A view of the house at the corner of the Muhrenkamp and Eduardstraße here in Mülheim – it’s the same one that is visible in the previous photos of the little house on the Dickswall. This photo might be more effective in colour, because the house was recently repainted – the dark areas are actually red.

Can you pick up Jupiter’s moons with an old digital bridge camera? It turns out you can: this is a 100% crop of an 8 megapixel image from my Canon Powershot S5 at 12x zoom – while the camera is not able pick up details from Jupiter’s cloud bands, all four galilean moons are distinctly visible here. It’s by no means a pretty shot, but it’s still amazing that it’s possible at all – this is another planet in our solar system with its moons! This was photographed on January 12th at about 19:00 CET.

I found this one yesterday – there’s still some colour around!

First cactus flower shot of the day, a 2 second exposure at f/8 with tripod.
Only slightly cropped, otherwise straight out of the camera.

Okay, I admit that I pushed the colours into the red spectrum,
but only because the original looked a bit too lifeless.

Here’s the new kid on the block, not quite grown yet but already unfolding its petals!

Just a fun shot from around the corner until I figure out where to take the City Views next.

I promise that this is the last one of these decidedly geeky macro photos – it’s a mainboard from a Commodore 64 :-). Each of these small chips in the foreground holds 8 kilobytes of RAM!

More autumn leftovers.

The cactus blossoms take about ten days to grow, but then they start to wilt after only three days.
Good thing that there’s always more than one blooming at different times!