Walking a bit further from the pedestrian bridge, you’ll come upon this big square building – it’s the “back” of the old Hertie department store here in Mülheim, part of the inner city shopping mall. I’ve shown this one before, but this is a new, slightly sharper shot from November with the new camera. Half of the gambling casino has now been turned into a tanning salon because of new regulations that prohibit casinos getting too big – the other one might have to close too, because it is located directly across a kindergarden. The shopping center building once used to contain a whole department house, but today it’s carved up into many different shops and venues like a supermarket, clothes store, a multiplex cinema, fitness studio and some offices. There are entrances on both sides – if you walk left, you go right into the shopping center, on the right you can go either into the mall or to the tram, bus and railway station (I don’t have any good photos of that area yet, but next time I’ll go along there, I’ll take some!)

There are still quite a few Sunflower photos left!

Here’s a slightly different attempt, I gave the Moon a little more punch and contrast to make the “seas” more prominent and to get more craters to show up. Stacked from about 20 images, the source images look much too flat for my taste! Full Moon on Sunday, hope the weather plays along.

Feed me, Seymour? Staring into the … mouth of an opening Amaryllis blossom :-).

Starting up the Balcony Flower posts again – with a Zinnia, of course!

That’s the last one of the fireworks photos and actually the only one with more than one or two going off at the same time. Even though I was taking 15-second exposures back-to-back, I didn’t catch all that many fireworks explosions this time! In this one, you can also see a couple of short star trails – the bright one in the top right corner is actually Jupiter, which was shining very bright!

Another twofer, there were lots of rockets going off but mostly one after another!

Rising up over the houses.

Getting two in one frame was the big exception.

This is actually only a crop from a much larger image,
but at least I have enough space with 10 megapixels for that now!