Photo of the Day: Golden Hour

Photo of the Day: Golden Hour

On monday the school is starting again here in Schleswig-Holstein. Reason enough to picture one of them here today: Goetheschule in Flensburg. It was built on the top of a hill, watching over the city. We went there to find a nice viewpoint to take a night photo of...
Double Glass

Double Glass

I just discovered something I never saw before: Our kitchen window has a frame of ice, at least on one side. Must have something to do with the combination of snow, wind pressing it to the window and warm air coming out of the kitchen when cooking. Probably. Anyway, I...
Photo of the Day: Christmas Decoration

Photo of the Day: Christmas Decoration

Everything is prepared here: Snow outside, the house decorated. Yesterday Vanessa fixed our balcony decoration made of pine branches, a chain of small lights and red balls made of glass… one fell down and disappeared in the snow though. It was already quite dark...
Photo of the Day: Light as a Feather

Photo of the Day: Light as a Feather

Today I had a day off and went out with my camera with the first sunlight (one good thing of autumn is that that isn’t too early… To make it better the sun came out and showed the beautiful fine structure of this feather hanging in a reed at the water....

Thinking about lights

The photo above shows the St.-Peter’s cathedral here in Schleswig. During Christmas time and on church holidays it is illuminated beautifully by strong lights, seen from far over the Schlei inlet and even from the highway to Denmark which is passing by several...