There is no such thing as a Gruffalo!
Oh yes, there is! And it lives in our woods. The illustrator Axel Scheffler was there for the Gruffalo’s birthday and the unveiling of the sculpture:
For Six Word Saturday. More six word musings can be found on Travel with Intent.
When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth. This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.
Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.
A rusty sculpture at this winter’s light display at the Luisenpark in Mannheim.
For more banana mania coloured photos click here.
I tried to find three subjects with a dominant one in the grid position denoting the rule of three.
For A Photo a Week Challenge: The rule of thirds.
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
— Ansel Adams
More photos inspired by the quote of Ansel Adams can be found on Debbie’s site, click here.
This gilded tribute to the three men who made Birmingham great, – referred to alternatively as The Carpet Salesmen or The Three Wise Men – is the city’s thank you to James Watt, William Murdoch and Matthew Boulton. They certainly used a lot of gold.
A Photo a Week. For more gilded photos (literal or otherwise) click here.
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