Here in Germany, we celebrate Father’s Day each year on Ascension Day. You can read all about it if you follow the links, but I decided not to join a tour with friends, but to do something with my family instead. And of course I took some pictures during the day.
In the morning, one of the first photos I took was one of Mitchie’s tulips, which are now open – even the ones who stand in the shade most of their time:
Mitchie’s tulips, now open
Later, we drove to the nearby airport, which lots of other people also did, especially if you visit the public viewing places:
Frankfurt airport, one of the visitors’ platforms
You can see that some of these “plane spotters” even take ladders – they know the territory, and how to get good closeups of those airplanes.
On the way back to our car, I took a photo of an airplane short before its touchdown, and I included a tree in my photo:
Airplane at Franfurt airport, short before touchdown
What we also saw was a departing Airbus A380 from Emirates, the same one which will take us to Malaysia via Dubai (and back) later this year. Very interesting to see that huge airplane taking off.
I also got some presents for this Father’s Day, and guess what – one of them was a camera. But I guess no one else except maybe the Flintstone family had one of these:
Stone camera, back side
Stone camera, front and top
Very cool and minimalistic; it has just what you need to take a photo, nothing more, nothing less. Explains maybe why the Flintstones were camera collectors instead of photographers, and why we don’t have many pictures of them. And no, this is not for sale.
The blackbirds got their young ones already, and in the morning we saw one of them. But during most of the day, the parents are still feeding their breed – and protecting them. They get really loud if they see a cat, even if she’s still inside. Parental instinct…
Blackbird, complaining
We’re lucky with the weather as you can see – and it’s still 21° Celsius outside while I write this.
My lens for the day was the older Four Thirds Olympus 40-150mm zoom lens which can be adapted to Micro Four Thirds cameras and still provides autofocus, tho it’s not as fast as newer ones.
For the airport I could have brought some wider one – I have enough photos of airplanes, so I wasn’t particularly interested in a long zoom.
And for the stone camera photos I swapped my lens with my Four Thirds 50mm macro lens which lives on Mitchie’s camera most of the time now.
Thanks for reading, and for viewing.