Here is a long shot of the lake in Böblingen, where I took this picture, to explain the extraordinary colour, right in the middle:
PS: The title is a word pun crossing German-English lines. Mallards are called “stock ducks” (Stockenten) in German.
For K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: reflection.
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When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth. This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.
Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.
Charles V., Maximilian I., and Ferdinand I. – all three Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire in the last years of the Middle Ages. This is the sign of a restaurant in Augsburg, Bavaria.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Three.
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë
Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s quote can be found here.
Two windows from a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald. These days, this style of architecture is often redone in colour rather than in the customary black/brown and white but I haven’t seen one in terracotta hues before. Here is the whole house (as often is the case, difficult to photograph because they stand in narrow streets):
Linked to One Word Sunday: window.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply out of a window.
In my hometown, our festival ist considered an additional season. For one glorious weekend the old part of the town is decorated with white and blue bunting and colourful lights and in many courtyards temporary taverns are opened serving wine, beer, local delicacies and in the last few years also more adventurous fares.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Seasonal.
The big slide – each year an attraction for kids and adults alike at our town festival, with interruptions for more than 50 years. I remember coming home each year with at least one scraped knee on one side and an abrasion on the other. The stairs aren’t called Höllenstaffel (stairway to hell) for nothing.
Posted for Six Word Saturday. More six words and photos can be found here.
Linked to Simply Textiles.
I took new photos of something old. Michelstadt is a quaint little town in the Odenwald, the lower mountain range to the east of the Upper Rhine Valley. The old houses, particularly the half timbered ones, are so well suited to monochrome photography because of their contrasting structures. These photos are of the town wall encircling the inner part of the town. I chose a filter, inexplicably called “bandicoot” in my editing program, which is not as stark as black and white, yet not as mellow as sepia.
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything new.
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