the baltic sea & kiel.

so finally i'm posting my vacation pictures from july. it is september now and the weather is already autumnal. when i look outside i can't really understand why the time ran so fast since my vacations. in late september i will return to my most beloved sea for one week, i am really full of anticipation. i can't describe what i love about the sea. but let's begin with the word infinity. looking out at the sea is so soothing to me and walking on the beach, collecting stones and shells, feeling the soft sand under your feet - it is what brings peace to my pessimistic mind. it's as if there could be hope for me again. i hope that in the future i will find some way to move there - it is one of my biggest dreams.

these pictures are also the final product of my beloved camera, after the vacation was over, my camera died a quiet death.

a random door in wiesbaden.

a catalpa tree in our front yard. the blossoms are most beautiful.

dad taking his first dip in the baltic sea. the weather was mostly sunny in those 10 days we were staying, there were only 2 days of rain. but the wind was really strong, wether it was sunny or cloudy. There even was one day were you couldn't sit at the beach because the sand grains were flying around so violently that it hurt. that was the only time were i got really whiny and wanted to do something different, it wasn't fun at all.

there's something about sea gulls that is kind of elegant, even though they are the most rascally birds ever. look at my dad's marble head peeking out of the water ;)

gulls just are perfect beach subjects to photograph.

perfect hackly sky.

the other day we made our way to kiel - the capital of schleswig-holstein. we didn't see a lot of the city - the harbour area is so big that we were content to take a stroll all along it, watching huge passenger liners leaving their landings and going out to the sea, visiting a tiny sea aquarium and eating icecream at some wonderful lady's ice cream van ( i swear, that woman was so open-minded and incredibly joyous - it was contagious and inspiring ).

tiny mother next to a stena line ship.

that was all we got to see of the inner city - maybe next time we'll be able to have a closer look.

a tiny area of the huge harbour.

i love these lighthouse inspired lamps.

there's something dramatic about cranes and clouds, isn't there?

we visited a teeny tiny sea aquarium - apparently part of the GEOMAR - helmholtz centre for ocean research. there were seals greeting you outside of the museum, i could watch them forever just laying around in the sun or playing and cuddling with each other. i haven't made any decent pictures of them, but inside the aquarium i managed to shoot other critters like this shrimp. isn't it beautifully yellow?

these little monsters are deep sea fish! like, they survive in rigid cold ocean depths, were the water pressure is so incredibly high that human beings would be literally crushed to death. fascinating things they are. i think these were pelican eels.

this thornback ray was best friends with a catshark! notice the plaices in the back camouflaging themselves as sand :)

you cannot hide from my lense! i love how their eyes are so disarranged - did you know that baby plaices have a symmetric body like most fish - and then, as they grow older and conform to the ground life, develop to asymmetric fish? the left eye is then wandering to the right body part which is why they look like so flattened.

suspicious catshark! i loved his skeptical face, haha.

here they are - best friends forever.

poisonous red lionfish. i don't ever want to be stung by this fish!

beetle street art!

slowly there was something brewing up in the sky, but as it turned out it was just a few tiny rain drops. but the sky was really fantastic!

i live for such dramatic skies!

a passenger ship leaving the harbour.

i have never seen such a big ship - so this was really mesmerizing to me and brought up thoughts of how people must've thought about these back in the days when titanic and lusitana were built and launched into the oceans.

there was a bed full of glass pieces next to a hotel. it looked really interesting.

may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

the america chronicles '22: austin I - city of the violet crown.

sighted on the way to austin: the texas colorado river . but beware, this is not the iconic colorado river ( 2.334 km long ) that has its source in the rocky mountains and confluences in the gulf of california, flowing through the grand canyon and other magnificent landscapes along the way, but this is texas' very own colorado river with a length of 1.387 km starting in the llano estacado plains in northwestern texas, and eventually ending up in the gulf of mexico at matagorda bay . why there are two colorado rivers in the US, i really don't know 😅 my guess is, that they were named by two people in different times, not knowing of the other's colorado river discovery. we'll meet the texas colorado river again in austin, so i will probably bestow more information on you eventually ;D a random road squirrel, also found on the way to austin. austin is about 187 miles ( 300 km ) away from baytown and is situated west from there in central texas. it sits at the foot of th...

ghost of nature.

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