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It was in Munich's Englischer Garten that I found out what a monopteros is :)
Foi no Jardim Inglês de Munique que eu descobri o que é um monóptero :)
This is not a HDR image but a weird color mix of multiple speedlites w/o gel and the warm tungsten lights in the tower. The spire on top would be dark without the speedlites.
Canon EOS 6D + EF 16-35/4L IS @ (20s f/5.6 ISO400 16mm)
At first I didn't feel like going out today. But then I remembered that today was our first anniversary.... yes, my trusty Nikon D70s and I have been together for one year now! :)
So I went to the park to get some sun and take some photos.
First thing I ran into my friends from the awesome Munich Express Band! What a nice surprise!
I'll upload more tomorrow .... :)
The Eisbach (German for "ice brook") is a small man-made river, 2 kilometres long, in Munich. It flows through the park known as the Englischer Garten and is a side arm of the Isar River. A manmade wave has been created on one section.
Swimming in the Eisbach is not allowed, but the rule is not enforced, and swimmers can be seen especially on warm summer days. At least two people have drowned in the lower part of the Eisbach, a swimmer in 2003 and a non-swimmer, who may have slipped or fallen asleep near the river, in February 2007.
Just past a bridge near the Haus der Kunst art museum, the river forms a standing wave about 1 metre high, which is a popular river surfing spot. The water is cold and shallow (sometimes only 40 cm deep), making it suitable only for experienced surfers and playboaters (whitewater kayakers). The wave is predominantly used by surfers, and animosities of surfers towards kayakers have occasionally been reported.
The wave has been surfed by river surfers since 1972, and surfing competitions have even been held. Due to the more recent development of playboating, kayakers have only more recently and so far not in great numbers started to surf the wave.
Surfing is now (2010) officially allowed. A new sign next to the wave warns that "Due to the forceful current, the wave is suitable for skilled and experienced surfers only". In previous years there have been issues between the authorities, who threatened to demolish the wave, and a group of wave supporters who organized activities and a website to save the wave, including an online petition to leave the wave intact.
Being a standing wave it can be surfed for as long as one's balance holds, and in busy times a queue of surfers forms on the bank. In the past surfers tied a leash to the bridge to hold onto, but a sign announces that this is both dangerous and forbidden.
The local surfers have forced the wave to break more cleanly, with increased height, by attaching ropes to the bridge which trail submerged planks, creating two large "U"-shapes. Such a shape makes the wave easier to surf for river surfers (playboating makes fewer demands of the wave shape).
A better wave for beginners is in Floßlände near the Thalkirchen U-Bahn station. It has also been surfed since 1972, and it is wide enough to take a few surfers at a time. A third standing wave in Munich forms on the Isar itself near the bridge Wittelsbacherbrücke, but only at flood levels of the river. Due to the dirt, manure and objects like tree branches drifting in the flood in the first days, this wave is usually surfed only a few days after the water level has risen.
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Two of the many Mallards that live at the English Garden, in Munich.
"Então, João, deixaste outra vez os óculos caírem à água?" :)
Dois dos muitos patos-reais que vivem no Jardim Inglês, em Munique.
Near IR-spectrum >0.72 µm.
Camera: Fujifilm X-pro1
Lens: Fujinon XF18
Filter: Hoya R72 infrared filter
Exposure: 25 seconds at f/16
Processing: 2000K colour balance. Inverted (red/blue) colour channels. Adjustments to exposure and contrast.
May 16, 2015 at Kleinhesseloher Lake, English Garden, Munich, Germany. Dutch: grauwe gans; German: Graugans; scientific: Anser anser.
I am not sure if this is one tree with two trunks and common roots or two trees that have become entwined. The mighty trunks near the ground are deceiving - one of the trunks is hollow and I'm not sure how much life there is left in either. I am curious to see its summer foliage and will return.
For a NYTimes' Lens Blog project I hoped to show 2000 happy people during a warm spring Sunday afternoon with the sun illuminating 2000 liters of amber beer, but at 5.00 PM local time this empty wet scene with one empty beer glass slowly filling with rain was all I could get.
Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm / Beer Garden at the Chinese Pagoda, Munich, Germany
The view from the monopteros of the English Garden.
A vista a partir do monóptero do Jardim Inglês.
München - Wellenreiter am Eisbach im Englischen Garten (Prinzregentenstraße)
flickr-Tour durch München mit Roland Riesen
Der Bach gehört zu einem Verbund von Stadtbächen, die sämtlich aus der Isar gespeist werden und größtenteils unterirdisch die Münchner Altstadt und das Lehel durchfließen. Er tritt am südlichen Rand des Englischen Gartens in unmittelbarer Nähe des Hauses der Kunst zutage. Gut 2 km weit fließt er im Osten der Parkanlage parallel zur Isar und mündet etwa 500 m unterhalb der John-F.-Kennedy-Brücke von links in den Fluss zurück.
Eine Steinstufe an der Austrittsstelle des sehr wasserreichen und schnell fließenden Eisbaches erzeugt ganzjährig eine etwa halbmeterhohe stehende Welle, die von Kanuten und Flusssurfern genutzt wird und bei Wellenreitern auch international bekannt wurde.
Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed.
Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change....
At such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.
The challenge will not wait.
Life does not look back.
Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
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This 25-meter-high wooden structure, designed by the military architect Joseph Frey von Johann Baptist Lechner, was built from 1789 to 1790. It was modelled on the "Great Pagoda" in the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. The Pagoda, twice as high as the Turm, was supposed to resemble a porcelain pagoda in the gardens of a Chinese emperor.
In July 1944, the so-called "China Tower" burned down due to heavy bombing, and in 1952 was rebuilt true to the original.
With 7,000 seats, the Chinesischer Turm's beer garden is the second largest beer garden in Munich.