Love your Market Square photograph (as well as many others). Is this Heidelberg? I ask because my wife and I are going there in about two weeks.
Michael
Peter T wrote:
Some great shots on the last page and unusual subjects as well. Three limekilns, each of slightly different design, from Michiel and then, from Helena, a ship made out of the successor to lime, concrete. Also love the fishing shots from what would have been a somewhat unstable platform.
Wilhelm, just noticed your comment above. I think there were quite a few concrete ships and barges built during WW2 and concrete yachts were built in the UK until fairly recently, 1990s perhaps. I prefer your lovely steel yacht though.
HelenaN wrote:
It is indeed concrete. On Flickr someone asked me "but how can a concrete ship float!?", but I think he forgot that steel isn't exactly light either. I have more shots of this ship, but I think maybe they'd look more interesting in B/W. I'll try it when I have the time.
Some spring flowers with C/Y 50mm/1.7 and Canon 500D close-up lens (except the first one).
Unfortunately, it has a loose front element. When the camera is tilted down the front lenses fall forward making everything all glowy and out of focus. The last shot suffers somewhat from this.
The seller has several copies and will send me a new one. The only problem is that this one is an MM version and I think all the others are AE. As far as I can tell from reading about this lens there are no important changes between AE and MM. If someone knows otherwise, please let me know and I'll ask for a refund instead or a replacement.
This is probably the place,one of my ancestors from the side of my mother would have liked,when he studied in Heidelberg between 1882 and 1886.
Alas,He died,on the 2nd of May 1915,30km away from his home, during one of the biggest battles on the Eastern front of the WW1 (Battle of Gorlice).This was the battle that prevented Russian Army from breaking through Carpathia Mountain passages into the very hearth of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Being the hauptmann,honored three times by the "Tapferkeits Medaille" - medal for bravery ,he thouhgt,he could save he's brother,the 20'th years old student of medicine from Vienna and the army's fahnrich,so made him enrolled in the same unit of Landwehr.As the result they both died in the trenches,during russian artillery barrage.I still try to find their graves.There are many beautiful and humble war cemeteries of the time in the region,but I couldn't still identify my relatives.Their death,I can say,is the reason I exist.After their death there was no more heir on our family's land,so my grand,grand parents ask the local bishop to release from vowes the only living brother of the fallen.My grand,grand father Anthony.So here I'm!
Absolutely agree with Peire and looks like my sort of pub Dan. Can I however suggest you always ensure you are close to a fire exit, that fire surround looks ready to combust at any minute!
This shot is rubbish from a photography or artistic merit viewpoint but, I couldn’t resist showing you my neighbour’s new lawn care arrangements.
Leica Tele Elmarit 90mm f2.8 on A7R
A very hurried shot (train to catch!) of the square outside the building that houses, amongst other businesses, the UK office of Facebook (hence the cool dude left foreground perhaps!). Also note the strange duelling machine entertaining the lunchtime crowd and, shame about the brown paper bag!
The building is very modern and so has glass sides to the offices on each floor around an atrium through which the glass walled lifts (elevators) run. I thought it would be fun to photograph the various offices as I came down from my meeting and then decided this could be one of a number of things best not done from inside a glass walled lift on view to all and sundry!
Michael Everet wrote:
Love your Market Square photograph (as well as many others). Is this Heidelberg? I ask because my wife and I are going there in about two weeks.
Michael
Yes It's Heidelberg! If you like send me a PM, before you come!
Peire:
Thank's for the touching story initiated by my image. Makes me and us think about the places we usually party. Most of our soil has seen lots of blood - not and never to forget.
My best regards
this time from Wetzlar @ Leica's to the Sony forum
I have more shots of this ship, but I think maybe they'd look more interesting in B/W. I'll try it when I have the time.
