day – Page 28 – markus lehr

Fire and ice

(ISO 100, f8 @ 48mm, 1/50sec., 14:40) I like this area a lot because it is easy for me to access in my lunch break and the old brick water tower always puts a smile on my face. This time it surprised me with a special treat…

Happy digging

(ISO 50, f16 @ 30mm, 1/5sec., 12:22) I found this sand box with miniature dredgers for kids in between a medieval village and a space simulator in an adventure park. Nobody was interested in this little corner. I guess it will soon be replaced by something more profitable.

Diffenéstraße, Mannheim Luzenberg

(ISO 100, f7.1 @ 65mm, 1/3200sec., 14:37) I passed by this place on my tour through Mannheim and Ludwigshafen earlier this year. This is a sound studio and school for drummers. Couldn’t resist these shades of white.

Hamburg Peute

(ISO 100, f9 @ 70mm, 1/250sec., 14:39) This is a depot for building materials close to the river Elbe. The metal barrier in the center of the image protects the land from floods by the river. The trees are on the dike on the other side and the antennas belong to the Northern German Radio and TV network (NDR).

The oil shale slag heap next to the Messel Pit fossil site

(ISO 100, f8 @ 27mm, 1/400sec., 10:41) I went there to take images from the Messel pit, a disused quarry which was the first German natural monument declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995 (one of the few sites that have ever been placed on the list exclusively due to fossils). Books have been written about this site and it almost ended as a waste disposal landfill a few…

A tale of two birds

(ISO 100, f8 @ 15mm, 1/80sec., 16:36) This is a military hangar in the distance. Wernher von Braun did some of his first rocket testings here. During the times of the cold war it was a Russian MIG 21 base and after the German reunification this was one of the places to be if you were into illegal techno parties. When I was there, it was a very hot and…

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