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Title: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 16:13:02
a day in cologne #1
Title: Re: a day in cologne
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on January 02, 2019, 18:09:51
I might write: beautiful sky  :)

but it is the very rare opportunity to see an Inter City train on duty,  congrats for this shot
Title: Re: a day in cologne
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 20:39:05
...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

Title: Re: a day in cologne
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 20:49:11
#5 Statuette in front of St Kunibert
#6 Bearded Tourist in the Dom
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 22:47:52
#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"?
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 22:51:46
#11 Rhine view with soldier
#12 Female sculpture
#13 red, black, silver
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 23:40:21
#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
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 23:59:14
#16 oranje bikes forever one
#17 oranje bikes forever two
#18 red bikes forever
#19 Amsterdam
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 10:01:07
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
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 03, 2019, 11:41:59
Frank thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 11:43:30
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
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 12:30:21
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

Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: John Geerts on January 03, 2019, 20:54:04
I love Cologne, one of my favorite cities. Thanks for your view on the city.

'The Rhineview with soldier', is that Barbarossaplatz?

Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 21:56:48
'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
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 21:59:00
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
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: John Geerts on January 04, 2019, 09:46:35
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
ah, thanks Frank.  Didn't realize it was a window perspective, makes sense now. ;)
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 04, 2019, 11:35:07
ah, thanks Frank.  Didn't realize it was a window perspective, makes sense now. ;)

From the museum I look North, down on the equistarian statue behind the Hohenzollernbrücke, in the back the Zoobrücke can be seen, in the middle the Rhine with the western banks to the left, East to the right
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:06:17
#34 golden Reliques in a church Reliquar
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:07:22
#35 possibly sex on the roof, part three
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:08:32
#36 flashback into the 1980ies adverts
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:09:57
#37 A hand rail in St Maria Lyskirchen
#38 statuettes in St Maria Lyskirchen
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:11:12
#39 one cross each (this one protects air conditioning from insensitive lory drivers)
Title: Re: a day in cologne (picture heavy, updated frequently)
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 18:15:07
Cologne deep underground is like a swiss cheese full of holes:

#40 pots found in the Roman Governor's Palace
#41 parts of the Roman sewer sytem are walkable. They are warm and wet but do not stink anymore