Tea roses

Do they have the colour of tea? Do you put them on the tea table? Or do they smell like tea?

So many questions and so little time ;-)

Reaching out

I don't remember for what exactly, probably for his mum.

Another little flower

.. and exactly the colour that was still missing in this garden:

Life In A Day

I was thinking whether or not I should somehow contribute to the movie, picturing life on the 24 July but then I don't have a video camera and I think time lapse films are not permitted. So my contribution is a photo:

The upside of summer rain

Yesterday, it rained for most of the day, to a point that it started to depress me. But when it was over, I could take this picture:

Blooming Bags

Flowers don't just grow on lawns and in gardens, they grow EVERYWHERE! ;-)

Italy?

Little towers on Würzburg Castle that have kind of an Italian feel to them - at least to me:

Far Far Away

...I've seen the morning in the mountains of Alaska
I've seen the sunset in the east and in the west...

Industry meets Nature

... in Würzburg:

Improving the world

R., my student, came in this morning with a little bouquet of cornflowers in a glass of water. "My contribution to improving the world", she said which referred to our conversation on Tuesday. "Beautiful", I said. "Perfect for decorating the classroom." "They are to take with you..." And so I did:

Batman's own church in Würzburg

.. created in his image ;-)

The beginning of a wonderful friendship

... or just a chance encounter in the park?

Monochrome Nature

Finally a really good insect picture and I noticed too late that my camera was still set on black and white (had been taken application photos before but that's a whole other story). Anyway, I ended up liking it, especially for its sharpness and so here it is:

Sunset in the East

What, the sun is setting in the west? Sunrise is in the east? So what, this is still an eastern cloud, lit up by the setting sun:

Catch!

I'm quite proud of this shot as I caught the exact moment at the Parade der Kulturen when these two players of the Frankfurt Football Club jumped for the ball:

The colour purple*

A clover blossom with some "artificial dew", shot with my macro lens and a relatively wide aperture.

*not the movie

Opera-goer

This little guy is an Old-Opera-bunny, not to be confused with the ECBunnies we met before. The opera bunnies are a little bigger, more cultured and outgoing ;-)

Oh and I noticed only now how the morning sun is shining through his (her?) ear, making it look almost transparent.

Little pink thing

There was a whole bush of these flowers, some were a powdery blue with a pink rim, some pink with a purple rim and some greenish with a blue rim. I picked this one (not literally):

Hunter

This little birdy is either building its nest or just came back from a successful grass and worm hunt...

The next generation

The next generation is rising high!


PS: No post processing but I used a polarisation filter to get the sky so incredibly blue - not that it wasn't blue before..

Light Leaf

The morning sun shining through a leaf ... next time I'll get up a bit earlier because by 10.30, it had become surprisingly hot already!

Modern architecture

Seen from a different angle, the city's architecture can seem quite different...

Radio Silence

"I've got nothing more to say to you." - "Back at you!"

The joys of getting up early

I dragged myself out of bed at 5.45 am (which surprisingly is much easier in summer when the sun gets up before you ;-) ) and looked at the sky just to check how it was doing. It was doing good:

PS: The post processing I did was contrast, lowering the colour temperature a bit (to make the sky just that tad more sky-blue) and sharpening for the net.

Parade der Kulturen: Ecuador

With this feathered young man from Ecuador, the parade ends for now. I still have a bunch of photos I haven't shown you yet so I might upload them some time later.

Parade der Kulturen: Madagascar

I want to show that I am not partial to women, so here a photo of a drummer boy from Madagascar:


Here the partially desaturated version (which I think is my favourite):


In sepia:


and black and white:


Which one do you like best after all?

Parade der Kulturen: Indonesia

I took so many pictures at that parade, quite a few of which turned out alright, so I decided to make the planned week 10 days instead.
Indonesia alone is so amazingly colourful that I felt the need to upload 3 photos.

Parade der Kulturen: Spain

The representative for Spain is this young Flamenco dancer:


PS: The post processing I did here was increasing contrast, cloning out some of the background and sharpening for the net.

Parade der Kulturen: Vietnam

This is one of the Vietnamese refugees who have been in living in Frankfurt for ten years now:

Parade der Kulturen: Colombia

Another one of Latin America's beauties in her traditional costume:

Parade der Kulturen: Brazil

With the sun, the warmth and the beautiful women, it just felt a little more Brazilian. There were so many pretty girls and women from all over the world in this parade! And here's a question: Why do women have no problem pointing out that another girl is pretty while you would never hear a (straight) guy say: 'Wow, look at him, he's handsome!'?


PS: The post processing I did was blurring the background (stupid photographers in the way everywhere ;-) ), increasing contrast a little and sharpening.