epenguin said:
And I'll give you some Copenhagen too.
DennisN said:
I'm actually thinking of going back to Copenhagen soon, and bring a bike with me on the train and then bike around in the city to places I haven't been to.
I was in Copenhagen a couple of days ago and had a great photo tour, it was very fun!
I've decided I will soon return to the city since there are many more places there I'd like to visit.
I didn't bring my bike, I used their subway instead. I hadn't been on it before, and it was simply darn excellent (the best I've ever been on)! Quite good prices with their "Citypass", no human drivers, the trains are quite comfortable and they go every five minutes or so. Also, the passengers on the stations are completely closed off from the rails; there are big plastic (?) walls between the platforms and rails, which have small doors which open when the train has arrived and is stationary.
However, I did not go to the Little Mermaid (I had bigger fish to fry
).
Actually the reason was that it was late (almost midnight) and the park pathway to it was darn dark, and I did not feel like going into that dark park with my camera gear.
Here are some photos from my recent tour (including a nice science surprise at the end
):
The very nice 17th-century waterfront
Nyhavn:
Another shot:
And I went back to Nyhavn later when it was dark:
And here's a place I hadn't been to before , the "
Marble Church", a beautiful rococo church:
After that I went to the
Niels Bohr Institute, which has both a historical and scientific significance:
Wikipedia said:
The institute was founded in 1921, as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen, by the Danish theoretical physicist
Niels Bohr, who had been on the staff of the University of Copenhagen since 1914, and who had been lobbying for its creation since his appointment as professor in 1916.
Since this is Physics Forums I suppose most readers in this thread know who this Bohr guy was.
(if not, you can go e.g.
here)
And last, here's the nice science surprise...
After I shot the institute I had dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant right across the street.
When I was done eating I went out again and noticed that it had gotten darker, and that there was some kind of light show being projected onto the Niels Bohr Institute.
Just for fun I shot a video clip of it, and later I read this sign at the institute:
I don't know if the info text is readable on your screens, but the light show installation is called "NBI Colliderscope" and it is directly connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The lights that are projected are reproduced from the latest data from particle collisions.
That's a pretty cool and unusual idea, I think.
Here's the short video clip I shot of the NBI Colliderscope:
I will post some more photos from Copenhagen later in this thread.
(for instance, I did a special shoot at the 17th-century observatory
Rundetaarn at night with stars in the sky in the background, but I have to process/edit it first
)
I wonder how much genetic difference has evolved between the European vs. North American herons?
