
More magicians can be found on Tourmaline’s One Word Picture Challenge.

White as the driven snow – which we are not having this Christmas. More white photos can be found here on Travel with Intent.

Another colour collage, this time I used various graffiti.
This was the colour scheme:

Find out what others made of it here.

Another 6 Word Saturday. More of these can be found on Debbie’s Travelwithintent.
The Abbey of Lorsch is a UNESCO world heritage site, close to Worms in the Rhine Valley, about 60km south of Frankfurt. It was an important monasteries during the Carolingian times. Through one of the arches of the “kingdom hall” one can look upon the monastery’s church.


Three arches, facing north and south, lead into the main room.





There are innumerable ways to play with these arches and their vistas. This time I preferred to try out desaturation.
Title with apologies to Louis Kahn.
More Arches, Domes, Half Circles can be found on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.



Darkness and Light for Paula’s Thursday Special. Go and check out other’s interpretation of the theme.
The title is a quote from the discworld novel Thud! by Terry Pratchett.

This is one of my favourite photos of the year because it is fun.
Have a look what other people’s favourites are at The Daily Post photo challenge.
Rehearsal for the annual stage production of a folkloristic play in our local dialect.
Another alphabet installment for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: needs to start with the letter r and have at least 6 letters.


For once, I found a mural with a signature – Christian Schopp (but no additional information on the artist, except for his mobile phone no. in the corner ). This is on the side of a newspaper kiosk in Bad Homburg, where magazines, tobacco, and lottery tickets are sold.
This is for Monday Murals where you can find more murals and graffiti.