Photo of the Day: Art and Pottery

Photo of the Day: Art and Pottery

Early on a summer afternoon the sun gets around enough to shine into this small alley in the historic part of Schleswig, just around the corner from the Cathedral. The hard angle of the sun formed this interesting monster-shadow of the small sign. Photo data: Pentax...
Photo of the Day: Calm is the Sea

Photo of the Day: Calm is the Sea

Remember the photo I posted two weeks ago? This photo was taken just 100 meters away from that place, in totally different conditions. A calm evening with beautiful colors in the sky and in the water. Only the water in the background is moved by the incoming tide and...
Photo of the Day: A dark Passage

Photo of the Day: A dark Passage

Ah, spring… this was one of our first forest-visits after the snow had finally gone this year. Still the mood has something of autumn for me. This is the forest between Schleswig and Idstedt, the place of a famous battle in the First Schleswig War in 1850, when...
Photo of the Day: Big Eyes

Photo of the Day: Big Eyes

Last week I had the great pleasure to take photos of this little, two months old seal in the zoo of St. Peter-Ording. An author got a sponsorship for it, as it has the name of one seal in his book. When we entered the small “backstage” area with the pool...
Photo of the Day: Storm Season

Photo of the Day: Storm Season

Rain, rain, rain… that are the predictions for the next days here. It cleary is autumn. Last year in September we were lucky to find a day that was stormy but mostly dry when we were on the island of Fehmarn in the northeast of Schleswig-Holstein. It was cloudy...
Photo of the Day: Playing big

Photo of the Day: Playing big

On our stop in Paderborn on monday we also visited the cathedral with origins in the 8th century. A beautiful church, right beside the Pfalz (the place where the medieval Emperors used to stay on their travels through the Empire). The organ is one of the biggest one...