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The Olympiaturm TV tower with its reflection in the Olympiasee lake.
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Looking east along busy Yan'an Road (延安路) at the intersection with Huashan Road (华山路).
The blue illuminated part is Yan'an Viaduct Road (延安高架路). Taken from the footbridge at that intersection. Here Yan'an Road also changes it's designation from West Yan'an Road (延安西路) to Middle Yan'an Road (延安中路).
Combined from 3 exposures, each 15 seconds long.
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Resting beside the garden pine.
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Sunset near Schleißheim Airfield
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Amazing clouds just before sunset, seen from the Olympiaberg.
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Clouds after a fall sunset in Herrsching am Ammersee.
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A closer view towards the altar of the late renaissance Michaelskirche in Munich.
St, Michael was built from 1583 to 1597. It was massively damaged during an allied bomb raid in 1944 and reconstructed from 1946 to 1948.
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Cattle on Wörth island on a hot spring day.
Wörth is the largest island in the Bavarian Staffelsee lake and the only permanently inhabited island in the lake.
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A line 16 tram arriving and stopping at the tram station Lehel.
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The subway station Forstenrieder Allee of Munich's subway line U3.
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Thatched roofs are typical for northern Germany.
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Schloss Lustheim is a small palace building in the Schlosspark Schließheim that was built in 1684 for the wedding of Kurfürst Max Emanuel with the Austrian princess Maria Antonia.
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Tree mirrored in a large puddle near Schleißheim Airfield.
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Another one from 2018, BW conversion this time.
Revisited this place for the umpteenth time...
The world famous lobby view in the Grand Hyatt Shanghai, located in the Jin Mao Tower. Shot from the 85th floor - at the "bottom" is the Patio Lounge, located on the 56th floor - and above is the observation deck on the 88th floor.
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A white-red dahlia blossom close-up.
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Red flower in the Botanical Garden in Munich. Again from 2018...
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The waterfowl of the "Kleinhesseloher See" are going into a feeding frenzy as somebody to the right is starting to throw some food at them.
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Rose, trying to escape...
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Blossoms of a "Field Flower Mix" we had in the garden back in 2018.
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The "Oriole" is replica of a Great Lakes steamship, she serves as a tour boat. She features 2 decks, upper is an open air sightseeing deck and below is a dining room. The size of the boat is 21 m long and 7 m wide, MMSI 316044324.
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In the marshes of the island of Usedom, near the town of Karlshagen - sort of "in the middle of nowhere".
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A 180° panorama of Munich central station (München Hauptbahnhof) at night, taken from the mezzanine, "DB Lounge", level.
Addendum: No long after I took that pano, the aforementioned viewing spot was demolished, due a complete reconstruction of the station building.
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The Magdalenenklause is a hermitage, designed as an artificial ruin, located in the Nymphenburg Palace Park.
The purpose of the building was to serve as a memento mori for the Elector (Kurfürst) Max Emanuel - he was supposed to visit the building and contemplate the transience of being alive and a ruler.
Unfortunately Max Emanuel did not live long enough to see the building completed - sic transit gloria...
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Another find in the allotment gardens of Kleingartenverein Friedenau in the north of Munich.
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A great ball of fire sets behind the marshalling yard in Moosach. (München Nord Rangierbahnhof)
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Mid level in one of the smaller side lobbies of this shopping mall.
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On the elliptic southern ramp of the Arnulfsteg bridge. The Arnulfsteg is a new pedestrians bridge, crossing the railway tracks that lead to the central train station.
Here is the same ramp from below.
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Two trains moving in the subway station Obersendling of Munich's U3 line. The train on the right is just leaving, the train on the left is just arriving.
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Blossoming tree at the Olympiasee in the Olympiapark.
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Rainbow coloured walls and a moving train in this station along Munich's subway line 2.
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The BMW headquarters building is locally called "Vierzylinder" (meaning "four cylinders).
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A female mallard duck (anas platyrhynchos) on the "Kleinhesseloher See" in the English Garden of Munich.
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Reflections in the Olympiasee, including the ferris wheel of the Sommerfest.
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The cathedral of Freising was built in Romanesque style from 1159 to 1205. The steeples are 56 m tall and one of the landmarks of Freising.
The interior was reworked several times until the final Rococo style it has today was reached around 1724.
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The Theatinerkirche on Munich's Odeonsplatz square, as seen from the Hofgarten.
The official name of the Theatinerkirche church is "Stiftskirche St. Kajetan", it is the church of the catholic Theatines order (Latin name Ordo Clericorum Regularium). The church was build from 1663 to 1690 in late baroque style.
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Statue of Maximilian I. Joseph, the first king of Bavaria, located on the Max-Joseph-Platz. At times he attracts lots of pigeons...
Here is a 360° panorama showing the square in it's entirely.
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Chestnut Blossom, spotted on the Aussiger Platz.
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U-Bahn station along Munich's subway line 2.
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Interior shot of a shopping mall far in the west of Munich.
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A building on the market square (Marktplatz) in the town of Grafing bei München.
The steeple in the left background belongs to the Marktkirche, a chuch built in 1672.
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Rows upon rows of grapevines on the Kirchberg in Volkach.
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on the banks of the Lagoon channel in Botswana.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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Begging for food. Approached our boat while we were out on the "Kleinhesseloher See" in the English Garden.
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Schloss Blutenburg (Blutenburg Castle) was first mentioned in 1432 though it's origins reach back to a moated castle from the 13th century.
In the years 1438–39 Duke Albert III, Duke of Bavaria rebuild the castle as a hunting-lodge.
Nowadays it houses the International Youth Library (Internationale Jugendbibliothek) and the library of the Michael Ende Museum.
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From the side. The Walhalla memorial is a hall of fame that honours distinguished people "of the German tongue".
The idea for such a memorial is from (at that time) Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1807. The building in neoclassicistic style, modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, was finally begun in 1830 and completed in 1842.
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The water tower of Cuxhaven. Completed in 1897, out of commission since 2004.
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This little palace belongs to the Schleißheim palace complex. It was built in 1684 for the wedding of Kurfürst Max Emanuel with the Austrian princess Maria Antonia.
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The Highlight Towers are twin office towers located in the the Parkstadt Schwabing area of Munich. With a height of 126m resp. 113m they belong to the tallest buildings in Munich.
The towers are connected by two glass/steel bridges, a double bridge at the 9th/10th floor and a single bridge at the 20th floor. Design by Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, USA).
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Another of these giant dishes, with the Orion constellation right in front of it. View direction is about W, which avoids the light pollution from the city of Weilheim to the south.
30 seconds exposure at ISO 3200.
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