From the air we share

From the air we share is the name of a HUGE mural from FAILE, a Brooklin collectif . Made for the 20th anniversary of our local modern art museum. This is only a small part of it...
An artist at work:

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Caddie art

Part of the 20th anniversary of the modern art museum. I like it! You've seen caddies on the US, Dubai, in your favorite supermarket or airport, but what you might not know is that they made 30 km from here. They're used in over 130 countries.

Flower powers

Behold the powers of flowers, for they make life better

A flower for you!

Just because it's friday.

Waterlilies

The water-lily, in midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9 years on CDP

Yesterday, I went for a little walkabout to Karlsruhe, 80 km away in Germany. Summerly temperatures, 29 degrees C, a balm to my old bones. A bit of celebrating: I started on City Daily Photographers 9 years ago in Barcelona, may 9th, 2009
Karlsruhe offers many nice views, not all of them architectural or botanical...
And

Unity

After reading the very bad news from Washington's swamp, here is a photo, taken tonight around 9 PM, of the tramway bridge across the river Rhine. For us here, it is a symbol of peace and unity, more then just a quick way to go shopping.

Jack

A Monday Mural

A portrait

Portrait of a lady with strange yellow hat. Just a moment in time.

Something you don't see everyday...

...unless you are in Strasbourg, of course. This is a real skeleton of a real, but unfortunately long dead, mammoth, the biggest and best preserved ever found. Or so they say. It is part of a citywide exhibition called "magnificent industry".

A little explaining...This magnificent beast is in a waterproof box, "floating" over fountains. It was bought, for many many euros, by a company specialising in waterproofing. Soon enough, the mammoth will be decorating the entrance of their HQ. Meanwhile, you can see it here.
Should be in a museum, according to me...

Weekend in black and white

Quiet winter night in Portugal.
More b&w here.

OPO

Not Strasbourg today, but Porto airport, aka OPO. I was there for a few days, and I absolutely loved it!

New avatar

To celebrate our modern art museum's 20th anniversary, the city council invited FAILE, 2 artists from Brooklin. They are now busy redecorating the town. So, the main train station has a new avatar ...

Theme day: laugh

It's the monthly City Daily Photographer's theme day! This month's theme: laugh. Well, I don't usually shoot people, so here is an old photo, from my old Barcelona blog, from the times when I first ued HDR photography. Gay Pride, 6 or 7 years ago.
To see what my friends did on this theme, well it's easy! Just click here! And have a laugh!

Freedom, yeah

A Monday Mural, just next to the local refugees administration.
More Monday Murals here.

Petite France

A little painting, the Ponts Couverts, covert bridges

Amazing!

700 years old stonework... I'm always amazed by the sheer quality and beauty of the statues embellishing our cathedral here. This said, no idea who the figures are...
For the last 2 centuries or so, we have a problem here, called pollution. In my youth, the whole cathedral, made of pink stone, was actually black. Continuous, neverending cleaning and restoring (acid rain dissolves stone), and slowly, very slowly, the pink stone reappears. No problems finding a job for stonemasons here!

Weekend in black and white

5 minutes from home... Waiting for the swamp monster to come out for the photo...
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Let the sunshine in!

Sunrise, yesterday morning. Photo taken from my balcony.

1 Place Broglie

A protected art deco building, built by a hairdresser in 1900, with probably the most outstanding door in town!