Tag: Odenwald

Six old apple trees

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A couple of years ago I came upon these old gnarled apple trees while walking on a winter wonderland walk.  I loved their silhouettes against the snowy meadow and the light blue sky.

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I played around with the shot and zoomed in a bit more.  I vowed to come back in spring but I missed the time when they bloomed.

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They still look beautiful in the middle of the sloped meadow but they stand out less against the green background.

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A year later I missed the blooming season again (in fact, I am beginning to suspect that they are so old that they don’t bloom anymore since they don’t seem to carry any apples either).

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I got on my knees, then on my stomach to recreate the silhouette from the winter shot even thought that meant the focus on the blades of grass in the foreground.

My favourite is still the first winter shot with more space around the trees. Which one do you prefer?

For Friendly Friday – Photo Edits.

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buildings

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Jagdschloesschen

This is the Jagdschloss Eulbach, near Michelstadt in the Odenwald.  It was the “hunting lodge” of Franz I, Count of Erbach-Erbach who had it built in the  18th century.

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Linked to Simply Snaps: Buildings.

Paint creative

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Two windows from a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald.  These days, this style of architecture is often redone in colour rather than in the customary black/brown and white but I haven’t seen one in terracotta hues before.  Here is the whole house (as often is the case, difficult to photograph because they stand in narrow streets):

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Linked to  One Word Sunday: window.

 

When life was different

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I took new photos of something old.  Michelstadt is a quaint little town in the Odenwald, the lower mountain range to the east of the Upper Rhine Valley.  The old houses, particularly the half timbered ones, are so well suited to monochrome photography because of their contrasting structures.  These photos are of the town wall encircling the inner part of the town.  I chose a filter, inexplicably called “bandicoot” in my editing program, which is not as stark as black and white, yet not as mellow as sepia.

This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything new.

 

Anything

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Linked to Simply Anything.

In this part of the Odenwald, house fronts are often covered with  wood shingles.  In the old part of Michelstadt, they stand side by side with half timbered houses.  I don’t know what the original colours were, but this one looked incredibly pretty in powder blue and white, the white flowers giving it almost a monochrome look.