Cee writes on her block: For a great monochrome photo “look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph”. — Half-timbered houses then for me!
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: any kind of house.
Tag: sepia
Wheels
This wheel is smokin’ … actually, it’s burning.
Wheel and bike are the same words in Germany, so we have a kind of wheely culture here.
These are very old wheels in a mill. They are the reason I’ve chosen sepia for today’s post as the original photo looks hardly any different.
A picnic area specifically for cyclists (others are welcome).
In their old age, wheels can be used as decorative items.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challege: wheels.
More wheels can be found here.
Cropped
This wayside shrine is called Kalter Herrgott (Cold Lord). It is found near the village of Ritschweier in the Odenwald, Germany, on the brow of a hill where cold winds blow.
The barren looks of the fields after the harvest point towards the autumn
even though it is still hot.
With the wind blowing over the stubbles, autumn isn’t far away anymore:
Wenn der Wind über die Stoppelfelder weht, ist der Herbst nicht mehr fern.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge had an open topic this week. Mine was After the Harvest.
Click here to see the contributions of other bloggers.
Pitter patter pattern
Patterns in large and in small architecture throughout the ages (from 774 to 2017).
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge, patterns found outdoors. More patterns are only a click away.
Walls and beams
I adore half-timbered houses and they are so well suited to monochrome photos because of the stark contrast they display.
This house stands in the old part of town of Weinheim.
This one in the even older part of the town (although many don’t know this). Both are a few hundred years old.
A farmhouse from the Odenwald showing the typical stone foundation with the half-timbered first floor and a later finished attic floor with shingles.
All these examples are from the southwest of Germany. But I was in the north a few weeks ago and the styles in houses is completely different.
The contrast in the brickwork again is ideally suited to monochrome photography.
Contrast it is also with this heavily ornamented house.
The sepia-toned photography makes this house – it is part of the monastry of Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site – timeless. It could have been taken 100 years ago, or last summer (which it was).
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the subject of — houses.
Mein Hut, der kennt Geschichten – My hat, it knows some stories
Taking part in Paula’s photo challenge “traces of the past” (in monochrome) I thought it was fitting to showcase a part of my past (no, I’m not THAT old).
This tower – dating back to the second half of the 13th century – has dominated my childhood as it cast its shadow over the garden behind our house. It owes its name “der blaue Hut” (the blue hat) from the former, long gone slate blue roof.
This view shows how it was once part of the town wall of Weinheim an der Bergstraße, Germany, but now stands at the border between the town and the palace grounds.
At night it looks eerie and forbidding – reminiscent of its past as jail.
And from the right angle it complements the ruin of the “Burg Windeck” which is another 150 years older.
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-y2-06-2/
OWPC: Box
It’s a nesting box. A prefabricated family home for birds but not for the birds.
The plaque in German reads: Humans are only a part of the history of creation! We are dependant on all living creatures on our **earth**.
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/04/26/one-word-photo-challenge-box/
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