This wheel is smokin’ … actually, it’s burning.
Wheel and bike are the same words in Germany, so we have a kind of wheely culture here.
These are very old wheels in a mill. They are the reason I’ve chosen sepia for today’s post as the original photo looks hardly any different.
A picnic area specifically for cyclists (others are welcome).
In their old age, wheels can be used as decorative items.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challege: wheels.
More wheels can be found here.
Scary,
Waily,
and Merry.
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: I see faces.
If you want to see more faces, click here.
or so I hope.
This last one is more of an oddball – I know the sign is meant to warn passers-by of beehives but the fence lets one wonder how big those bees actually are …
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: fences and gates.
Click here for more fences and gates in black and white.
In the Lautertal, a valley in the southern part of the state of Hesse in Germany, is the “Felsenmeer” or sea of stones. The geological processes which created this natural phenomenon happened almost 400 million years ago, over time erosion laid bare these boulders. Romans quarried them, and there are about 150 work pieces left from these times which were left behind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: rocks, boulders, stone. More rocky and stoney photos can be found here.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: hot and cold.
Why not go to extremes for a change?
For more boiling and/or freezing photos in monochrome or selective colouring, click 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.
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