[Leica] Coffee break pictures - N.Germany

[raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)]

Good stuff!
And I like Northern Germany anyway.
All the best! Raimo

Douglas Sharp wrote:
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>