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1825, 13 N, 100 E.
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The hall effect
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What a difference half a day made
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From about 20 degrees phone rotation
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And about twenty minutes later
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Bridgewater Hall.

A large piece of art in the shape of a pebble outside.

Ishinki Touchstone by Japanese sculpture Kan Yasuda.
 

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And sunrise from the front.
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A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

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(stitched panorama, lens: Canon nFD 50mm f/3.5 Macro)
 
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DennisN said:
A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

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That's a lot of green! Amazing.
 
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Here is one from National Geographic:

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epenguin said:
And I'll give you some Copenhagen too.

DennisN said:
I'm actually thinking of going back to Copenhagen soon, and bring a bike with me on the train and then bike around in the city to places I haven't been to.

I was in Copenhagen a couple of days ago and had a great photo tour, it was very fun!
I've decided I will soon return to the city since there are many more places there I'd like to visit.

I didn't bring my bike, I used their subway instead. I hadn't been on it before, and it was simply darn excellent (the best I've ever been on)! Quite good prices with their "Citypass", no human drivers, the trains are quite comfortable and they go every five minutes or so. Also, the passengers on the stations are completely closed off from the rails; there are big plastic (?) walls between the platforms and rails, which have small doors which open when the train has arrived and is stationary.

However, I did not go to the Little Mermaid (I had bigger fish to fry :smile:).
Actually the reason was that it was late (almost midnight) and the park pathway to it was darn dark, and I did not feel like going into that dark park with my camera gear.

Here are some photos from my recent tour (including a nice science surprise at the end :smile:):

The very nice 17th-century waterfront Nyhavn:

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Another shot:

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And I went back to Nyhavn later when it was dark:

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And here's a place I hadn't been to before , the "Marble Church", a beautiful rococo church:

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After that I went to the Niels Bohr Institute, which has both a historical and scientific significance:

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Wikipedia said:
The institute was founded in 1921, as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen, by the Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, who had been on the staff of the University of Copenhagen since 1914, and who had been lobbying for its creation since his appointment as professor in 1916.

Since this is Physics Forums I suppose most readers in this thread know who this Bohr guy was. :smile:
(if not, you can go e.g. here)

And last, here's the nice science surprise... :smile:

After I shot the institute I had dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant right across the street.
When I was done eating I went out again and noticed that it had gotten darker, and that there was some kind of light show being projected onto the Niels Bohr Institute.

Just for fun I shot a video clip of it, and later I read this sign at the institute:

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I don't know if the info text is readable on your screens, but the light show installation is called "NBI Colliderscope" and it is directly connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The lights that are projected are reproduced from the latest data from particle collisions.
That's a pretty cool and unusual idea, I think. :smile:

Here's the short video clip I shot of the NBI Colliderscope:


I will post some more photos from Copenhagen later in this thread.

(for instance, I did a special shoot at the 17th-century observatory Rundetaarn at night with stars in the sky in the background, but I have to process/edit it first :smile:)
 
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Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn
 
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morrobay said:
Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn
I used a polarizing filter (CPL) in front of the lens which can help bring out details, particularly on scenes like that one. If I didn't use the filter e.g. the sky (and probably the water, I think) would have less detail.

It's also a stitched photo of 15 individual 24 megapixel photos taken at different angles, and in the stitching process it could be rendered into max ca 72 megapixels (10814 x 6731). But I resized it and uploaded it as ca 14 megapixel. Also photos posted on the forum get a bit blurrier (due to forum software resizing perhaps?). Here's a less blurry version on my flickr.
 
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DennisN said:
Also photos posted on the forum get a bit blurrier (due to forum software resizing perhaps?).

Yeah, It's my experience that PF will automatically resize any photo to have a maximum width of 800 pixels, and a maximum height of 620.

For that reason, when I post photos on PF I will typically resample them myself since my software can probably do a better job of resampling than PF's automatic routine. (I can resample first, and then compress to JPEG second. That alone will reduce artifacts.)
 
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Went for a walk with the 55mm MicroNikkor- this lens is magic!

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Andy Resnick said:
Went for a walk with the 55mm MicroNikkor- this lens is magic!
Wonderful photos! All taken handheld, or?
 
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DennisN said:
Wonderful photos! All taken handheld, or?
Thanks!

Yes, all photos are handheld. Shutter speeds varied, but were generally faster than 1/200s (f/5.6 and auto ISO).
 
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Today's visitor-

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800mm f/8, 1/1000s auto ISO. handheld... (!)
 
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Here's the 17th-century observatory Rundetaarn in Copenhagen with stars in the background.

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I knew it would be a challenge to shoot this, but it was even more tricky than I had imagined (I tried different approaches and this is the best photo from the session (it's only a single photo, i.e. no stacking)).

The tower is in the center of Copenhagen with a LOT of varied light pollution at the site, and it is also in a tightly packed neighborhood (so to say) which means there are not that many options of places to shoot from if you want to capture the entire tower. And the further you get from the tower, the more light sources (e.g street lamps) will interfere with the shoot.

But this challenge actually inspired me, so I will most likely return with other lenses and other plans. :smile:
(I used my basic Sony kit lens here; I had only two lenses in my bag, since I wanted to minimize weight).
 
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Somethin' weird, and it don't look good.
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Never mind, the Dark Knight is on the case.
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And we can probably undo the ghost anyway.
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Flux capacitor is charging...
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That 1959 Cadillac is coming for me.
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Phone City
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A couple of wooden ships in Copenhagen.
I really like wooden ships, I think they're cool and beautiful.

Three smaller wooden ships anchored at Ofelia Beach:
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A ship named "Thor Heyerdahl" anchored outside Ameliehaven:
(and the Copenhagen Opera House can also be seen to the left)
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"Thor Heyerdahl" from another angle:
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A beautiful ship named "Lilla Dan" leaving Ofelia Beach:
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DennisN..you said you liked... wooden ships... in Copenhagen...
 

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epenguin said:
DennisN..you said you liked... wooden ships... in Copenhagen...
Very nice! Is that from Denmark?
(I would have guessed Norway myself).

I haven't seen a real Viking ship myself yet. It's about time for me, I think. :)
 
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Wherever from, some Viking ships went far. This is in a museum not actually in Copenhagen but 30 km from centre city ar Roskilde. There, I read, to protect Roskilde from an enemy attack from the sea five ships were sunk in the harbour entrance. I cannot at the moment bring back any memory of going out there, but must have done.
 
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epenguin said:
This is in a museum not actually in Copenhagen but 30 km from centre city ar Roskilde
I've been to Roskilde many times but didn't know there was a ship there. (I've been to quite a few of their big music festivals (Roskilde festival)).
 
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DennisN said:
I've been to Roskilde many times but didn't know there was a ship there. (I've been to quite a few of their big music festivals (Roskilde festival)).
York used to have a Viking festival, really good fun and celebrated the city History. When it went dark, they sent a Viking boat out to the River Ouse and lit it with arrows from the shore.
Pretty spectacular, beautiful.
All the students dressed up and we all had fun too.
Edit. It is still going. https://jorvikvikingfestival.co.uk/
 
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Two autumn shots:

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Macy's Thanksgiving parade along West side of Central Park. Originals from film prints and photed with Xiaomi Redmi 9a
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And automn at latitude N 13
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This is picture that a friend took of half of a stairway somewhere near Portland, Oregon.

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Chainsaw construction.
 
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Nice composition and color but sure shows phone camera limitations on this moonset. Xiaomi Redmi 9A
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