The interplay of light and shadow creates atmosphere. Last week I was at a small game reserve stocked with bisons, fallow deer, and wild boars. I normally would call it the golden hour but it turned out to be more of a silver hour. The … Continue reading The Flavour of Light
I was never a girlie girl and could probably be classed as a tomboy. Except when I visited my father in his office when I still little. Then I fantasized to be a princess. Who could blame me if he worked in such a wonderful … Continue reading Fantasy Is a Mirror
Let’s start this off with the poster boy of green: Fresh greens, green bars, mini jungle. Not quite as fresh. Green from above, reduced to a pattern. And finally, a heart of green. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green
Run-up to Halloween. Eleventh day of October. Night.
Not really the King’s nor any king’s but this is the castle of a town called Bad König, currently used as the town hall and originally built by a Count to Erbach.
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at least for the moment.
This is castle Rennhof in Hüttenfeld. Built in the mid 19th century in the style Empire, it has been used as a Lithuanian School, the only official Lithuanian school in Western Europe.
This is Castle Neckarhausen, built and rebuild since the mid 17th century, the last major remodelling happened in the early 19th century in the neoclassicist style.
And one more time the Baroque style of Mannheim Palace.
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These are windows from the Heidelberg Castle (Renaissance), Gersfeld, Schwetzingen and Mannheim palace (all three Baroque buildings).
Heidelberg, Mannheim and Schwetzingen are in close proximity of each other – one can see that sandstone is a prevalent building material in the area. Gersfeld is not that far away, about the same distance from Frankfurt to the north-east as the others are south.
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Paula over at Black & White Sunday was asking once again for traces of the past and posted a beautiful shot of Bamburgh Castle on the north east coast of England. I decided to go closer and show a close up of a stones, in this case of the portcullis of a castle’s entrance, in this case of — Bamburgh Castle on the north east coast of England.
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I loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it. It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.
And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower, I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).
This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim. It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.
And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
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