Author: eklastic

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buildings

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Jagdschloesschen

This is the Jagdschloss Eulbach, near Michelstadt in the Odenwald.  It was the “hunting lodge” of Franz I, Count of Erbach-Erbach who had it built in the  18th century.

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Linked to Simply Snaps: Buildings.

Stock photo

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10 reflection a

Here is a long shot of the lake in Böblingen, where I took this picture, to explain the extraordinary colour, right in the middle:

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PS: The title is a word pun crossing German-English lines.  Mallards are called “stock ducks” (Stockenten) in German.

For K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: reflection.

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Bronze

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Martin Buber

When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth.  This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.

Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.

Three

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Drei Kaiser - Karl V. Maximilian I. Ferdinand I.
Drei Kaiser – Karl V. Maximilian I. Ferdinand I.

Charles V., Maximilian I., and Ferdinand I. – all three Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire in the last years of the Middle Ages.  This is the sign of a restaurant in Augsburg, Bavaria.

Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Three.