“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Tag: Germany
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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.
Out of a window
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Seasonal
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.
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every year we are going down
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.
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textiles
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When life was different
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.
Where I stand
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Standpunkt in German has the double meaning of the point where I am standing and point of view. This particular standing point is on a hill near Mörfelden, south of Frankfurt, and one has a clear view of the city’s skyline.
Anything
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In this part of the Odenwald, house fronts are often covered with wood shingles. In the old part of Michelstadt, they stand side by side with half timbered houses. I don’t know what the original colours were, but this one looked incredibly pretty in powder blue and white, the white flowers giving it almost a monochrome look.
Garden
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These are allotment gardens, next to a little public garden or park in Michelstadt, Germany.
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