A hiking at night to a pub at the top of the moutain behind our house gave the chance to make some photo shots with my Pentax K-5.
From the mountain we hat a great view about Ilmenau:


The wood is dark and snowy…

The giant storm Kyrill in 2005 has felled all trees at the city side of the mountain (at all north sides of the mountains in Thuringia). The remaining tree stumps before the blue shining background (a light from a soccer stadium several kilometers away) looks like a memorial:

All pictures have been taken with the Pentax K-5, bulb mode and JPG out of the Cam (no enhanced processing).