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

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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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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This one’s on the smaller of the two Schlumbergera cactuses and
I had to shoot it from almost directly below to get it lit up like that.

One more nature-related gallery, Trees 2015, which I actually abandoned in early Autumn to switch over to the Autumn gallery – but there are still a lot of great shots in there. This year there won’t be a Tree gallery, instead I’m going to group all the non-flower shots into seasons. Click on the preview photo above or the link below to go to the gallery, but you can also find an (incomplete) G+ version over on my Google+ Profile or the Seasons Collection.

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