Contributing to Lucile de Godoy’s 101 Photo Rehab, and an addition to my last two posts – check out the other great entries for the rehab! You are in for some inspiration.
Tag: Travel
A Montpellier Walk
A contribution for Jo’s Monday Walks: You get to see so many pretty things in Montpellier that we could not leave out one single alleyway. So while this was our last visit before heading back home, there will be a few more pictures from this great city.
Portes de Pézenas | 2
Portes de Pézenas | 1
The Photo 101 Rehab is a great thing, but I rarely participate. So here’s a contribution for Lucile which might be long overdue.
Pézenas
Again, a contribution for Jo’s Monday Walks: We did a lot of walking in the towns of southern France, and here are some impressions from Pézenas’ old centre, soon to be followed by some more doors.
Celles
There is a Mairie, a mayor’s office where the notices on the board look new, and a church that appears well maintained. But the houses around the two buildings are crumpling, some roofs have already caved in, some walls have come down. People left some 50 years ago when the Salagou river was dammed to form Lac du Salagou. The inhabitants were compensated and moved to other places because once the water was there the village would not. But someone apparently had not done their maths, and now Celles is by the water rather than under it: A ghost town most beautifully situated at the lake shore.
Celles was one of the first places we visited when we were in France. And it might have been here that I had a hunch I should photograph traces: In this abandoned village you could not really be sure which trace was left at what time. The pictures seem to evoke a sense of chronology: When did the blue rope in the fourth photo enter the picture?
This is my contribution for Paleica’s Magic Letters: V – Verlassen, verloren, vergessen [Left, lost, forgotten].
Au-dessous
“Unten” (“below”) is what Austrian blogger Paleica wished for in her Magic Letters photo challenge. You might like to check it out since the different approaches are amazing. | All the above “Untens” were made in France, hence the title.
On Doors
Coming home with a bunch of photos of doors I found that Paleica’s Magic Letters Photo Challenge features T – Türen und Tore (doors and portals). So here are some things I found upon closer inspection.
The Changing Seasons: May
Another month has passed since the last post for this challenge. I thought it was time for a change in perspective. I added the third picture to prove we are still in the same place: On my way to work, behind the parliament of the federal state.
Kurhaus III
Kurhaus II
All the stone and glass and brass come to my inner eye when I think of Kurhaus, where last Monday’s walk ended. So I see this as a sort of sequel to last week’s contribution to Jo’s Monday Walks: I never quite succeeded in picturing this feeling of transition into a space that feels old and otherworldly in a way (where you would not be surprised to encounter Mr. Dostoevsky). These pictures are getting very close now.
2/3. Faces of Hamburg
Though these pictures were made in the course of two different walks, I saved them for Jo’s Monday Walk – they just seem adequate because they were literally made en passant. And they show different faces of the same city: nostalgic, rough, sumptuous, utilitarian. The latter two are less than 200 meters apart, by the way, while the first two are not far from the Elbe river.
Afloat. Adrift. Ashore.
Ever the optimist, I guess: When I read this week’s photo challenge, I immediately had to think of the waste afloat on our oceans. Well, here is my contribution: What goes around, comes around. Literally.
Depth
Who would fathom the depth* of the little harbor of Goes (Holland)? I was not up to it: too cold! | *Today’s theme at the Weekly Photo Challenge. Head over for an in-depth browsing through beautiful photos!
A Walcheren Walk
A Monday walk in early January took us south-east from Zoutelande. We did not quite reach Dishoek though on account of the icy wind. The breakwaters lent themselves to trying some abstract photography though, before we found a bit of shelter in the dunes on our way back (along with some WW II bunkers which were photographed with black and white film and will be part of my “Fragments of a Language of Terror”).
Panorama Normand
This picture was made last year, and scanned, and then put aside. I stumbled upon it when I looked for panoramas for Paula’s Black and White Sunday – and realized (yet again) that it sometimes takes me a while to come to appreciate a picture.
Tuscan Doors
Two different types of angular.
Downtown Strolls
When we walk, it is often without a planned route, just seeing where our feet take us (I will elaborate on that later, when I show photos from my favourite walk, and when it will be more appropriate). Strolling in Hamburg, we visited Chilehaus (above, top left) and the Danske Hus just opposite (bottom left). We also lingered around St. Nikolai (above, top right, and mirrored in the modernist building beyond) and wondered just how many buildings were undergoing reconstruction.
When in Hamburg, one cannot help going maritime. Close to the harbour, someone will inevitably display a ship’s propeller. This one had a brass plaque mirroring the opposite building…
Once we reach the water, we find a variety of bollards with a variety of coins on them.
If you have enjoyed this walk, head over to Jo’s Monday Walk for more walking, strolling and looking around other corners of the world.
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A Minimal Glimpse at Hamburg
A contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge – from Hamburg, because that’s where I got off in my last post, promising Jo a walk in the city…
Toscana
Answering to this photo challenge – a very nice one!
empire of lights 