Leafy stairs
2011-05-23
Close call
After days of sunshine, the skies turned ominously dark and the clouds let fall a torrent of rain; it was not, however, the end of the world.
2011-05-22
RAB
I splashed out €1.99 for an HDR app on my phone — it takes two shots with different exposures and merges them. Here you see an example of some light and shade. A good investment?
2011-05-16
Baguette “Avignon”
Mushrooms, ham and melted cheese. Taken in the main street-café area around the market square.
2011-05-10
Lulustein / Lulu's stone
Lulu was the nickname of Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, the son of the French King Napoleon III. When Lulu was 14, his father sent him off to Saarbrücken to fight the Prussians. On the spot of this stone, he fired his first canon shot. The life of Lulu was not particularly fortunate. The French lost to the Prussians and Lulu died at the age of 23 at the hands of Zulus, whilst helping the British in South Africa.
2011-05-09
Metal
The corner of an outdoor ping-pong table, which are relatively popular here in schools and parks.
2011-05-07
Summer in the city
The main square for street cafés in Saarbrücken set up for the Franco-German Perspectives Festival.
2011-05-01
Wintringer Kapelle / Wintringer Chapel
These are the remains of a far larger church built in the 15th century in late Gothic style, which was partially destroyed in the Thirty Years War. It has its own web site (in German).