Black and White fairy tale on the beach

Black-and-white photography.

On the beach.

At the northeasternmost tip of Germany. 

But that's not the type of black-and-white story I want to tell today.

Here's a more colourful version of black-and-white photographs taken on the beach...

Like in a fairy tale one morning on the beach

a beautiful young lady in an extraordinary white dress

went riding on her impressive deep black Friesian horse.

Unfortunately no noble prince was far and wide.

But this princess didn't look like she was waiting for a prince,

she was definitely happy all alone with her gorgeous horse

galloping along the sandy beach.

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But one moment later,

the lady and her horse disappeared as fast as they emerged.

The beach was empty again

and only the cries of the black-headed gulls

broke the silence.

Was it real?

Or just a dream?

Bornholm - a pearl in the middle of the Baltic Sea (part 1)

Hammershus - Northern Europe's largest medieval fortification, situated 74 meters above sea level on Hammeren, the northern tip of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

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 Relaxed Danish lifestyle in the small town of Gudhjem at the northern coast of Bornholm.
Gudhjem is a popular venue for tourists who are attracted by its steep, picturesque streets, stunning views and a friendly atmosphere.

 

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Gudhjem panorama from the south

hot-smoked herring in Gudhjem's Røgeri (smoke house)

Coffee house Klint near Gudhjem's harbour

Cliff coast along the coastal footpath from Allinge via Bornholms art museum to Gudhjem.

Me and my sweatheart and my camera in a rocky bay - welcome to the sound of silence.
You just hear the sound of the wind, the waves and the seagulls.

 

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Gudhjem panorama from the northwest

... to be continued soon...

Tree personalities on the island of Vilm

The Baltic Sea island and nature reserve of Vilm lies in the bay south of the much larger island of Rügen, it is one of Germany's most remote and tranquil spots. Covering less than 1 km², Vilm is the remnant of a moraine left as the glaciers retreated about 6000 years ago.

Although it is small, the surprising natural diversity and beauty of the Isle of Vilm has attracted hundreds of landscape painters over the last 2 centuries. Most of it is covered in forest that has been undisturbed for decades, and even centuries, with the result that its oak and beech woods are among the most untouched and impressive in Germany, and the island boasts a rich diversity of birds and small mammals. Part of the island – most of Middle Vilm and all of Little Vilm – is strictly closed to all human presence.

 One of the most spectactular and characteristic oaks in the northern part of Vilm - the "double branch oak".

View on the Middle and the Small Vilm with its beautiful, but inaccessible / "forbidden" beach.
Do you see the undulated sandy structures in the bay?

The "lightning strike beech"...

...still sprouting!

Oak and blooming cherry bush living in harmony near the north-eastern beach.

The elephant.

"Blick zur Insel Vilm", / "View to the island of Vilm", Caspar David Friedrich, 1809.

Lost without trace (?) / missed since 1945.

 View from the island of Vilm to the "white town" of Putbus, Ruegen, especially to the classicist market at the Circus of Putbus on top of the rise and its harbour Lauterbach on the waterfront.

Bäderstilarchitektur - Baltic Sea style architecture

Sellin, a seaside resort on the Isle of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The municipality is known for its famous style of Bäderstil / Baltic Sea style architecture.

Especially the main road Wilhelmstrasse is flanked by perfectly refurbished white timber cottages.

In the same style they built up again the Sellin pier.
The Sellin Pier at the Baltic Sea was re-built in 1998 in the shape of its historical pattern from the beginning of the twentieth century which had been destroyed several times. Now it is more beautifully than ever before.