Fotoheerdt Excursion November 2025
This trimester’s topic for the fotoheerdt group was “Umdrehen (Turn Around)! – Panorama & Detail”, and the corresponding outing took us, in somewhat measly weather, to Düsseldorf’s ‘Twin Towers’, i.e. Haus Rheinpark, an ensemble of two blocks of apartment buildings established in the late 1920s. Unforeseeable to the architect, the bridge crossing the Rhine as an extension to the street between the two main edifices was not built at road level as originally planned, but elevated by a huge ramp after the war, thus tearing the original ensemble apart. The first task of the afternoon for the group was to photographically reunite the separated siblings.

The second exercise cut short by the incoming rain was to artistically experiment with sub-framing techniques under and around the ramp.

Added are few other images from around the area shot ‘en passant’.

Gear: Leica M11 with Voigtländer VM 15 mm f/4.5 Super Wide Heliar III aspherical, Leica Summarit 35mm 2.4 Asph, Leica Summilux 50mm 1.4 Asph, Leica Elmarit 90mm F/2.8

For the summer excursion of this group and further links see

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