Festival of Lights 2016

These are pictures from two more light festivals that I visited this autumn to brighten up dark winter months. 

Amsterdam' Light Festival in December illuminates the Grachten:

Berlin's Festival of Lights was in October:

The Law Faculty of Humboldt University

Deutscher Dom

Here is a short video from the Festival of Lights in Berlin this year: an amazing presentation on Brandenburger Tor by a Russian sand painting artist, perfectly choreographed to the tune of "Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten", an old German folk song about Lorelei from a poem by Heinrich Heine, the girl sitting on a rock on the Rhine brushing her long golden hair and leading fishermen astray like the sirens Odysseus. Looking up at Brandenburger Tor with choir music in the background one could feel mesmerized ...