Monochrome Madness #19: Steps or Stairs
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(with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien)


Going up is exhausting. Going down is painful (for my knees). But it was placed in my way.
I’ve just come back from the Middle Rhine wine region (between Bingen and Koblenz), part of which is a UNESCO heritage site. It is quite breathtaking to see the steep slope vineyards on either side. Getting up the steps between the different vineyards must be even more breathtaking, literally.
Step up!
New Steps in Edinburgh
Bell tower of St Bartholomew cathedral in Plzeň
Steps in Günzburg, Bayern
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Steps – Indoors or outdoors
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The colour in these photos have not been changed, they are naturally desaturated.
Is it steps? Is it a ladder? There are arguments for both.
Almost no meadow without a raised hide in the Odenwald. Usually the climb up is quite steep.
That’s why dads like to keep close.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Steps or ladders.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Steps.




For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: steps indoors and out. Mine happen to be all outdoors.
For more steps and stairs, click here.

Cee’s Black and White challenge asks for steps and stairs. Most of my choices are outdoor steps.
Nature versus city, the dunes near Bamburgh Castle in the Northeast of England versus steps in Mainz, Germany.
Steps as seats – both in Birmingham. Thomas Attwood on the steps of Chamberlain square who fought for full employment and better democractic representation and city workers on their break (of which Thomas Attwood would have approved).
These rather spidery steps lead over an area which is left untouched to show how nature is recovering after the devastation left behind by the hurricane Lothar which swept through the area in 1999 . The steps on the left are from Edinburgh, Scotland.

The New Steps is a street (with steps) in Edingburgh.
And these are new steps in metal, rather than stone. Going up the spiral stairs near the Biosphärenhaus in the Pfälzer Wald, and going down to the subway in Munich.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/09/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-steps-indoors-or-outdoors/
