John Sandell photography : Image of the Month

Image of the Month | March 2012

The image posted here each month is usually a new addition to the site. Sadly it often doesn't happen on time – or at all – despite my best intentions to do the update in the first few days of each month. But I try! Earlier Images of the Month are shown in the growing IOTM Archive, which is now spread over several pages.

Tram Stop

Tram Stop. Taken from the Hausmannstürme (watchman's tower) of the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen, the very interesting church with four towers in the huge marketplace in Halle – birthplace of the great composer George Frederic Handel – not far from Leipzig in Germany. Halle had been one of the destinations on my Grand Tour in 2008, and I went back in 2011 for another look. Obviously a strong diagonal composition in the picture, and I like the almost complementary colours of the red tram and the cyan-blue glass shelters, set against a neutral background. I must confess to a fair amount of cleaning up of litter and gum on the cobbles – unusual for Germany – which is time consuming.

Technical: NIKON D300, f=65.0 mm, ISO320, 1/160 sec @ f8.0

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