Re: Coffee break pictures - N.Germany

Hi Douglas,
I very much enjoyed your photos and thought the harbour crane was quite interesting. Thanks for sharing. 

Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "LEG" <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: 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 Förde (like a fjord but flat)
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/117459-1/_MG_7428-Edit.jpg

Stopped at Potter's Cafe in Lübeck 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

Lübeck 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 Lüneburg 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 Lüneburg 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 -
Lüneburg 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




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