I don’t like the word “window shopping” for this small tradition in our family, it’s a leisurely stroll enjoying the lights and the seasonal displays. It usually happens during the time we call “between the years”, i.e. between Christmas and New Year when all the shopping (and running and rushing) is over.
You’ll find more traditions over at Paula’s Thursday Special.
The Daily Post‘s prompt for this week is “ascend“.
I have used this clique before (although not quite these shots) but that’s fair enough as this sculpture is in fact, NOT unique. I have taken these pictures in Schwetzingen but another group of four claqueurs standing in a queue can be found in Pforzheim. In Backnang there were only three – however, they have been stolen probably to melt the bronze and sell it wholesale. The artist is Guido Messer, the title is “Die Claque“. A claque is a group of men and women in an audience who are paid to clap – a custom which was popular first in France and later in other European countries.
You might have guessed – this is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge where the alphabet has reached the letter Q.
These murals are on two separate block of flats, marking the corner of a parking area. They are created in the same mosaic style but one is a framed panel of about 5 by 2 metres, whereas the other one covers the whole side of a two storeyed house. (Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany)
Find more murals and graffiti at Monday Murals.
… when I go round on a Ferris wheel (poem by Ava Courtney).
Looking out from the top of Neustadt an der Weinstraße towards the Pfälzer Wald (Palatinate Forest) in southwest Germany.
And looking down.
And looking over to the station, past some more adventurous revellers.
One Word Sunday‘s theme was elevation.
This is for Six Word Saturday.
Fire it is for A Photo a Week.
I adore half-timbered houses and they are so well suited to monochrome photos because of the stark contrast they display.
This house stands in the old part of town of Weinheim.
This one in the even older part of the town (although many don’t know this). Both are a few hundred years old.
A farmhouse from the Odenwald showing the typical stone foundation with the half-timbered first floor and a later finished attic floor with shingles.
All these examples are from the southwest of Germany. But I was in the north a few weeks ago and the styles in houses is completely different.
The contrast in the brickwork again is ideally suited to monochrome photography.
Contrast it is also with this heavily ornamented house.
The sepia-toned photography makes this house – it is part of the monastry of Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site – timeless. It could have been taken 100 years ago, or last summer (which it was).
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the subject of — houses.
