Author: eklastic
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Play On
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.”
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.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Music
Rectangles, literally
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.
Wordless Wednesday
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Wood Withers, Metal Rusts
This sculpture by Uli Lamp, called Golem, stands in Hemsbach, a town in the northern part of the state Baden-Württemberg, between the church and the synagogue. The mythical creature is normally made of clay but wood and metal works as well, I think.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rusty or decayed
Do I really want it?
It’s not a flattering photograph. I didn’t even know I was in the shot until I got home as this was taken on the fly. I liked the slogan on the van, an advertisement for a local beer (We Want Wulle) because I could do something to it which involved our family name. My bad that the van was so shiny!
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Stealthie
Living on the hillside
A look up the street:
A look down:
And since we had recently some snow I thought I include a shot from the same street, about a hundred meter further up:
And a view of the neighbourhood wouldn’t be complete without one the jaywalkers seen on a regular basis:
A Photo a Week: The street where you live
Daisy, Daisy, …
I concentrated mostly on almond trees this past weekend but there are other colour spots out already.
Monday Macro
Art for Vincent’s Sake
I should really have my text preceding this series.
I took a photo of a plum tree in bloom. I liked the colour and the light in the background and it looked almost like an impressionist painting, even without any editing. I played around with it using various photoscape features and then I remembered where I had seen a plum tree in bloom before.
I had to tweak the colour a bit but the similarity is there, is it not?
Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Flowering plumtrees” can be admired in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for Art’s Sake
