For A Photo a Week: livestock. More animal photos can be found here.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Yellow diplotene
For Värikollaasit. These were the colours chosen this week by Aino:
More colour collages can be found here.
BTW: The title is just a silly rhyme on submarine. But it means a stage of a special cell division and of course, there are cells in my collage.
All five again
This is for Thursday Special: Pick a Word. More marginal, iconic, zoomorphic, cleaved, and propagation photos can be found here.
Looking out vs. looking in
Christmas is over (but coming soon). Looking through my archived files I realised that nighttime windows lend themselves to black and white photography. And you get the best window decorations during christmas time.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Looking through a window. More peeping Tom photos can be found here.
My place out of this world
For The Daily Post: Place in the World.
More photos of other’s places in the world can be found here.
I’ll snap you, you snap me
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: any kind of camera or photographer. More photos of cameras and photographers can be found here.
All wrapped up
I took a considerable detour to photograph this 500-year-old tower only to be confronted with this:
It wasn’t the first time I had similar luck.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
Innocents abroad
When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him. I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books). I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.
For One Word Sunday: celebrity.
For more celebrity shots click here.
Let me lead you up the garden path
In the town where I live there is a garden. At 2.2 hectares in the middle of town, it is a small but wonderfully prolific botanical garden. The different sections and the paths are cleverly designed to give the impression of a much bigger place.
When I was little this was my way to school. I don’t remember that many cars parked there, if any, but the hedge on the right looked exactly like it does today. It was old then, so it is at least 80 years old, possibly close to 200 years old now. What lay beyond – this wonderful gem of a garden – was closed to the public.
Since 1983, after the private enclosure was turned into a foundation, the garden became open to the public. There is no entrance fee and the sights are wonderful at any time of the year.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
For more photos of paths, streets, roads, alleys click here.
For more information on the Hermannshof garden, click here.
OEG: Oh, ewiges Gewackel – O, everlasting jiGgling!
One of the first tramlines between towns jn Germany (as opposed to inner-city lines) was the OEG (Oberrheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft) which ran (and still runs) on a circular track between Mannheim – Weinheim – Heidelberg. Today it is connected to various other tram systems serving the larger Rhein-Neckar-area. Locally, it is still affectionally known as OEG = Oh, Ewiges Gewackel, or O, Everlasting jiGgling, even though the carriages are much more comfortable today. The official name – Linie 5 – has not caught on.
Waiting for the ÖG.
And here she comes. (Yes, this electric train is thought of as female.)
For A Photo a Week Challenge: Public transportation.
More trains, trams, buses, and the like, can be found here.
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