#21 square lights Glaslicht
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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
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
Morning is breaking
Moonlight was yesterday.
#11 square lights Sonnenlicht oder Alpensonnenaufgangslicht
The Plus: And I couldn’t leave without adding this picture (from a fancy dress party a few years back, in Berlin) where two friends dressed up as the Ampelmännchen. These are the symbols on all pedestrian traffic lights in Germany and are quite politcal: in the West, the red and green men looked differently and it is often joked that the Ampelmännchen was the only thing of culture from the East that was kept at unification. I am linking this, of course, with Debbie’s #Januarylight no. 11:
I’ve since read up on the little men (nothing like a good reason for procrastination on a Saturday morning) and found there is much more to them then I thought. When the East mannikins were starting to replace the West ones after unfication, there were apparently protests (a country where this is a problem is a happy country, albeit with miserable people). On a nicer side, in some towns they change the men at Christmas time to have Santa Clause leading the way across the street. And in Friedberg, where Elvis Presley was stationed when he was in the US army they have three traffic lights with his silhouette.
Moonlight
On the occasion of the first full moon of the the year: Moonlight.
Let’s hope the clouds allow some moon spotting tonight as it will be a partial eclipse and the moon will have a grey veil in front of her face.
#10 square lights Mondlicht, and in this case: Vollmondlicht.
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