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Heavy snowfall at the Scheidplatz station, a major interchange from bus to tram to subway. Left to right we have:
Bus line 144, tram line 28, tram line 12.
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A super wide view of Nymphenburg Palace as seen from the east with some impressive clouds above.
Schloss Nymphenburg is a palace located in the west of Munich and one of the main tourist attractions of the city, with yearly over 300,000 visitors,
The palace is the main summer residence of the House of Wittelsbach, former rulers of Bavaria.
Commisioned in 1664, the central building in the style of an Italian Villa was completed in 1675. Gradually the sides were added and the current appearance was reached in 1716.
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Nightly view toward south along the Dienerstraße beside the city hall (building on the right).
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Seen in the Sendlinger Straße pedestrian zone.
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A canada goose at the "Kleinhesseloher See" in the English Garden of Munich.
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An over 180° panorama of the Schrannenplatz in the town of Erding. The red building on the left is the Schrannenhalle, built 1866 in gothic revival style. A Schranne in southern Germany is a storage and trading place for grains, mostly wheat, barley and rye.
In case the town name Erding rings a bell:
Yes, this is the town where the Erdinger beer comes from. 🍺
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Female mallard duck (anas platyrhynchos) looking for food at the "Kleinhesseloher See" in the English Garden of Munich.
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Wide angle panning of a tram in Munich's pedestrian zone.
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Looking across the Danube river near where the Lech river meets the Danube - an impressive thunderstorm is brewing up. (This is a BW re-edit of a previous upload.)
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Another dinner guest...
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A young blackbird, still with juvenile plumage on the head.
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A view downstream from the Karolinenbrücke. The tower left center is called Mutterturm ("Mother's Tower"), was built by Sir Hubert von Herkomer to honor his mother. Construction of the tower was completed around 1887.
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Captured while on the way to the island of Herrenchiemsee.
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"Zu verkaufen" means "for sale". Interested? Two former Warsaw Pact (probably from the former GDR) military vessels, disarmed, demilitarized, leaking oil and in various stages of rotting were for up for sale in Peenemünde harbour back in 2019. I blurred the phone number given on the port side of the nearer boat for obvious reasons...
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A fisheye overview of the "MAC", a forum-like area between terminals 1 and 2, with office buildings left and right.
The building on the far side is terminal 2. The escalators bottom center lead to the S-Bahn connection towards downtown.
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Detail of the Prague astronomical clock ...
Prague, Czech Republic, Europe
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This building originally dates to 1502 (completion). It served as one of the main granaries of the town. The name Mauthalle (= customs hall) dates to the 19th century when the building served as the customs headquarters of Nuremberg (Maut = customs duties). The building is 84 m long, 20 m wide and 29 m tall.
During an allied bombing raid in the night of March 8th/9th 1943 the roof structure burned out, the building was covered with a provisional roof afterwards. During another allied bombing raid on October 3rd 1944 the walls received just slight shrapnel damage, but finally during the bombing raid on January 2nd 1945 the building was hit heavily, the eastern gable and the southern walls collapsed, the building burned out completely.
Reconstruction after WWII lasted from 1951 to 1953 in slightly simplified form.
Today it serves as an office building with shops in the ground floor, the basement houses the restaurant Mautkeller which features a microbrewery.
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TGV Duplex train set no. 4705 from Paris Est passing the S-Bahn station "Laim" at speed.
The "Duplex" variant of the French TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse = high-speed train) features bi-level carriages, is manufactured by Alstom and was introduced to increase capacity on busy TGV lines (such as Paris Est - Munich).
This here is the "Euroduplex" variant which is multi-system capable and has a top speed of 320 km/h (=200 mph for the "imperialists").
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A yellow McLaren MP4-12C (and a small yellow wheel loader) in the blueish background colour caused by some advertising lights.
Spotted on Sinan Road (思南路).
A hard disk find.
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having fun with Light Painting technique.. set 30sec exposure and start painting with flash light.. I can't even stay still for 8sec! =P
Subway station "Lehel" of lines U4 and U5.
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A "top" location. High above the traffic noise, unobstructed view over the city... - unfortunately a bit hot under the searing sun (that may actually be the reason why it is coated with gold leaf).
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The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Macromondays theme As long as it ticks
The “Timepiece” Sundial is an installation, balanced and secured by three mooring chains, at St Katherine Docks near to London's famous Tower Bridge. The sundial was designed by Wendy Taylor and commissioned in 1973.
This night photograph was taken in during my visit to London in October 2022 during blue hour. The slowly drifting clouds provide interesting complements to the Sundial and Tower Bridge.
“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein
“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
― Andy Rooney
2x FORTIS:
B-42 Pilot Professional Chronograph GMT
B-42 Marinemaster
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Impression from the Munich Christmas Market. At this stall one could acquire an entire angels orchestra...
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