The illumination show we went to at the weekend is mostly a colourful affair. But some exhibits profit from being drained of colour. This last one, the tree, should really be a video. The tree was illuminated by a circle of light in changing colours, shifting in … Continue reading Monochrome Winter Lights
Monochrome Madness: A Floral Tribute
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
Monochrome Madness: Different Citiscapes
Monochrome Madness
Monochrome Madness
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
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
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
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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