night – Page 51 – markus lehr

Dillingen, Saar, close by the motorway number 8

(ISO 200, f6.3 @ 35mm, 69sec., 21:52) It was pitch dark not like what you see in this image. I had to turn the car and move in a little into this empty place when my lights revealed these trailers. This is the German motorway 8 from Luxembourg via Schengen to Salzburg in Austria. Some say it is the most dangerous Autobahn in Germany because significant parts still remain in…

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…

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…

Craftmen’s alley, Völklingen Ironworks

(ISO 100, f6.3 @ 35mm, 64sec., 21:39) A look into the Handwerkergasse (craftmen’s alley) of the Völklinger Hütte which is one of the locations of the European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture and also a branch of the Saar Art School. The old workshops have been turned into studios for art students today. The inscription on the boat says: “You who are climbing the deck on your own risk,…

Mannheim, Rhine harbour

(ISO 100, f5.6 @ 35mm, 30sec., 21:26) There was some heavy wind that night under the Kurt-Schumacher-Bridge. In listening distance a young lady was shouting in her mobile phone. Even louder than the noise coming down from the cars and lorries above. Shortly after I captured this image it started to rain, she closed her car door and I moved on to another location.

Yard #4, Berlin Marzahn

(ISO 100, f8 @ 28mm, 30sec., 23:25) This is my last shot from this location. I was on my way out here. The light all over this place is not from the sun, but from a monstrous floodlight, quite like the ones which were used on the inner German border during the cold war. A great source of light for night shooting of course but it felt a bit uncomfortable…

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