A couple of weeks ago I read about a new exhibition in the Deichtorhallen – one of Hamburgs many Museums – which sounded very interesting to me. Surprisingly it was also announced to be free of charge as it was an elaborately staged installation.
The British artist Antony Gormley came up with the idea of a platform hanging from the ceiling of the exhibition hall. It was accessable for visitors via steel framework stairs from which people had to Continue reading
Saturday: So I still had that VIP wristband for the festival on and the weather wasn’t worse either – I had to head into the harbour again and take all the travel routes for the festival audience.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one with a camera, these blokes however where collecting material for a report on local telly about the whole event.
One of the locations was a very small stage in a historical depository which is a museum nowadays. The shelvings with the exhibits on the sides where roped off with some red-white plastic band and a couple of chairs where stood in front of the stage. It was a very memorable location and I found the atmosphere there pretty cool.
Outside, I found this odd moveable ticket box, which wasn’t in operation.
I moved on to the next location and on my way to the main stages a the Blohm & Voss Shipyeard, I saw this cute and peaceful still art.
Traffic was quite busy! These ships where carrying the concert audience to the different stages.
Friday: All of a sudden I was a lucky winner of tickets for the Elbjazz music festival.
The weather was awesome and perfect for the event – different locations and Continue reading
This is typical for Hamburg: You can take a ferry that cruises on the river Elbe and catch up with the container ships that carry their goods into the port from all over the world.
You can get so close, you feel like you could almost touch them!
As the weather is currently incredible, I went outside again to shoot more pics.
Some ducks where chilling out in the sunset.
