After my foray into Barbie photography I saw this book called Little Mannheim – a coffee table book with little figures out and about in the city of Mannheim. The photographer, Benedikt Hild, takes photos of the kind of little people that are used to populate railway models. And I was inspired. When I was in a toyshop yesterday for something completely different, I looked at the little people on display and I was immediately taken by a collection of nudists. I feel this is the beginning of a fun friendship!
Happy whatever you might be celebrating this weekend. If it involves eggs, and bunnies, and chicks, it’s probably Easter. May you celebrate it in the best possible way (which might not even come close to your wishes but still!).
Admittedly I’m cheating a bit here but by name the Kruger National Park in South Africa is a park.
The photos are not good quality, they were taken in the early 1980s. Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t like glossy prints and the matt paper prints looked slightly fuzzy to begin with and don’t photograph too well. However, they record a very fond memory of mine, and the monochrome treatment does their age justice.
We were driving on the roads of the Kruger Park, somewhere between Skukuza and the Lower Sabie Rest Camp, when we saw a large yellow animal standing under the tree in the distance. Only when we got nearer we were realising that it was a lioness.
She stood stock-still on the side of the road. We admired her for quite a while until we had the idea to see what she was looking at. That’s when we realised that on the other side of the road were her cubs.
We were mesmerised. When we looked back at the lioness she had disappeared, obviously circumventing us. We drove off, thinking it would be better to let her get to her cubs undisturbed.
I am so looking forward to thirty shades of bright this month! Like this bundle of bright sparks, streaks, or even blobs, with some colourful variations in between.
I’m not sure about the exclusivity of “food of love” but what would we be without music? So – play on, give me excess of it!
As we should currently experience live music only outside and not in indoor-venues, here are three examples with completely different styles of music.
This colourful group, called the Pantoffelgugge, are the musical troupe of a local carnival club. They have their big moments during the carnival season in winter but they take part in other local traditions. This picture was taken a few years ago at our local spring parade. Their style of music is quite unique, this is how the English wikipedia describes it: “It is a strongly rhythmic music of distinctive style played with brass instruments, pipes and drums. Although melodies remain clearly recognizable, they are at times played “off-key”, intentionally and often quite skillfully. Driven by a dominant rhythm section, the music sounds twisted and thrilling, very danceable and perfect for spontaneous street concerts during the “wild days” of Carnival.”
The music produced by accordions, known affectionally as squeezebox or in German, Quetschkommod, is more traditional. Although a taste my ears have never really acquired, in certain situations it can be fun – to listen to and better yet, to sing along.
When on a visit to a local small lake last autumn the atmosphere was magically transformed by the eerie and very beautiful notes coming from this man playing his pan flute. I took the picture from the opposite bank.
Quite contrary, this car number plate from Croatia seems to have a rather disrespectful opinion about the driver of its vehicle.
I might have taken the prompt a tad literally, which is to atone in advance for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge tomorrow. I remembered the outside of the local indoor public swimming pool. Loads of rectangles – I just had to brighten them up a bit.
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Bright Rectangles – a theme suggested by Becky, as she is the guest host of Cee’s challenge this week.
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