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JavaLand Castle

Mystery Castle is part of the theme park Phantasialand. In March, Phantasialand becomes JavaLand [1]. The photo shows the tower of this castle during sunset of December.

I’ll talk about the upcoming Java Shell and show its integration within NetBeans on March, 29th. Visit my talk at high noon in room Quantum 3+4.

[1] javaland.eu

Landing

The following snapshots are part of a series of 10 photos showing a bee (I assume it is one) landing on a bloom.

I added the full series to the extra files of my book “Visitors”.

Visitor II

I assume this had been a bumblebee, too. But it was a really large insect. At least 3 centimeters. Maybe a queen?

Taking a macro photo, you have a restricted depth of sharpness. Beside its proboscis, I got the front legs really sharp. And I discovered hooks I can not see with the naked eye. Looks like a little monster…

Visitor I

If I’m right, this insect is a bumblebee. I took this snapshot in the beginning of autumn.

At this photo, you can observe the bumblebee hunting for nectar with its little proboscis.

Sunset

From the western coast of Ibiza.

Actual I wanted to take a photo from the sunset over the sea. But when I arrived late at that beach, there was that big rock just before the sun.

Luna

The same moon as before, nearly the same time.

Using an exposure of 10 seconds let it shine like a dark sun. And the clouds which had been nearly invisible to the eyes are lightened.

Neither Eclipse…

…nor NetBeans. Just the moon. I took this photo during the one hour I could observe the moon yesterday. A few minutes later, it disappeared behind clouds and I started to check the Java Shell within NetBeans.

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