evening light

[christiand]

G'day,

I've taken some shots late in the day going towards sunset.

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=183

Nothing special but I find there are quite some different and nice results.

Comments are very welcome, I'd like to improve my skills.


Cheers
CD

[genji]

the image looks good as it is, although i keep wanting to see more, ie as a pano.

[christiand]

Thanks genji.

Panning is something I also want to get into at some stage.

Cheers

[birddog114]

Thanks genji.

Panning is something I also want to get into at some stage.

Cheers

Christiand,
Come to Sydney and join the gangs in the Shortland Wetlands workshop,
thereare many opportunitites to learn how to panning. BTW, off topic! can I ask you a question?

I have the numbers of German beer mugs (porcelain) and each of them have a metal lid attached to the mug's handle. Can you tell me why do they need the lid or what the lids use for?

[phillipb]

Maybe to stop drink spiking

[Oneputt]

Birdog so that when you are rolling around you don't spill your beer

[sirhc55]

To stop your Brahms and Lizst neighbour from ashing his cigarette in your beer

[christiand]

honestly I don't know.

I think it could be for the following reasons:

closing the lid stops things (insects) from falling in,
imagine you are sitting in a beer garden (in Europe that is) in summer and the wasps and hornets are out and about.
Awful kids we were, we would wait until a wasp or hornet would fly into a glass, then turn the glass over to trap the insect and leave it to the waitress to deal with the angry insect. (I know thats bad ...)

closing the lid may reduce loss of CO2 (goes flat slower),

I'm really guesing here.

Cheers
CD

[birddog114]

Thanks all, I have to visit German and find out by myself. I collect them and have about 50 from German, Holland, Belgium, but mostly the mugs which I have with the lid are German mugs.

[christiand]

perhaps I should come for a mini mug meet ...

[birddog114]

perhaps I should come for a mini mug meet ...

Why not and welcome

[leek]

Can you tell me why do they need the lid or what the lids use for?

Being a lover of anything to do with beer/brewing I just had to research the answer to this question... According to beerstein.net the answer may be:

Earliest Steins: 1525 – 1700
From about 1340 until 1380, a bubonic plague, or Black Death, killed more than 25 million Europeans! As horrible as this historic event was, it prompted tremendous progress for civilization. And, of interest here, it is also responsible for the origin of the beer stein.

The stein lid was originally conceived entirely as a sanitary measure. During the summers of the late 1400s, hoards of little flies frequently invaded Central Europe. By the early 1500s, several principalities in what is now Germany had passed laws requiring that all food and beverage containers be covered to protect consumers against these dirty insects. The common mug also had to be covered, and this was accomplished by adding a hinged lid with a thumblift. This ingenious invention was soon used to cover all German beverage containers while still allowing them to be used with one hand.

I'm sure that there are other explanations, but that sounds plausible...

[stubbsy]

Thanks briddog for asking & John for answering. More interesting to trivia to file away. And I thought this was just a photography forum...

[christiand]

Just some more trivia:

There is a thing in Germany called Bierdeckel.
Now Bierdeckel means beerlid.
So far so good.
Guess what, the beerlid is actually not a beerlid anymore,
it has turned into a coaster.

CD

[birddog114]

Thanks All,
The reply from Leek is perhaps right answer, I did some research too and wondered if my thoughts on these are right. Have to ask BTW>