Fireworks and Exploding Chairs - TPF Germany Meet-Up

[Chris of Arabia]

OK, now I've got the OC to accept that it has more memory to play with, here are a few more in no particular order

51. Wildpark, Lauenbrück

52. Scheeßel Church

53. On a Downward Spiral in Hamburg

54. Waiting for a Train, Hamburg

55. Lüneburg Rathaus

56. Lüneburg Alley

 

[Chiller]

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Wow..this thread is awesome. Keep em coming...

 

[Alex_B]

I will post my last set in a couple of hours

 

[doenoe]

Since i was waiting for the others to post the pics of the mill, i started processing my bug pics. I just posted them and you can find them HERE

 

[LaFoto]

Your last set already, Alex :shock: :cry: Oh nooooooooooooooooo!

And here I am, only arriving at my first Lüneburg pics ... am I not picky enough with my photos???

But ... as Alex has so aptly pointed out ... Lüneburg is mostly red bricks. And when they are not red, then they got painted, but it is bricks and more bricks, many of which have been there for well over 300 or 400 years, so Ebay-products from back then must have been good quality ones!

Little brick wall detail (with some paint and plaster)

Bricks and window (with reflection of brick house)

The "Krone"-brewery pub (or, as it calls itself in new-German "Bier&Event-Haus")

Am Sande in Lüneburg (and the locals neither ran from me nor came towards me)

Industrie- und Handelskammer, Am Sande (which means this is - or once was? - the building of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce)

Sky all puzzled over the riddle of how to drink beer from those upright tables, and Hertz pretending not to be puzzled, but he was, too!!!

Stepped brick gables

Bricks, windows and flowers
(and it reads this has been a bakery since 1493)

 

[LaFoto]

Leaning stepped brick gables

"Gaaah, what if one of those leaning gables falls onto my head!?"

Chimping and letting chimp in the bustling streets of Lüneburg

Cameras and purposeful strides - this can only mean ONE thing: TPF's gone to Lüneburg!

Heike and Katharina

Brick meets plaster

Daan and the bronze model of the Old Town of Lüneburg

Market square and Town Hall (Rathaus) in bronze and modelsize

 

[doenoe]

Cameras and purposeful strides - this can only mean ONE thing: TPF's gone to Lüneburg!

hehehe this could be the cover of "TPF: The Movie"

 

[LaFoto]

One person posing for me, two persons lagging behind in the busy streets of Lüneburg ... and this while everyone was hungry and we were going to get ourselves some lunch! (Only Alex had bought himself some chips before lunch PLUS had lunch, of course. And he wonders where his three additional kilos come from??? :scratch: )

Heike in conversation with Jeff (over the menu? Or over other things? We may never know...)

"Mmmm, I may just have had those chips, but there's so many more yummies in this menu, now what am I going to eat NOW???"

Just looking good

Katharina again - who recommended we go have lunch in this very restaurant. And it was good!
You can tell:

 

[LaFoto]

More bricks, windows, doors, beauties ... in a word: more Lüneburg.

Oh. Oops!

 

[LaFoto]

Even Johann Sebastian Bach's feet may well have stepped on these steps before, since he sang in the choir and learned to play the organ for two years in Michaelis-Church in Lüneburg, to where these steps lead us.

At night, Michaelis-Church sometimes looks like this, but we did not see it, only did I find a poster with this photo and "snatched" it.

The altar

The ceiling (part)

Michaeliskirche from outside

And this picturesque little street was not too far away from Michaeliskirche ... we wondered why there was that red light on on one of the doors :scratch:

We won't mention the ladies and their choice of words as one of them directed herself to Christiane...

 

[JohnMF]

I always love meet-up photos! Great stuff

LaFoto - that's a beautiful place where you live.

I will be in Germany myself this weekend, can't wait.

 

[Alex_B]

I always love meet-up photos! Great stuff

LaFoto - that's a beautiful place where you live.

I will be in Germany myself this weekend, can't wait.

where in Germany will you be?

 

[LaFoto]

One question to all: Christiane just phoned me to say she cannot view my photos in posts 169 and 170 (I think) on Page 4. Do any of you also get the "Photos are currently not available" thingy? I had problems with those photos, but I keep seeing them. So now I wonder - are my Hamburg-from-the-boat photos "unavailable to all of you, too?

 

[doenoe]

yup, i cant see them neither.

 

[Alex_B]

OK, here we go with my last batch of 20 images! This is now from Friday, the final eat-way-too-much day! I did not take many images on Thursday (Canoe trip and mill since I arrived at the mill half-blind!)

114: Let us start with a view from our bathroom window (take non Saturday morning though, but it looked pretty much the same every day)!

115: After a late start, some shooting with G's studio lights and breakfast, we went for an afternoon at an ice cream place, where I actually had two portions (call it wide angle).

116: We hardly had any time to digest though, since almost immediately after the great ice cream feast, we settled in for our farewell dinner.

117: The menu was complicated for most of us, as it was German and Italian only.

118: Florian waiting for his food.

119: ... he was not the only one waiting ... and waiting.

120: But once the drinks arrived, even Daan got happy again.

121: Who said I was the only one in love with my camera?

122: Then the food arrived, and suddenly cameras were forgotten for a while.

123: Yum!

124: Corinna and Sabine.

125: Again ... Sorry Corinna, I always got your daughter in focus!

126: The whole evening Daan had his typical problem .. should he take a photo? or drink? In any case this photo demonstrates why most photographers have two hands, one for the camera, the other one for the beer.

127: Anty, however, was more concentrated on her drinks

128: Not sure if Jeff is trying to remember how many drinks he had ... or just how many times he dropped his lens cap.

129: If humans were made to take pictures, they would not have been given noses.

130: How did I get in there??

131: Colin had one too many, and vomited right into the ashtray. This little bear really grew up on this meet-up!!

132: Jeff thinks this portrait of him is not "downright awful", but more or less "tolerateable".

133: Daan got stuck in some really old movie here... do not remember the title. Casablanca? No, it must have been that other one.

That is it folks! No more from me!