
Heiko Köster
I love photography.
His ProfilesRankThis is the rank of 'Heiko Köster' out of all Google+ Profiles.: 2,317 (GenderRankFor the gender 'Men'.: 1,299)
Followers: 24,861
Following: 1,270
Cream of the Crop: 01/12/2012
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2013-05-25 06:48:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
The Weekend Extended Share-a-thon
I'm sharing you!
Reply with a link to your best work and I'll share it!
(But READ the RULES below first)
So I went to my profile this morning and yesterday's post is just gone.
All those wonderful comments from you folks, all your plusses and shares … gone.
I'm really frustrated with this photo upload bug right now so I thought, instead of sharing my work and the liabilities involved with the current #GooglePlusUpdate , I will share your wonderful work until it's fixed.
Here are the RULES
1– Go to your best shot in the lightbox and copy the link in the address bar and put it in the comments here. if the link you've gathered ends in "posts" it will go directly to your profile stream, NOT the image and I won't be able to share your best shot. I won... more »


2013-05-24 20:32:59 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)
Lampions
Seen on a walk at a shop window in Münster on a sunny day.
#colorsonfriday / +ColorsOnFriday by +Karsten Meyer +Britta Rogge
#hqspnonnaturephotos +HQSP Non-Nature Photos by +Alexandre Fagundes de Fagundes +Rhea Surgimath +Alison Thurston
#Lampion #Colors #Münster


2013-05-24 13:50:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
My limited +Plus One Collection edition by +Ivan Makarov arrived this week. A full load of awesomeness !
That little fella obviously had a bumpy ride, but the images in there are still great !

2013-05-24 05:59:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
The new Pʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ ENGAGERS Cɪʀᴄʟᴇ is out! [May 23, 2013] New G+ interface this week! Great turn out!
Quick start instructions:
➀ post a URL link to a G+ photo in the comments below,
➁ check out some photos from others and +1 and comment on them,
➂ publicly share this circle-post, from a new friend's stream (instead of ours)
➃ +1 this post to say "thanks", and add this circle (replace it every week)
You will get a comment from us and be added (or stay in) the circle share next week! Questions? Ask in comments below - you'll get help!
Full story: This circle is for meeting engaging G+ users about photography. The interaction happens in the comments and re-shares. Every Thursday, post a link to a photo from your stream during the last week in the comments... more »


2013-05-23 14:03:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Want to see the most awesome slideshow ever?
What you see is a random selection of the Best Top Photographer group posts from May. See all or entire slideshow (50 min) at www.besttopphotographer.com Please spread the news by sharing this message, thank you!
I have watched the entire slideshow and I was moved to tears, such awesomeness. I thank the higher entities for putting this idea in my head. I hope you enjoy as much as I do!
Talent scouts and agencies we do all the work for you, find on www.besttopphotographer.com the photographer you need!


2013-05-23 08:20:15 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)
The Off-Week #NotALighthouseThursdayThisWeek is declared open
It's our 40th off-week !
Thank you to all supporters and contributors for all the wonderful images you shared every two weeks. Hope you have your images ready to fire them off today to make our anniversary shine.
Any image of anything that looks like a lighthouse or reminds you of one but is none counts. So let the show begin.
How do I participate ?
Tag you post this way:
#NotALighthouseThursdayThisWeek / +NotALighthouseThursdayThisWeek curated by +Heiko Köster
Or copy and paste the following text, which will create the tagging when posted:
#NotALighthouseThursdayThisWeek / +103876904057431027944 curated by +107773073025291449903

2013-05-22 21:22:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Tomorrow is #NotALighthouseThursdayThisWeek again.
The off week of #LighthouseThursday
So get your non-lighthouse shots ready to share, like the great people of this circle, who share their images on the last theme day.
I'm looking forward to see your posts, tomorrow.


