Above the River

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Location: Heidelberg-Schlierbach.

Lush Greens...

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Location: near Pfungstadt.

Apothecary

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Location: Former monestary at Lorsch; a recreation of the pharmaceutical garden of the original monks.

Lots of power

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Location: South of Biblis, power lines leading away from the nuclear plant there.

Industrial

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Location: Rhine river, Worms. Right shore is in Hessen state, left side in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Power Plant

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Location: Hills outside Worms-Leidelsheim.

Backyard

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Location: Worms-Pfeddersheim. Sorta rare in Germany, nowadays.

Modified

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Location: Dossenwald forest near Mannheim-Rheinau

Notes: This forest was planted over 300 years ago on top of a wandering sand dune stemming from the last ice age, to prevent sand storms originating from this dune back then. Sorta awesome, isn't it?

Shadow

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Location: Near the Alteichwald Settlement belonging to Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld.

Monumental

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Location: Dusk over Eschhofen near Limburg in Western Hessen

Rusting

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Location: near Osterburken, in "Badish Siberia" (the eastern-most part of Baden...)

Transported

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Location: Löhnberg, at the Lahn river, in rural Hessen state.

Interrupted

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Location: Frankfurt central railway station at night

Notes: About 1,500 people waiting for trains to resume the next morning after a hurricane prompted any and all operations to cease overnight.

Reclaimed

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Location: Kühkopf Island, a nature protection zone surrounded by the Rhine; formerly an agricultural area.

Fenced In

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Location: The redesigned inner yard of Darmstadt University's Piloty Building

Virtually Untouched

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Location: Near Riedstadt-Crumstadt, in a nature protection zone simply called "Reed".

Layers

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Location: Ladenburg, downtown archaeological dig.

Notes: A series of plates depicting the various layers of ground and the cultural remains as they were found in this place. Gotta love the last one.

Above the village

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Location: In the hills just outside Schriesheim.

Manmade

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Location: east of Weinheim, a porphyry mine slowly, but surely eating away at the Wachenberg mountain.

In the distance...

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Location: From the hill range in Heidelberg, looking towards the Phillipsburg nuclear plant about 20 km southwest.

Emptied

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Location: Mannheim-Käfertal lock on the Neckar side-canal, under repairs and hence without water.

Tucked Away

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Location: Lampertheim industrial zone

Notes: a former storage lake of a local chemical company, now slowly being filled up with earth.

Straightforward

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Location: Bürstadt-Riedrode train station, looking eastwards

Erosion

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Notes: Written in stone?

Graffitti

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Location: Ladenburg train station.

A5 Highway

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Location: Near Pfungstadt exit.

Notes: I like the composition. Forest, the highway stretching through it, heavy traffic on it... and the light hint of a social conflict as they drive by some people slaving away harvesting asparagus.

Awesome Bird

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Location: Heidelberg-Wieblingen, on the old Neckar river, just outside the FFH EU nature protection zone