This Schifferstädter Marktfrau wheels her beets to the market in front of the Rathaus in Schifferstadt, a town next to the river Rhein in the upper Rhine valley.
This cheerful Maatfrau sits in Koblenz, a couple of hundred kilometres down the river, with her lettuce and potatoes on offer.
And finally, in the heartland of the asparagus growing region, this Spargelfrau sells her wares in Schwetzingen in view of the palace – fitting for this noble vegetable.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Markets.
I was very much in awe when I climbed those stairs for the first time. For the next four years I went through those doors almost every single school day. My primary school teacher was Fräulein Höfler and I have never forgotten her. If I try to picture her, I can only do so with her smiling.
The title of this post is written over the door, it’s part of an aphorism by the Swiss edcuaton Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: “Gott zur Ehre, der Jugend zur Lehre, der Gemeinde zur Freude dien’ dieses Gebäude” (This building should be used to glorify God, to educate the youth, and to please the community.)
Linked to A Photo a Week: Nostalgia. More nostalgic photos can be found here.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Shadowy explorations.
The brick floor was completely straight but the lights made one think one was standing on solid waves.
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller
To end the confusion, it would have been enough to switch off the light.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more posts inspired by the Henry Miller quote, click here.
This year isn’t really the year for field trips but last year I had three weekends in the town of Böblingen, just south of Stuttgart, for a training program. I got up early (against my nature) and took photos around the hotel and the two town lakes.
The school and hotel was in the old part of town, amongst the pubs and restaurants and clubs.
Böblingen has an upper and lower lake which got a make-over for the national botanical show in 1996.
The walks around the lakes are dotted with sculpture pieces – which kind of spilled over in town.
It was early spring, so not too many flowers yet – but the people of the town were obviously expecting a rich harvest.
Linked to On the Hunt for Joy: Take a field trip.
This abandoned building is in the heart of the Mannheim quarter of Jungbusch. It’s near the old industrial harbour and the whole quarter is a mixture of run down, turn-of-the-last-century residential buildings, industrial buildings like warehouses and pre-war factories. At the same time there is construction work going on and new fashionable buildings have gone up, a mixture of offices and residences. One large block directly at the waterfront is the “Popakademie”, a private music school of national renown.
I don’t really understand the graffiti. It is against gentrification but I have no idea how the music school fits into this.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: All about buildings.
And one more, not for the flowers but for the sentiment:
Linked to Monday Window. More windows from all over the world can be found here.
I know that cormorants can be become pests if they are too numerous and fishers don’t like them because they can decimate fish numbers quite rapidly. This is a lonely cormorant though, which I have never seen in company – if it is the same one. These photos were taken a year apart.
Linked to I’m a Fan of … #74. More fanatical photos can be found here.
I’ve spent far too much time trying out different photo editing tools online for this post of the Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale asks for a “splash of colour” this week. I’ve played around with them, using different methods. I haven’t found one that works satisfactorily, particularly the automatic colour spotting didn’t work really well in any programme. These are the results:
This poppy was the most labourious as it involved rendering the photo b&w first, then manually colouring the blossom sepia, then first enhancing the contrast, changing the hue, and finally using “saturate”.
Here is the same poppy in a slightly different shot with plain colour spotting.
This cornflower was fairly simple, just manually blocking the colour everywhere but the blossom.
.With this mirror I used a blunt tool to highlight the colour (and finally changing it to green).
This was an automatic colour selective tool but the tolerance couldn’t be adjusted properly and there was no eraser or reverse tool to be applied manually.
And finally the angel and the rose – an automatic colour spotting tool but I had severe problems of downloading the result without signing up (which didn’t want just for the use of one tool) – and it only worked once.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: A splash of colour.
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