Photo of the Day: View to Westerhever

Photo of the Day: View to Westerhever

Somehow this view had something of a classic painting to me, showing the view to a small village in the countryside. This is Westerhever on the Eiderstedt peninsula at the German west coast, taken on an early summer day. My great-grandfather was pastor in this old...
Photo of the Day: Reborn

Photo of the Day: Reborn

The last aurochs died in 1627 in a forest near Warczwa, Poland. The species was the father of almost all modern domestic cattle and lived in the most parts of Eurasia and northern Africa. German biologists, the Heck brothers, tried to create a race that at least looks...