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Album photos from Opal
Gravestone's from 1300 century
Hand held shot!
This 8 meter of roof opening illuminating the whole church!
The monastery Ihlow was founded in 1228 by Cistercian monks as "Schola Dei", and existed until 1529, among the 28 other monasteries in East Friesian Country, it was one of the most significant; It played an important role in the Middle Ages in regional Politics, Religion, Culture and Civilization. The monastery near the downtown of "Upstalboom", the meeting place of the free Friesians, formed firm and archive the total Friesian movement of the "Friesian freedom". The Seal of the Monks of Ihlow, was also the
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Hand held shot within an fenced-in area!
Archaeological finds prove that the area of Hambach Castle was used in late Roman times. In late Carolingian Dynasty times and Ottonian dynasty times a Castle of refuge was built there. Portions remain in front of an under ther outer ring wall. The erection of the first Hambach Castle was probaly in ther first half of the 11th century, a new Castle was built inside the former estate.
Handheld shot
This the scond largest existing swallow nest organ in Germany built by Arp Schnitgers at 1691/1692. The organ contains 3110 pipes with 46 registers, and is installed in the St. Ludgeri church at the City of Norden/East Frisian Country.
This is just a very small part of this huge terrain of the museum!
It was bitch dark in this cathedral even with ISO 3200 !
Distance approx. 5 meters! Hand held shot within fenced area!
End of the ninetees, I had a chance to take pictures with this prototype "dream lens" APO Teletessar T* 4/600mm + 1,5x doubler = 5,6/840mm! At the "analogue time", I was shooting with an Fuji Sensia 100 slide film. The results were absolutely incredible!!! Only three prototype lenses of this APO 4/600mm have been build.
There is a soccer team with its nickname "red devils" (1.FCK Kaiserslautern) in Germany, which one of its fan has mounted this devil emblem on his VW Rabbit!
The Apo-Teletessar T* 4/600mm prototype was prepared to be launched with an special Apo1,4 converter = 5,6/840mm. The other Apo-Teletessar T* 8.0/800mm prototype was designed with an Contax RTS mount. Unfortunately, both dream glasses were not prepared for the photo market.
If someone needs real ultra wide angle glasses, if 14mm are not enough! Copied from my PC monitor!
Hand held shot!
In our time of so called modern digital photography with lots of camera program automatics, autofocus, image stabilizer, video etc., I personally still enjoy using a medium camera with roll film. 12 - 16 frames keeping me watching and having more control, and not just shooting. The camera mounted on a tripod, precise manual focusing, using a hand held light meter, and waited for the best light situation, is relaxing for me, and I am looking forward getting the slide film back from the photo lab.
About 5m distance within fenced area!
This large facade portrait decoration is installed on an historical monument protected former Zeiss factory building!
Hand held!
Hambach Castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany, is considered to be the Symbol of the German Democracy movement because of the Hambacher Fest which occured here in 1832.
This a fairly large painting displayed in the church, showing the Abbey at winter time. The Eifel area has very strong winter seasons.
Since the Hambacher Fest, Hambach Castle has benn considered a symbol of German democracy.
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Courtesy by: M. WIESE / H. NASSE.

The image shows an historical TESSAR 3,5/50mm from 1935, and the new WORLD CHAMPION, the Distagon 1,4/55mm as prototype, beating ALL existing standard glasses with f=stop 1,4!! I've seen comparison of existing 1,4 glasses (incl. Zeiss glasses), this new 1,4/55m beats them ALL at 1,4! -Estimated price range 3,500 - 4,000 € with Nikon or Canon mounts, and available in 2013 next summer/autum!
The initial stands for Clemens August von Bayern, Elector and Archbishop of Colologne 1700 - 1761
At on many church buildings at the East-Friesian-Country, the clock towers were built next to the main church building, because the underground was not stable enough to hold the clock tower on top of the main church building. So that is the reason why these clock towers were constructed next to the main church building.
Monument at the former Nazi "Ordensburg" Vogelsang/Eifel, now an large museum and warning monument! Last occupant was the Belgium military!
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Based on its early birth, the R1 is still an very useful cameras with an excellent Zeiss glass!
This sample image was taken at the 2002 Photokina at Cologne, with the 6 MP (!) CONTAX N digitial, the first FX digital DSRL on the market!
This large metal facade decoration is installed on an historial monument procted former Zeiss factory building.
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The whole "Vogelsang" from above!
Distance approx. 5 meters! Hand held shot within fenced area!
HORCH is today AUDI!
This sample images was taken at the 2002 Photokina at Cologne, with the first FX digital DSRL camera, the 6 MP (!) CONTAX N digital! This image is a copy of an original 8x10" print, scanned with an average Canon 8600 F flatbed scanner!