For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: words that end in ‘ock’. More “ock-y” photos can be found here.
Block the lock
Tag: monochrome
The best seat in the house?
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.
Set in stone
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.
Sunday dress
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.
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
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
I want to ride it where I like
Queen. Who else?
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Bikes of Any Kind. More bikes and pushbikes and motorbikes and pedal bikes can be found here.
Growing large
A large living subject. A tree, photographed at night.
A man-made, woman-shaped large subject, made of stone. This is the “floozie in the jacuzzi” of Birmingham, officially known as “The River”.
Almost as large as rocks can get on earth, the Eiger in Switzerland.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge asking for large subjects. More of these can be found here.
That’s (a) bull
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: words with a double letter.
More bull or other double letters, can be found here.
Lonely street lamp
A courtyard in the old part of town where an old streetlamp has found shelter from the urban renewal going on outside.
For Black & White Sunday, a trace of the past. More traces can be found here.
Nature bound
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the theme structure. More structured photos can be found here.
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