It started with this bunch of deep red tulips this Easter. I was very taken by that dark, rich, red colour.
Linked to I’m a fan of … #63. More fanatical photos can be found here.
Tag: tulips
Seasonal warmth
Beautiful flowers,
tulips,
and echinacea,
and the beautiful feet who might trample them.
Pink and orange it is.
For more pinks and oranges go to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
Dear spring, hurry the hell up!
More sixers can be found at Six Word Saturday
Shapely tulips
The One Word Sunday challenge asked for shape. It’s so drab outside I wanted to look at some colour – and tulips have a very distinguishable shape, too.
More shapely photos can be found here.
Two thirds can make a whole
Cee’s next challenge is concerned with “Using 2/3 of your photo frame” just the opposite from the previous one.
I’ll start off with a gnarled treebark where the background was so light that it showed off completely white and featureless making the bark almost into a cut-out.
This was a “naturally occurring” 2/3 – a graveside flowerbed in a display of such plantings at the German horticultural show in Brandenburg an der Havel. These small plots showed off gardening en miniature and since it was also a competition for gardeners meticulously cared for, I watched a gardener trim a bed with something that looked like nail scissors. In this case the colourful display contrasted with the two variety of greens of the border.
A macro of a tulip – the spring colours at the moment are stunning. The dark green leaves in the out-of-focus range form the perfect contrast to the bright orange of the blossom.
The same botanical garden features this abundance of tulips. In both shots the colour covers two thirds. I think I prefer the second photo – neither of which I would have taken like this before reading Cee’s essay.
One more flower shot, this time another landscape photo shot from below to block out anything but the clear blue sky in the upper third.
A cockerel contrasted by the green bokeh behind and to the left.
And to finish off a close-up of a white pony.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #10 Using 2/3 of your photo frame
How many roads
“Leading lines” – #5 in Cee’s challenge which is really a class which so much to learn!
This shot would have probably been better without the pole in the middle but I was trapped behind windows in an airport when I took it.
The obvious choice, a path, a wall, a vanishing point. This photo was taken at the German national garden show in Brandenburg an der Havel, at the wall encircling the old church district.
Agriculture tends to thrive on lines.
So thus architecture.
I used the Roker Beach lighthouse before but how could I not?
Completely different water, and a bridge rather than a pier. That’s the Moseltalbrücke which at its highest point is 218m high.
And finally, a somewhat quirky office building in the town of Heimsberg in North-Rhine Westphalia.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #5 Leading Lines
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