In Aarau, close to the main station, you will find this impressing ship sized building. Almost as if – when you arrive at the station – there is a ship waiting for you to continue your journey. This building is actually the Building “Behmen II Süd”. It is a residential and office building, directly above …
Night Overview from a vantage point close to Auenstein, Switzerland. Long time exposure. Auenstein is a community in the Swiss canton Aargau, located around 3 km away from Lenzburg. From the vantage point the photograph was taken from, you have a nice view over Auenstein and other communities in this area. You can also see …
Long time exposure taken at daylight engaging a ND filter, after days of rainfall, with floodwater happening in many places of Switzerland, featuring the Aare in Switzerland, Aargau. The summer 2021 has been quite wet (actually, wet and way too cold, you couldn’t really speak of a summer). The photograph has been taken end of …
Night shot along the street (“Vordere Vorstadt”) in Aarau downtown in the direction of the tower “Obertorturm”. Long time exposure. This photograph is also part of a series of pictures shot during this event. Some facts about the “Obertorturm”: The Obertorturm was originally built in the 13. century. It once contained a prison (no, there …
Night impression of one of Switzerland’s most important water castles. I like to go there, not only to take photographs, but also just to enjoy the atmosphere and the nature close to this place. When taking photographs, the atmosphere can vary a lot, depending on the time of the year, the weather conditions (and, of …
Picture featuring a night impression of Aarau (Switzerland) on a autumn evening in 2021. Other pictures from this day can be found also here. Aarau is the capital (Hauptort) of the canton Aargau. It is approximately 40 km away from Zurich, and also around 40 km away from Basel. It has more than 20.000 inhabitants. …
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Technical steel tower close to a railway line with the moon shining through part of the grating of the tower.
Impression of the Vierwaldstättersee (Switzerland) in black and white. The picture is featuring a jetty, and the alps in the background. The Vierwaldstättersee is a lake in Switzerland. It belongs to the cantons Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden und Luzern (so it is actually quite big). It is surrounded by mountains and foothills of the alps.
Night shot of a government building in Aarau downtown, taken around the 1st of August, the Swiss National Holiday.
Andromeda (or M31 in the Messier catalogue), is our neighbor galaxy. The galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light years away from us and therefore the closest galaxy to our home galaxy, the milky way. Andromeda is bigger than our own galaxy (150.000 – 200.000 light years in diameter, the milky way is approximately 100.000 – …
