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My Germany
A couple of weeks ago Bill (http://yellowbear.shutterchance.com) posted an image of his village. I found it interesting to see what it looks like where he lives. So today I am a posting a photograph picture of what it looks like where I live on the country side of northern Germany. This is my daily view. Amazing isn't it? To think before I moved here my daily view was of the old Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, PA. I took this picture a few weeks ago. While the sun was out, it was also bitter cold.
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Kathryn, you're a lucky postage stamp on a pristine picture postcard
Kathryn: Terry, tell me that over and over today. It is gray here and there is not a lick of sun to be found.
Very nice landscape. I love the lines and the melting of browns and greenes ... Well done !!!
Kathryn: Ann, it is just a beautiful region of Germany. Have you ever visited?
Unmistakeably German. Reminds me of my time there.
Kathryn: Chad, where in Germany were you?
nice capture over the glowing hills
Kathryn: Thanks, Chantal. My you are getting wordy
What a lovely view very nice photo,Light on the trees and grass and the shadow make me fthink I am there
Kathryn: Just a lovely place to be. Have you been to Europe?
Oh. Kathryn, this is "my Germany", too, although I don't live in such a beautifully coloured autumn landscape like you! Wonderful is the sunlight which is falling in a broad stripe upon the fields, meadows and trees! The only 'thing' I do miss is the view upwards, for the eyes are always walking up and down, up and down..., but you really can imagine this view. Ein wunderbares Foto, das soviel Stille und Frieden und zugleich Lebensfülle atmet!
Kathryn: Philine. Moving here was so hard for me and very different from what I was used to the in USA (large cities with so much going on all the time), but I've come to really love it here. It is where i need to be now. The sunlight was so precious that day. It was late afternoon when the sun was bright but moving low.
Ich bedanke mich.
Ohhhhh. I know this is Germany, Kathryn, but it could also be some places I have seen in Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the States. The rolling hills, the forests, the farmlands. This for me is Nature at her idyllic best. This is the feeling of Home.
Kathryn: I lived in PA and loved it too. But for me this is unquestionably Germany. Mother Nature has generously blessed us with so many many beautiful things.
Kathryn I love the richness of this shot. Beautiful indeed
Kathryn: Just a great place, Tracy...very lovely here.
wonderful Kathryn you wouldn't think it was that cold looking at your photo, fabulously composed
Kathryn: It is just a very pretty place, Tim.
Excellent landscape - love the textures and angles. You are right - its is special. It just needs a horse to come running down over there.
Kathryn: Louis, they are in the barn right below my house. The farmer has a big stable of horses.
Ah now that's nice. I like the shadows playing against the gentle curves and stiations of the field. Is that a figure half way down the side of the field or just a curious tree trunk?
Kathryn: Thanks, Ian. That is a little chair up high on stilts. I am not really sure what it is for, maybe hunters? But I prefer to think it is for sitting and taking in the view.
alrighty then...now thats a view!! Must be wonderful for the soul after being next to a steel plant. what a brilliant change of lifstyle
Kathryn: Yup, Liam, but the Steel plant was good for parts of my soul too.
To Ian Thompson: named in German " Hochsitz" - yes, for hunters, but also for forest rangers in order to have a look over the forest, the clearing ("Lichtung"), where animals like deers. are gathering in the evening or..
Kathryn: Thanks for the additional information, Philine!
An amazing view indeed! Wonderful light!
Kathryn: Thanks so much,. Jason. It was our alloted day of light
What a beautyful view. I like the textures and the softness of the lighting
Kathryn: Thanks, Richard. Me too.
Nice rich colours. More like an early autumn scene
Kathryn: Oh those colors are amazing in person. Really, I am very lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
I see you, sipping coffee in silence, watching light changes across the field. Maybe you should try following Claude Monet steps and start taking pictures of this view during different time of day and seasons. This would be your Notre-Dame.
Kathryn: VZ, there was a time, just a few years ago, that I mounted a camera on a tripod and set it in the window of my office pointed over the mountain and took a picture a day for almost a year. My idea was to create a time lapse movie.
Your comment has me rethinking the idea.
Great countryside landscape. So green.
Kathryn: Yes, I am not sure what the farmer planted in those fields, but the young plants were just peeking their heads up.
Lovely autumnal tones ... I like the fore ground contour fighting the middle distant slope. Looks as if the original field boundaries have been grubbed out to make larger fields. We had so much of this happening in Britain in the latter decades of the 20th century. At last there are some efforts being to replant some hedge boundaries to encorage wild life to return in greater numbers. Interesting. richard
This is one of those..it ain't a bad old life pictures. Wonderful colours bathed in golden light. This really is my sort of picture.
Kathryn: Bill, one day I will turn the camera the opposite way and take a picture of my village, which is not nearly as interesting and lovely as the farmer's field.
It is truly amazing, you are lucky. This view is worth a fortune.
Kathryn: Eille, thanks. Most likely worth a fortune literally, but I'd pay more for the view.
Excellent again, i like the sweeping lines, textures of thetrees and lighting!
Eine sehr schöne Gegend! I like the slopes and hills we are missing so much in Holland.
Kathryn: Erik, danke sehr. I have posted on picture of Holland http://blinkofaneye.shutterchance.com/photoblog/East_of_the_Sun_ I love the flatlands there. I am in the north central part of Germany close to Der Ith and the Harz Mountains. Rolling hills and beautiful valleys are what we have.
Go out and shoot more landscapes please.
Kathryn: i have a few others from recently if you are serious
Wow! A dream image! Lovely!
Serious, shot some more.
Breathtakingly beautiful landscape!
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