Seagull
June 1993 | ||
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| One of my favourite photos. A seagull floating against the cityscape of San Francisco as seen from the ferry going to Alcatrazz. | ||
View of LA
21 July 2001 | ||
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| Famous sight of the observatory with the skyline of LA rising in the back..... and a thick layer of dark smog..... | ||
Hollywood Hills
21 July 2001 | ||
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| In the middle of LA, just near the Hollywood sign is Griffith Park with its untouched wilderness.... | ||
Asphalt Jungle
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Streets of LA.... | ||
Gordian Knot
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Just a small intersection..... | ||
View the Void
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Downtown LA in the jetstream..... | ||
Famous Buildings of Edinburgh
21 December 2001 | ||
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| Calton Tower, the Balmoral and the Scott Monument.... | ||
City of Sin
8 January 2002 | ||
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| View from the sky over Las Vegas.... Another year at CES.... | ||
Osaka's skyline
22 March 2002 | ||
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| Osaka's cityscape with one of its ferris wheels.... | ||
Seoul at Night
23 March 2002 | ||
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| A view over the city of Seoul at night as seem from Seoul Tower.... | ||
Midnight at Ground Zero
21 April 2002 | ||
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| The light shining is where the workers were continuing to remove rubble all night, 24/7.... The gap is so visible, when you look at earlier photos of the World Trade Center taken from the Empire State Building.... | ||
View from the ESB at Night
21 April 2002 | ||
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| A view from the Empire State Building onto New York City.... | ||
More NYC at night
21 April 2002 | ||
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| The Chrysler Building, the quintessential skyscraper to the left.... | ||
...And LA awakes
12 May 2002 | ||
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| Downtown LA might light up, but it certainly is not getting alive.... | ||
Clear, crisp night sky
12 May 2002 | ||
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| We had to stay still for one second for this self-timed photo.... | ||
Upside down...
12 May 2002 | ||
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| Take the starry sky, turn it upside down and you have the lights of LA.... They built the observatory to view stars, but there are no stars you can see in LA... Too much light pollution... | ||
Pier Number One
26 June 2002 | ||
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| And a view onto San Francisco's skyline.... | ||
The Valley
18 July 2002 | ||
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| The Valley from the sky.... | ||
Dom
24 July 2002 | ||
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| The church hill of my hometown. | ||
Freising
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Part of my home-town from the bird's eye view.... | ||
Moloch
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Grey mass spread over the desert.... | ||
Shake a hand of monopoly houses....
24 July 2002 | ||
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| ...and throw it over a flat basin and you get LA... Notice how just a stone-throw away from the skyscrapers of financial downtown the sprawl starts again... The No-Go areas start here... | ||
Lake de Geneve
29 July 2002 | ||
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| Better look upon the Lake de Geneve and the Jet d'eau.... | ||
Zuerich
3 August 2002 | ||
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| After a hard ascent with the bikes (I am so unfit), the view over Zurich... It was a rainy and grey day, but this shows the surroundings of Zuerich quite well.... | ||
Grossmuenster's twin towers
3 August 2002 | ||
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| Twin towers of Grossmuenster | ||
Zuerich's Cityscape
3 August 2002 | ||
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| With the famous Grossmuenster church.... | ||
East Los Angeles
8 September 2002 | ||
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| As seen from the sky and distorted with perspective to show how geometric each block is.... | ||
Edinburgh....
11 September 2002 | ||
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| ... Arthur's seat is very visible... | ||
Home again.....
17 September 2002 | ||
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| With yet another photo of Los Angeles, spreading over Southern California.... | ||
The Bank of Scotland at Night
19 December 2002 | ||
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| With the castle in the background. After losing my N4500, this had to be done with the Canon S110. Turned out to be quite good actually... | ||
Scott Monument and Balmoral
19 December 2002 | ||
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| The Building on the right is the Balmoral, Scotland's most prestigious hotel... | ||
No trace of what happened 60 years ago....
18 May 2003 | ||
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| I had to leave quite quickly to meet up with Ken and his wife in Kobe. When I was taken the tram back to the station and mounted the Shinkansen, I was amazed at how the people from Hiroshima had built up their city from the ruins. | ||
Kobe in the evening
18 May 2003 | ||
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| I met Ken and his wife and one her friends here in Kobe. I planned to visit the Phoenix Plaza museum about the Kobe earthquake, but it was closed. Nevertheless it amazed me how all of Kobe was rebuilt and no trace was left of the destruction 7 years ago.... | ||
View of Amsterdam
14 September 2003 | ||
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| From the 20th floor of the Hotel Okura... On the left the Rijksmuseum. | ||
Seven Hills
14 January 2004 | ||
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| Seven hills surround Edinburgh... Some of them here in the background.... | ||
After the Sunset
16 January 2004 | ||
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| The Castle and Cityscape of Edinburgh just after sunset.... | ||
London Skyline
26 March 2004 | ||
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| Color of the Clouds... | ||
St.Andrews Scape
15 June 2004 | ||
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| The cathedral towers very visible... | ||
Dani at St.Andrews
15 June 2004 | ||
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| With St.Andrews in the background... | ||
Urban Sprawl
11 July 2004 | ||
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| Looks more like an Anomaly than a city scape.... | ||
Hills of Kyoto vs. Downtown
7 November 2004 | ||
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| What a contrast.... | ||
Colors of New York
31 May 2005 | ||
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More Colors of New York
31 May 2005 | ||
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View over Barcelona
14 February 2006 | ||
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| During my lunchbreak.... | ||
Nafplio
23 June 2006 | ||
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| Getting closer to Athens again, we made a two day stop.... | ||
Good morning Athens
26 June 2006 | ||
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Cityscape of Athens
26 June 2006 | ||
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| And the temple of the Olympic Zeus in the middle... | ||
Akropolis
27 June 2006 | ||
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| ...as seen from Piraeus... | ||
Shinagawa View
25 July 2006 | ||
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Flight into Las Vegas
6 January 2007 | ||
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| Off to CES... | ||
Casinos
6 January 2007 | ||
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| I always like the Skyline of Vegas... | ||
Vegas Backland
7 January 2007 | ||
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| Vast area.... Seen from the New York, New York hotel... | ||
Los Angeles across the bay...
13 January 2007 | ||
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San Francisco Skyline
14 January 2007 | ||
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| Amazing that this photo which was made while driving, turned out so fine... | ||
After dinner
15 January 2007 | ||
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| Holger and myself headed up a hill to take photos of the San Francisco skyline... | ||
Good reason
15 January 2007 | ||
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| After all to bring my tripod... | ||
Twin Peaks
15 January 2007 | ||
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| These hills sum up San Francisco... | ||
Northern San Francisco...
15 January 2007 | ||
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Tokyo Skyline
28 September 2007 | ||
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| With the Roppongi Tower. | ||
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yaelHaifa / Friday, 3rd January 2003 | ||
great pictures. I used them for my presentation on cities and pollution. | ||
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