Today, I was looking for textures. This old fence had lots of.

Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/640 sec, ISO 200

Also today, my wife had her final exam for her oncology qualification, which she passed of course. Congratulations!

Somebody lost their black, “Holger Schaumann” (probably a local business) labelled cap, on a hedge next to the daycare place where Emil has been going this week. I noticed it when I picked him up today. Only a few meters away, somebody had lost their gloves, which were all dirty and wet and had probably been lying there for some days.

Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/500 sec, ISO 200

One thing I like about my E-P1 is how great its JPEG output is. The colours are simply brilliant and extremely accurate, and with a little tweaking of the settings and careful exposure you get pictures that need no further processing. In fact, I have rarely been working with raw files from the E-P1 lately.

Emil and Jasmin have been decorating the christmas tree today — our first one ever!

This reminds me of something — I still can’t get why Olympus, creating a camera as highly customizeable as the E-P1, never thought of integrating an option for setting a custom slowest shutter speed. This picture could’ve easily been taken at 1/20 second with the help of the image stabilizer (which I have always activated).