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Dancing Buildings of Düsseldorf
A detail of the “Tanzende Häuser” (dancing buildings) built by the US architect Frank Gehry.
FX, 14mm, f8
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Monochrome Madness 2-20
This time I picked a photo from my archive, taken a few months ago during our photographers roundtable. I was held in our state capitol. I already sent in another photo taken during that trip for mmc. You can have a look here.
14mm (full frame), f8, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/50s and converted to bw by using MacPhun Tonality Pro.
It’s my contribution to Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Challenge.
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Btw. as always: click on the photo to see it in a higher resolution
Monochrome Madness 2-02
Todays photo for Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness is taken from my visit in Dusseldorf, participating in our monthly photographers roundtable.
I really like these unusual buildings, designed by Frank Gehry. You can find other buildings, designed by him, in many other places all over the world.
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dancing houses
Yesterday we have had our monthly photographers roundtable. We met in our state capitol, Düsseldorf and visited the Media Harbour, a former trade and custom harbor. A few years ago, this area was renewed and the premises were then used by media agencies, film companies and advertising agencies. That’s the reason for the name “Media Harbour”. Many new buildings with steel and glass fronts were set up, but some of the old buildings are still in place. You can also find here the Dancing Houses, three buildings made by the famous architect Frank Gehry.
We were gifted by fantastic pre-spring weather. Thus, many people were in the streets enjoying the sun and the warmth.
Street Art in Duesseldorf
Yesterday afternoon I attended a very interesting guided tour on local street art. I got aware of this offer a few days ago and decided to go. The tour was led by an artist with detailed know-how on the certain kinds of art, as well as the artists, people like Pixelpancho, Mayo Brothers, Findag or Harald Naegeli, the sprayer from Zurich.
Street art is much more than simply polluting walls with ugly colors. Indeed, graffiti is a certain part of street art, but there is much more. Some pieces are very big and are to oversee, other small and hidden. Some are made of spray colors, other similar to wallpapers, others of plastic foils and some woolen knitted art. So, interesting.
I attached a (quite big) gallery. Although I reduced the selection, it is still big. My aim was, to show different kinds of art as well as different artists and a few details from the facade paintings.
I knew some of the facade paintings before, and I know, there are some more. It’s kind of hard to find them again, after passing by without taking a photo. So, I took the opportunity to see some more and I wasn’t disappointed. I hope, to find some more on my own soon.
As usual, you can click on the photos to enlarge them and browse through easily.
Japantag 2013
Yesterday, the Japanese Community in Düsseldorf, celebrated the Japantag (Day of Japan). Some more information you can find in my last years post.
This year we had bad luck with the weather conditions. Although the weather was fine, when I arrived, it was quite windy. Later in the afternoon it became cloudy and the first raindrops felt on the people. Thus I decided, not to wait for the fireworks. The weather forecast proposed heavy rain, so I went home early.
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Japan Day 2011
Last Saturday I was in Düsseldorf for visiting Japantag.
That’s the celebration of the friendship of Japan and Germany. It’s celebrated in Düsseldorf, because Düsseldorf is the city with the most people from Japan. This year we celebrated the 150 year anniversarys and it’s the 10th Japantag.
Usually many visitors come in homemade mascarade, acting as an anime, manga or computer game character. I really love the costumes and admire the quality of the costumes. Here we go and enjoy:
I still have some pitures taken during demonstrations of Japanese sports.I’ll publish them soon.
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