Sky and Earth and Country Air
Summer of the Elbuferstrasse in the Wendland: blue sky with a few clouds, a field, vastness, peace and quiet. The photo may look like a montage, but it’s not.
Summer of the Elbuferstrasse in the Wendland: blue sky with a few clouds, a field, vastness, peace and quiet. The photo may look like a montage, but it’s not.
Art on building in Berlin-Mitte: A sculpture stands on a roof and waves or greets passers-by.
Two-story houses, green facades, yellow window, sculpture on the roof – Berlin-Mitte skyline near Ackerstrasse / Invalidenstrasse
A small spontaneous weekend experiment shows once again: it is not so easy to photograph a night sky / a starry sky by long time exposure. The longer the exposure time, the more details can be seen – but from about 30 seconds on, the movement of the stars or the rotation of the earth can be seen. With higher ISO I could shorten the exposure time to 2-3-4 seconds, but the digital ‘dirt’ increases.
View of the solar eclipse SoFi 2015 at Zionskirchplatz, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. The sun was of course also despite eclipse so bright that on an ordinary photo hardly something of the spectacle is to be seen – everything faded over. But with closer view one can recognize at least in the light reflections the sun with advanced moon – however turned by 180° – or mirrored. Here a detail enlargement from the first picture:
I had three different cameras and special glasses in use on that day. My Canon did not produce a single usable picture – for the use of a reflex camera I would have had to have also the appropriate filter as well as a tripod. A SONY compact camera delivered at least pictures, on which the sun and the houses were to be recognized – but the actual solar eclipse was not to be recognized on the pictures. Surprisingly, the camera of the iPhone 4s produced the most useful results – even if only via the detour of the light reflections. But still: evidence.
On the flight to Helsinki, Finland: looking out of the window at the wing with the Finnair logo.
Double rainbow on Saturday afternoon, Brunnenstrasse corner Voltastrasse, Berlin-Wedding.
What a weather or storm: first rain, then squalls, then hail, a downright downpour – then sunshine. In the end, of course, there can only be one rainbow – or rather two rainbows: a double rainbow that spans roughly the southern end of Mauerpark and thus connects Prenzlauer Berg with Wedding – East and West. Super.
Malmö 2013 – just in time for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 I finally reworked the wallpaper section and added a first image for download: the Öresund Bridge in the evening light.
What this has to do with the Eurovision Song Contest? Well – the ETC 2013 takes place in Malmö – and the bridge connects Malmö with Copenhagen – Sweden and Denmark – Scandinavia and Europe. And Eurovision also connects Europe. It’s as simple as that.