A night in Chemnitz

A very interesting city in Germany is Chemnitz. Heavily bombed in the second world war, rebuilt by the communists and then a second time after the reunion one can see old, communist and modern architecture next to each other in a very small area.

The monument of Karl Marx, after whom the city was temporarily named, is still a townmark of the city. I'm not sure if he would have agreed to this use of his name and body :-)

My hotel room was nice.... (please notice the small ashtray on on the table, there was a small "no smoking" sign in it. Strange, why don't they simply remove the ashtray???)...

..and I had a great view from above on poor old Karl's head.

The next morning I had breakfast in the 26th floor and watched the sun playing games with the clouds.

Another sunset

Another sunset shot, again slightly enhanced as a HDR image (actually made from three pictures). There are lots of details compared to the original shots which are over exposed from looking right into the sun. Unfortunately it still looks sort of artificial..I need some more practice.

First signs of spring

Happy and thankfully I noticed the first signs of spring today. The trees still don't have any leafs but on the ground there's something happening. Very tiny blossoms start to sprinkle the grass with color. Absolutely beautiful...

This one is called crocus..as far as I know...

And these ones are named Schneeglöckchen in German (at least I think so) which sounds much better than the English name snowdrop.

No sports please

I hadn't known that there are places in Berlin where sport is strictly forbidden until I came across that sign! ;-)

Melancholia

Last year I saw an exhibition about melancholia in art in Berlin. This photo reminds me of it somehow...even though I actually don't want to compare my simple photo with these masterpieces of Duerer or Caspar David Friedrich :-).