Tag: Fotografie

IFOs – identified flying objects

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When we used to live on the highveld in  South Africa bright blue skies without a cloud in sight where the order of the day during winter.  In reference to a Perry Rhodan story (a German scifi series, published in pulp fiction form) we used to call it “das blaue System” (the blue system – a defense shield around planets which manifested by bright blue skies without any colour gradient).  How can I not use the photo of this aircraft with the “Star Wars” logo blazoned across it to illustrate this idea?

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Contrary to popular belief, we have blue system skies even in Germany.

For A Photo a Week with the theme blue.

More blue or blueish photos are linked here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, look! A mountain!

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Sometimes you have to take a prompt literally.

This is a photo from Schynege Platte in the Berner Oberland, Switzerland.  The guy in front can actually look down on Lake Brienz, so it is not just mountains.

More viewpoints can be found here, for One Word Sunday.

Round and round it goes

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Saalbau

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Nancy Meryll was asking for a series of photos from above and from below of the same thing for A Photo a Week.  These photos were taken in Neustadt an der Weinstraße at the festival of the wine harvest.  From the top of the ferris wheel one has a great view of the festival, the town, and the whole area.  And from below it’s a structure of metal beams.

Check out other bloggers’ contribution to this challenge here.

 

Without sin

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25. August

We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came
into the world naked and unclothed. […] ― Marco Polo, The Travels
(stories told by Marco Polo and written by Rustichello da Pisa)

More photos inspired by the quote can be found here.

I’m walking with my lantern …

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🎵🎶  … and my lantern is walking with me  🎶🎵

In Germany (and many other European country) Saint Martin’s Day is celebrated on or around 11 November.  In our area there are processions of children carrying lanterns, singing songs like “Laterne, Laterne, Sonne, Mond und Sterne”.  In larger towns a rider dressed up as a Roman soldier proceeds the children, in remembrance of the legend that St. Martin cut his coat in half to share with a poor man who was clothed in rags.   At the end of the procession children are rewarded with a sweet pastry, either a pretzel or in the form of a man.  In some areas the children then ring on doorbells to collect sweets comparable to Halloween customs.

The lanterns are often made by the children themselves in class, although some are oviously bought.

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For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lights.

For more photos with lights of all kind, click here.

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