Picture of the Week 2011
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Week 52: Sunset in the Caribbean sea as seen from CS AIDAaura;
f=200mm (December 18, 2011)
Week 52 "add on 1": Sunset in the Caribbean sea as seen from CS
AIDAaura; f=44mm (December 18, 2011)
Week 52 "add on 2": Just after sunset in the Caribbean sea as seen
from CS AIDAaura; f=18mm (December 18, 2011)
Week 52 "add on 3": Just after sunset in the Caribbean sea as seen
from CS AIDAaura: "Venus ahead"; f=18mm (December 18, 2011)
Week 52 "add on 4": Just after sunset in the Caribbean sea as seen
from CS AIDAaura: "Escort Service" (December 18, 2011)
Week 52 "add on 5": Laser show on pool deck of cruise ship
AIDAaura (December 17, 2011)
Week 51: View from "Empire State Building" to North-North-East,
Manhattan, New York City (October 5, 2011)
camera: Nikon D90; optics: Sigma-zoom (f=10-20mm); f=10mm
Week 51 "add on 1": View from "Empire State Building" to
South-South-West, Manhattan, New York City (October 5, 2011)
Week 51 "add on 2": View from "Empire State Building" to
North-East / East river, Manhattan, New York City (October 5,
2011)
Week 51 "add on 3": "The Peninsula" @ night, Manhattan, New York
City (October 4, 2011)
Week 50: Final phase of "Cloudy Lunar Eclipse", Full moon is
almost 100% back again, f=18mm, Bremen-Überseestadt (December 10,
2011)
Week 50 "add on 1": Final phase of "Cloudy Lunar Eclipse", Full
moon is almost 100% back again, f=200mm, Bremen-Überseestadt
(December 10, 2011)
Week 50 "add on 2": Service station "Hoyer" as seen from an "out
of focus" perspective, Bremen-Überseestadt (December 10, 2011)
Week 49: "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November 29, 2011)
Week 49 "add on 1": "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November
29, 2011)
Week 49 "add on 2": "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November
29, 2011)
Week 49 "add on 3": "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November
29, 2011)
Week 49 "add on 4": "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November
29, 2011)
Week 49 "add on 5": "Non-touristy" impression of Bremen (November
29, 2011)
Week 48: Approaching habour of St. John's with cruise ship
AIDAluna, Newfoundland, Canada (September 13, 2011)
Week 48 "add on 1": Approaching port of St. John's with cruise
ship AIDAluna, Newfoundland, Canada (September 13, 2011)
Week 48 "add on 2": Leaving port of St. John's with cruise ship
AIDAluna, Newfoundland, Canada (September 13, 2011)
Week 48 "add on 3": Leaving port of St. John's with cruise ship
AIDAluna, Newfoundland, Canada (September 13, 2011)
Week 47: "Formation Flying" just before sunset, Bremen-Kohlehafen
(November 19, 2011)
Week 47 "add on 1": "Formation Flying" just before sunset,
Bremen-Kohlehafen (November 19, 2011)
Week 47 "add on 2": "Setting Sun", Bremen-Kohlehafen (November 19,
2011)
Week 47 "add on 3": "Ships", Bremen-Kohlehafen (November 19, 2011)
Week 47 "add on 4": Just after sunset... Bremen-Getreidehafen
(October 16, 2011)
Week 47 "add on 5": Just after sunset @ TSR-Recycling, vessel
"Spar Corvus" (Bergen, IMO 9490791), Bremen-Industriehafen
(October 23, 2011)
Week 46: "Quarters only": View from "Top of the Rock" to "Empire
State Building", Manhattan, New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 1": View from "Top of the Rock" to
North-North-East, Manhattan, New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 2": View from "Top of the Rock" to
North-North-East, Manhattan, New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 3": View from "Top of the Rock" to
South-South-West, Manhattan, New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 4": View from "Top of the Rock" to
South-South-West, Manhattan, New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 5": "Senior Expert Talking" on "Top of the Rock",
New York City (September 19, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 6": Impression from Charleston, South Carolina
(September 23, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 7": Setting Sun as seen from cruise ship AIDAluna
after leaving Charleston, South Carolina (September 23, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 8": Setting Sun as seen from cruise ship AIDAluna
