The weeks before Christmas there is lots of baking going on. Even the heavenly bakery is firing up the ovens preparing for the festive season.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Christmas is coming.
The weeks before Christmas there is lots of baking going on. Even the heavenly bakery is firing up the ovens preparing for the festive season.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Christmas is coming.
A cross stitch and versions in the manner of Escher, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Graffiti, Picasso, Kalo, da Vinci, Gauguin, and the original – with the help of LunaPic photo editor.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art from Nature.
The lighthouse on Roker Pier in Sunderland.
Playing around with white balance.
And playing around with different hues.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Low Light.
Use me like tool.
Treat me like a prisoner.


Treat me like a fool.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shadowplay.
Thank you, Mike Oldfield.
He tried:
He didn’t:
If you go down to the woods today
You’re sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You’d better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain,
Because today’s the day
The Teddy Bears have their picnic.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: If you go down to the woods today.

At precisely 2pm yesterday we were on the road, the autobahn in front of us, not much traffic because it was just shortly after it changed from a two lane to a four lane road since we were nearing Frankfurt.





We were meeting with friends – to celebrate a toned-down Oktoberfest. Some were dressed up in Lederhosen or Bavarian finery, some just wore beer socks. We placed our chairs well apart, had sausages and bretzel and drank beer (no Corona, however).
Just before leaving camp and going on trail we decided on a final picture (that was just before 3pm).

Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I approached the prompt inversion (excuse the title) gradually, starting with a natural inversion – or rather an inversion occurring naturally without human intervention.

I progressed to a man-made inversion:

And then, the first photographic inversion, a natural step after the inverted glasses:

Which led – again quite naturally – to photos created with a lensball. Here are the actual first two lensball photos I took – it was around Easter as you can see:


Inversions created solely on the computer were a natural follow-up:




Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Inversion.