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The Cologne train station is right next to the Cathedral. After taking some shots of the Cathedral I took some shots of the train station with the nice light still there.

HDR of 3 shots blended in Photomatix and tonemapped using Details Enhancer. Postprocessed using Neat Image and Nik Color Efex.

Interior of the Cologne Cathedral. HDR of 3 handheld shot taken at ISO 3200, so the images ended up quite noisy. Neat Image for noise removal, Photomatix Details Enhancer for tonemapping and Nik Color Efex for postprocessing.

My photos are licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike. This means you can use them as is for free for whatever you want, but must attribute it to me. You can use my full name Pedro Szekely, or simply szeke. A link to my site would be most appreciated. If you want a hi res version send me flickr mail.

PS. Clearly not everyone understands the terms of the license :)

My favorite Senator from California, Barbara Boxer is not perfect. She supports PIPA and SOPA. This screenshot of her web site shows a very nice photo of Manhattan Beach, hey, my photo of Manhattan Beach. It is licensed under Creative Commons, but her website uses it without attribution. I guess that under SOPA and PIPA, this website should be banned in the US. Funny huh? The photo in question is below.

I sold the rights to another photo of Manhattan Beach on Jan 9 2012, but not this one. I sold this photo for other uses, but not for this web site. As some comments suggest, the problem is not with Senator Boxer, who I admire. However, as I understand the proposed laws this kind of little thing can get a web site in a lot of trouble. Many of my photos are used without proper attribution (I can find them on Google), but I still post them without watermarks. Many people use them with attribution and that makes it worthwhile.

For the record, I hereby gladly grant unlimited rights to Barbara Boxer to use this photo of the Manhattan Beach Pier in her web site in whatever manner she wants. ... but I still think SOPA and PIPA are misguided.

www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

For non US people: congress is considering legislation to censor the Internet and Google, Wikipedia and others are protesting (that is why Google is blacking out their logo).