LAKE CONSTANCE IMPRESSIONS

My favorite lights (after the Northern Lights, of course). And who doesn't know it, the infamous Milky Way in the night sky. Finally a crystal clear night ...
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My favorite lights (after the Northern Lights, of course). And who doesn't know it, the infamous Milky Way in the night sky. Finally a crystal clear night with thousands of stars and a very bright venus on the firmament. The ancient Greeks thought that the gods had spilled milk here and called it "galaxy" - after the Greek word for milk. Today we know that the Milky Way is a disk-shaped spiral galaxy that is around 100,000 light years old and contains 100 to 300 billion stars.
And in front of this gigantic nocturnal star scene, this once beautiful tree on the banks of a river, which flows into Lake Constance at this point. After the many and violent winter storms, he did not manage to stay firmly in the ground. So it now forms a large, spectacular wooden gate on mirror-smooth water. In the background the Austrian lakeshore with its city lights.
Photographed in late April 2020
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