Germany

Not only the size and beauty of this cathedral, but also its moving history, the complete destruction by bombs in World War II and the reconstruction, which has been started 50 years later, made it a unique building that is known far beyond the borders of Germany.

Frankfurt am Main

Another beautiful morning in Dresden.

Wernerkapelle Bacharach Germany

From Wikipedia: Widely visible is the Wernerkapelle, a Rheinromantik landmark of the town, lying on the way up to Stahleck Castle from the town. It is the expanded Kunibertkapelle, and is still an unfinished Gothic ruin today. Its namesake is Werner of Oberwesel, known in connection with pogroms triggered by his death. According to the Christian blood libel, which was typical of the times, a 16-year-old Werner was murdered on Maundy Thursday 1287 by members of the local Jewish community, who then used his blood for Passover observances. On the grounds of this alleged ritual murder, there arose an anti-Semitic mob who waged a pogrom, wiping out Jewish communities in the Middle and Lower Rhine and Moselle regions. In folk Christianity arose the cult of Werner, which was only stricken from the Bishopric of Trier calendar in 1963.

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Captured during a snow storm in the dunes

Prerow, Fischland-Darß-Zingst

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Holm in Schleswig

The dream castle of King Ludwig II, photographed a million times, nevertheless it has not lost its attraction. I had the chance to do it too on a sunny day last autumn. Fortunately I found this nice point of view.

Neuschwanstein gehört heute zu den meistbesuchten Schlössern und Burgen Europas. Rund 1,4 Millionen Menschen jährlich besichtigen "die Burg des Märchenkönigs".

Today Neuschwanstein is one of the most popular of all castles in Europe. Every year 1.4 million people visit "the castle of the fairy-tale king".

Brandenburger Tor

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The end of an awesome day at an awesome place. I think I filled some memory cards during this trip but indeed it's all about that special moments in the morning and evening.

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Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern.  It is located atop Berg Hohenzollern, a 234-meter (768 ft) bluff rising above the towns of Hechingen and Bisingen in the foothills of the Swabian Alps of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The first fortress on the mountain was constructed in the early 11th century.

U-Bahn-Station Marienplatz, München

Zingst, Fischland-Darß-Zingst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Bacharach Germany Blue Hour

Probably the best known view of Cologne, with the Cathedral and the Hohenzollern railway bridge. A classic, but I wanted to have my own version of this photo as well.

The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany.

It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs.

During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a town in the district of Ansbach of Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia), the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany, well known for its well-preserved medieval old town, a destination for tourists from around the world.

Rothenburg was a Free Imperial City from the late Middle Ages to 1803.

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Last Weekend me and a couple of fellow landscapers from germany went to saxony Switzerland once more. The hopes were high, as usual. We wanted to photograph a view with fog in the valley and some magic light in the sky. But again either we had no fog at all or it completely fogged up.

Here is a view from the Schrammsteinaussicht, I shot during sunrise. We got up 3:15am hiked 45 minutes through the dark and were greeted by clear skies. Not ideal but ok, at least some color was there. We started shooting east, and the light just didn't get as intense as I had hoped. So I switched my position and went to this viewpoint, facing west.

You can bet just as I setup my tripod there I looked back east to see the sky starting to glow very intense. Damn, but it didn't help, it would just be a few minutes and I wanted to shoot another scene.

Yes, the glowing Schrammsteine you see in the photo was what I was after and I have to say it was good I kept my position there. A beautiful display of color as the stones were bathed in the red-orange light.

I used a lee 0.6 soft and lee 0.6 hard gnd here + a polarizer to emphasize the colors

View of Frankfurt skyline from Domturm, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Mit dem "Irix 11mm f/4" habe ich es endlich geschafft das Hamburger Rathaus frontal aufs Bild zu bekommen.

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So here's my favourite Image from the photo trip two weeks ago to saxony switzerland. Read closely, that's not switzerland, it's in saxon in germany ;-)

It shows a twilight view from the Winterberg when soft fog was laying over the land. It was awesome standing there watching the earth breathe. After the previous days of the weekend without many good photo opportunities in the area this was one of those moments were you just stand there in awe and then have to remind yourself not to forget taking some photos ;-)

Enjoy!