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
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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
Past winter, pre spring
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!
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.
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