For Simply Snaps: Simply Red.
Stock photo
Here is a long shot of the lake in Böblingen, where I took this picture, to explain the extraordinary colour, right in the middle:
PS: The title is a word pun crossing German-English lines. Mallards are called “stock ducks” (Stockenten) in German.
For K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: reflection.
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Colour
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Colour.
Expecting a colony of vampires soon
For Six Word Saturday. More sixers can be found here.
Bronze
When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth. This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.
Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.
Three
Charles V., Maximilian I., and Ferdinand I. – all three Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire in the last years of the Middle Ages. This is the sign of a restaurant in Augsburg, Bavaria.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Three.
M as in Max
German car number plates are abbreviations of the cities or regions the car is registered in. The larger cities have one letter – so M stands for Munich. And this car even has a name!
In wine growing regions the name of the vinyard is often written in large letters on walls. This M is part of the name Domberg in the Nahe region.
The M in the Ironman logo is very prominent.
I can’t help seeing an M in this crown or these dancing people.
More Ms or possibly Ns can e found here, linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: letters M or N.
Texture
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Texture.
Looking a monumental horse in the mouth
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë
Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s quote can be found here.
