



For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: benches.
Benches Cee wanted, benches Cee got. And some birds thrown in for good measure.
For more photos of benches, click here.




For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: benches.
Benches Cee wanted, benches Cee got. And some birds thrown in for good measure.
For more photos of benches, click here.




The theme for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is birds. I’ve decided to go with selective colour although in the last picture of the Canada goose it was difficult to find any colour in the animal itself.
Here are more monochrome photos of birds.






Cee is asking for monochrome animals this week. For more animals click on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge





Trains and tracks for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges. More trains and tracks can be found here.




For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: words that end in ‘ock’. More “ock-y” photos can be found here.

Rather rickety, don’t you think?

Filigree- yes, comfortable – maybe, mad – definitely.

Pseudo antique, old-fashioned elegance.
A lonely, lovely bench in the woods.

Not lonely, not really lovely.

The best choice: A sit down with Mr Samuel Longhorn Clemens, next to the Ilmenau in Lüneburg, Germany.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: any kind of seating.
If you want to take a seat with others – here they are.


Paula over at Black & White Sunday was asking once again for traces of the past and posted a beautiful shot of Bamburgh Castle on the north east coast of England. I decided to go closer and show a close up of a stones, in this case of the portcullis of a castle’s entrance, in this case of — Bamburgh Castle on the north east coast of England.
For more traces of the past, click here.







Objects or People older than 50 years for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.
The featured people are older than 50 but their clothes – traditional German costumes from the south-western part – often are too, truly so or re-created. Obviously, I have a penchant for hats. The men all wear the traditional form called tricorne or cocked hat which was worn by older, more well-to-do burghers.
For more photos of things and people older than 50 years, click here.


I couldn’t decide which monochrome version I prefer:


For Black & White Sunday: before and after.
For more monochrome and polychrome photos click here.

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike

I want to ride my bicycle
