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#22 square lights Sternenlicht / Flaschenlicht
Tag: #januarylight
Let there be light – click!
Lamps lighting up at the click of a switch. Whether it is in an old mill, a museum, or a modern living room.
#20 square lights Lampenlicht
Light. Lighter.
We’d been hiking for three days between 2000 and 3000 m altitude – which is the only reason I can give for taking not more photos of this amazing sight (I have exactly 4 shots) of microlight paragliders.
Where I live, there are mostly the motorised microlight pilots. The motor announces their approach so I often have time to grab the camera in time.
Higher up and further away, almost mingling with the clouds, still light as a feather.
And sometimes their flight leads them into the light of the setting sun.
#19 square lights Microlight
I’m walking with my lantern …
and my lantern is walking with me.
These were taken on 11 November – the day when in many areas in Germany children are celebrating St Martin with a lantern procession. It’s a predominantly catholic feast and it has been in the news during the past years because in some nursery schools they have started calling it simply “lantern festival” or “festival of lights“.
The title are the words of one of the songs that are sung while walking with the lights.
#18 square lights Laternenlichter / Lichterfest / St Martin’s
Towering lights
Nightlights. on a rather grander scale than the ones I had in my children’s bedrooms. Seen in Newcastle, Weinheim and Frankfurt.
#17 square lights Nachtlichter / Turmlichter
Flying ambulance
Bluelight response in the centre of Munich. We did not go closer as I hate intrusive onlookers when there was an accident. We were well beyond gawking distance and I never saw the injured person (apparently a cyclist had been hit by a car) but the helicopter landing in the middle of the road amongst the houses was remarkable.
#16 square lights Blaulichteinsatz
Traffic at night
More technical lights today: headlights and taillights but not really trafficlights.
Interesting (?) aside: In South Africa we call traffic lights “robots”. Regular confusion arises when driving with a newcomer and someone says: “Watch out for that red robot!” and the non-South African looks up and down the street searching for a red version of R2-D2.
#15 square lights Rücklicht und Scheinwerferlicht
Benchlight
And now for something completely different:
This bench is in Düsseldorf, it lights up at night and changes colour every minute.
#14 square lights Bankilluminationslicht
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