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:
This is linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: flower of any kind.
Cee writes on her block: For a great monochrome photo “look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph”. — Half-timbered houses then for me!
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: any kind of house.
Hands,
foot,
and a paw.
I just had to include him with all those feet and hands on him. In fairness, he normally doesn’t dress like this (or so I’m told) – this was after a run where we had to swap tops at some point and he was apparently short (sic!) changed.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Hands, feet, or paws.
It is a tradition of the villages in the Rhineland-Palatium, the southwestern part of Germany to raise a maypole on 1 May. In some areas it is a naked pole carrying a wreath, in others it is a tall, slender birch with the young green leaves and a few colourful ribbons.
It is no mean feat to raise the fallen tree again as it is quite heavy belying its tender stature.
Many ladders are involved in the endeavour as one can see.
But the concerted action of the village people usually results in an upright pole.
Not much more to do now!
And the maypole is up. And yes, if you’ve been thinking about spring and erections and long, yet strong, slender symbols and wondering why sometimes there is a wreath that looks as if the pole has speared it, you’ve been right. The tradition dates back to Celtic fertility rituals, and no, you don’t have a dirty mind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: chutes and ladders.
What is on the water and at the same time in the water? Poles and their reflection, of course.
A single pole will do.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: in and on the water.
More watery photos can be found here.
This wheel is smokin’ … actually, it’s burning.
Wheel and bike are the same words in Germany, so we have a kind of wheely culture here.
These are very old wheels in a mill. They are the reason I’ve chosen sepia for today’s post as the original photo looks hardly any different.
A picnic area specifically for cyclists (others are welcome).
In their old age, wheels can be used as decorative items.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challege: wheels.
More wheels can be found here.
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