Photo of the Day: The Joy of Flying

Photo of the Day: The Joy of Flying

On Sunday we were watching a beautiful sunset over the North Sea. We went to the Eidersperrwerk (Eider barrage), which is home for a big colony of arctic trents. They are already taking over the place again for nesting and made a nice spectacle in the last light of...
Photo of the Day: Time for Purple

Photo of the Day: Time for Purple

It’s crocus time! They are growing everywhere, right here in from of our house and in all the public green places in the cities and towns around here. On the weekend we were in Friedrichstadt at the Eider river to take photos of some of Van’s latest bag...
Photo of the Day: Earth Hour

Photo of the Day: Earth Hour

Today we participated in the Earth Hour, turning off all the lights in the flat between 8.30 and 9.30 in the night. We took the chance to take some candle photos, this being one of them – even if the flash helped here, but in a subtle manner. I tried to mimic...
Photo of the Day: Exposed

Photo of the Day: Exposed

This white dove was standing out perfectly against the dark foliage in the back of it’s cage in the Zoo in Parque del Este in Caracas, Venezuela. And it seemed to know that… it was posing like a model for my camera and made it extremely easy for me to...
Photo of the Day: Greetings from the Sea

Photo of the Day: Greetings from the Sea

Along this rocky beach close to Kiel there were several of these beautiful roses lying close to the water. They all looked quite fresh and obviously had been washed to the beach. Did someone throw them into the sea as a last greeting for a loved one? Were they the...