THE LIGHT-PAINTING ADVENTURE ON THE NORTH SEA PART TWO

Last Sunday I reported about the first part of our bike tour through the north of Germany and showed the pictures of the lighthouse monument Obereversand.

Here is the link again, in case you missed this post...

We had left the stations Bremen, Drummer Neufeld and Stade behind us and thus completed the first 200km. The next destination was Büsum. Geane and I had to pedal another 112km to get there. On this stretch, we crossed the Elbe at Glückstadt. We had a stroke of luck there, as a strut on our luggage rack broke just before the ferry. A temporary repair with cable ties allowed us to continue our journey, but I felt more comfortable fixing it 100%. We made a stop at Fahrrad Horn, who replaced the broken part with a self-made one. An expert: thank you!
Now the road was clear and we reached Büsum in the early evening.

The next morning, the weather was pretty bad. Repeated showers and strong winds. We waited in the hotel until it got a little brighter. The next stage was only going to be 40 km long. The tailwind ensured that we covered the first 20 km very quickly. However, things didn't go quite so well for the last 20km of the stage. Rain and strong winds from the front slowed us down. At the finish in St. Peter Ording, the sun greeted us after all.

After dinner, we went to the beach with our camera and tripod. After all, we wanted to create a light painting that evening. To do this, we went to one of the many pile dwellings. The sky was already closing in dramatically again. Nevertheless, I didn't give up hope of a beautiful sunset. The weather changes very quickly here. The following picture and the cover picture were taken very quickly after a short adjustment.

I also captured the next perspective very quickly. Then there were two more perspectives and some ideas. So I grabbed the camera and moved on to the next side.

Very dark clouds were already gathering from there. There wasn't much time left for my ideas. But the sky was so impressive that I couldn't resist. I positioned the camera for the last perspective of the evening. Not only was it raining, but there was also a strong wind with a heavy load of sand. At the last second, I managed to get the camera into my rucksack. I'm happy with the result, even if I wasn't able to realize all my ideas. Maybe we'll come back here again sometime.

As always, I'm showing a picture from the set here. I equipped the camera with a polarizing filter, an ND64 filter and a graduated filter for the rotatrion images. The graduated filter was set to darken the lower half of the image. After the shutter button was pressed, I waited 15 seconds, then covered the lens, rotated the camera 180° around the optical axis, rotated the filter 180° and opened the lens for another 15 seconds.

The next day we went on to Husum and then to the Baltic Sea in Flensburg. From there we took the train home. In total, we covered over 500 km on the tandem. Despite a few showers, it was a very nice trip and we took some unique pictures.

The last two pictures show the northern German cities of Husum and Flensburg. I hope this post has aroused your interest in northern Germany. Next Sunday I will report on another lightpainting.
So stay tuned!