• Life Advice & Visual Arts Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    🌌 Share Your Dreams! 🌌
    📸 15 Years of Photo Contests 📸
  • LAVA Moderator: Shinji Ikari

(Photography) Why you love the place you live

Germany - Ruhr

One wouldn't call it actually beautiful around here, but the Ruhr area has its own charm. Traditionally it was a industrial center - one of the biggest steel and coal providers in the world - until the coal deposits ran short in the 70s. Now you can observe the strange image of gigantic industrial sites slowly reconquered by nature or transformed into space for art and culture. The people around here are considered a bit gruff and forthright, but hearty and down-to-earth. It is also one of the most multicultural spots of Europe, since people from many other countries - Poland, Turkey Italy, Spain, the Balkans among many others - came here to work. Football (Soccer, for those from the US) is kind of a religion here - every bigger city has a professional team and lots of frenetic supporters.
I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else.

U2.jpg


GelbeWand.jpg


Unna.jpg


Ruhrtal.jpg


Lichtkunst.jpg


PhoenixII.jpg


Nordstadt.jpg


RuhrtalII-1.jpg


IMG_0055.jpg


18686099.jpg
 
Last edited:
^ Those are awesome! Did you take them??? Germany is and England are tied for the places I want to visit THE MOST!

addictivepersona said:
You posted it in one of the photography contests. :)

Excellent photographs, man. I wish I had half your talent/skill with a camera. Refresh my memory: What type of camera do you use again? I have a digital and a 35mm SLR, both of which I want to start using more, esp. the 35mm. Half the joy is developing your own negatives, but unfortunately I can't do that anymore. :-/
Click to expand...

Couldn't have posted it in a contest, I just took it this week. :D

Definitely appreciate the praise, though! I was starting to get balls deep into photography before I even got my camera so I was able to learn quickly with it. Since I'm extremely particular and I've got a good handle on my camera, nowadays, I've progressed a ton from my beginnings. I figure every single time I go out and shoot, I'm picking something new up. Whether it's something to do with the settings or something to do with the subjects... I always pick something new up. I don't do anything special per se, I've just managed to trust myself. :)

Also, thanks Miss_vanilla, too! I really appreciate the compliment! I'm glad I can be a good representative for Ohio! :D It ain't so bad here!
 
^^ You're always welcome to visit!

No, unfortunately I didn't take them. I'm not very skilled when it comes to photography. Though I really dig good photography and like(d) all the shown places a lot.

I'm always so unbelievably jealous of the heaps of untouched nature and vastness you have in Canada/USA. In Germany you seldomly have to drive longer than 15-20 minutes to the next town/village. Everything is so close that it is near to impossible to leave civilisation behind for some time.
 
I'll be there some day! I'd love to live there one day, but I'll have to settle for a visit. As a life long soccer player and someone who's REALLY big into sports... I'd love to live in a culture where soccer's more prevalent. :) Kinda a dorky way to choose where I want to live, but that's definitely not the ONLY reason I wanna live in Germany. I'm a Werder fan, so it'd be nice to hit up a game while there!

And I wouldn't be jealous if I were you. Canada and the US have these awesome VAST open places and serene looking nature landscapes, but I promise you, Germany's got plenty of things that we don't have here! I love the aesthetic of most of the European countries.

Also, if you know what you like in photography... I don't see why you wouldn't be able to pick it up and learn it. You gotta start somewhere!
 
undead said:
I'll be there some day! I'd love to live there one day, but I'll have to settle for a visit. As a life long soccer player and someone who's REALLY big into sports... I'd love to live in a culture where soccer's more prevalent. :)
Click to expand...

I visited Germany for over a week while they were hosting the World Cup. It was pretty amazing... like the NFL Playoffs x 10.
 
For ektamine, gone from this earth for one year and three days. All you have to do is see that the line between sea and sky disappears to know where you are. You are still loved, still felt and forever celebrated by many hearts.

 
And a couple of images not from my hard drive:

13-8-2009-15-44-rug.jpg

The main building of my university

cafees-en-restaurants-aan-de-grote-markt.jpg

A bar on the main square (yes, a bar - those are all interconnected and form one bar)
 
^ What a great place. Let's see, largest flower market, rolling a joint in a bar, a canal that circles the city......I'm buying my ticket!:) That looks like a very chill town. Did you grow up there? No wonder the dogs look so happy.

Here are two from yesterday for my boy:

The way there:



And there....




<3<3<3<3<3
 
Last edited:
Stunning photos psychonauticunt The flowers, THE FLOWERS. Wild daffodils *swoon*

Herby - your photos are amazing. I especially love the second one *hug* <3
 
I haven't got my own pictures available right now but here is a little taster of what to expect .
bath1.jpg


I shall update when i can as i live in a really photogenic City.
Bath U.K
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top