No new water this week but a dip into the archive (inspired by last weeks Lens-Artists Challenge). We visited the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia in 2008. The colour of the lakes in Plitvice can be explained chemically and geologically but I don’t care. I just … Continue reading Plitvička jezera
The title is the title of novel by Karl May (Der Schatz im Silbersee) which generations of Germans have read in their youth. It was the first one of a series centering around two main characters, the German born traveller Old Shatterhand and the “noble savage” Winnetou, an Apache chief. When the story was turned into a movie in the early 1960s it was filmed in Yugoslavia, in the area around the Plitvice Lakes. A holiday there is for many Germans a holiday with their childhood fantasies.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Vacation memories.
This signs marks this bird of prey as “protected landscape element”. Seen in the Taunus region, in Germany.
Real cool climbing wall in a school yard.
A small turquoise backpack with …
… coordinated turquoise sun glasses.
An old turquoise door, contrasted by a red sandstone frame.
The most turquoise water I’ve ever seen, in the Plitvice lakes area in Croatia.
And not far behind in turquoise-ness, Lake Brienz in Switzerland.
This is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Teal, Aqua, Seafoam or Turqoise. For more blueish green or greenish blue photos, click here.
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