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here you see the reason why I made this One Day Trip to the Sächsische Schweiz. The landscape was indescribable beautiful. I will definitely come back to this place, maybe in summer or fall.
Wow it still made me speechless when I look at the picture :)

Last Monday I made a short trip to the "Sächsische Schweiz" in Germany. You may know that place from the standard windows 7 background pictures ;). I was there for just one day but for me it was like a great small vacation. Part of the greatness of that small trip was the way I was traveling. A good friend of mine asked his parents if they would lend me their car and very fortunate for me they said yes. So I got their Mercedes Benz E350 CDI. For me who doesn't drive very often since I sold my old Opel Astra a few years ago this was an incredibly awesome experience. Such a lovely and powerful car, ahh it will took me some time to get over it that I just gave it back!
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Back to the shot. The whole landscape was absolutely stunning. I took about 440 photos but I'm afraid to say that I was maybe too excited so that most of the shots are just very average. We will see what I'm going to upload from this trip beside this shot :)

Nothing special today my friends. 2 Days ago I made a long walk through a forest and when I crossed this highway I decided to try some panning shots with my 18-55mm lens. And yeah it didn't work out at all. This is the only "sharp" shot that I got. Fortunately for me it was from this sweet looking 911 :).
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No idea why the driver adjust his rear view mirror, not much to be afraid of on the highway in a car like this ;)

Hey guys, I wonder what you think of this shot. All in all I made 4 attempts to edit this picture in the last months but I was never really happy with the result. Now I am pretty happy with it but I think that I lost my objectivity here. Does this picture appears boring to you? I'm really interested in that because I found it pretty hard to get a really eye catching architecture shot. Should the contrast be higher, should the colors be more fresh ... stuff like that.

Thanks for your feedback :)

I'm so much into editing at the moment. Its amazing. And I try out more and more things. Like changing the environment so hard like here. Its just so much fun to do :)
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The owner really seems to use his car a lot. There were scratches everywhere, even on this huge rear spoiler. Well better this way than to hide it in a garage the whole time.