This Time Of Year

Next week will be the last week of university this semester and I'm busy studying for the exams. That's why I haven't been able to upload any new photographs over the past week or two. Here's one taken yesterday while on a brief break between seminars and lectures - with temperature below zero, Hamburg's Alster lake has frozen and you can walk across. Every once in a while, you may spot a daredevil riding his biking on the ice.

More new photographs coming soon... hopefully. The next semester won't start before the 1st of April, so I should get plenty of camera time.

 

Hamburg, Germany. January 2010.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

- Dom

Chimes Of Freedom

Greetings from cold northern Germany! It's much colder than in London at the moment. The thermometer in my car said it was minus ten degrees centigrade, or "Celsius" as the Germans say, today. Yesterday was my last day at university in 2009. I went there again today though to research a few things at the library.

Hopefully I'll be completing the homepage with Marc soon... after all, it took us long enough to give birth to that baby! 

Here's a long exposure taken earlier today in a nice little town called Bardowick, near Lüneburg, Germany.

Have a splendid weekend, and drive safely!

- Dom

Ballad Of Easy Rider

Ballad Of Easy Rider, one of the great two minute songs by The Byrds.

Picture taken yesterday at "Hamburger Dom", a huge local fair in Hamburg. I don't like being in places like that for too long at a time (too many people around), but despite that and even though it rained it was an interesting opportunity for photos.

I've just finished talking on the phone to my web designer friend. We think we can get this website up and running - FINALLY!!! - tomorrow or on Tuesday. Tuesday, the 8th of December, that is. Not next year!

Furthermore a note to my friends and everyone else who read this blog: If you don't have an account on blogspot or google or something, please create one, it'd be nice to have more followers showing up on my list - this would increase popularity. Go tell your friends too! Thanks so much all of you, and have a great week!

- Dom

Dream Fields

Lüneburg, Germany. November 2009.

You can talk the tongue of angels
You can walk the thin white line
Raid your hearts imaginations
Let your thoughts live and run wild


("Dreamfields", C. & R. MacDonald, Runrig)

Such brilliant lyrics...

The sleep schedule I had before I became a full time student was contrary to the one I've had since university started. It's still hard to adjust to my new one, because I used to stay up late until at least 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning; now my alarm is set for 6 o'clock sharp. Four hours of sleep are four to little though. 

Long story short, I will most likely not have any new long exposures coming up on here, at least not before I'm done with presentations about the palace and settlement of Tell el-Dab'a, the ship burial of Valsgärde, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and the Alexander Mosaic respectively.

Have a nice weekend everyone!


- Dom

Who'll Stop The Rain

Hey there! 

I don't know who or what stops the rain, but just in time for my Berlin trip, the sun came out, and soon after I came back home, the rain came pouring down again on Penny Lane. Okay, enough with the pop culture references.

Here are two more pictures taken in Berlin this past weekend. The light of the setting sun was particularly beautiful...

Last but not least, me and my awesome web designer Marc spent more than an hour talking on the phone yesterday getting all the latest (and hopefully last) corrections to the website done or discussing what needs to be changed. Another challenging task is deciding in what order the pictures are to appear. Finally, the website should be up and running later this week. No kidding.

Have a great week!

- Dom