, which didnt happen.
or as the austrian tv-host put it in reference to a famous saying:
“a game lasts 90 minutes and in the end the germans win.”

and the sunset over the roofs of berlin was marvellous.

“real pumpkin seed oil, real guys, real grid girls, real crashes, real blood, just no real cars.” (NoSane)

that pretty much sums it up.
one of those really cool races where you want to drop your camera,
jump into some leather, put your head inside a helmet
and head down the road at 60 km per hour.

maybe next year, third time around would be a good thing.

dont miss the picture-essay that NoSane of NYX put together from my pics:

bobbyCross tieschen 2008 at BikeBoard.at

from the basketball wien 2008 tournament.
more than 5000 young participants from all over the world.

i really enjoyed the speed and enthusiasm of the boys and girls.
my setup was made to shoot on two courts in parallel.
each had two flashes mounted, radiotriggered from the camera.
that way i could easily switch the courts and only had to remember
to set the correct channel on the pocketwizard.

ignoring the arrow on the street, leaping the last meters towards the finish.
Graz Marathon in october 2007.

shot with my NakedLens.
no, thats not a postproduction effect. (1)

take a look at taojjbtcrf (2) for recent usage of the same optical principal in a feature film.
also well worth a look for all the beautiful light.
i wonder where one can see the four hour extended version.
wouldnt be boring at all i think.

but even the regular version is longer than it takes for top athletes
to complete the famous 42,195 kilometers.

(1) but some distracting logos from the shirt have been removed.
(2) the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford