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Tag: Germany
Twosomes
Monday Window
Quiet Reflection on a Sunday Afternoon
The original. Just a touch lighter than the original and a bit of fiddling with contrast etc. (done with Photoscape). The obvious choice for two castles and a medieval tower: sepia (done with Photoscape). Metallic sheen, notably copper: Lomo (done with Lunapic). A filter called … Continue reading Quiet Reflection on a Sunday Afternoon
Venus à la Gauguin
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Surreal
The Path Bordered with Yellow Flowers
Six Word Sunday
When this is the Biggest Decision of the Day
it’s a good day. FOWC with Fandango: Decision
Three Times Three Possibly Merry Knights
These heraldic plaques are on the outside of the main church in Freudenstadt im Schwarzwald. These old broken plaques are from Schloss Fürstenau in Steinbach near Michelstadt im Odenwald. And because three helmets signifying three knights are fun, have a look here: We are three … Continue reading Three Times Three Possibly Merry Knights
Generations
Wordless Wednesday
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The Yearly Boat Regatta
The water is but shallow but this is the highlight of the nautical year: the annual regatta. Homemade model boats race against each other over a stretch of at least 100m!
The Treasure in the Silver Lake
“Der Schatz im Silbersee” is a well-known German novel (mainly read by children and young adults) about American Indians, or rather what a German, namely Karl May, thought frontier life in the US was like at the time. He lived in the second part of the 19th century, so for him the stories were contemporary and he wrote as if he had been there, often making himself the protagonist of the stories. He was a proliferate writer, even today he is one of the most read German authors, and very popular movies have been made of his stories with regular reruns on German TV, particularly during Christmas and Easter holidays. The stories also spawned theatre festivals and a whole outdoor theatre where nothing but Karl May stories are staged in summer. The movies were mainly filmed in the Plitvice area of Croatia but the Mummelsee in the Northern Black Forest – wouldn’t that be a poster lake for anything called the Silver Lake?
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