My husband got a beautiful bouquet of flowers this weekend (not from me, though).
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Freestyle
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Einhard’s Basilica in Steinbach
There are not many buildings left from the Carolingian area in Germany. The most famous is the Lorsch Abbey near Worms in the Rhine Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site. The basilica of Einhard, about 40km to the east, is less well-known. This is a model on the site.
Einhard, who was amongst many other functions at the court the biographer of Charlemagne, had the basilica built in the early part of the 9th century and endowed it with relics, probably in order to make it into a centre of pilgrimage. His plans did not come to fruition and the relics were removed to Seligenstadt in the North. Other clerical buildings of the time were renovated and modernised throughout the century whereas this basilica was left mostly in its original state.
Imagine approaching this building at a time when most buildings were hardly higher than a man!
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Buildings of the Past
I need my greens
I don’t seem to be the only one enjoying my greens. I’ve never seen so many people in the woods as today. Even the tower seems to astounded.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: My Green World
You Are Right Here
At the end of the day you need a place to lay your head
and then this happens:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: At the end of the day
Three Different Types of Open Space
A huge open space for most of the year in the middle of the city: the Wiesn, the place where the biggest Octoberfest in the world takes place each September.
Brandenburg is as flat as country can be and there is nothing like seemingly endless skies to feel out in the open.
At the other end of Germany, the flatness of the Upper Rhine Valley is bordered by the Odenwald on one side, the Pfälzer Wald on the other side.
It’s the sky in all three examples that purports the sense of open country.
Colour can enhance that sense of wideness.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the big wide open spaces
Hiding Behind and Hiding In
An egg is a promise, by definition.
Before:
and after:
Surprise!
And sometimes, the surprise may even be bigger:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: New Life Emerging
Art for Vincent’s Sake
I should really have my text preceding this series.
I took a photo of a plum tree in bloom. I liked the colour and the light in the background and it looked almost like an impressionist painting, even without any editing. I played around with it using various photoscape features and then I remembered where I had seen a plum tree in bloom before.
I had to tweak the colour a bit but the similarity is there, is it not?
Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Flowering plumtrees” can be admired in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for Art’s Sake
On the Red Planet
The evenings are getting longer but the sunsets stay as colourful as ever. This series was not photoshopped or edited but taken with different filters.
Anyone wants to visit me on post industrial colonisation Mars?
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: As the evenings start to lengthen
When a Cyclone Has Called
In 1999, a cyclone made landfall in Europe. It was considered the worst windstorm in the area in the 20th century.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Into the wind
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