Three Beautiful Christmas Images from Dierk Haasis

Yesterday Dierk Haasis posted three wonderfully beautiful Christmas images -- generous gifts to us all that make a festive season even more delightfully festive
1) A Tree of Light
2) A Snowy Night-Time City Scene
3) Another City at Night

Favorites of Dierk Haasis

The December 2013 gallery of Dierk Haasis features 31 of his pictures, favorites of his from among the thousands he's made over decades of creating beautiful images.

Click on the link and have a look.  I promise you, you'll be entranced!

They're my favorites, too, especially the scene with the red trawler.  A print of that is framed and hanging on my hall wall, where I enjoy it every day, and many times a day.

Dierk Haasis in November

"Requiesat in pacem ..."  That's the theme of the November gallery from Dierk Haasis.  Beautiful images from Hamburg's historic cemeteries, including close-ups of peaceful grave sites.  Some of the photos are in color and some in black-and-white.  The slide show is very lovely and satisfying to watch, as well as educational. with captions supplying information about many of the views.

Dierk Haasis at Imagekind

Three galleries at Imagekind offer an opportunity to buy prints of Dierk Haasis's beautiful images, in various sizes and formats.  Prices begin as low as $26 for the 7 x 10 inch size.  My favorite size is 11 x 16 inches, at $38 a print.  Framed, it costs $122.  I particularly love the landscape titled "Walk This Way."  It's currently being offered for $30, 35% off the regular price.  The upcoming Christmas season would be a good time to order several of the pictures as gifts and as presents to oneself, I think. Go and have a look!

Beautiful October Gallery from Dierk Haasis

6 days more to enjoy this colorful slide show, which features the images of Dierk Haasis's gallery for October, 2013. Then it will be replaced by a new gallery for November that will perhaps reflect November's gray skies and gloomy weather.

31 Images from Dierk Haasis

Dierk Haasis's slide show for this month is chock full of colorful and interesting images to enjoy viewing and thinking about.  Some, like the brilliant view of a "black" tulip, show recognizable forms; others are almost abstract, like the lovely image of the orange tulip.  And there are many views of sky and water that are pleasingly interspersed with all the warm floral images.  This is a slide show to enjoy watching over and over again with increasing pleasure, all month long.

30 Days Hath September

And this month's gallery from Dierk Haasis has 30 images -- one for each day. They are very compelling, some of them showing the seamier and sadder side of life in Hamburg, but they are well worth viewing and pondering. Mixed in with the darker scenes is much commentary on the brighter and busier side of life in this huge city. Watch for the images of street musicians caught in a lively performance, the malls full of shoppers, the patient dog waiting outside a store, the striking white bird perched on the head of a statue in yet another scene. And don't miss the restful, quiet colors of the stream that appears midway of the slide show.

Light in Dark Places

Two August delights from Dierk Haasis: his August slide show , "Fotos aus dem Dunkeln" (Photos from the Dark) and his SciLogs article discussing George Orwell and Mark Twain.

Doorways

Dierk Haasis's July gallery offers a thoughtful poetic text by way of introduction and almost 80 interesting pictures of doorways and walls of all kinds. Impressive and thought-provoking.

June Images from Dierk Haasis

Many lovely views, with the theme of water running through them, were selected by Dierk Haasis for his June slide showhttp://www.dh2publishing.info/Blogged/2013/06/elementar/ this year. Go and enjoy!

Windmills and Water-Driven Mills in Germany

As shown in 31 images from Dierk Haasis in his gallery for May, http://networkedblogs.com/KNSYW, there are a number of places in Germany where one can see not only mill exteriors but also their interiors at work. In the text accompanying the slide show at his blog site, he also mentions the interesting mill museum at Moisburg.

A glimmer of blue iris

A late April afternoon, and blue iris buds finally, reluctantly, showing their color to the cool breeze.

Dogwood on a Sunlit Afternoon

Japanese Cherry Trees

On Granny White Pike this year, the Kwanzan cherry trees (Prunus 'Kwanzan' ) bloomed very early, in the chilly second week of February. Now in early April, the Yoshino cherry blossoms (Prunus × yedoensis) are out, to the honey bees' delight. I photographed the vase-shaped Kwanzan cherry trees, with their deep pink double blossoms, on Granny White Pike, the afternoon of February 14. The most popular variety of the Yoshino cherry was first developed over 100 years ago, from a hybrid that appears naturally in Japan. It has light pink single flowers, with an occasional white blossom in the mix. Kwanzan cherry blossom February 14, 2013. Yoshino cherry blossoms, April 10, 2013.

Yoshino Cherry (Prunus × yedoensis)

At sunrise, directly across the street from my house:

April in Black and White

From Dierk Haasis -- don't miss this impressive and dramatic collection! Quoting from his text above the April, 2013, slideshow at es bleibt schwierig:"Hinweis für die jüngeren unter uns: Do not adjust your set! Die Bilder der Galerie für April sind tatsächlich ohne Farbe, aber nicht farblos."

March Slide Show from Dierk Haasis

The theme of this collection ofimages from Dierk Haasis is sports, and the subjects treated include humans, humans and machines, and humans with animals. Don't miss the exciting sequence of images in which a mounted rider jumps a steeple-chase-type of fence barrier. It is almost like experiencing video. Some of my old favorites are here, too -- motorcycles and bicycle races. Not to mention soccer participants (football to my European friends).

February Dandelions

In my driveway on the morning of February 19, 2013. Beneath the forsythia hedge on the Lipscomb University campus.

Mid-February in My Back Yard

Nandena berries hanging on.

By the back porch.

And new leaves just trying their wings.

For February, From Dierk Haasis

A collection of images of animals. So beautiful. Quite a few of these I have as prints and enjoy every day on my own walls. I'm looking at the garden snail on the green leaf with so much pleasure, even as I write this. So beautiful, and so unusual. But go here and enjoy all of them, before the month gets away from you!

More from Dierk Haasis

At the SciLogs website: a thoughtful essay on how editorial activity gets between an author and his readers. Contrary to what one might assume, finding the text as the author intended it to be is the exception, not the rule, if it can be located at all. Sometimes the editorial changes are for the purpose of being politically correct, sometimes they are meant to make the text more readable or done in order to appeal to a particular audience for whom the original was not intended. Dierk Haasis provides examples from the works of a range of German, English, and American authors, from Shakespeare to Mark Twain. It's an erudite and compelling piece. If you don't read German, though, you will need the help of a translator. And the software for that requires discriminating use, as even the best of these will completely destroy the writer's style and occasionally also seriously distort his meaning.

Twelfth Night

Great essay by Dierk Haasis, explaining the Christmas puzzle that he created in December, is here You'll need a translator, if you don't read German, however. But it's well worth the trouble.

A Happy 2013 Begins with Dierk Haasis's January Gallery

Go here to enjoy these marvelous images! They'll fill your first morning in January, 2013, with beauty and pleasure.