We had heard and seen some migrating cranes or geese lately, but those are the first ones I caught on camera. Looks like those are only the first ones to come back!

More Spring ambassadors.

The great Cologne Cathedral in a photo I only managed to create five years after I had taken it – it’s a composite of two separate images which I was never able to put together until recently. This is the North side of the cathedral, the first thing you see when you come out of the railway station.

Yesterday’s full Moon in a bit of an experiment – this is an exposure fusion of two stacked images, one brighter than the other. I’ve never tried it this way and it’s a little noisy and somewhat lacks detail, but the overall contrast and brightness are much better.

Those are not quite convinced yet of Spring…

For the next wave of photos in the City Views series, we’re going to leave my home town again and go south to Cologne, where I was able to take some photos on a short trip back in 2010. This first photo was shot while still in the train arriving at the main railway station, showing the church and the distinct station roof. The photos will revolve mainly around the Cologne Cathedral, or Kölner Dom and the riverbank of the Rhine. They belong to a larger gallery which I have not yet completely reprocessed, so proper colour versions will follow later on a separate occasion.