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Quarry, Little Switzerland, Franconia

(ISO 400, f5.6 @ 25mm, 176sec., 21:27) This gravel quarry is more than 30 km from Nürnberg (the next bigger city), so hardly any light pollution here at all. Actually it was pitch dark and I did struggle a bit with frame and focusing. That little light from the bottom left side was from a small lamp not a flood light and the rest of it was from the moon.…

Duisburg harbour scene

(ISO 100, f6.3 @ 35mm, 2.5sec., 21:55) This harbour has been fundamentally transformed during the last 20 years. The basis for this model of development in the Ruhr district was delivered in 1994 by the British architect Norman Foster. Since then, the area has been changed into a district combining employment, housing, culture and water-based leisure activities. Today, it is both an industrial monument and a main stop on the…

Au revoir Völklingen

This is the exit of one of the routes through the main exhibition about the technical details of iron production. They are shown interactively with all kinds of means: Video, images, installations and even real fire. I have seen visitors of all ages equally stunned with eyes wide open and I am quite sure that I will come back one day. Please have a look at the full set of…

Railway track, Völklingen Ironworks

(ISO 100, f6.3 @ 25mm, 64sec., 22:00) This railway track cuts through the edge between the protected heritage area and the still active part of the iron works. I was composing the image from a bridge and it was all a bit too dark and felt quite dull until I observed a car arriving in the center of the frame. A man got out and opened the door of the…

Völklingen heritage site, view from the parking lot of a supermarket

(ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 5sec., 21:10) Völklingen has a population of roughly 40.000. At the economic height in 1965 almost every second citizen was working for the iron works. 30 years later there were only 3.500 of those jobs left. Luckily the UNESCO declared Völklingen a World Heritage Site in 1994 which now attracts more than 200.000 visitors per year and makes the city the 2nd biggest center of…

Blower house, Völklingen Ironworks

(ISO 100, f8 @ 24mm, 5sec., 14:57) It is impressively silent in the 6.000 squaremeters of this blower house today. Two massive machines weighing 400 tons each used to blow air into the six furnaces of the iron works while it was still producing. I asked myself what it was like to work here without hearing protection exposed to 90 db of infernal noise in three shifts around the clock.…

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