With this beautiful picture under a fantastic evening sky, I bid farewell to my Blue Port 2025 series. It was a pleasure to see the Rickmer Rickmers illuminated above the tops against this turquoise evening sky, with the Blohm & … read more or write a comment …
It was so beautiful to look down the Elbe from the new waterfront promenade at Vorsetzen—the Jan Fedder Promenade—and see the glow of the setting sun behind the blue-lit cranes of Blohm & Voss. Far in the background, the container … read more or write a comment …
The old cargo sailing ship Rickmer Rickmers, moored at the Landungsbrücken in Hamburg Harbor, is always specially illuminated for Blue Port. The water around it also turns deep blue. This perspective also allows the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in the background to … read more or write a comment …
HHLA (pronounced HALA), Hamburg Hafen und Logistik AG, celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2025. This was one of the reasons why Blue Port lasted 10 days this year instead of just a long weekend. The company’s internal celebration took place … read more or write a comment …
To see the blue-lit Köhlbrand Bridge, I drove to the Altonaer Balkon and the underlying Altonaer fish market. It is always nice to look down on the harbor from the high banks of Altona. The Köhlbrand Bridge spans the harbor … read more or write a comment …
The last time I was in 2015 at the Blue Port in Hamburg, at the musical theaters on the south bank of the Elbe. I like the view of the Elbphilharmonie from here. At Blue Port, the Hanseatic Trade Center … read more or write a comment …
Like a lighthouse, Hamburg’s Michel rises above the museum ship, the white swan of the South Atlantic. The ship itself is not illuminated in blue, but the tall ship Rickmer Rickmers downstream is illuminated in blue right up to the … read more or write a comment …
Sunset at the Blue Port event in Hamburg The first buildings and ships were artificially lit up in blue, all the photographers were looking at the Elbphilharmonie, which was crowned with a blue wreath of lights, and I looked west … read more or write a comment …
The Blue Port in Hamburg is a one-week light installation by the artist Michael Batz. At the end of the week we have the Cruise Days, a freeway fair for the cruise industry. The blue lamps are installed at buildings, … read more or write a comment …