Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a town in the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. It is well known for its well-preserved medieval old town, a destination for tourists from around the world. It is part of the popular Romantic Road through southern Germany.

View to the "Plönlein"

Market square

A street leading to the market square

Impressions of a Bremen Visit

Here are some impressions from a recent visit of Bremen / Germany.

The Am Wall Windmill 

The Bremen Roland

The Town Musicians of Bremen

The Shipper's House

Rhinefalls near Schaffhausen

Here are some impressions from the Rhinefalls (German: "Rheinfall"). They belong to the largest waterfalls in Europe and are located on the High Rhine near the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland. They are 150 m wide and 23 m high and a typical summer water flow is about 600 m^3/s.

Rocks in the middle of the falls ("Rheinfallfelsen") with a lot of spume.

Standing directly above the thunderous water of the Rhinefalls.

Photographing the falls can become a wet affair.

Visitors are arriving at the Rheinfallfelsen rocks to go up to the outlook point.

View from Castle Laufen to Schlössli Wörth and the water basin behind the falls.

Impressions from the Airshow Soest 2016

Here are some impressions from the airshow:

P-51D Mustang - "Louisiana Kid"

The shiny yellow nose of the "Louisiana Kid"

Formation flight of the Italian PioneerTeam

Smoke check of a PioneerTeam aircraft

Nature Photo Challenge

In June I participated in a nature photo challenge. Here are the seven images that I posted and I hope you also enjoy these flower and animal captures:

Echinacea ("Sonnenhut", purple coneflower) with two butterflies on it ("Kleiner Fuchs", small tortoiseshell).

Two eagle-owls ("Uhu", Bubo bubo) 

Echinacea ("Sonnenhut", coneflower) in the evening sunlight.

Interior of a poppy flower

Common peony, in German known as "Gemeine Pfingstrose" or e.g. "Bauernpfingstrose" or "Gartenpfingstrose".

Penguin portrait in the zoo.

 Little sparrow with its fluffed feathers

Rolandsbogen

The Rolandsbogen is the remaining part of the former Castle Rolandseck whose ruin collapsed after an earthquake in 1673 so that only this one castle window was left. In the 19th century it became a highlight of the so-called Rhine romanticism.

The impressive view through this window shows the Siebengebirge uplands, e.g. the Drachenfels and Petersberg hills, on the other side of the Rhine.

In 1839 also the Rolandsbogen collapsed, so the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath collected donations for rebuilding it and the leading architect of the cathedral at Cologne Ernst Friedrich Zwirner made the technical plans so it could be be rebuilt in the following year.

The painter Andreas Achenbach created in 1834 a painting of the Rolandsbogen:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Rolandseck#/media/File:Andreas_Achenbach_Rolandsbogen_1834.jpg

Here are three impressions from my recent visit:

Frohe Ostern

 

Ich wünsche allen ein frohes Osterfest!

Frohe Ostern -  Happy Easter  -  Joyeuses Pâques  - Feliz Pascua - Vrolijke Pasen - Wesol`ych S`wia`t  - Χριστος ανεστη - God Påske - с Па́схой - Feliz Páscoa !

Macro Captures

New Year Greetings

I wish you all a Happy New Year 2016!

Frohes Neues Jahr - Happy New Year - Bonne Année - Feliz Año Nuevo - Gullukkig Niuw Jaar - Feliz Ano Novo - Szczesliwego Nowego Roku - Godt Nytår - Scastny Novy Rok - Ευτυχισμένος ο Καινούριος χρόνος - Buon Capodanno - С Новым Годом !