Schlei:52 – Week 7
Today felt like Autumn. Light rain, strong wind and thick fog. We were taking a look from the forest down the sandy coast at the Große Breite, close to the little town Weseby. We didn’t stay long, as the wind was blowing stronger and stronger. This is the view out of the forest to the Schlei, almost disappearing in the foggy rain.
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Schlei:52 – Week 6
Winter still has it’s grips on Schleswig-Holstein, and the ice of the Schlei got even thicker – so thick, that this weekend the Schlei was opened for the public to walk to the little island in front of Schleswig. This photo was made on Thursday night, watching to the Moon rising in the southeast.
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Schlei:52 – Week 5
We had temperatures below 0° Celsius all week, and like all Europe the Schlei is beginning to freeze. It was snowing several times as well, so now the Schlei is covered by a white blanket, leaving just some holes for the birds to swim in. This is the view to the northeast – that’s where all the cold is coming from.
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Schlei:52 – Week 4
This week brought back winter to the Schlei. On Wednesday the water was covered by a thin layer of ice, moved by the waves running below it. I can not show the sounds that it created, but the interesting contrast between the wavy and the frozen parts of the water.
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Schlei:52 – Week 3
After one week of nasty weather here in the north today seemed like a good day to go out. After the rain of the morning hat stopped the sky got clear and we went to Winningmay, an access to the Schlei not far from here. On the way we already could see a massive black wall building up in the north, and just after we arrived the clouds arrived as well, with impressive amounts of rain and ice. While getting totally soaked (Van was holding the umbrella, but the rain seemed to come from all directions) I could take some photos. This one is my favorite. The lines of the hail can be seen and the water looks like a bubbling jacuzzi.
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Schlei:52 – Week 2
Week 2 is here, and I’m getting some more ideas for possible photos. I was scanning google maps for places to access the Schlei and found one area with view to the bridge of Lindaunis.
When we arrived there this afternoon some 30 minutes after sunset the light in the west was still quite bright and I started with some long exposure shots to that direction. In the end my favorite was this one.
I also took some photos of the bridge, but I think I can get better ones of this landmark – and the year is still long.
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Schlei:52 – Week 1
First of all I want to wish all of you a happy new year! May it come with a lot of photo opportunities and be filled with creativity.
After I had to stop the “Photo of the day” due to lack of time I was thinking of another project that works better with my schedule. Another resolution for this year is to go out more often, so it had to be a nature related topic.
In the end I came up with this 52 project – one photo every week. And which subject could be more obvious than the Schlei, the long inlet of the Baltic Sea that ends right in front of our door. It holds lots of different photo opportunities. With my photos will try to show the Schlei in all it’s differecnt aspects – landscape views, nature details, maybe people that have a relationship to the water – we’ll see what I’ll come up with.
I took this first photo today morning, in a part of Schleswig called Holm, the old fishermen’s area. Some fishers still sail on the Schlei every morning and sell their fresh fishes at the harbour closer to the city center.
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