Last year I uploaded my China-trip on my website. Today I finally did it: I finished the 2nd part, Iceland08. Have fun

Some days ago I tried to look for something in Klagenfurt on Google Maps. But if you insert ‘klagenfurt’ without ‘, Austria’ you will get to the Russian Islands of Franz-Joseph-Land (I tested it on a few computers without pre-adjustment). -> Link

Because I didn’t know that there was a second Klagenfurt on this planet I had to google a little bit: One of the discoverer (Max Freiherr von Sterneck) of Franz-Joseph-Land was born in Klagenfurt. Moreover Franz-Joseph-Land  is named after the Austrian imperator Franz Joseph 1st.

But I’m still laughing that there is no recommendation for the Austrian Klagenfurt on Google Maps.

After the first semester of studying Electrical Engineering is officially over I’m back in my hometown Klagenfurt.

Today I had a toboggan-trip (dt. rodeln) on Magdalensberg and I had to shoot the great sentiment on the top.

A few weeks ago, I ordered a canvas by pixum and I’m going to write some lines about it:

With pixum (works in cooperation with the biggest European fotofinisher CeWe Color) I had very good experiences with printing photobooks before. I compared the printing quality of some books with one I ordered at HappyFoto (an Austrian company) and I think that the HappyFoto-books can’t hold a candle to pixum. The photos are not that sharp as they are printed by pixum. But I tried something new: a canvas with the dimension 60×40 cm (cost factor: about 50 Euro and with an extra of 5 Euro for the delivery to Austria – if you’re one of the newletter-members of pixum you will often get a bonus up to 15 Euro).

So I ordered a canvas of one of my sunset-pictures whose colour gradients are really hard to print, so I thought it would be a nice shot to test the printing quality of the canvas. So here is the shot as I sent it to pixum (via Internet):

Since it will be unfair to compare the quality of the canvas only with a monitor, I compared it furthermore with the photobook. But have a look on your own (raws scanned in by a photo-scanner):

Here is the output of the canvas, on the right site you can see the linen-structure:

The left one is out of the photo-book, the right one is the original photo, as you can see above:

With the manifacturing quality I was satisfied. It could be better, but for the beginning, canvas are new in their product line it’s quite o.k.:

So all in all I think that the quality is quite good, but the price must decrease for the smaller formats (the biggest format there is 160×90 cm by now). First of all I was a little bit shocked, because pixum sent the canvas with a registered letter and not as a parcel.

I’m studying electrical engineering for 2 weeks now and it’s harder than I thought that it would be. Espacially mathematics and physics consume a lot of time.

My lectures (Vorlesungen) are:

In Deutsch: Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik (VO…Vorlesung, UE…Uebung), Mathematik A (VO, UE), Technik und Ethik (VO), Physik (VO, UE), Chemie (VO) und Einführung in die Informatik (VO, UE).

In English: Basics of electrical engineering,  mathematics, technics and ethics, physics, chemistry and computer science.

I am going upload a few pictures of my daily routine  in a few weeks (I have to get my cam Canon A710 from Klagenfurt firstly). But I’ve got one shot so far (it looks like the prison of Graz-Karlau, but it’s inside the TU):

Last week I had some fun, ok it wasn’t that funny, with creating a new website (in German) with the help of my younger brother Lukas.

On this new site I will summarize my last 4 trips to foreign countries. As far I’ve finished the longest part, the trip to China. The other trips to Tanzania, Poland and Iceland will follow soon.

My new website: cprokop.org

3 B&W shots of this China-trip: