I came to the habor by exident, which turned out to be a good day. It was Cruise Days, which is that several cruise ship come to Hamburg over some days and that is used to party. A friend and me ended up to be on a bark unreleated to those Cruise Days.

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Hamburg's habour is 819 years old soo. The birthday party was the world`s biggest Port Festival. The party was a super large vanity fair with many different bands, food, roller coaster, fireworks, air shows and water events like the tug boat ballet. Many of the visiting ships were large sail ships and they were open for visitors.

See photos form the departure parade in the gallery.

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Spring in Hamburg means the colors are coming back. Check out and get some impressions of this beautiful city.

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Another marathon with over 23000 more people are famous as they all deserve the respect for participating in the annual Hamburg Marathon. Seeing the marathon life was an amazing experience. The mood in the crowed and the interaction of runners with bystanders made this an enjoyable event.

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Spring in Hamburg means the colors are coming back. Check out and get some impressions.

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A bit late, but still I wanted to give you a little impression of Hamburg during the Christmas time with ist many special markets and decoration.

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See my sisters exhibition of her paintings at the famous restaurant Farinelli da Franco in Hamburg/Germany. Enjoy a bit of art while dining fine italian cousine and a nice glass of wine. Also visit her website for some more Paintings.

Sehen Sie Malereien meiner Schwester in Orginal im Restaurant Farinelli da Franco. Geniessen Sie ein bischen Kunst bei einem feinen italienischen Essen und einem schoenen Glas Wein. Einen Vorgeschmack auf Gitta's Bilder erhalten Sie auf der Webseite www.GKade.com

NOTE: Exhibition closed. A vernissage will be held soon with new and yet unseen paintings.

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Always good to have a camera at hand. Just stumbled upon this dance group Maracatu as I couldn't resist to follow the rhythm of Brazilian music. There was this group dancing dressed in colorful old costumes with such an expression, that I had to take some snaps. See for yourself in the gallery and learn more at their website.

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Some aviation history photos I took at the Hamburg Airport Days. Unfortunately one couldn't get too close or an unobstructed view of this spectacle. Too many fences for the security of course. Exiting still to see the development of this type of technique. From the JU 52 to the Super Constallation and lastly to the Airbus A380. Waiting for my first flight with this giant.

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Alstervergnügen is a big vanity fair which last 3 or 4 days. Live music, fireworks, food and a lot of fun is what you can expect there. There are many fireworks in Hamburg, but this, the first day, was one of a kind. I would say the most exiting I ever saw. Check photos inside the gallery.

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Always good to have a camera at hand. I was invited to brunch and that happened to be right where Hamburg's Harley days took place. All the bikers with not only Harleys gathered for there round tour right in front of us. A kind of vanity fair where right across the road so we went there too. See some of our impressions in the gallery. (more pictures to come)

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This was a bit unorganized. I didn't exactly know the location of the fireworks and so I was a bit far away. I couldn't use a tripod, so it was a bit of a problem to hold still. The fireworks was displayed with some weird breaks and at the end as everyone was away, one could hear some more bangs. I don't know if the fireworks went on after an obvious final. Hope you like the photos anyways so check out the gallery

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Hamburg's habour is 818 years old soo. The birthday party (May 11 to 13, 2007) was the world`s biggest Port Festival. The first rainy day counted already over 250000 visitors. The party was a super large vanity fair with many different bands, food, roller coaster, fireworks, air shows and water events like the tug boat ballet. Many of the visiting ships were large sail ships and they were open for visitors.

See photos form the party, the tug boat ballet, the fireworks and the departure parade in the gallery.

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Dom is a big vanity fair. It takes place four times a year for three weeks. Dom is the german word for cathedral and indeed was the Heiligengeistfeld the location where a cathedral stood. That was long ago thought

As youngsters we where fond of all the roller coasters and later of all the good and special food.

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Over 23000 more people are famous as they all deserve the respect for participating in the annual Hamburg Marathon. Of course the winner has to be mentioned as well as he made the course in 2:07:32 hours. The winner Rop also won the Boston marathon in 2002.

Seeing the marathon life was an amazing experience. The mood in the crowed and the interaction of runners with bystanders made this an enjoyable event.

Personally, I found it interesting to see how different runners run along. Some looked exhausted after a few miles, but most made it anyways independent of that. I saw a few again after they had run 22 miles and it made no difference to me. Unexpected to me was to see a lot of normal looking people among the runners.

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There are many fireworks in Hamburg. This one took place at the Alstervergnügen. At this event three contries compete on three nights and show off their best fireworks.

Well, I was waiting to check out photography of fireworks and finally got a chance. I always want to express my view of photography and so I gave up quickly on the pre-programmed firework settings. I wanted fireworks and no tracers. Some problems emerged as I found my viewport fenced in and also discovered an electrical wire above me. There was no time to change location and so see what came out of this.

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