Sometimes people are different from what you would expect at first look. At the entrance of an exposition in the Cobra Museum of art, visitors are welcomed by Albert Bruining. The comment on his performance reads: “Appearance is his creative outlet and every day is a vibrant wearable arts show. If he likes it, he’ll wear it. Masculine and feminine are irrelevant concepts for him.” But indeed, Albert is an aerospace engineer who works for the technical university in Delft. He is inspired by the artwork of the artist group “Cobra”, who were as unconventional in their art and their views as he is.
I captured this image after a short rainstorm up in the mountains. I like how the rain drop is resting on the plant, moments before its fall. Also, the bokeh effect and color variation provides an interesting background that creates a contrast with the green leaf in focus. Enjoy!
Sequoia National Park is a park of stark contrasts. It is home to the largest living species on earth by volume and some of the smallest flowers I’ve found in the Sierra Nevada. It is also a great place to hike. This first photo doesn’t do justice to just how large these trees are. At the base this tree is about 12′ across and the height a panorama of 4 photographs taken with a 12mm lens.
Sequoia National Park ist ein Park voller Kontraste. Es beherbergt die volumenmäßig größten lebenden Arten der Erde und einige der kleinsten Blumen, die ich in der Sierra Nevada gefunden habe. Es ist auch ein großartiger Ort zum Wandern. Dieses erste Foto wird der Größe dieser Bäume nicht gerecht. An der Basis hat dieser Baum einen Durchmesser von etwa 12′ und die Höhe ein Panorama von 4 Fotos, die mit einem 12-mm-Objektiv aufgenommen wurden.
This flower on the other hand is smaller than the fingernail on my little finger. And found just below these giants.
Diese Blume hingegen ist kleiner als der Fingernagel an meinem kleinen Finger. Und direkt unter diesen Riesen gefunden.
The Merced Courthouse is most likely the most photographed building in Merced and vicinity. I used my little drone early in the morning to get a different view of the building. Enjoy!
Hotel Nevada – an outtake from my magazine “Around the world” which I am currently working on. In this magazine I show my travel pictures of my world trip at Corona times during the first two waves 2020 and in between – all pictures were taken in Hamburg, of course.
Anke hatte ja bereits gestern eine portugisische und eine griechische Windmühle aus dem Mühlenmuseum in Gifhorn gezeigt. Mein Bild heute zeigt eine Windmühle vom Typ “Holländermühle”, die ebenfalls dort zu bewundern ist. Das Besondere an diesem Mühlentyp ist die drehbare Haube. Mit dem kleinen Windrad wird die Haube mitsamt den Windmühlenflügeln in den Wind gedreht. Raffinierte Technik.
Anke had already shown yesterday a Portuguese and a Greek windmill from the mill museum in Gifhorn. My picture today shows a windmill of the type “Holländermühle”, which can also be admired there. The special feature of this type of mill is the rotating hood. With the small wind wheel the hood together with the windmill blades is turned into the wind. Ingenious technique.
Einen Hauch von Urlaub habe ich am Samstag bei einem Besuch des Mühlenmuseums in Gifhorn verspürt. Das Foto zeigt eine portugiesische und im Hintergrund eine griechische Windmühle.
I felt a touch of vacation on Saturday when I visited the mill museum in Gifhorn. The photo shows a Portuguese windmill and in the background a Greek windmill.
I visited a sculpture garden on Camino Island during a recent trip to Washington state. Among the many types of sculpture in the garden was this rabbit who apparently has been caught smoking a cigarette. I love the detail on the sculpture and the look on her face.
The Netherlands are a country of contrasts. Sometimes things which seem not fit together are packed into the smallest space. The little town of Ijmuiden is the entrance of the canal leading to the port of Amsterdam. The entrance is protected by 5 locks. The biggest so far was the world’s biggest lock at the the time of construction in the 1920ies. It was 400 m long and 50 wide. Next to it a new one is almost finished. It will be the world’s biggest for the moment, 500 m by 70. There are three more
Nord Superior is docked in the big lock
The backdrop for the locks is an industrial landscape of the only big steel work in the Netherlands and a huge cement factory. Locks, steelworks and factory are an attraction and numerous tourists and ship spotters enjoy the views despite the dust of the cement works and the acid air emerging from the steel works.
The cycle path under the conveyor belt of the cement works
On the other side of the steel works is a popular beach which enjoys cleaner air since the wind in the Netherlands mostly comes from the West. South of the locks is an enormous fishing harbor, the terminal for a ferry to Britain, which towers above the houses of town by at least 4 floors, and an enormous German bunker for speed boats built in WWII.
South of fishing harbor and bunker is one of the biggest national parks of the Netherlands, which protects the coastal dunes. The park and the adjoining beach in return are protected by another line of WWII bunkers.
Manufactured landscapes is a film by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynski, who has spent his life documenting the changes of landscapes by human influence
