Late summer sunrise. Taken on one of the last days this summer which already started warm. A good way to wave goodbye to a great summer 2015.
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Rally d’Italia Sardegna here I come!
Last weekend was the time of the year again. The annual trip to a FIA World Rallye Championship run in outdoor and road trip style. After a few years of driving to the German round around the city of Trier it was not enough and we spread our wings and flew to the toughest round of the year, the Acropolis Rallye of Greece. Since two years, the so called “Rallye of Gods” is unfortunately not part of the WRC calendar anymore and we switched to the mediterranean island of Sardegna in 2014. And so we did this year.
And this is how an aviation nerd starts documenting a trip. AZ407 from Frankfurt to Rome as we descent into Fiumicino Airport.
Feels like summer
Havin fun in the warm evening sun these days.
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City lights
This one was earlier this year. Was cycling home and saw a very nice blue hour light. The shine of my brand new headlight caused me to capture the scene.
This photo was originally puplished on my Instagram account.
This one is for symmetry fetishists
On our way back downhill, we were carried by a passenger vehicle mounted on top of a goods platform. (see here) As this car is leveled, it feels like crawling down a wall when looking backwards. As usual, a photo can’t transport that impression very well. Anyway, a good opportunity for me to take this photo. Full of symmetry.
This photo was originally puplished on my Instagram account.
The Discovery of Slowness
I like the vintage look of the interieur of these train vehicles. This one was taken on the level track of the “Oberweissbacher Bergbahn”. More info about the vehicle here (in Germany only)
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Mountain rail adventure
Turn your everydays life into small adventures. Thats what we did last weekend. A train ride which felt like going back in time in combination with a short walk through beautiful landscape.
Been started at Erfurt main station, soon a modern hub within the ICE network, and traveling over more and more tight and tiny tracks deeper into Thuringian forest, we ended at the 1922 built “Oberweissbacher Bergbahn” just to continue our journey on a wide (1,80m) but steep track, towed by a cable. Upon the mountain, the ride continued in another old electrical train vehicle on the level track.
After a short walk we ended on “Meuselbacher Kuppe” for having lunch.
Definately worth a trip and I think we will do it again, with a larger hiking part then. This part was shorter this time due to some smaller kids traveling with us.
This photo was originally puplished on my Instagram account.
Spring 2015, take two
Last week spring has finally arrived! Got a hint on Twitter about a spot with medium high cherry trees in Erfurt. Needed to capture the scene and went there in the later afternoon. When we got there, it seemed we were not the only ones who had that idea. Anyway, we found a spot among the others and took a few pictures.
It looked awesome. Just like a small pink forrest. The perfect location to work with the new Pentacon 29 2.8 lens.
Spring 2015, yeah!
Allthough we can’t complain about this week, which is quite sunny and temperatures up to twenty degrees, I just want to remember about snowy days in early April this year. Your mind is already set on spring and then this sight – yikes!
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More or less professional solar eclipse footage
As I told you before, everything worked as expected and this is the result of “Plan C”. This old bridge camera does not have an optical view finder and everything is done by two LCD screens. This makes it uncritical to point directly into the sun and have a look in the tiny LCD view finder. The blurry shape of the sun is caused by chromatic aberrations. The downside of super zoom lens.
This photo was originally puplished on my Instagram account.