Tag: Abstract Photography
Zwischen Baum und Borke
“Zwischen Baum und Borke” literally means: between the tree and its bark. While Germans can be stuck there, the English would rather be stuck between a rock and a hard place. [Those of you who subscribe to this blog will know that I love those relics of trees; they were photographed in the same area as the two most recent Watching the Game posts.]
Watching the Game [3]
Point
Watching the Game [2]
Black and white, whole and broken, natural and man-made: Here are some contrasts for the Weekly Photo Challenge..
Watching the Game [1]
Wall Variations
Radical
In addition to these radically cut trees – a sight not uncommon in early spring here – I would like to draw your attention to a new short essay about equipment (see the link here).
Break on Through
Two monuments, not far from where I live – my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
Holzwege V
Holzwege IV
Port de Fécamp
It’s probably time for a dash of colour here, and some reflections too.
Burg Eppstein
Inside? Outside? That’s always hard to tell when you visit a castle ruin…
Holzwege III
“Ein jegliches hat seine Zeit”
Life cycles: “a time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting” (Ecclesiastes 3; the German quote is from the same text) – they rarely become as visible as during a walk in the woods, especially once you stoop to contemplate the smaller things…
Ironworks. Up!
The ironworks shown here and in earlier posts are Völklinger Hütte (Völklingen Ironworks) in Saarland. Founded in 1873, they are now defunct. However the factory is now a World Heritage cultural site open to visitors.
Most of the pictures show details of the blast furnaces proper. More pictures taken on the top platform can be seen either here or in the Industrial Zone Gallery.
Walking the site felt like being in a strange yet exciting dream… I think that for anyone visiting Germany, these ironworks would counterpoint places like Heidelberg or Neuschwanstein very nicely.
Ironworks. Corroded.
“Beyondless.”
A place. Where none. A time when try see. Try say. How small. How vast. How if not boundless bounded. Whence the dim. Not now. Know better now. Unknow better now. Know only no out of. No knowing how know only no out of. Into only. Hence another. Another place where none. Whither once whence no return. No. No place but the one. None but the one where none. Whence never once in. Somehow in. Beyondless. Thenceless there. Thitherless there. Thenceless thitherless there.
Where then but there see –
See for be seen. Misseen. From now see for be misseen.
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Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho | This is part five of five. A short introduction can be found in part one.
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“Somehow Standing.”
It stands. See in the dim void how at last it stands. In the dim light source unknown. Before the downcast eyes. Clenched eyes. Staring eyes. Clenched staring eyes.
That shade. Once lying. Now standing. That a body? Yes. Say that a body. Somehow standing. In the dim void.
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Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho | This is part four of five. A short introduction can be found in part one.
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“Meremost Minimum.”
Dim light source unknown. Know minimum. Know nothing no. Too much to hope. At most mere minimum. Meremost minimum.
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last. Not now. Fail better worse now.
Another. Say another. Head sunk on crippled hands. Vertex vertical. Eyes clenched. Seat of all. Germ of all.
No future in this. Alas yes.
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Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho | This is part three of five. A short introduction can be found in part one.
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empire of lights 