Sunderland City Council commissioned the artist Irony via “Fitzrovia Noir” to create a mural in a shelter on Roker beach. This spot faces the beaches where Lewis Carroll was inspired, so it is said, and the piece carries the name “Alice in Sunderland”. The shelter is dark and made darker by the black background, thus the UV ‘light responsive’ stand out particularly well.
More murals on a Monday can be found at Monday Murals.
Another batch of oddballs for Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. The pink bulldog stood in front of an interior decorator’s room, the undefinable breed is part of an art installation in Seeheim-Jugenheim, Hesse, Germany.
More oddball photos can be found here.
The fifth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
I’ve always found the rows of vines in a vineyard with a vanishing point in the distance make good photos. We went on a wine walk yesterday – basically a stroll through the vineyards of one village with tents put up at intervals where one can sample the local wine and different kinds of food. The weather wasn’t great but it least it didn’t rain and the cold was the right incentive to try out the more than 20 red wines on offer (not to mention the whites and rosés). Not that the thousands of people needed much of an incentive!
More links to photos with lines in them can be found on One Word Sunday.
These are a few of the paths of the castle grounds in Schwetzingen, Germany. The gardens are famous for incorporating various styles from various epoches. These cone shaped boxwood bushes are part of the earliest, formal style. In winter they stand out more because they are evergreen next to the bare-branched trees and bushes.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More paths, streets, and any kind of ways can be found here.
The walls of the Heidelberg castle have stood in their ruined state for the last 300 years and have become a magnet for romanticists and romantics alike.
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More walls can be found here.
I approached this church, walking up a slight incline. I tried the tree on the right as a frame:
Getting a bit nearer it looked like this:
Even closer, and now in portrait:
And once again, on a different day:
Although the subject lends itself to a portrait format because of the spire I prefer the first and second shot (the second more than the first).
This is for Paula’s Thursday’s Special with the given task once over. Okay, it was a few more than that. More different looks on the same subject can be found here.
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