[Leica] Coffee break pictures - N.Germany

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Beautiful images, Douglas.  Thanks for sharing them.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: [Leica] Coffee break pictures - N.Germany


> Tekn on a recent nightmare drive from Hannover to Kiel in Northern 
> Germany - pitch dark, force 10 side winds and driving snow accompanied by 
> maniac fellow drivers who thought they could get home quicker by driving 
> at ridiculous speeds - a couple of them didn't, we saw what was left of 
> them when the police waved us past the accident (no photos of that). The 
> light was rather difficult, to say the least, patches of sun, thick cloud, 
> showers of snow, hail and rain so most shots have been converted to BW 
> because I didn't like the colours.
>
> The weather was lousy the morning after we arrived - this is down near the 
> harbour on the northern side of the Kieler F?rde (like a fjord but flat)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117459-1/_MG_7428-Edit.jpg
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> Stopped at Potter's Cafe in L?beck on the way back home for a coffee (very 
> good too)
> This is down by the River Trave, and shows typical Hanseatic architecture
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117462-1/_MG_7442-Edit.jpg
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> L?beck was one of the richest towns of the Hanseatic League - this is a 
> group of typical warehouses at the other side of the river. Today the city 
> is better known for its marzipan.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117465-1/_MG_7443-Edit.jpg
>
> Next coffee break in L?neburg about half way between Kiel and Hannover - 
> another formerly very rich city founded on the wealth of 'white gold' as 
> salt was called at the time. Linked to, but not a member of the Hanseatic 
> League, the value of salt for preserving food, particularly herring, was 
> so immense (no refrigerators!) that L?neburg held the Hanseatic League to 
> ransom by refusing to provide salt for Baltic trading.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117468-1/_MG_7459-Edit.jpg
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> Red Brick Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Wilhelminian, Jugendstil - 
> L?neburg is packed with just about every architectural style there is.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117471-1/_MG_7460-Edit.jpg
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> The old harbour crane (powered by a treadmill) was actually still in use 
> during the industrial revolution - it unloaded Germany's first ever steam 
> locomotive from a barge on the , then navigable, River Ilmenau
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117480-1/_MG_7470-Edit.jpg
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> The harbour basin ends at a weir which dammed the water for a group of 
> flour mills on an island in the river, 25 years ago the area was almostr 
> derelict, but has now been refurbished as a conglemerate of excellent 
> restaurants, bistros and hotels.
> ttp://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117486-1/_MG_7472-Edit.jpg
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> A dazzling break in the weather lasted for about five minutes, enough for 
> another view of the old harbour.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117483-1/_MG_7471-Edit.jpg
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> and the town hall, which is very untypical for N. German architecture an 
> the tower IS strangely twisted.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117474-1/_MG_7467-Edit.jpg
>
> Hope you like them - strange that the BW shots look darker in the gallery 
> than in CS2 and Lightroom.
>
> C+C more than welcome
> Cheers
> Douglas
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