Archive 19. October 2014

City Views #253: Inner City Demolition #6


A closeup of the demolition work on Mülheim’s Viktoriaplatz on December 29th, 2007 – the last building had to be very carefully dismantled. At the lower right of the photo you can see a mother holding up her child to watch the demolition work :-).

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Balcony Flowers #475


Still a couple more Sunflower photos to go :-).

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Vintage Flight Autumn Edition


This is slightly more blurry that I had hoped, but yesterday this lovely old Piper Super Cub flew almost directly over my head when I was sitting on the balcony. I have seen and photographed this particular plane once before in early March – it apparently belongs to WDL Aviation, the company that also operates the famous blimp, which is being rebuilt for next year after it was destroyed by the heavy storm in June.

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Balcony Flowers #474


Older roses are still worth photographing!

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Cactus Flower 2014-II #3


Same cactus flower as in the last photo, and I think it’s really going to be open tomorrow!

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Balcony Veggies: Black Stuff


The Aubergines were also growing nicely, although slightly wavy :-).

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Balcony Flowers #473


Not quite fresh anymore, but still looking good!

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City Views #252: Inner City Demolition 5


I also took a few panoramas during the demolition to show the huge gap between the houses. This one is from December 29th 2007, more than two weeks after the last photo – you can see that they had worked hard over the Christmas holidays and the last building on the right was already partly torn down. But here the trouble had not even started yet. To be continued…

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