Monday, March 05, 2007

Bad Karlshafen Blues

The bridge which connects the mid-Germany town of Bad Karlshafen with the rest of the country.

Bad Karlshafen is famous for its natural hot saltwater thermal baths which the council has maximised by building a lovely bath-house with pools of different temperatures and salinities, as well as saunas and a spa which offers massages and treatments.

The bath-house has become the social gathering place for the town!

In German, Bad (pronounced bard) means bath or spa.

6 comments:

  1. Green, blue, beautiful!

    Is that where they had the fish that "ate" you and cured you? The ones you posted about from Oman.

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  2. NZM, by the way, I think it is safe to say, that your suggestion for Bridges as a theme hit home! loll

    I came in today and I was like wooooohhh! Massive bridge attack :)

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  3. Hey what a lovely place, looks amazing.

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  4. Amazing pic. You know this reminds of the lovely landscapes in Asterix and Obelix comics. Very pretty...

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  5. Sha'ira: no, this place doesn't have the fish - I think that they live in hot fresh water springs.

    The salt water (23% salinity) that they pump out of the ground in Bad Karlshafen is a couple of thousand meters below the surface.

    Bridges theme has a long way to go before it beats Places of Worship!

    DReb: It looks pretty, but apart from the baths, there's NOTHING else to do here except long country walks! J's parents live in this town, so we go there quite often.

    DCandy: you're right!!! The colours are just like in the books LOL! I was playing around with a process called HDR - High Dynamic Range. This image is actually a combination of 3 images of the same scene taken at 3 different exposures and combined using special software.

    Website for the HDR software is here.

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  6. lol nzm one never knows, we are only on wednesday and doing pretty well I would say!

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