I took this slightly surreal shot at the green fields where the river Elbe opens out into the North Sea. There’s a very long strip of coast, where only sheep and cows graze. On that particular day it felt a bit like summer (you know that time when it’s warmer outside than inside). Although the…
swan portrait
Looks like he actually sensed I photographed him.
bad weather => unhappy
I was playing around with the controls in Lightroom, when it occurred to me that I could make this picture tell a story. I’ve darkened the sky a bit and now the communist grimaces on account of the bad weather .
old forest road
This road through the middle of the forest with its old cobble stones made a lasting impression on me. Left and right there were hundreds of meters of deep forest and these really high trees. I tried to reproduce the atmosphere a bit with subdued colors, a retro style effect and some vignetting.
reaching for the moon
I took this picture at the “strandleben” bar opposite of “faust”. Due to its simplicity this shot is very “orderly” and serene. I like it a lot.
ocean fence
To keep the salty sea at bay. No, it’s actually to prevent the grazing sheep from drowning in the sea. This is the beach east of Cuxhaven. This stretch of the coast technically still belongs to river Elbe, but it sure has some salty water…
Flying Stork
Found this beautiful guy in the middle of a field. A stork is a really big bird and it’s amazing to see how he lifts himself up:
Man with Bags
This guy gave the already colorful street another nice accent. Fun fact: Originally there was an ugly car at the end of the road and I removed it using the heal-”stamp” tool. Although it’s quite visible, “healing” it really saved this shot…
Graffiti around Glocksee II
I’ve made another round in the neighborhood and this is the plentiful harvest . See if you can spot all of them in “Ponies, Monkeys, Communists and Anarchists” Click for gallery
Another shot from the east
Actually from the city of Osten. They built this interesting contraption to allow people to get to the other side of the river: It just happens that there’s a bridge over the same river less than 200 meters further. I guess they still keep it for the tourists…
green and blue
This house stands on the dike in the small village Osten, which funnily enough means East in German. It’s also really close to Norden. Those Frisian (dt.: Friesen) are not very imaginative. On top of that Norden is actually east of of Osten . In this picture I used one of the coolest new Lightroom…