The playground on Herschelplatz in Mannheim is surrounded by traffic. Rather than protecting the playing children with a boring old railing they put up waves. Monochrome Madness: Some Things from a City
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Mannheim from East to West
Monochrome Madness: Different Citiscapes
The Wall Next to the Street
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Fairy Dust
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It Looks Quite Cheerful in Summer
I used to live at the bottom of the little street seen in the middle of the photo. This is not as close to home as it used to be. Nowadays I have to walk close to 25 minutes to get there! Monochrome Madness
Bulcolic Nostalgia
I used a filter called bandicoot on photoscape, it’s a softer, slightly greenish monochrome filter that lends itself to old-fashioned views without using outright brown sepia. Monochrome Madness: Out in the Country
Flora in Disguise
An originally dark red member of the mallow family, enhanced by editing the background in negative mode. A yellow calliopsis with a pale green crab spiders as bonus. The calliopsis edited in the same way as the mallow. The negative effect used above didn’t work … Continue reading Flora in Disguise
Fences without the Colour
Leanne mentioned in her weekly Monochrome Madness that she didn’t like a particular fence so I took my cue from there.
It’s an ugly fence but it serves its purpose to keep pedestrians away from the highway.
The fence Leanne didn’t like was near a railway track so here is a different take of “fence & track”.
And because she is Australian I had to add this fence and sign with an Australian flavour. I don’t know what the poor roo did to deserve its place on a sign that warns of “landmines” (a name for doggy poo that can only be considered funny in a land where actual landmines haven’t been seen in a long time).
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The Black Bird in the Family
Midweek Monochrome
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Does Chlodwig’s Ghost Still Dwell Here?
Not many ghost towns in densely populated central Europe but lots of old ruined castles for ghosts to haunt. This particular one is Burg Königstein to the west of Frankfurt am Main.
I’m not sure if I prefer the monochrome treatment (this particular shade is called bandicoot in photoscape, probably better described as a kind of olive grey, which I like for old buildings and ruins) to the colour version. I like the contrast of the ancient stones to the green of the plants and the blue of the skies.
Monochrome Madness: Walking through a Ghost Town
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