User:RobbieIanMorrison/Album
This is the beginnings of a small photographic album in my user space. Note the green button on the top right which opens a slideshow.
Many photographs involve subjects relating to nature or places in Germany. And the image quality has improved over time through better equipment. More recently, I have taken to documenting aspects of the climate movement.
I use GIMP for editing raster files, Inkscape for creating vector art, and ExifTool for adding and managing metadata.
Early photographs
Some were shot on an inexpensive Nikon Coolpix P330 point‑and‑shoot camera purchased in March 2013.
- Observation hut Alter Bessin, Hiddensee, Germany
- Coal barge on the Rhine, Germany
- Bat box at Müggelberge, Berlin, Germany
- Volunteers rake reedgrass at the Vogelschutzreservat Flughafensee (Flughafensee Bird Protection Reserve), Berlin, Germany
Nature
Weight considerations mean that I often use a Sony DSC‑RX100M7 compact camera when photographing nature.
- View towards lake, Gamla Ekuddens naturreservat, Lake Vänern, Sweden
- Tidan River in Ettaks stroemmar nature reserve
- Orange peel fungi on Schwarzwald forestry road
- Wetland from Templiner Gewässer near Templin, Germany
- Two Konik horses rolling in sand in Schönower Heide nature reserve, north Germany
- Winterlinge (Eranthis hyemalis) [winter aconite] in Tiergarten, Berlin
- Gute sheep grazing in Schlosspark Charlottenburg during summer
- Na Čihadle moorland reserve, Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic
- Walking track near peak Věžní skály, Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic
- Blatný potok (Marsh stream) in Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic
People
I like to photograph people using a Sony a6700 mirrorless crop‑frame camera fitted with either a Sony SEL 70–350mm F4.5-6.3 G OSS tele‑zoom lens, a Sigma 56mm F1.4 DC DN portait lens, or a Sigma 23mm F1.4 DC DN fast mild wide angle lens — depending on how close I can get.
Many of my subjects are either climate activists or systems scientists speaking in public.
- Luisa Neubauer at the first school climate strike in Berlin on 14 December 2018
- Climate activist Luisa Neubauer speaking at the Fridays for Future global strike in Berlin on 15 September 2023
- Climate activist Tessel Hofstede from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Netherlands speaking at the Letzte Generation Massenblockade Berlin on 28 October 2023
- Imke Bludszuweit speaking at a Letzte Generation roadblock action in November 2023
- Solo protest for indigenous sovereignty in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand on 20 February 2024
- Environmental engineer Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick (Wolli) during the 48th day of his hunger strike in Berlin to protest slow progress on climate protection, taken 23 April 2024
- Energy economist Claudia Kemfert speaking at a Fridays for Future rally in Berlin on 31 May 2024
- Energy engineer and hunger striker Richard Cluse at a press conference on 3 June 2024 after 70 days with only limited juice
- Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick exiting a press conference on 6 June 2024
- Rifka Lambrecht from FiscalFuture speaking at the Fridays for Future rally in Berlin on 20 September 2024
- Academic Svitlana Romanko from Ukrainian organization Razom We Stand in December 2024
- Mika Schachenmayr, Fridays for Future, on a panel discussion on 9 December 2024
- Hereditary Chief Na'Moks of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in ceremonial clothing in December 2024
- Frieda Egeling, Fridays for Future Berlin, with megaphone on 10 December 2024 (available light photography)
- Manning Rollerson from the Freeport Haven Project, Texas supporting an anti‑LNG demo in Berlin on 10 December 2024
- Ende Gelände spokesperson Jule speaking at the Frack Off demo in Berlin on 10 December 2024
- Luisa Neubauer at the Brandmauer demo in Berlin on 2 February 2025
- Lutheran bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm speaks at the Brandmauer demo on 2 February 2025
- Frieda Egeling during the Fridays for Future strike in Berlin on 14 February 2025
- Luisa Neubauer of Fridays for Future Germany speaking at their Berlin climate strike on 14 February 2025
- Nicholas Omnook of BiPoc for Future speaking at a climate strike on 14 February 2025, Nicholas is from Uganda
- We are, at the end of the day, all sheep, even as we try to hold on to some dignity
- Ukrainian Kateryna Derdiuk from Vitsche eV speaking at a FFF climate strike in 2025
- Ukrainian Vladyslava Vorobiova from Vitsche eV speaking at a FFF climate strike in 2025
- Sociologist Philipp Staab describes his new book at the LNdK 2025
- Kathrin Goldammer, co‑CEO of RLI, speaking at a Fridays for Future demo in 2025
Events
- A placard saying "We strike so that it does not become even hotter" from a Fridays for Future strike in 2021
- A Letzte Generation activist sits silent at the Massenblockade in Berlin in 2023, surrounded by police, after gluing her hand to the road
- Support march on 4 June 2024 for the Berlin hunger strikers
- Michael Winter in a skeleton suit lying outside the residence of the German chancellor to protest inaction on climate policy
- Street musicians playing during the Brandmauer demo in Berlin on 2 February 2025
Things
- Gravel quarry at Ottenhöfen im Schwarzwald, Germany
- Group of lions statue by Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- McDonald Douglas 600N helicopter at Cone hut helipad, Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Nikon Nikkormat FT2 camera with Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 manual prime lens. I used this camera for many years.
- A Tino Rangatiratanga (Māori sovereignty) flag against the sky
Fall of communism in 1989
I traveled in Czechoslovakia and East Germany as a tourist during the fall of communism in late‑November 1989. And shot in both black and white and color negative film.
- Protest rally near Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia with participants holding up two fingers
- Protest rally at Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution
- Organizers using a lecture room at the Faculty of Arts, part of Charles University
- Young people protesting environmental pollution under Communism during the Velvet Revolution, the poster reads "We cannot breath"
Diagrams
These images are sometimes just a matter of redrafting prior material to sidestep copyright.
- GENeSYS-MOD schematic showing overall structure