Spent an afternoon in Bremerhaven Harbor. Some interesting locations worth to visit but better done in morning hours before 10am. This ensures much better sunlight coming mainly from the back, so no shots have to be taken against the sun. Anyway, some general shots around the harbor. At the North Ship sluice one of the […]
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Month: August 2013
Cuxhaven: Karstadt/Hertie Store
Finally, actually 2 times finally, they are tearing down the closed Karstadt/Hertie building in Cuxhaven. 2 times, because I finally found some time to have a closer look at the building pull down. Karstadt opened their store in Cuxhaven on September 28th 1960. At that time, it was a modern concrete building but nowadays this […]
Cuxhaven: Gaff Schooner “Hermine”
From Cuxpedia: The ship, located at Schleusenpriel, was build at the Hamburg shipyard Behrens in 1904. Until 1934 it was operating on the coastal routes in North and Baltic Seas, before it was sold to Sweden. In 1981 the ship was rediscovered in Sweden. At the turn of 1981/1982 the ship sank in the river […]
Another round of Close-Ups using AFS 200-400
Another round of close-ups using the Nikkor AFS 200-400/f4 shows very good results as long as the lens can be hold by hand. Tripod is a bit inflexible and the camera-lens combination quite heavy for longer sessions. So, some positive results but not as many sharp pictures compared to using a tripod.