after leaving Charleston, South Carolina (September 23, 2011)
Week 46 "add on 9": Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening
the World)... as seen from cruise ship AIDAluna (October
1, 2011)
Week 45: View from Brooklyn to Midtown Manhattan, New York City
(September 18, 2011)
Week 45 "add on 1": Brooklyn, New York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 45 "add on 2": View from Brooklyn to Midtown Manhattan, New
York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 45 "add on 3": View from Brooklyn to East River, New York
City (September 18, 2011)
Week 44: View from "Brooklyn Bridge" to Downtown Manhattan, New
York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 44 "add on 1": View from "Brooklyn Bridge" to "Manhattan
Bridge" and Midtown Manhattan, New York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 44 "add on 2": View from Brooklyn to "Freedom Tower", New
York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 44 "add on 3": Brooklyn Bridge is very popular, New York City
(September 18, 2011)
Week 43: Construction at "Ground Zero", New York City (September
18, 2011)
Week 43 "add on 1": Construction at "Ground Zero", New York City
(September 18, 2011)
Week 43 "add on 2": Construction at "Ground Zero", "Freedom
Tower", New York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 43 "add on 3": Construction at "Ground Zero", "Freedom
Tower", New York City (September 18, 2011)
Week 42: Approaching New York City by the sea before sunrise
(September 17, 2011); 2000x1300
Week 42 "add on 1": Approaching New York City by the sea
(September 17, 2011); 2000x1300
Week 42 "add on 2": Approaching south Manhattan, New York City by
the sea (September 17, 2011)
Week 42 "add on 3": Financial District, south Manhattan, New York
City (September 17, 2011)
Week 42 "add on 4": Financial District with "Freedom tower", south
Manhattan, New York City (September 17, 2011)
Week 41: "Strange Iceberg", Greenland (September 11, 2011)
Week 41 "add on 1": Another Iceberg with companions, Greenland
(September 11, 2011)
Week 41 "add on 2": The "add on 1" Iceberg from another
perspective (September 11, 2011)
Week 40: Eruption of "Strokkur" Geyser, Iceland (September 8,
2011)
Week 40 "add on 1": Continental split: Europe (left) and North
America (right), Thingvellir National Park, Iceland (September 8,
2011)
Week 40 "add on 2": "Reykjavik", Iceland (September 8, 2011)
Week 39: "Little Orion above Manhattan", New York City, USA,
f=10mm (September 19, 2011); with lines
Week 39 "add on": View from CS AIDAluna, Pier 88, Manhattan, New
York City, USA, f=10mm (September 19, 2011)
Week 38: "Drilling platform", Invergordon, Scotland, UK (September
5, 2011)
Week 38 "add on 1": View to the port of Invergordon with CS "Queen
Elizabeth", Scotland, UK (September 5, 2011)
Week 38 "add on 2": Loch Ness and ruins of Urquhart Castle,
Scotland, UK (September 5, 2011)
Week 37: "Looking for icebergs" from CS AIDAluna close to Prince
Christian Sund, Greenland (September 10, 2011)
Week 37 "add on": "Prince Christian Sund passage" with CS
AIDAluna, Greenland (September 10, 2011)
Week 36: "Another sunset", Bremen-Gröpelingen, Germany (September
2, 2011)
Week 36 "add on": "Another sunset", Bremen-Gröpelingen, Germany
(September 2, 2011)
Week 35: "Little caterpillar", Bremen-Oslebshausen, Germany
(August 21, 2011)
Week 35 "add on": "Little caterpillar", Bremen-Oslebshausen,
Germany (August 21, 2011)
Week 34: "False color coded" sunset, Ilheus, Brazil (February 18,
2011)
Week 34 "add on": "Original color" sunset, Ilheus, Brazil
(February 18, 2011)
Week 33: "Moon and clouds", Bremen-Holzhafen, f=18mm (August 12,
2011)
Week 33 "add on": Restaurant "Feuerwache", Bremen-Holzhafen,
f=18mm (August 12, 2011)
Week 32: "Setting Sun", f=18mm, Bremen-Gröpelingen, Use Akschen
(August 1, 2011)
Week 32 "add on 1": "Setting Sun with sunspots", f=200mm,
Bremen-Gröpelingen, Use Akschen (August 1, 2011)
Week 32 "add on 2": "Setting Sun with sunspots, enlarged",
f=200mm, Bremen-Gröpelingen, Use Akschen (August 1, 2011)
Week 31: "Museu de Arte Contemporânea" (by Ocsar Niemeyer),
Niterói (close to Rio de Janeiro), Brazil (February 1, 2011)
Week 31 "add on": View to "Pão de Açúcar" from "Museu de Arte
