Author: eklastic

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Focus

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For me, focus is about the subject – as long as my subject is crisp the rest of the photo can happily go blurry (or, if I want to be artsy about it, bokeh) I like it if a contrast in colour adds to this distinction.

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The resulting effect can be quite geometrical, lines in the photo above, circles in the one below.

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Only one of the two loving couples in the shot below is in focus, but that’s okay since the one to the left is mirroring the main focus.

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I am also not above cheap puns:

C2C shutter

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/out-of-focus/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mein Hut, der kennt Geschichten – My hat, it knows some stories

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Taking part in Paula’s photo challenge “traces of the past” (in monochrome) I thought it was fitting to showcase a part of my past (no, I’m not THAT old).

Blauer Hut

This tower – dating back to the second half of the 13th century – has dominated my childhood as it cast its shadow over the garden behind our house.  It owes its name “der blaue Hut” (the blue hat) from the former, long gone slate blue roof.

Blauer Hut

This view shows how it was once part of the town wall of Weinheim an der Bergstraße, Germany,  but now stands at the border between the town and the palace grounds.

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At night it looks eerie and forbidding – reminiscent of its past as jail.

Wachenburg, Windeck und Blauer Hut

And from the right angle it complements the ruin of the “Burg Windeck” which is another 150 years older.

https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-y2-06-2/

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