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Knowable Kommern Open Air Museum -9

A last look at the Niederrhein with this cute little basket weavers cottage and its focus on reed and stick crafts for cartage and storage.

 

The Kommern open air museum is just a great place to wander and learn about the history of the people from the regions but I think that this is the way that most North Americans feel in Europe in general anyway.

 

Europe is one great open air museum coming from a land was only discovered several centuries ago, North America has many great natural attractions but nothing of the history and permanence that is available for all to see even in the smallest of villages in Europe.

 

From Kommern I drove 90km to visit the historic Carolingian city of Aachen made great by the legendary Charlemagne, the “King Arthur” of the continent based in fact instead of fiction .

 

I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 Lens at 70mm 1/25, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, Topaz Denoise, PS (Lumenzia curves masks and DXO Nik Color Efex)

 

Disclaimer: Not trying to be realistic in my editing there is enough realism in the world, my style is a mix of painterly and romanticism as well as a work in progress.

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Uploaded on February 11, 2020