To many mountaineers the Eiger Nordwand is the ultimate challenge. The Eiger, a mountain peak in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland, is not the highest mountain in the world, not even the hightest in the alps but the northern side presents challenges which create a … Continue reading The ultimate challenge
I happened to be in Michelstadt im Odenwald a couple of days ago and came across this frame with the thieves tower behind it. It made me think of other frame installations I’ve seen in the past.
Ladenburg has frames like this along the walk through town to show what the area used to look before the walk was constructed.
This frame is from Leazes’ Park in Newcastle, behind St James’ Park of football fame.
Only a few kilometres to the east in Sunderland is this big shutter framing Roker lighthouse.
And the ultimate frame high in the Alps opposite this view:
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps.
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After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.
The fortress in Bitche, France. Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.
The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.
Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.
The Alps are also “set in stone” – in this case, the famous Eiger and Jungfrau in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland.
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The Rhine burst its banks in Düsseldorf, way back in 2016.
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A large living subject. A tree, photographed at night.
A man-made, woman-shaped large subject, made of stone. This is the “floozie in the jacuzzi” of Birmingham, officially known as “The River”.
Almost as large as rocks can get on earth, the Eiger in Switzerland.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge asking for large subjects. More of these can be found here.
We should have moved a bit to the left.
But I know where the artist stood for his painting.
This is in response to a painting by Ferdinand Hodler featured in Chronicles of an Anglo-Swiss, a fellow blogger’s site.
“Wanderlust” is a compound noun of German origin, and both parts translated literally mean “hiking” and “desire”. And the desire to go hiking in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland – that’s exactly what I feel when I see these famous three peaks.
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