St Florian is the patron saint of firefighters. This statue of him was erected in 1991 in front of the old building of the Munich fire brigade.
“O heiliger Sankt Florian, verschon’ mein Haus, zünd’ and’re an“, this not-really-serious prayer in German is a wellknown saying: “O Holy St Florian, please spare my house, set fire to another one”.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire Trucks, Fire Houses, Fire Hydrant
One word photo challenge is “exposure” this week.
I took this photo last year in May. It’s from the English Garden in Munich, next to a pseudo-Greek, open temple built in the 19th century called Monopteros. The lawns surrounding it have for years been used for sunbathing by the people of Munich. The trend to less and less clothing started in the 1970s with topless students (me amongst them) and nowadays it’s quite normal to take off all your clothes, weather permitting. Ironic only that on my visit the Monopteros itself was covered completely due to repair works.
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2017/02/28/one-word-photo-challenge-exposure/
Another summer collage in response to värikollaasit:
http://uudetvarikollaasit.blogspot.de/
The river Isar runs through Munich. In the middle of the city a permanent wave is formed and it is said that this is where river surfing was first practiced. Now during summer there is always a crowd watching as the surfers display their skills.
Cee’s Black and White challenge asks for steps and stairs. Most of my choices are outdoor steps.
Nature versus city, the dunes near Bamburgh Castle in the Northeast of England versus steps in Mainz, Germany.
Steps as seats – both in Birmingham. Thomas Attwood on the steps of Chamberlain square who fought for full employment and better democractic representation and city workers on their break (of which Thomas Attwood would have approved).
These rather spidery steps lead over an area which is left untouched to show how nature is recovering after the devastation left behind by the hurricane Lothar which swept through the area in 1999 . The steps on the left are from Edinburgh, Scotland.
The New Steps is a street (with steps) in Edingburgh.
And these are new steps in metal, rather than stone. Going up the spiral stairs near the Biosphärenhaus in the Pfälzer Wald, and going down to the subway in Munich.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/09/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-steps-indoors-or-outdoors/
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