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From the Galleries of Opal Views: 57
Hand held shot within an fenced-in area!
Distance approx. 5 meters! Hand held shot within fenced area!
Distance approx. 5 meters! Hand held shot within fenced area!
About 5m distance within fenced area!
Hand held shot!
Hand held shot!
Monument at the former Nazi "Ordensburg" Vogelsang/Eifel, now an large museum and warning monument! Last occupant was the Belgium military!
This is just a very small part of this huge terrain of the museum!
180mm + Mutar II
Hand held!
The initial stands for Clemens August von Bayern, Elector and Archbishop of Colologne 1700 - 1761
180mm + Mutar II
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!
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.
Gravestone's from 1300 century
This a fairly large painting displayed in the church, showing the Abbey at winter time. The Eifel area has very strong winter seasons.
180mm + Mutar II
It was bitch dark in this cathedral even with ISO 3200 !
Handheld shot
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!
This large facade portrait decoration is installed on an historical monument protected former Zeiss factory building!
HORCH is today AUDI!
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 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!
This large metal facade decoration is installed on an historial monument procted former Zeiss factory building.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Since the Hambacher Fest, Hambach Castle has benn considered a symbol of German democracy.