Thank you for your comments everyone! Well, I still need a lot of practice with the new camera, though. It may not show up in the pictures, but in their original size, you can see that there's a shallow depth of field. Need to learn to improve that.

And speaking of angles: I'm never sure about those, have the feeling that I need to improve my skills there, too. Guess I'm going to take some lessons in dslr photography next spring.

Quote Originally Posted by Pembroke_Corgi
Is that a gravestone in picture 3?
No, not a gravestone, but a boundary stone. It's marking the Hessian/Lower Saxonian border (two German federal states).

Kirsten