Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Vanishing Point.
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Frigid heat
A snowball with a flame inside.
Ice cold digestif.
Hot foamed cappuccino.
Linked to Black & White Photo Challenge: Hot or Cold Things.
We like to sing!
The seal of approval by the German choir association awarded to nursery schools which excel in music education. It reads: We like to sing!
A verse of a well-known and well-liked children’s song, sung by children waiting for St Nicolas:
- Let us all be cheery and bright
- And look forward to Nicolas’ night.
- Merrily, merrily, ding ding dong!
- It’s Nicolas evening before too before long.
The verse is part of a mural on the side of the Hornbacher Steinhäusel in a village in the Odenwald. The rest of the description reads:
“- and those who don’t know any better and don’t believe it should come with us to the Krähberg, to the proper Steinhäusel, to experience St Nicolas’ evening with the village youths, which is happening every year.”
Click here to listen to the song in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvXugiij3U
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Music.
Selective splash
I’ve spent far too much time trying out different photo editing tools online for this post of the Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale asks for a “splash of colour” this week. I’ve played around with them, using different methods. I haven’t found one that works satisfactorily, particularly the automatic colour spotting didn’t work really well in any programme. These are the results:
This poppy was the most labourious as it involved rendering the photo b&w first, then manually colouring the blossom sepia, then first enhancing the contrast, changing the hue, and finally using “saturate”.
Here is the same poppy in a slightly different shot with plain colour spotting.
This cornflower was fairly simple, just manually blocking the colour everywhere but the blossom.
.With this mirror I used a blunt tool to highlight the colour (and finally changing it to green).
This was an automatic colour selective tool but the tolerance couldn’t be adjusted properly and there was no eraser or reverse tool to be applied manually.
And finally the angel and the rose – an automatic colour spotting tool but I had severe problems of downloading the result without signing up (which didn’t want just for the use of one tool) – and it only worked once.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: A splash of colour.
Knowing where to stand
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Cameras or Photographers.
I sit this one out
What a lovely place to sit in the garden (until the cherries ripen and they start dropping down and leaving stains).
You don’t have to sit on a bench, you know.
And some benches I don’t want to sit on (btw that’s a bench on an autobahn rest area, i.e. the large garbage can is necessary, I guess).
And last not least a dedicated bench for pensioners who need a rest during shopping.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Benches.
Short and sweet
In German, kurz means short. It is also a fairly common family name.
Ducks have fairly short legs.
Which normally doesn’t inconvenience them much.
For other species it can create an advantage or an obstacle, depending on the terrain and intention.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: things that are short.
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