Tag: #CosPhoChal

Three Different Types of Open Space

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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

Art for Vincent’s Sake

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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.

Prunes en fleur by Vincent van Gogh

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

Past winter, pre spring

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Is it still winter or is it already spring? These weeks are called Vorfrühling in German, i.e. pre-springtime. The weather this weekend was glorious and the trees, still bare, were on the threshold of renewal.

The plant trees look particularly awkward during this time.

But looking around – proper spring can’t be far away.

The first blooms – wild cherry, I believe – are out.

They still conform to Dale’s prompt, though: they come before the leaves.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Before the leaves.

They’re back!

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While the grey herons don’t leave during winter and a couple great egrets have stayed after their flock rested here on their way south,

the storks are gone during winter.

But today, while cycling through the fields, I saw three of them.

The sun was already low and against me so I could only get a clear picture of one of them. A sure sign of approaching spring.

And to the right behind the storks there was one of the many hares out today.

They were everywhere in groups of three or four, hopping around, frolicking, play fighting. Spring can come now!

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: First Hints of Spring.