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Dienstag, 19. August 2014

Summer beach art


...just two weeks ago on Germany's most beautiful sand heap.






 This and much more is the result of the summer activities of an older couple that spends several weeks on their favorite beach section on their beloved vacation island on the North Frisian North Sea coast.












Sonntag, 25. August 2013

The world's most beautiful sand heap!


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 All photographs taken on the island of Sylt, July/August 2013.


 At the most northern tip of Germany, at the peninsula Ellenbogen / elbow of Sylt.
 In the background lighthouse List East, one out of five lighthouses on the island.



Sylt Beach Art.

All made from findings at the beach.



Kampen Cliff.
 View along the beach to the north.


Ancient lighthouse "Quermarkenfeuer Kampen". 
The landmark in the dunes west of the village of Kampen.


Hühnergötter / witch stones in a beach chair.


 Wellhornschnecken / waved whelks on a stick.


Typically German "beach furniture": the beach chair / der Strandkorb. 
Protection against sun, wind and sand. 
 My beach chair is my castle.



Kampen Cliff taken from the north.


Where is your favourite sand heap???


Montag, 13. August 2012

The perfect wave!?



Hoernum Odde - the southern tip of the island of Sylt, where the open sea meets the Wadden Sea. 
Twice a day you have high and low tide - business as usual.

  But when the water from the Wadden Sea runs out into open sea direction and meets the open sea waves in combination with strong westerly winds coming from the reverse direction, you'll see this special scenario.
It's like the North Sea is on the boil...



...and sometimes miraculous waves emerge and forge sweeping shapes for the split of a second.


Top and bottom: Two photographs of the same wave, just a blink of the eye between both pictures.


And these are my favourites of the photo shooting...


[ exposure time 1/8000 sec., aperture 6.3, ISO 800 ] 
to flash-freeze the scene.


At the same time, just in the rear of the wave spectacle:
peace and silence at the Wadden Sea at the harbour of Hoernum shielded by the dunes!



Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012

Sea of Purple


Island of Bornholm, Denmark,
end of May / beginning of June 2012.



Have you ever seen such a "Sea of Purple",
such a huge field of flowering chives??? 


That's a true eyecatcher, isn't it?


The photos I took are from two different chive fields at two different areas on the Danish island Bornholm, in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Obviously the farmers cultivate the millions of  chive plants to reap their seeds - to sell them on to nurseries / market gardens all over the world.


So whenever you spice up your salat or dish with chopped chives, you have a good chance that the seeds of your Allium schoenoprasum plant are from one of these fields... ;-)


Typical pale purple colour of  the star-shaped flower with six petals of a chive plant, producing a dense inflorescence of 10 - 30 flowers together. Before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract.


Sea of Purple in the front with Baltic Sea in the background.

Sonntag, 29. Januar 2012

Sun & rain interplay


Although the first month of year 2012 is already up, I'm still very often with my thoughts at the German North Sea coast where I spent some leisure time between Christmas and New Year.


The sun was shining much more often at the end of the year 2011 than we expected. But of course one or two rain showers appeared at the horizon occasionally and crossed the sky rapidly.

At the present moment the we had blue sky and some harmless clouds...


 ...a moment later...



...the wind freshend dramatically...


and we get "a little" wet! ;-)



Dienstag, 28. April 2009

A love story from Cr0atia

Im Sommer des Jahres 1936 verweilte König Edward in seinem Sommerurlaub zusammen mit Wallis Warfield an der kroatischen Adriaküste. Warfield, besser bekannt unter dem Namen Wallis Simpson, eine zweimal geschiedene bürgerliche US-Amerikanerin, hatte er durch seine ehemalige Geliebte Thelma Furness kennengelernt. König Edward erhielt angeblich damals von den lokalen jugoslawischen Behörden sogar die offizielle Genehmigung, nackt in der Bucht Kandarala auf der Insel Rab zu baden. Dieser Teil der Raber Halbinsel ist heute als die "Liebesinsel" bekannt und in der Sommerzeit ein offizieller FKK-Strand.

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It was the summer of 1936 when Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (later: The Duke of Windsor) spend his holiday with Wallis Warfield, better known as Wallis Simpson, at the Adriatic coast. King Edward allegedly got the official permission of the former Yugoslavian monarchy to bath nudely in the bay of Kandarola on the island of Rab. This part of the Rab peninsula is nowadays known as the "island of love" and is an official nudist beach in the summertime.

Kandarola-Bucht / Bay of Kandarola
April 2009




Das Verhältnis Edwards VIII zu Wallis Simpson war der Presse bekannt, jedoch schwiegen die britischen Zeitungen fast allesamt über diese Romanze. Die internationale Presse berichtete hingegen offen darüber, vor allem die US-amerikanischen Magazine des Pressemagnaten William Randolph Hearst, die sich Edwards Person als Staatsoberhaupt nicht verbunden sahen und zum Teil anti-monarchistisch eingestellt waren. Gestärkt wurde ihre Neugier durch die Tatsache, dass seine Geliebte eine US-amerikanische Staatsbürgerin war.
Edward dankte schließlich auf Druck der konservativen Regierung von Premierminister Stanley Baldwin, der Dominions und der anglikanischen Kirche durch Erzbischof Cosmo Gordon Lang am 11. Dezember 1936 ab, um Wallis Warfield am 3. Juni 1937 heiraten zu können. Es war offiziell nicht möglich, dass der britische Souverän als Oberhaupt der anglikanischen Kirche eine geschiedene Frau heiraten konnte. Versuche Edwards, eine morganatische Ehe einzuleiten und den Thron zu behalten, wurden abgelehnt.
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On 16 November 1936, Edward invited Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to Buckingham Palace and expressed his desire to marry Wallis Simpson when she became free to re-marry. Baldwin informed the King that his subjects would deem the marriage morally unacceptable, largely because remarriage after divorce was opposed by the Church of England, and the people would not tolerate Wallis as Queen.
As King, Edward held the role of Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and the clergy expected him to support the Church's teachings.
Edward proposed an alternative solution of a morganatic marriage, in which Edward would remain King but Wallis would not become Queen. She would enjoy some lesser title instead, and any children they might have would not inherit the throne. This too was rejected by the British Cabinet as well as other Dominion governments, whose views were sought pursuant to the Statute of Westminster 1931, which provided in part that "any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom." The Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and South Africa made clear their opposition to the King marrying a divorcée; the Irish premier expressed indifference and detachment, while the Prime Minister of New Zealand, having never even heard of Mrs. Simpson before, vacillated in disbelief. Faced with this opposition, Edward at first responded that there were "not many people in Australia" and their opinion didn't matter.
The King informed Baldwin that he would abdicate if he could not marry Mrs. Simpson. Baldwin then presented Edward with three choices: give up the idea of marriage; marry against his ministers' wishes; or abdicate. It was clear that Edward was not prepared to give up Mrs. Simpson, and he knew that if he married against the advice of his ministers, he would cause the government to resign, prompting a constitutional crisis. He chose to abdicate.