Frankfurt

Partial view of the business district, from the top of the Main Tower Lens: EF 50mm f/1.8 II (click to see all my photos with this lens) 50 mm f/8.0 1/800s ISO 100 Stitching of several portrait format pictures

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

Frankfurt is one of the few European cities with a large cluster of high rise building in its downtown area; in many other European cities, skyscraper construction was not well received in the past due to the historical value of existing buildings. For this reason, Frankfurt is sometimes referred to as "Mainhattan" (a portmanteau of the local Main river and Manhattan).

Early morning as Frankfurt a.M wakes up in a pink glow.

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Skyline from Ignaz-Bubis-Bridge. View to "Mainhattan" and the "Old Bridge" (Alte Brücke)

Caratteristica struttura ospitante un centro commerciale sulla Zeil (strada del centro storico) di Francoforte. E' costituita da un vero "buco" nella struttura a vetrate dell'edificio.

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Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Frankfurt am Main

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

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

View from Flößerbrücke - Frankfurt

Frankfurt Germany cloudy day

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Römer

Römer, the German word for Roman, is a complex of nine houses that form the Frankfurt city hall (Rathaus). The houses were acquired by the city council in 1405 from a wealthy merchant family. The middle house became the city hall and was later connected with its neighbours. The Kaisersaal ("Emperor's Hall") is located on the upper floor and is where the newly crowned emperors held their banquets. The Römer was partially destroyed in World War II and later rebuilt. The surrounding square, the Römerberg, is named after the city hall.

The former Altstadt (old town) quarter between the Römer and the Frankfurt Cathedral was to be redeveloped as the Dom-Römer Quarter through 2016, including reconstructions of historical buildings that were destroyed during World War II.

Source: wikipedia

December 2015 (17:39), 3 hours in Frankfurt with my Niece as a tour guide. Thank you Kira!!

Il panorama notturno di Francoforte della sua skyline da uno dei ponti sul fiume Meno. La concentrazione di grattacieli (principalmente finanziari) rende questo luogo molto simile a Manattan (quartiere di New York) tanto famoso nel mondo, ed è proprio questa somiglianza che da il nome di Mainattan a Francoforte (Main=meno, il fiume che bagna la citta).

Quando mi son messo a fare tutta una serie di foto ai piedi di questo "curvo" grattacielo una delle guardie al piano terra ha iniziato a guardarmi male...

My Last photo of 2015. Thanks everybody for all your support and awesome inspiration over the year!! I look forward to all your great photography in the years to come!!

Have a FANTASTIC 2016!!

December 2015 (18:02), 3 hours in Frankfurt with my Niece as a tour guide. Thank you Kira!!

Thank you for your kind comments and faves

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Ok just a short interruption from the Alps uploads.

Last weekend we were visiting some friends in Frankfurt and on saturday evening before driving back I had some spare time to go out shooting. Just two hours and quite spontaneous (first I didn't even want to bring my cam) so I didn't do any planning on subjects to shoot.. Well I headed to the Main for the obvious shots as you can see above.

I used some manual exposures between 10 and 60 seconds to do a dri blending. The reflections came out quite nice and I'm content with what I got out of this trip, after all first I didn't even plan on shooting :-) Next time I will do some more planning since I know from some other photostreams around here that this city has so much more to offer when shooting architecture or maybe I need a local Guide ;-)

Hope you like it anyway and thanks for your comments especially for getting two out of my last 4 uploads into explore, doesn't happen to often on my stream.

PS: the exifs shown on the right are not right. They are from the f/16 ISO 400 shot I did in addition to the f/8 Iso 100 shots just to see if the stars around the lights come out a bit better and to blend that in. When you layer multiple shots together in ps it takes the exifs from the firstst shot which is loaded. My canon would create way to much noise on iso 400 and 30 seconds.

cheers

Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany