Pictures photographer marcus clearly takes amazing shots of the Northern Lights. And will start right off with extreme sports so hold on tight french director is the pioneer of the socalled outdoor film and knows exactly how the genre has developed over the last thirty years every year the films get more spectacular as Camera Technology develops to enable filmmakers to capture ever more daring stunts as news production magnetic he shows athletes braving the most testing conditions. Windsurfers trying to catch the Worlds Largest waves theres a fine line between triumph and feel. Free skiers and kind surfers risk everything to conquer mountains previously thought to be an incomparable. And all the while here you dont know is there much in the minute. I have to always find. Another chanel you know they can get the. Sense of the story i push of the situation attracted by and they want to know by personal position i used to be a position early us both men as well and i knew how those guys how they feel. Dont know shoots is footage around the world in pakistan he followed out fleets on an exhausting expedition to the summit of a mountain thats over five thousand meters high. Hed spend nights just waiting to be the first to ski down its icy slopes into the valley below. Its the way for me to express myself its like its paris and i sing if. There is maybe sings youre not supposed to tell you so you are just skiing and youre saying something by thats what. Everywhere from portugal to tahiti or you dont know captures surfers looking for the perfect way. Sometimes after weeks of waiting. Theyre idiots. Once youre in the moment theres no point to go back and you just go for it youve got to be really be there with them for that moment your whole life and when you see the way they are just excited full of adrenalin then has to come out so you just ride the wave and. Then its pure enjoyment yeah. Capturing that moment in all its splendor can take weeks of preparation post technical and organizational. Perfect moment for me to go out of my life yeah its crazy because were working very hard you know just to obtain one shot and we have five cameras are rolling and jumping in the water we have some stuff and you floating on ive been ok but to open that lot of bad moment as well then you have to do you have to be ready to pay the price. Accidents are part of that price. Dearly dont know has been chilling extreme sports since the one nine hundred eighty. Technological developments have changed the way he works he started off using a heavy hand unwieldy thirty five millimeter film camera then came to get cams which helped him get closer to the athletes and nowadays he often invention his own equipment himself i try to use less as possible because. At the end quite hes not there and everybody everybody can do it we try to play the game on different angle and i try to be close of the action. To sixty camera we put on the head and we can move the action into the the shot of one of the cameras hes developed as a lens that can be hung from a cable and operated with just one. Instance hes not impressed by the picture quality he gets from drones hell get into a helicopter and selfinterest the special lens he developed to his camera. Lens is so important sometimes i use a long lens so get the guy. From his face just to see how you react you know and you can capture some a moment you cant. Before. Dawn hours latest film magnetic true adventure is now showing in major cities across europe it will later be released worldwide. The big screen because when you watch the action here are the people who couldnt share the emotion together rather like the screaming to get what they want to be in the finger bottle for one group. Being part of the action without ever leaving your seat at the cinema you know you do not take spewers along a true adventure in which nature and the elements push people to their limits. Next up we head around europe for express they were making stops in florence and vienna but first were off to the emmys where european actors have been quite successful this year. On monday german actress on a shoot accepted the International Emmy award for best performance by an actress she won for her lead in the dark comedy the sniffles would have been just fine. European productions dominated the awards this year in new york city collecting eight wins Lars Mickelson of denmark picked up the best actor award for ride upon the storm and the producers of the spanish thriller money heist took home the prize for best drama series it was the forty sixth time for the International Emmy awards. Some fifty thousand skyrockets combined in the explosion of above florence italy it was a performance by chinese artist side as a tribute to the birthplace of the renascence it also signaled the opening of an exhibition of his works on friday at the a fitzy gallery sign has said that he feels greatly inspired by the nice aunts hes known for his taste for explosives about sixty of his works including his famous gunpowder drawings can be seen here until february seventeenth. On monday you know tiara for the deputy answer viennas opera ball was unveiled it was designed by donna taliban such as the star italian designer took inspiration from motifs and featured wagners operas cycle the ring of the need for long its not yet known if the Fashion Designer plans to attend the bar it takes place in vienna on february twenty eighth twenty nineteen. Staying with extravagance and luxury were now off to board a super yacht the sailing ship pink gin is truly unique its built entirely out of carbon fiber and is the biggest and fastest of its kind inside its full of some of the most innovative features ever seen in a yacht and we got an exclusive peek inside when it docked in the german harbor of. Onboard twenty teens sailing yacht of the year the pink gin. Are First Impression its decidedly different and pretty darn cool. Setting the sail on the Worlds Largest carbon fiber sloop we quickly pick up speed thanks to the modern hydraulics and glide over the north sea at up to eighty knots. Steering such a large yet quick vessel is a challenge for captain james moore be we were fifty four meters nobody fifty for me to call them boys on the planet. So i had to sail specially in Northern Europe in these conditions its a great opportunity. The captain and his crew are on their way to hamburg on the orders of the pink gins billionaire owner hansgeorg neda. The carbon fiber sailing yacht is the fulfillment of a dream for him. Its thought that he shelled out tens of millions of euros to make his dream a reality. The vessel took three years to develop a. Yacht design a rough import was instrumental and he and his team invested more than one hundred thousand work hours into creating a boat that would be fast yet not scrimp on creature comforts. If thats the challenge for us designers the shape of the ball is important to the performance but the a spread except because thats what you see and you see that this boat has a very straight stem called a plumb ball thats quite modern it gives it a longer waterline in a new regatta both just look like this. There are always eight crew members on board. Including chef april oden everything in the galley kitchen has its place and theres plenty of space the chef proudly shows us where she stores her produce here weve got a very large water cooler we turn the light on once again its a bit misty. The walk in cooler is just one of the boats many luxury is features. Here everything is elegant and one of a kind. Below deck steward is Amy Mccormick ensures that everything is just right for instance that the miranda glass chandelier is smart cool and shine she knows that First Impressions count. Yet so when the bus comes up everything has to be made. And has a lot of. The pink gin is approaching hamburg for safetys sake a marine pilot comes aboard. Thats because there are power lines stretched across the river and at sixty eight meters the pink gins mast is very tall. That could cause problems. By straights nowadays even big bikes are a maximum of sixty four we do mainly so they get through the panama canal and stuff like that so you know the bigger you make the bites and the breaks the more limited you are where you can go. So you yeah you have to think not just of the world but also things above makes a difference. Its a tight squeeze for the pink gin theres barely seven metres clearance between the top of the mast and the power lines. If the water levels were much higher it would be impossible for the sailing yacht to pass through. The royal things of. The pink jet is also so large that the marine pilot asks another passing vessel to move out of the way so he can dock the boat in one swift maneuver. And im going to content. Theyve made it. After the crew mores the vessel they just have to sit back and wait until the pink gins billionaire owner decides he feels like going for a little cruise on the sailing yacht of the year. What do you think is typically german punctuality fos driving beer drinking a new social media series that so german will show you which stereotypes actually true. Thats the sole job. One two week come to listen to me go tremendous pokes fun at its. Typically germany idiosyncrasies. Well beat some german human. I dont know that today the w a max facebook page. Well we stay with something typically german the Christmas Carol silent night the text was written in german in eight hundred sixteen but since then its been translated into hundreds of languages and is sung all over the world and wed like to hear your rendition so upload a video of you singing the song in the language of your choice all details are on our website ditto dot com slash lifestyle one lucky winner will get a traditional german Christmas Spirit now its been a good week for german tennis with twenty one year old alex on that sweat of winning the a. T. P. World tour finals the youngest ever to do so thats reminiscent of a certain boris becker who won wimbledon at the tender age of seventy hes turning fifty one on thursday and although hes been famous for a while there may still be a few things you dont know about him. Five facts about boris becker that will surprise you even if you thought you knew all about him. Is a family man but did you know that a few years ago he published a book on parenting its titled translates as what makes children strong and number five. Back office anecdotes from his own life and provides tips on keeping kids physically fit there cares for children from three different relationships. That his daughter was born after an infamous tryst with a russian model under says shes never had much contact with her dad or her siblings. Theres an old saying the apple doesnt fall far from the tree but not in fact his case and that brings us to number four on our list none of his children have inherited their fathers tennis talent. His eldest son noah is a d. J. And artist. Second son elinor says instagram poses show him without a racket that. Daughter is a successful model. Third son amadeus wants to become a police officer. Becker officially retired from professional tennis in one thousand nine hundred nine but you can still see him courtside as a commentator. Likes to play poker and he pays close attention to personal hygiene in an interview a few years ago he said showers for a times a day. Number three on our list of surprising things about boris becker also admits to a certain amount of conceit hes reported to have said once that being a little selfcentered is part of a healthy self image. And speaking of beckers ego how many people. Can claim to have a newly discovered animal species named after them number two on our list of surprising boris becker facts deceased now is called blue for an audio boris becker are a german biologist discovered the species off the coast of the philippines. He was a tennis fan and in two thousand officially named his new finds after his favorite player. A few other things have been named after back up in one thousand nine hundred fine people came the youngest player and the first german to win wimbledon the press dubbed him boem boem because of his powerful serve. This prompted a german business to come up with a frozen dessert shakes like a great tennis racket number one on our list of unusual facts about boris becker. Boem boem ice cream is named after him you can still find it in german supermarkets but its unlikely kids today think about boris becker when they take advice. Now we cross over to some unsung german heroes the socalled golden meaning mining heroes one is on really known for their fashion sense but mathias born has had success with a fashion label that pays homage to their style his own grandfather was a miner and hes carrying the tradition on in his own particular way. This is the last coal mine in the room crossed behind hell inbox all the miners can do now is shut down the machinery what mathias ball has taken away from nearly four hundred years of mining history is the fabric. Of our monthly think of the minor war the gear he needed to work and a lot of muscle went into it and then theres a lot of sweat in it and of course history. And his way of telling this story is to turn the fabrics into fashion material is the great grandson of a miner but first he worked for the Marketing Division of windows latest soccer team shocker but in twenty fifteen he hung up his publicity clips to pursue a dream he founded the group been held in heroes of the mind fashion label. Or you know about work original Miners Church into the items here you see it on the hood or the belt bag the fabric gets a new function thats he collaborates with designer felicitous caspar they even use real coal from the decommissioned mines thats not a nice accord i had the good luck to start at the Victoria Mine just as a production ended and brought this original piece of coal out of ideas and a vision was born to get that original piece onto the garments the structures can be scanned in and then printed on to them as if this is not us he says that. They design every piece of clothing themselves here theyre working on a jacket for their spring collection which they call. Theres a reason for that. Has come out of an older married couple came into the store with a blue sack and it was a miners jacket they said her mother had just passed away father had been a miner they took out a photo of her father which showed a minor named otherways wearing this jacket in one nine hundred thirty eight. Guys in backyard talk to. Transform stories like that into apparel and people are taking notice in february twenty nine thousand a little startup is even invited to fashion week in new york city and of course once in the big apple a Fashion Designer has truly arrived. Thanks in advance of ever telling the world our story im grateful to my great grandfather and the other miners its been hard work but weve always been good at that where you. Have been held in make where for memorials to the mining days of yore. Now from the dark depths of coal mines to the glimmering Northern Lights in the past the ghostly glow was regarded as mystical or even a sign of imminent disaster i saw them once from an airplane though and landed safely and. When your fall from the polls the best way to see them is in the photography of Markos Keeley when we met for a series bright idea. The Northern Lights a natural phenomenon that always casts a spell on people to talk to for a Marquess Kili has spent countless nights in the ice cold finish region of lapland on his quest to capture them on camera. Northern lights how so beautiful on so huge sun something. From the outer space so. Something like they are not from this world. Marcus is famous for his pictures of the overall rubbery alice and he takes everything that comes with the job in his stride for hours he waits into the open sky even in temperatures of minus thirty degrees all for the perfect picture. When he gets the chance he lights a fire in one of the nearby huts to warm up. But he never stays inside long he wouldnt want to miss the nocturnal performance the Northern Lights condense across the sky for hours or mere minutes they can only be captured with a Long Exposure so he never knows how the photos will turn out. There is so different colors of. But not in light green is more common then there is also pink or red and yellow or blue but i like the pink the green is normally not so green as you see in the photos but the pink is pink as you see. Her has shot more than one hundred thousand photos to date he edits them on his computer and knows just what it takes to do the lights justice. Thing is that there is something in a front it can be house or person or or whatever and something in the middle and then in the background there is not in life so that you can have the perspective how huge the Northern Lights are if there is only not in life you cant think how big they are. Marcus checks every evening to see how good his chances are of seeing the lights which theyre visible about two hundred times a year. The lights are created by electricity charged particles released from the sun that collide with particles in the earths atmosphere and they appear stronger the closer you are to the north or south poles. Good weather for the nordic light for follow is that the oh you have a clear sky because the Northern Lights they are about one hundred kilometers from the earths surface so the clouds are much lower than if there is clouds you will see it and you will not see the Northern Lights. It must take a special kind of person to spend hours alone in the cold hunting down the lights. I guess. No i dont know you dont need to be a special type if you get tired very early then then its not good for you. When he finally gets a glimpse his equipment cant let him down it needs special treatment in these freezing temperatures. When you take photos in a cold temperature but battery life times goes down brief so you need to keep the batteries warm you need to have extra batteries so they can you can change one battery to your camera keep the battery. Body use their body temperature to heat the batteries i normally use keep them in my clothes. But occasionally even marcus has to rest. I go go out when berries clear sky and go to focus for nautical lies. By the luckily its cloudy quite often so i can sleep on both night. And the nightly trips into the freezing weather have paid off his beautiful images of the Northern Lights amaze people all over the world. More. So we have time for today but well be back tomorrow with plenty more european lifestyle and culture here on the bus from the. Next time on your remarks from the findings on the schaefer from frankfurt Manhole Covers and turns them into our served up toast for a continental breakfast make up a birthday cake or ask people to jump into the pool from. 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