Archive February 2014

This old House


…birdhouse, that is. I must have gone by there hundreds of time and it only recently occured to me that this might make a good photo. Had to push some warmer colours into it, though!

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Springflowers #10


Another flower sprouting on a bush… and it’s not even mid-February!

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City Views #129: Far Far Away


Something from a perspective of the city I rarely visit these days: this was shot from a supermarket parking lot east of the inner city. The bridge bisecting the photo is the subway going into the main station tunnel to the right, the U18 actually runs above ground for a sizable portion of its line. In the background are, as usual, the omnipresent inner city highrises.

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Spring Maple


Yesterday, I decided to try if the two-megapixel camera on my tablet can at least be used to do something with Instagram, but this one is definitively NOT the photo I shot with it. The decidedly crappy Instagram shot can be found here and serves as an example why I won’t be using that camera and website for anything much. The tablet camera shot looks like one of these cheap 1980 pocket camera photos!

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Springflowers #9


I have actually no idea what this little tree is, perhaps an ornamental peach or something?

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City Views #128: The New Town


Some months back, I posted a series of photos around Mülheim’s Kaiserplatz, but there were too many similar shots and I sorted some of these out. This is one of them, a view of one of the highrise towers and the southwest entrance to the shopping mall. Also notice the pigeon perching on top of the streetlights on the left :-).

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Return of the Duck


Remember that Citroen 2CV6 I took a photo of all the way back in November? I saw it again today, parked in a convenient spot and I could not resist taking another photo of it!

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Flurry of Trees


This photo is literally ten years old – taken on February 4th, 2004.

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Springflowers #8


Just when I was out of flower photos: I found some more today on a bush literally around the corner :-).

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City Views #127: The Old Town


When I started the City Views series back in July of last year, I began with Mülheim’s old inner city. Here’s another photo of that area from 2004 I recently found when browsing through the archives – to my surprise I just discovered that you can not only see the tower of the protestant church here, but also the tower of the city hall on the left of it behind a bare tree. I suppose it’s impossible to take that photo today because the tree probably has grown much bigger!

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