Friday, August 07, 2009

Day Ten - I Am Ten

... or rather 6, I was when I went to the butcher today!

Braunschweig is a town with a pop of nearly 246 000, yet the butcher round the corner is another world.



Pic HDR-ed by Ingo - looks so cool now! Like in the ole days!

Could stand in a tiny village, no?
Very seldom I accompanied Ingo there - with Ingo going in first.

Today I went there alone. And suddenly I felt like a kiddo again. See the doorknob? Or rather door handle! It´s higher than normal or it feels like that due to the steps, and, well, who uses those handles today for a door like that anyway?

When you open, little bells are ringing. And inside it looks like it did 30 (or 60) years ago, too. The staff wore "butcher-uniforms", I got greeted very correctly. I was there just in time!
They close between 1 and 3.

It was like being catapulted some 30 years into the past (eeek! I can say that!!! 30 years ago I was 7!)

Was a weird feeling, really!
Bought some salad (they have this only on Friday and Saturdays, and Saturdays they close at 12):





We ran errands - and forget the new love: Microwave-Popcorn, the salty one.

So we hopped on the bikes and tried once again!
We took the other shop, other route, new pics:

Former train-station, now office-building, HDRed by Ingo:



Not surprisingly there´s the old route nearby:



In HDR - click to enlarge, it´s worth it!



Old bridge:



Leads to nowhere:




Sadly we practised dancing too much and now my ankle hurts badly. Hopefully tomorrow it´s better!

Dinner: Eggs with mushrooms, yum:

2 comments:

Hammy said...

Tell me how you achieve the HDR effect please. So much to explore it seems. Sounds like a great way to spend a holiday.

Iris Flavia said...

Here http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ you find the program (and certainly Wiki is a good source for an overview.

For tone-mapping it´s a good idea to use the fatal filter, apart from that just play around with the options - the program is free, so...