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City Lights.38

Given how much shorter the days are becoming here in the north now that we’re past the solstice, I figure I’ll have a chance to catch more city-lights photos with the long dark nights that’ll fill the coming six months :-/, so I can spare two in one post. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the apartment I’m now in gives me lovely views at all hours from high above the city – including these shots from mid-August, with a sliver of moon and the earliest glimmers of dawn before sunrise.

Islands.38

Who doesn’t love a lighthouse? As I might have mentioned in earlier posts from that lovely German East-Frisian island of Borkum, we spent our one night there with a view of this “new lighthouse” from the balcony. Quite lovely. Since we passed it much more frequently than the “old lighthouse” (the final image of which wraps up the end of this post, at the bottom), I have more photos of it in all the various light and cloud conditions we observed in our short stay. Since I now officially have a backlog of photos that might well last me into my next break from posting some time in 2024, I figure I’d better start clearing the trips from more than two months ago a bit more rapidly. Hope you enjoy the resultant gallery with every remaining photo from Borkum in which I saw any of the the three different lighthouses to be found there. (If the gallery doesn’t view well on your screen & you’d like to see all the pics, try either the “load full version” or shift to a desktop or laptop.)

From The Air.18

After taking off from Geneva’s airport two weeks ago, we followed the lake shore and then cut northwest and away from the lake, with a lovely view of this dramatic cloud formation for quite some time as the light on the land grew dimmer and dimmer, and the cloud colors more vibrant. Above, that’s the short of Lac Léman to the east of Geneva.
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Mountains.18

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Ah, Royalty.8

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From The Air.17

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Mountains.17

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City Lights.37

Coasting.67

Village Views.57

Urban Canals.147