Contemporânea", Niterói (close to Rio de Janeiro), Brazil
(February 1, 2011)
Week 30: "Monumento a los caídos en Malvinas", Buenos Aires,
Argentina (February 7, 2011)
Week 30 "add on": The Presidential Palace (la Casa Rosada) at the
end of "Plaza de Mayo", Buenos Aires, Argentina (February 7, 2011)
Week 29: Island of "Iwo Jima" (24° 47' 01" N; 141° 19' 00" E) in
the Western Pacific region as seen from cruise ship Costa Classica
(July 22, 2009)
Week 29 "add on 1": Me respectively a Red Lobster in front of Iwo
Jima (July 22, 2009)
Week 29 "add on 2": "Greatest Total Solar Eclipse of this
Century"; duration: 6min 40s of totality; location: 25° 20’ 06” N;
142° 04’ 14” E (July 22, 2009)
Week 29 "add on 3": Path of Totality of the "Greatest Total Solar
Eclipse of this Century"; duration: 6min 40s of totality (July 22,
2009)
Week 29 "add on 4": Path of Totality (close-up) of the "Greatest
Total Solar Eclipse of this Century"; duration: 6min 40s of
totality (July 22, 2009)
Week 29 "add on 5": A Total Solar Eclipse is always a very
emotional matter (July 22, 2009)
Week 28: "Nice island, nice water, nice ships", Bonaire as seen
from cruise ship AIDAvita (December 20, 2010)
Week 28 "add on": "Blue Planet" (December 20, 2010)
Week 27: "Leaving Buenos Aires" (Argentina) by the sea with cruise
ship AIDAcara (February 8, 2011)
Week 27 "add on": Constellation "Crux" ("Southern Cross") and
"Alpha & Beta Centauri" above cruise ship AIDAcara (February
8, 2011)
Week 26: "Setting Sun", Holzhafen, Bremen (May 25, 2011)
Week 26 "add on 1": "Setting Sun", Europahafen, Bremen (May 25,
2011)
Week 26 "add on 2": "Awaiting Sunset", Europahafen, Bremen (June
26, 2011)
Week 26 "add on 3": "Sunset", Europahafen, Bremen (June 26, 2011)
Week 25: "Sirenas", Punta del Este, Uruguay (February 6, 2011)
Week 25 "add on": "Angler", Punta del Este, Uruguay (February 6,
2011)
Week 24: "Go East" - Biking in the evening hours, Bremen-Blockland
(June 4, 2011)
Week 24 "add on": "Still going East" - Biking in the evening
hours, Bremen-Blockland (June 4, 2011)
Week 23: "Solar energy empowers love and romance",
Bremen-Europahafen (June 3, 2011)
Week 23 "add on": Setting Sun", Bremen-Europahafen (June 3, 2011)
Week 22: "Setting Sun", El Guamache, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
(March 23, 2010)
Week 21: "Moon attached to a crane", Spica and Saturn (top right)
are watching the scene, f=18mm; Bremen-Holzhafen (April 18, 2011)
Week 21 "add on": "Moon attached to a crane", zoom in, f=200mm,
Bremen-Holzhafen (April 18, 2011)
Week 20: Approaching Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by the sea with cruise
ship AIDAcara (February 15, 2011)
Week 19: "Solar Power", Bremen-Blockland (April 19, 2011)
Week 18: "You are not alone" on top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (January 31, 2011)
Week 18 "add on": A view from top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (January 31, 2011)
Week 17: Sunset over Weser river, Bremen-Gröpelingen (April 20,
2011)
Week 16: "Edificio Ciudadela" building at "Plaza Independencia",
Montevideo, Uruguay (Februay 9, 2011)
Week 15: A "dusty" view from "Pão de Açúcar" down to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil (Februay 1, 2011)
Week 14: "Past meets present" - "Perón meets Kirchner", Avenida de
Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Februay 7, 2011)
Week 13: Shortly after sunset on the Yellow Sea close to Qingdao,
China (July 27, 2009)
Week 12: Touch the Universe - Pointing the "green laser sword" to
"Alpha Centauri" from cruise ship AIDAcara (February 17, 2011)
Week 11: Sunrise over the South Atlantic ocean close to Rio de
Janeiro (February 14, 2011); f=200mm
Week 10: Jupiter and Moon above the "Weser" river in Bremen (March
6, 2011); f=18mm
Week 4: "Surprised Cat" - Red Flashed Eyes, Blockland, Bremen
(September 22, 2010)
Week 3: "Paradise Island" and "Hotel Atlantis", Nassau, Bahamas
(October 30, 2009)
Week 2: Gannet in the Caribbean air - The hunter of the flying
fish (December 20, 2010)
Week 1: Flying fish as seen from cruise ship AIDAvita on its way
from Bonaire to Isla Margarita (December 20, 2010)
Last updated: February 8,
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