I almost missed this challenge – A Photo a Week Challenge: Things with wings – so I looked at all the entries so far and I won’t even try to compete with all the gorgeous birds, and bees, and butterflies.
And to round it off here is a German car number plate. I like that sometimes the letters make actual words. It helps if you live in Wiesbaden (WI) but really sucks for people living in the Börde area (WZL) – formerly Wanzleben (“here there be bugs”).
For more wingy things, look here.
for the environment. Individual transportation is comfortable but often not the best solution. In Germany, public transport is called ÖPNV = Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr, and always a topic of conversation.
A train pulls into a Munich subway station.
Same train, same station. Stationary but with selective colouring.
Night time stop for an intercity bus in Germany.
And finally, shades of things to come: public transport in miserable winter weather.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with public transport as theme.
Click here for other bloggers’ public transport photos.
Impressions of the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, Germany, for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More photos of flowing waters can be found here.
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.
For One Word Sunday: Earth. More earthy photos can be found here.
A bridge across the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, for A Photo a Week. More bridges can be found here.
… this tower used to have. It was originally made of blueish slate and the name of this remnant of the town wall is still today Blauer Hut, “blue hat”.
More blue photos can be found on Debbie’s Travel with Intent site for the One Word Sunday photo challenge.
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