Monday Portrait
Tag: Holz
Wood, Well Seasoned
Before wood can be used it has to be left alone for a while.
In some parts of Germany, houses are still clad in wooden shingles.
More old shingles and the open panels of a tobacco drying shed.
Here the panels are applied vertical.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wood
Fruitless?
Situated in Oberotterbach, close to the French-German border, there is the Waldgeisterweg, a shortish woodland path lined with bizarre or whimsical goblins and gnomes and imps which the artist Volker Dahl has carved from old broken trees and roots.
At one point there is this sign on a tree with a prompt in the local vernacular: “Oy, why don’t you look up!”
And a few metres higher up there is this sign:
I’m a Fan of Old Wood
The museum of Michelstadt is in house built almost 500 years ago. The wooden beams are old
and beautiful.
Weather Beaten
< I’ve updated this post fafter checking it on my mobile phone. Apparently because of the lay out only one photo was displayed. >
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic from my Photo
Wordless Wednesday
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Heartwood
With a heart so affected, it might be good idea to get to one of these:
Wood & Metal, Sun & Rain, Sweat & Tears
The statue of the mouse (from The Gruffalo fame) is less than two years old. The wood has weathered well so far, as has the yellow coat of paint but a bit of photographic weathering deepens the cracks and fissures. Photoscape has an antique photo filter to round off the look.
This metal and wood sculpture of a warrior has been weathered by rain and wind and sun and given a dark vignette around the outside to complete the picture.
This sun, again enhanced with an antique photo filter from photoscape and artificial back lighting, looks a lot more weathered now.
Finally, a black panther made of metal and covered in rust, has been contrast heightened and backlit and scratched.
A Photo a Week: Weathered
Jagged Landscape
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jagged
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