a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)

[Frank Fremerey]

a day in cologne #1

[Thomas Stellwag]

I might write: beautiful sky 

but it is the very rare opportunity to see an Inter City train on duty,  congrats for this shot

[Frank Fremerey]

...a first glimpse, I got distracted (all shots D850 & 1.8/85G, most at f/1.8 and original framing):

#2 St Kunibert, the Jesus Root Window
#3 St Maria Lyskirchen, Altar
#4 private underground parking

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#5 Statuette in front of St Kunibert
#6 Bearded Tourist in the Dom

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#7 a man looking like the chief of Alibaba Jack Ma and his personal security
#8 street under the bridge
#9 light in the dome
#10 a company called "condome"?

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#11 Rhine view with soldier
#12 Female sculpture
#13 red, black, silver

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#14 my interpretation of what I saw is that couples meet on the roof of the museum to have sex
#15 inside the museum surveillance is ubiquitous

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#16 oranje bikes forever one
#17 oranje bikes forever two
#18 red bikes forever
#19 Amsterdam

[Frank Fremerey]

next batch
#20 rather concrete all natural monochrome
#21 Roman Emperors are pictured as gay bodybuilders not because the really looked that way, but because this was the beauty ideal of the time
#22 another rooftop couple. I do not think they really dared to perform, other couples wrote their names onto the roof to say "we did it here"
#23 in one of the churches a man was drawing

[Fons Baerken]

Frank thanks for sharing.

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank thanks for sharing.

Thank you for not ignoring my effort. I like the pictures a lot and there are more to come....

#24 Street scene
#25 Houses in the back of street scene 24

[Frank Fremerey]

In a city full of churches I could not help to visit 5 of them:

Dom
St. Ursula
St. Kunibert
St Maria Lyskirchen
Groß St Martin

AND find organs there. This is the

#26 Kuhn Organ in St Kunibert (handheld panorama with some small faults, 172 Megabyte)
#27 Manual of #26
#28 St. Maria Lyskirchen Organ under the roof
#29 Groß St. Martin, a Choir Organ only but quite a piece

[John Geerts]

I love Cologne, one of my favorite cities. Thanks for your view on the city.

'The Rhineview with soldier', is that Barbarossaplatz?

[Frank Fremerey]

'The Rhineview with soldier', is that Barbarossaplatz?

No, it is a window perspective from the "Museum Ludwig" by the Dom. In the back you can see the Ebertplatz with the AXA Colonia Building

[Frank Fremerey]

One of the great Grand Hotels in the City center is being renovated. It is situated directly at the Dom. Currently it resembles the look of the Colosseum in Rome quite well. Seen from different perspectives in my little series:

#30 partial view of Hotel with Asian tourists posing
#31 full view of Hotel from above
#32 Collosseum look alike contest
#33 star gazing tourists in front of Hotel