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Karlsruhe Castle

by Marc 05/01/2018 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Karlsruhe Castle is located in the heart of the city. With its tower it forms the centre of the baroque planned city. It is always fascinating to walk through one of the streets of the old town and see the tower at every intersection.

I was in Karlsruhe for a project phase for 4 weeks and enjoyed the location of the customer and the hotels around the castle very much. Fortunately at the beginning of April the evenings where still quite short and there in the south the weather was so nice that I could take some pictures during blue hour. The first picture with its great clouds in the blue sky should be the best. Once again my inclination to the central perspective comes into its own, which is also offered in this city.

Rigging works for the PEKING III

by Marc 04/14/2018 | 7 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 1 Comment

The most complex rigging work and at the same time the heaviest and most strenuous is splicing the steel cable. This work is also necessary for the rigging of PEKING. A team of 3 riggers worked together on the eye splice. read more or write a comment …

Rigging works for the PEKING II

by Marc 04/04/2018 | 7 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 2 Comments

Rigging work for the PEKING: To embed a thimble in the rigging, the ropes are laid to one eye and provided with a rigging instead of splicing. Here the two rope ends lie parallel and are closely looped around with a steel cable. For smaller rigs it is sewn with rigging yarn, but here it is sewn with a steel rope — you have to sew it first! read more or write a comment …

Rigging works for the PEKING

by Marc 03/31/2018 | 12 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Since it has become clear that the 4‑masted bark PEKING is coming to Hamburg as a museum ship, the public relations work of the Friends of the 4‑masted bark PEKING is great. Since the beginning of 2018, the rigging has been repaired or completely rebuilt using old crafts techniques. Since the harbour museum in Hamburg does not reopen until the beginning of April, the opportunity was taken to hold two public events there in March to see the riggers at work. A German/Danish team of 14 mostly young people has to completely restore 4.8 km of PEKING rigging.
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Frozen Alster Lake in golden Light

by Marc 03/17/2018 | 2 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | 1 Comment

It was a morning at the beginning of March, weeks with icy temperatures lay behind Hamburg and again and again a wonderfully clear sky over the city. Over the weeks the Binnenalster continued to freeze over, even if at some point a boat had broken its way through the ice. But that was exactly what was so beautiful this morning — the very low sun, shining in gold, illuminated all the ice chunks that lay on the smooth ice layer. Behind it shone the town hall and the tower of the St. Nikolai Memorial as well as the plume of smoke from Hafencity power station. An insanely calm atmosphere. read more or write a comment …

Red Cliff at Kampen

by Marc 03/11/2018 | 3 BILDER IM BLOGBEITRAG | No Comments

Kampen on Sylt, below the Red Cliff. I am always fascinated by the rust-red clay edge of the cliff, which is up to 30 metres high, especially when the sunlight intensifies the effect of the colour at the golden hour.

This year, an incision was visible. Due to the position of the winter sun in the southwest he was really beautifully worked out by his shadow.

Ruddy Turnstone

by Marc 03/05/2018 | 2 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name arenaria derives from arenarius, »inhabiting sand, from arena, »sand«. The specific interpres means »messenger«; when visiting Gotland in 1741, Linnaeus thought that the Swedish word Tolk »interpreter« applied to this species, but in the local dialect the word means »legs« and is used for the redshank.

It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is a highly migratory bird, breeding in northern parts of Eurasia and North America and flying south to winter on coastlines almost worldwide. It is the only species of turnstone in much of its range and is often known simply as turnstone.

Source: Wikipedia

On the west beach of Sylt near Kampen. I had so much trouble when the bird passed me in a hurry. But the bird is not as shy as the sandpipers, I could take this picture with 200mm focal length!
But what a good luck to be able to observe this bird in its typical surroundings, a beach with pebbles on the edge of the shore. Also in this wonderful light, when the sun stood flat above the horizon and illuminated the bird so beautifully.

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