A Kniphofia flower
and the real thing.
Orange is possibly my favourite colour. I also really like red hot pokers, tritomas, poker plants, Fackellilien (torch lilies), Kniphofias or knofflers – whatever you want to call them. How could you not like such a brilliant flower with such names!
Nancy over at A Photo A Week wanted to see some photos displaying orange. More orange photos can be found here.
The Daily Post wants photos with a composition dominated by lines this week, hard or soft, straight or curvy, vertical or horizontal. Here are two contribution, hard and soft, straight and curvy, vertical, horizontal and diagonal:
For more lined photographs, have a look here.
busy steam cleaning dairy equipment
busy cutting metal
busy fixing a roof
busy blowing glass
not busy anymore – break time
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: busy or people working. More busy photos can be found here.
I came across this mural in München, Germany (Munich). Intellectually, I understand the juxtaposition between war/war machinery and the beauty found in flowers and traditional ceramics and porcelain. But overall – I am not really convinced that it works for me.
For Monday Murals. More murals can be found here.
The seventeenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
Another colour collage for Värikollaasit.
I was an walk coming down a hill when I saw a couple sitting on a bench below me. When I passed them, I turned back to bid them good day.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
Although Joy Fleming was thinking of a different bridge over the river Neckar when she sang her signature tune: Neckarbrückenblues, this bridge is about 20km upriver, and thus qualifies for Neckarbrücke.
It spans the Neckar between Ilvesheim and Seckenheim, which is a suburb of Mannheim.
Here is clip of this German blues singer from Mannheim with the amazing voice, from 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6hKeCB4eQ
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of roads, ways, paths, bridges and the like can be found here.
When I came across this field last summer, I was thoroughly confused. The grain was black and I wondered if it was diseased and ruined, yet besides the black colour the grains looked healthy.
I was fascinated.
I asked a friend of mine who is a miller by profession and was told that it was emmer wheat, one of the oldest grains cultivated, and that this variety was called Persian black emmer wheat. Confusion cleared up.
For A Photo a Week Photo challenge: state of confusion. More confused photos (or photos by confused photographers) can be found here.
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