Blue-white blossoms from a front yard in the neighbourhood. I tried to
find out if I had identified those last year, but I couldn’t remember anything!

Still not really open, maybe it’s too cold!

We didn’t get to see the Lunar Eclipse this weekend, but at least I had a chance to grab some photos of the Moon yesterday evening. This is a tonemapped HDR from three stacked exposures with about 20 images each – I’ve tried this before and the increased dynamic in brightness made this interesting processing experiment possible, even though it’s still somewhat noisy.

No clouds in the West at sunset yesterday, but in the East it looked very strange!

Daffodil Duet :-).

First time I caught ANA’s Boeing 787 with the new camera, and in wonderful evening sun too.

Daffodils everywhere, not only on our balconies!

The first Tulip is slowly opening – Happy Easter, everyone!

Looking from Cologne’s main railway station to the right you can see how close it is to the Hohenzollern bridge over the Rhine – you can even see the observation tower on the other side of the river in this zoom shot.

One of our backyard wood pigeons taking five on the edge of a balcony flowerbox, like you do. The second of the pair was actually sitting next to it, but by the time I had taken this photo, it had flown off – as did its partner a couple of moments later. Maybe they had a snack at the birdfeeder!