At first, it looks nice. Then, you look closer. And then you see it... ó.ò
Photos taken 19.06.2025
#photo #photography #Rhine #drought #climatechange #climatebreakdown
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Photo 1
Panorama of the river Rhine as seen from a bridge on a late sunny morning. The calm grey waters of the wide, softly bending river fill the bottom half of the picture. A small 4 person rowing boat is visible near the other riverside. Green trees and shrubs line the sandy shores, behind them agricultural fields. The sky is spotless ligh blue, not a tiniest dot of a cloud is visible.
Photo 2
Zooming in to the shore on the other side, the sandy beach turns out to be a broad portion of dried out riverbed, already with some patches of weeds.
Photo 3
A closer look from the bridge onto the dry section. I would guess more than 50m across, along the whole shore as far as we can see. The normal waterline would be, where the shrubs and trees are.
A tiny speck of a white cloud hovers on the left above the water. In the middle of the shore, half in water, a long forgotten car tire has emerged. What else will appear as the water recedes?
The ships are still allowed to traffic, but just one at a time, very closely following the center of the riverbed. We have June now, we should almost have flooding due to usually heavy rainfalls in the spring. But there was almost nothing. And the really dry months are just approaching. If the drought of several years continues like this, we may soon be able to cross the riverbed by foot ...