Most of us try to show beautiful and decorative windows. Why not show ugly once for a change? On a recent walk through a suburb with fairly new houses, many with nicely maintained front yards, I came across these two buildings. They are residential homes, … Continue reading Horizontal and vertical narrow windows
Both are examples of Aachen, the city where Charlemagne is buried and where for about half a millenia the German kings where crowned. It took me ages that Aachen is the city meant when the French talk of “Aix-la-Chapelle”. The narrow buildings are near the … Continue reading The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
Houses were built closer together, streets were narrower. Today’s inhabitants do the best they can. But sometimes pedestrians and cars compete for right of way. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Streets
This particular alley is from Neustadt an der Weinstraße – where the name says it all: look at the vines overhead. Cars and walkers have to share but consideration widens the path so that everybody gets through.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Narrow
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The title is a line from Friedrich Schillers drama Wilhelm Tell which is known by every German, I dare say (even if some might not know what the source is): “Durch diese hohle Gasse muss er kommen“. It’s quoted often, sometimes more or less appropriately.
And this time I’ll add the portrait version of the same shot because it illustrates what a difference in perspective the format of a picture makes.
Whereas the square shot directs the viewer to the actual view beyond those narrow walls, the portrait version emphasises the path. At least, that’s how I see it.
My Square Perspective no. 15 is linked to The Life of Becky.
To get away from clogged highways we stopped for lunch and a walk in the small town of Günzburg in northern Bavaria. The old centre of town is crisscrossed with little narrow streets and alleyways. It’s by necessity that one ends up arm in arm!
For more photos of roads, alleys, driveways, paths … go to Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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