As I live at least 400km away from any coast I have to rely on old holiday photos and pictorial representations of sea creatures. In all cases, these were “out of their element”.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Sea Creatures.
Out of their element
Tag: Ladenburg
Framed!
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
Garry Winogrand
Step through the frame and find out (Leazes Park in Newcastle).
And he stepped through the frame.
In Ladenburg they have these signs all over town to show how the landscape was changed to make paths and parks more inviting. On the left are photos of what it looked before and it can be compared with the reality today. It was found that just putting up the photos wouldn’t be enough, so a frame was offered, similar to the frame of the old photograph to make the views comparable. Because a frame changes things.
A frame also helps to focus the attention. Or possibly, it allows people to cope with nature if they are used to seeing things only framed ?
Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by the quotation by G. Winogrand (what a wonderful name!) are collected here.
Trompe-l’œil
Some Monday Windows with pretend framing or applied illusionism. More posts for Monday Window can be found here.
Getaways without getting away
Balconies in the centre of the town of Heidelberg.
And in Frankfurt – more green, less flowers.
The townhall balcony in Lampertheim – geraniums are the perennial favourites for balcony gardening.
This is more colourful, seen in Ladenburg.
More geraniums, in Weinheim.
No flowers at all, yet the feeling is definitely “holiday in Balconia”.
The old part of the town of Weinheim is built on an incline. The rooms behind the lower row of balconies are street level on the other side of the house. It looks even higher when shown with the more modern houses in front:
Linked with Friendly Friday: balconies.
Looking up
Linked to Simply Looking Up. I was looking up at a look out point over the river Neckar, in Ladenburg, Germany.
Half a ufo has landed
The Kronenhochhaus (crowned skyscraper) in Frankfurt, Germany, from the side
and from below.
A three-bowed bridge crossing the Neckar near Ladenburg in Southwest Germany.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: curves and circles.
More curvy and round subjects can be found here.
Traces of history
Ladenburg was called Lopodunum in Roman times and an important town in the region. Many streets were named to remember this past. Some of the street signs come with explanations.
Titus Vlavius Vespasianus was Emperor when the first wooden fort was built.
During the time of Emperor Domitian the fort was rebuilt in stone.
Emperor Trajan elevated Lopodunum to a town and is considered the founder.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Roman poet from Burdigala (Bordaux, France) in the 4th century. In his poem Mosella Lopodunum was mentioned for the first time in a literary text.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the limes in this region built, to safeguard the Roman settlements.
There were to men called Januarius documented in Ladenburg, a decurio (soldier) and a magister pagi (a town official).
Mithras was a Persian, later Roman sun god. A stone relief depicting him was found in Ladenburg.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of streets, alleys, paths, avenues, and street signs can be found here.
So many books, so little time
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Books and Paper. More photos of these can be found here.
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