A colour collage based on these colours:
for Värikollaasit #418, hosted by Aino.
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Filtered Sunshine
Photoscape filter yl2 applied,
Photoscape CT4 filter applied.
Photoscape CT4 filter applied.
Photoscape cross-process filter applied.
One-to-three Photo Processing Challenge July
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I’m a Fan of the Frog Pond
The Lens-Artists Challenge #306 this past weekend asked for a post illustrating habitat. I showed off the local stork population and when I was about to publish I realised that I had started on a frog post and forgotten about it. So I have to … Continue reading I’m a Fan of the Frog Pond
No Escape
Even at our favourite Italian restaurant the football matches of the UEFA Euro will be shown. If we want to enjoy our pizza and pasta in peace and quiet we will have to eat at home.
Close by a family can’t decide where their allegiance lies. Maybe one of the serving staff of the restaurant lives there.
Loss and Recovery
Remember when I was little we had storks nests on the old tower in town. Each year storks would return to their nests and raise a family. But in the seventies the nests were abandoned. The habitat was not supporting these big birds anymore, as … Continue reading Loss and Recovery
The Big Grape Feed
The grapes are fed on the conveyer belt from where they fall into the wine press. We were at a wine fest of the co-operative wine-growers association near Neustadt an der Weinstraße. It was held in their big yard, the big machines used in the … Continue reading The Big Grape Feed
Famous Last Words
“If you stay in an old castle fortress, it’s good to know the layout – lest you fall off the battlements.” FOWC with Fandango: Layout
Pack a Punch
I teach illiterates and having an instant camera at my disposal is really a great help particularly now that I (finally!) have an interactive whiteboard at my disposal. Instead of complicated explanations delivered Marcel Marceau style I can just show. In this case it wasn’t … Continue reading Pack a Punch
Hitch Your Star to a Wagon
One Word Sunday: Star
Writing, Reading and Teaching
I should have a field day with that prompt. I have taught German in South Africa and in Germany, English in Germany and Saudi Arabia. I have a post-grad degree in translation. I’ve always been writing. However, sometimes there is just too much to pick from.
So I’m taking the easy way out and simply advertise my other blog: Refugees welcome, where I write about my joys and tribulations of teaching a language to newcomers to Germany. Many but not all are refugees. Their one unifying quality is that they cannot read or write Latin letters. Some are primary illiterates never having learned to write at all, others are able to write in different scripts. As an added bonus, if you are interested, the blog is written in English and German.
