Shiny, smooth new leaves in front of rough, weathered stone.
Or is it?
You just have to get close enough.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: The rough with the smooth.
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Grey herons
Driving on my bike these two were easy to miss. Sometimes I get lucky.
There are more storks around and they are easier to spot than the grey herons.
Look at those breast feathers and the garter on the upper thigh!
I’m by no means an expert but I think these were two juveniles.
And off again.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Our feathered friends.
Is it a flock? Is it a flight? No, it’s a dissimulation!
The Elwedritsche are mythical creatures believed to live in the Southwest of Germany. Often described as being birdlike but with antlers and scales instead of feathers, there are really very little bounds to the imagination. In Neustadt an der Weinstraße a whole dissimulation of Elwedritsche can be seen frolicking in the waters of a fountain, getting themselves wet and everybody who cares to stand close to them.
I picked the word dissimulation from a collection of collective nouns for birds. It seemed appropriate.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: A wet weekend.
Vortices
A vortex can be a dangerous thing out in nature. On a playground it can be created and observed in a controlled environement.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature.
Three times different
Church cut-out.
Cut-out memorial.
Natural cut-out. Doesn’t it look like an African sunset? Possibly the travel restrictions have addled my brain.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Silhouette or Shadows.
Studies in grey
For the Cosmic Photo Challenge: 50 shades of grey I tried to pick photos which were naturally (almost) monochrome, either because of the subject or because of the quality of the prevailing light.
For more shades of grey, click here.
Soak up the sun
The warmer temperatures have brought out the sunbathers in a local park. I don’t think they could stretch their necks towards the sun any further!
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Feel the heat.
Yesterday came geometry
Very basic geometric shapes – square, circle, triangle.
And up this radio tower (with inverted colours) you can find the same basics: square, circle, triangles.
Geometry in fashion: Argyle socks.
And finally, making patterns in a completely different medium.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: geometric shapes.
Tourist magnet
This is the old bridge in Heidelberg leading over the river Neckar last week. Not completely deserted as the lock down in Germany has been lifted to some degree, was never as strict as in many other countries.
This is what it looks like in normal times, bustling with people at any given time.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The world in lock down.
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