Archive 2. February 2016

City Views #528: Up the South Hill 14


Here’s an almost 180-degree panorama of the area I covered in the previous couple of photos. A sizeable portion of this neighbourhood and even much more is visible: on the far left there’s a glimpse of the older houses of the Kaiserstrasse and both highrises on the former army barracks area are there, with the inner city highrises peeking through in the background. On the far right are the middle school with its distinctive tower and the houses of the Kämpchenstrasse. The lighting conditions were not really good that day, so part of the panorama is a little bit overexposed – but it still looks good enough, I think.
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Cactus Flower 2016 #20


Another backlit Cactus Flower – there are still a few shots left!

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Winter 2016 #1


Last week, I took the opportunity of having slightly good weather for a change to shoot some tree photos, which I’m grouping this year under the Winter label instead of having a dedicated tree category. Somehow, I didn’t like the colour versions and I ended up processing all of them in black and white, although there is not one snowflake in sight here. This is, of course, the famous maple tree in front of our balconies seen from the side – in its (sadly) snowless winter dress

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Gallery: Planespotting 2015


With all the nature-related galleries posted, it’s time to bring out one of the fun diversions with Planespotting 2015, which was surprisingly successful last year. It turned out the Powershot SX1’s bigger zoom is ideal for catching the planes that sometimes fly right above us after starting from the nearby Düsseldorf airport. The star of the flock was ANA’s Boeing 777 ‘Dreamliner’, which has only been flying here since last year, but there are also lots of other interesting planes plus some balloons and, of course, our famous local blimp, which was completely rebuilt after it had been destroyed by the huge storm of 2014. Click on the preview photo above or the link below to go to the gallery, but you can also find a G+ version over on my Google+ Profile or the Transport Collection.

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City Views #527: Up the South Hill 13


A third shot from down the entrance of the sports hall in direction of Mülheim’s Kämpchenstrasse. Next to the highrises on the left you can actually see the inner city highrises in the distance!
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