A line from Mike Oldfield’s Shadow on the Wall. #21 November Shadows
Tag: houses
I’m a Fan of Shingles
Having a colleague who is just now suffering greatly I am obliged to add: … and I don’t mean the disease. I’m a Fan of …
Showing off the Backside
Midweek Monochrome
I’m a Fan of Wooden Shingles
In some parts of Germany houses (not just roofs) are covered with wooden shingles. It’s a very special look.
In Ulm
Ulm is a town in the south of Germany. The well-known tongue twister “In Ulm, um Ulm und um Ulm herum” has little meaning beyond being a tongue twister: in Ulm, around Ulm and round and round Ulm.
In the middle of Ulm, in the old town, houses stand close to each other, compact like in many originally medieval towns.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Compact.
Half-timbered houses
Cee writes on her block: For a great monochrome photo “look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph”. — Half-timbered houses then for me!
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: any kind of house.
Walls and beams
I adore half-timbered houses and they are so well suited to monochrome photos because of the stark contrast they display.
This house stands in the old part of town of Weinheim.
This one in the even older part of the town (although many don’t know this). Both are a few hundred years old.
A farmhouse from the Odenwald showing the typical stone foundation with the half-timbered first floor and a later finished attic floor with shingles.
All these examples are from the southwest of Germany. But I was in the north a few weeks ago and the styles in houses is completely different.
The contrast in the brickwork again is ideally suited to monochrome photography.
Contrast it is also with this heavily ornamented house.
The sepia-toned photography makes this house – it is part of the monastry of Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site – timeless. It could have been taken 100 years ago, or last summer (which it was).
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the subject of — houses.
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