These photos are not strictly black and white but desaturated. I couldn’t get myself to rob them of all their glorious colour, even the white ones.
For more flowers for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge click here.
We was robbed
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So many books, so little time
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Books and Paper. More photos of these can be found here.
Abandoned.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
There’s always another path
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More roads, streets, avenues, paths, lanes, alleys can be found here.
Block the lock
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: words that end in ‘ock’. More “ock-y” photos can be found here.
One whole century
Living in Germany it would have been indeed easy to find a building that is not only 100 years old but several hundreds. Close to my hometown, they found the foundations of a Roman estate dating back to the second century AD. But I decided to show the Wachenburg, one of the two castles overlooking Weinheim an der Bergstraße, in Germany. It looks like a Romanesque castle (the roof received new tiles a few years ago) but it is little over 100 years old. The main buildings were constructed between 1907 and 1913 by a Corps of former students (more information on these student fraternities can be found here) to serve as a memorial for members who had died during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 and a location for their yearly meetings. Family lore has it that my grandfather worked on the roof gutters as a young tinsmith.
For the A Photo a Week Challenge: over 100 years old. For more old photos click here.
Golden liquid
This is one of those accidents that turned out well. I was photographing a blackbird taking a bath and then it flew away. The deserted stone well (sic!) looked as if it contained not water but liquid gold.
For The Daily Post: liquid. More liquid photos can be found here.
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