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Month: September 2020
Travel Tuesday: don’t use the bridge anymore
Monochrome Monday 7-23
Here we are at a glacier lagoon in southern Iceland. About half a kilometer to the right the glacier ends. It’s Sólheimajökull and not the more famous Jökulsárlón which is further east.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 116: “symmetry”
This week, Patti is the host for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she asks for symmetric images.
You can find symmetry in nature, but more often you can find it in architecture or man-made gardens (i.e. around renaissance chateaus). In nature, the petals of blossoms are very often symmetric and the leaves of many plants. Also, legs, arms, eyes, ears, wings, and many inner organs of animals and humans.
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do you remember me ?

More of my images can be seen on my own blog.
do you remember me ?
5 years of Instagram

Wordless Wednesday: redshenk
Travel Tuesday: abandoned castle
Monochrome Monday 7-22
Lens-Artists Photo Challange 115: “Inspiration”
It’s Tina‘s turn, this week. She picked “Inspiration” as the subject for this week’s challenge. Challenge accepted 🙂
I’m always inspired by nature. Mother nature (or the God behind) found so many different ways to solve problems of life. Where i.e. one species of insect-eating bird would be enough we find thousands. Where one kind of plant would be enough to keep the soil in place, we find thousands. Gazillions of different kinds of living creatures inhabit this wonderful planet: mammals, birds, saurians, amphibians, fishes, trees, bushes, plants, and so on. And all these different kinds of landscapes. Our wonderful planet is so rich. Or, like Sam Cook once sang: Its a wonderful world.
Now, I could simply add nearly all of my images here in a gallery. But, I only pick some to demonstrate the beauty of this planet.
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Throwback Thursday: 3 months ago today
Wordless Wednesday: barnacle geese
Travel Tuesday: Sheep? Sheep!
While preparing for my first trip to Iceland, I was told the landscape of the Isle of Skye in the north-west of Scotland is quite similar to Iceland. And I have to admit, those people were right. Not only the untamed landscape, low bushes, and sparse ground covering, it’s also the huge amount of rock laying around everywhere and the free-running sheep. Only the colors are different: in Iceland, the rocks are black instead of gray and the ground covering has a very intense green which looks a bit unreal.
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Monochrome Monday 7-21
Lens-Artists Photo Challange 114: “Negative Space”
Negative space isn’t something negative as you might assumed when reading the subject of this blog post. It’s a kind of emphasizing your main subject in photography by having quite a lot ’empty’ room around your main subject. You can find many examples here in my blog or on my Instagram account.
This week Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is hosted by Amy and she picked “Negative space” to challenge us.
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stuck in endless movements
Throwback Thursday: It’s harvest time
Saturday before last, we got a call by a good friend telling us, the grapes in their garden were ripe and have to be harvested before they were eaten completely by the birds. So, on Sunday we headed north-west to visit them with a bunch of buckets in the rear trunk. Just like last year.
In the evening we came back with 4 * 10 liter + 1 * 15-liter buckets full of ripe, blue grapes. That made a total of about 26 kg. During the next 3 days, the juice was extracted from the grapes. A total of about 15 liters of juice came out of the fruits. The raw juice was further processed to some glasses of jam (~20), a few bottles of very tasty juice (8), some liqueur, and a Schiacciata all’uva, an Italian grape bread, were the result.
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Wordless Wednesday: watch guard
Travel Tuesday: rocks on the beach
Monochrome Monday 7-20
Lens-Artists Challenge #113 – “Labors of love”
Today, we have a guest host for Lens-Artists Challenge: it’s Rusha Sams from “Oh, the places we see”
So, I picked several images from my archive showing people at work. Enjoy!
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Fomitopsidaceae
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Throwback Thursday: up in the air
Eight years ago I did my first hot air balloon trip. What an experience!
Did you ever do such a flight?
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