summer job

I snapped these two busy buzzy bees on their job and thought for this open topic I try out various kinds of monochromes.

100 mono 1

black and white

100 desaturated 1

desaturated

100 selective 2

selective colour

100 selective 1

selective colour, too

100 blue swirls 1

blue hued

100 coffee 1

coffee hued

100 sketch 1

pencil sketch

100 scribble 1

pencil sketch, too

100 sadness 1

monochrome aquarell

100 paper 1

cubic forms

An open topic for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.

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Home is more than old bricks

031 soul picture

“The soul can not think without a picture.”

Aristotle

These three buildings have dominated my childhood – Wachenburg, Windeck und Blauer Hut.  It’s the picture that rises up in front of my inner eye when I think “home”.

Linked to the weekly quotation from Travel with Intent.

A policeman, a market-woman, were standing …

Schutzmann Tschako

Marktfrau

Smiles all round with these two life-size sculptures in the middle of Koblenz in the Rhine valley.  They depict a market-woman and a policeman illustrating an old joke which is written on a plaque in the local dialect (about Norbert’s dog who peed on the leg of the market-woman’s husband).

This is linked to A Photo a Week: smile.

 

 

Every little flower’s reaching for the sun

99 flower 2

I like experimenting in monochrome but I don’t like robbing flowers off their colours.  So for Cee’s challenge I made it so that I couldn’t see the original colours but chose a picture from a series of monochromes.  To check up after I had made my choice I looked at the coloured version and I just can’t not show it:

99 flower 1

This is linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: flower of any kind.

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