2013-05-22 09:27:09 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 34 +1s)
#WideOpenWednesday / +WideOpenWednesday by +Shawn Clover
A 3d miniture map of the city of Münster (http://goo.gl/maps/zp9PF).
#DailyDepthOfField /+Daily Depth Of Field by +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig
#hqspnonnaturephotos +HQSP Non-Nature Photos by +Alexandre Fagundes de Fagundes +Rhea Surgimath +Alison Thurston
#miniature #bokehphotography


2013-05-20 12:22:14 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)
#MacroMonday Mini Theme *A R T S U P P L I E S*
I love playing with my new macro lens and when I read about the mini theme art supplies I instantly was on the quest for stuff that could match the theme.
At first I had no clue, there must have been some old paint and brushes in the basement, but that's painting and not art supply. Then the window colors, my wife once used, came to my mind and today I put them out and set them up on the dining table.
It was fun to experiment with available light coming from a window next to the table - my biggest available soft box ;). Then I added one and finally two speed lights in the back to accentuate the background bokeh by illuminating a big painting and a storage rack at the opposing wall. Experimenting with shutter speed and f stop, seeing the effects on the image was great.
So here is one of my window col... more »

2013-05-20 11:37:51 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)
BTP Project Circle
When you followed +Rinus Bakker +Bakker Rinus for some time, you might know about his engagement to promote excellent photographers (pros and amateurs) which are not on Google's suggested user list on his recently founded web site
http://www.besttopphotographer.com
You want to become a member of this exclusive cirlce of photographers ?
Then check out the rules here http://besttopphotographer.com/rinusbakkerblog/?p=41
If you want to follow their work here on G+ you might add this circle of entry pages of the BTP project. Accepted members are supposed to add these three entry pages.
You will see a lot of quality images in the stream of this circle. If you are interested in photography this is a cirlce to add.

2013-05-19 18:58:04 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
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Great Photographers With < 25,000 Followers
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The photographers here are all in my personal circles. The choices are mine and mine alone. No one asked, begged, or pleaded to belong. No bribes were offered or accepted. These are the people that I follow because I appreciate their great quality photography and their interaction. Most I have met as I help curate several of the photography themes. *There are NO requirements to share this circle*. I would apprec... more »


2013-05-19 16:29:24 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 35 +1s)
Let the Sun shine
This a color version of my first dandelion image I posted some days ago.
#SunSunday / +Sun Sunday by +Shauna Dominguez
#HQSPMacro / +HQSP Macro by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Rinus Bakker +Vishal Kumar
Since Google hasn't fixed the upload until now, here is a link to my Daily Themes Album, just in case you like to see more of my theme contributions: http://goo.gl/qZIqY

2013-05-19 11:04:05 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Domination of portrait oriented images ?
I don't like the huge portrait images in my stream. Ok, they were neglected in the old design - black bars/grey bars you know, we had lots of discussion about that on the last GUI update.
But the new portrait layout is a bit too much for me. Portrait oriented images are getting to look huge now. On smaller screens you have to scroll up and down to see the whole image.
In contrast to that the landscape oriented images look like tiny little stamps and almost get lost.
What do you think about the new images layout in your stream ?
What do you shoot most ?
Landscape or portrait orientation ?
#TheNewDesign #googleplusphotos #googleplus
#howtousegoogleplus

2013-05-19 09:40:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Gigantic Covers - How do you like them ?
As fantastic as the new gigantic cover images look, as distracting I find them, when it comes to figuring out, what the people are actually doing. I simply get lost on this vast cover area and it takes some time to s roll down to the posts or to look up to the small top rim toolbar which contains the links to the about, photo or post links.
What do you think of the new cover images ?

