Author: eklastic

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Nations in Peace

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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

Thomas Huxley

This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).

Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.

Twin windows

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All these twin windows are from Steinbach, a small village which is part of the small town of Michelstadt im Odenwald. One can see that many of the older houses have shingles on the face of the buildings which is typical for the area.

And last not least the windows in the 1200-year-old basilica in the village, designed by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. They are reinforced today and would not have had those bars in Einhard’s time.

Linked to Monday Window where more windows can be found.

A bit of (cosmic) fun

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I had a lot of fun with the latest Cosmic prompt: abstract.

I’ll start off with a shot that was abstract from the start. Without any editing this is how it was recorded on my memory card in the camera:

Move on to a subject that is intentionally abstract like this sculpture of which I could not find any title or the name of the artist or anything, even after researching it on the internet:

And finally a perfectly ordinary close up of a flower rendered abstract by various filters in an editing program:

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Abstract.