For about half an hour this afternoon, the approach flight path to Düsseldorf International seemed to have shifted to the West, making some of the inbound planes fly really low over our inner city. This one already had the landing gears down – I’ve rarely seen planes fly so low around here!

A couple of days ago, ANA’s Dreamliner with the R2D2 Star Wars livery was in Düsseldorf again and this time I used my trusty Canon Powershot SX30 to get a proper closeup of this amazing plane!

I hadn’t seen the famous Antonov AN-2 in quite a while!

A sunrise from April 1 that I completely forgot to post.

Just a quick video of our local blimp – this is the first time this year I’ve caught Theo on video! There’s also the usual Youtube version in case this self-hosted version doesn’t play right (which it usually does).

Today, our local Blimp stationed at the Airport Essen-Mülheim flew over the inner city for the first time this year! Theo, named for the late founder of WDL Aviation, Theodor Wüllenkämper, had already made a test flight yesterday, but only today visited the inner city. This year, the blimp, or Zeppelin, as we often incorrectly call it here in Mülheim, has even joined social media – you can follow them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even on Youtube, where you can watch a livestream directly from the airport.

Here’s another longer timelapse, this is from April 10. As usual, there’s also a Youtube version..

Usually, I post still photos in this series, but I recently took some timelapses of the sky with my spare phone again and they are just moving Cloudscapes after all! Here’s a monster one from April 4 when I forgot the phone in the other room and had it running for almost five hours – you can even see the Moon rise at the end! This was taken with one frame every four seconds. The video embedded in this post is hosted on my own webspace, but you can also watch it on Youtube.

That mid-December sunset from the West side.

A sunset from mid-December I completely forgot to post.