Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Close ups.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Hug a human, embrace humanity
The artist Jean Luc Bambara from Burkina Faso has named this sculpture “la protection“. I mainly see a hug, possibly the most human of all actions.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Challenge: Human.
Staghorn
Staghorn sumac. Even the Latin name qualifies for this challenge: rhus typhina. The French (sumac vinaigrier) and German (Essigbaum) common names translates as vinegar tree.
Check out Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: November alphabet for more posts with words containing R and S.
And wine not?
“Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.”
Elliott Erwitt
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more posts inspired by the quotation from Elliott Erwitt, click here .
Raw Sienna – meerkat
Erdmännchen (“ground mannekin”) in German, meerkat in English. Let’s stick to French: suricate. Simples.
I can go for hours reading this in RRRussian meerkat accents: https://www.comparethemarket.com/meerkat/meet-the-meerkats/
Linked to Color your world. For more photos with the shade Raw Sienna, click here.
I long to catch sight of the blue flower
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers: Blue and purple.
Crowned oak and acorns
A family crest. — Addendum: I HAVE to add this. I found this crest (taken from a mausoleum) in my archives. I liked the crown and I liked the oaks and acorns and so I picked it for the challenge. However, I have a photo of the whole mausoleum so I checked the inscription out of curiosity. Here it is:
So this is the final resting place of one Georg Wilding with the title of a prince. His grandfather married a Neapolitan princess and thus came by the title. Now it happens that I have an American friend with this surname. She doesn’t THINK she is related but the acorns and oak seem oddly familiar to something she has seen in her father’s genealogy research. She will let me know. Isn’t this exciting / weird / strange / interesting?
Even if nothing comes of it, it made me renew a friendship.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Crown.
I’m a fan of the Gruffalo
A little bit over a year ago, a statue of the Gruffalo and the mouse was unveiled in our town. I went back to have a look how the two have fared since.
Not too bad, it seems. The photo on the left is from a year ago.
Beltz and Gelberg publishes the Gruffalo books in German and their headquarters are in Weinheim. When an old oak tree was hit by lightning the idea to use the wood for a sculpture came up.
For the unveiling the illustrator, Alex Scheffel, came to the Windeck, a castle ruin above the place where the sculpture now stands, and he let his young audience have a glimpse of his art.
But who is this creature? With terrible claws
And terrible teeth in his terrible jaws?
He has knobbly knees and turned out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of this nose.
His eyes are orange. His tongue is black.
He has purple prickles all over his back.
Oh help, oh no. It’s a gruffalo.
And a final view of the Gruffalo, as seen by the mouse:
Linked to I’m a fan of … #86. More fanatical posts can be found here.
There is a (low) light 🎹
The lighthouse on Roker Pier in Sunderland.
Playing around with white balance.
And playing around with different hues.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Low Light.
Sandstone windows
In our area sandstone is widely used in houses, sometimes for the whole building but often as a contrasting material. It is used as a frame for windows from the ornamental to the mundane to utilitarian.
Linked to Monday Window.
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