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The Pont du Gard, the impressive Roman aqueduct in southern France, reflected in the Gardon. Additional digital recordings from 2001 for comparison.

Huge whales, fish or foxes made of plastic waste show the artistic side of growing environmental awareness worldwide, despite many discordant media tones.

North- and South Korea negotiate in the Blue Pavilion of Panmunjeom, a military settlement in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between these countries.

It was not the WM11 that lost, but we as a society failed to support the team appropriately.

Insiders call it the "Magic Mountain", the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Hill in Duisburg's Angerpark, on which the artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth have erected a huge construction reminiscent of a roller coaster and called Tiger and Turtle.

The Camino de Santiago leads to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, where the bones of Saint James, one of the 12 apostles, are kept under the cathedral. If the long hike used to be a journey into the "I", today it is more and more like an ongoing sporting event.

On the Bay of Biscay in the Basque Country there are beautiful beaches but also wild coastal landscapes. On the Barrikaka beach near Barrika, the waves break on the various rock formations and, if the weather is suitable, the roaring spray can be photographically transformed into a fine mist.

The Yères River flows through the town of Criel-sur-Mer directly into the English Channel. The place became known, among other things, for its picturesque beach houses, which make a very nice photo motif.

The Templars protected them for a long time, the pilgrims on the Way of St. James between Leon, Astorga, Bonferrada and finally on their last stage to the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.

The disused coal mine Zeche Zollern in Dortmund is one of the most architecturally remarkable pits in the Ruhr area. The park-like facility with its impressive Art Nouveau buildings still shows today that it was built as a model colliery around 1900 and was intended to show both economic strength and progress.

We visited the facility with our friends from Herne, the photographers Renate and Jürgen Saibic, whom we met many years ago on Easter Island in Chile.