2013-05-19 08:00:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
Top 1000 most followed active
photographers sharing content on G+
Circle One: J to Z
This is the second of two circles, The first was shaerd on 16 May here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103236949470535942612/posts/FPsHj9E2QEo. The circles have been divided alphabetically to help give more exposure to people with fewer followers and shared at different times to help keep down the stream saturation.
Please plus, comment and share. This circle has no requirements for future participation but your support and encouragement is appreciated.
It has been two weeks since I announced my intent to update my circle of the 500 most followed photographers on G+. I decided to do things a bit differently this time and so I'll share the top 1000. To build the circles and the list I enlisted the aid of +Bill Wood
+Gemma Costa... more »

2013-05-19 07:58:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Top 1000 most followed active
photographers sharing content on G+
Circle One: A to J
This is the first of two circles, I'll share the second circle this weekend so that they're not so on top of each other. The circles have been divided alphabetically to help give more exposure to people with fewer followers.
Please plus, comment and share. This circle has no requirements for future participation but your support and encouragement is appreciated.
It has been two weeks since I announced my intent to update my circle of the 500 most followed photographers on G+. I decided to do things a bit differently this time and so I'll share the top 1000. To build the circles and the list I enlisted the aid of +Bill Wood +Gemma Costa +Jen Baptist +Kat Scan and +Margaret Tompkins. They built circles and vetted p... more »


2013-05-18 12:23:34 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
How to disable auto enhance:
Do you know how to awesomize or enhance photos ?
Then you might not want G+ doing the work for you or changing what you did in your own post production.
Open your G+ settings and scroll down a bit until you reach the Photo section. Below that you find the settings for "Auto Enhance" and "Auto Awesome"
#disableAutoEnhance #howtousegoogleplus

2013-05-18 11:33:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
New G+ Design
I think it looks kind of cool, but I'm still struggling with some things.
The upload is weird now ....
What I miss is, when I uploaded photos before the update I could select the album which I wanted to put it in and then automatically a share of the photo by keeping the context of the album popped up. Within the post you could easily navigate from the posted image to other images of the album. This seems to be impossible now.
How do I do this with the new design ?
I can only upload my images to albums. But when I share them from there the image is the only one visible without the option to see all the other images of the album. Found the former upload method a nice way to promote albums without sharing them completely.


2013-05-18 10:40:05 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 48 +1s)
Who said Flowers look boring ?
#HQSPMacro / +HQSP Macro by +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Rinus Bakker +Vishal Kumar
#QuirkyNature curated by +Carissa Braun +Carissa Braun
#DailyDepthOfField /+Daily Depth Of Field by +Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig
#PinkCircle
#Tulip #Petal #Droplets #Pink

2013-05-16 20:24:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
The new Pʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ ENGAGERS Cɪʀᴄʟᴇ is out! [May 16, 2013] Incredible participation last week!! Record shares!
Quick start instructions:
➀ post a URL link to a G+ photo in the comments below,
➁ check out some photos from others and +1 and comment on them,
➂ publicly share this circle-post, from a new friend's stream (instead of ours)
➃ +1 this post to say "thanks", and add this circle (replace it every week)
You will get a comment from us and be added (or stay in) the circle share next week! Questions? Ask in comments below - you'll get help!
Full story: This circle is for meeting engaging G+ users about photography. The interaction happens in the comments and re-shares. Every Thursday, post a link to a photo from your stream during the last week in th... more »


2013-05-16 08:00:14 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)
#LighthouseThursday no. 42
is live now, let them flow
Show us your nicest, greatest, wonderful, beautiful or just plain, simple, brutal, raw, clumsy, dump, lazy or magnificent shot of a lighthouse.
You can send exterior, interior, views, insights, details, totals, almost anything goes, if it is just related to a real lighthouse. So be creative , go out shooting, or search your archives and post your image (not link) or spread the news about #LighthouseThursday to let it rock.
Heiko
How can I participate:
Tag your post like the following:
#LighthouseThursday / +LighthouseThursday by +Heiko Köster
Make sure the user and page are active links, if you want me to find your post.
Copy & Paste Template for easy tagging:
#LighthouseThursday / +100638760155232489044 by +107773073025291449903
