Green_Knight

@green-knight

Freelance editor/copyeditor, SFF reader/writer, classical dressage nerd, landscape historian, Swift developer. Prefer they/them.

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Green_Knight@green-knight· 22d

'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag Meine Lieblingsulme. Penrhos, Anglesey, soll für ein Feriendorf gefällt werden. Wir haben fast alle im Ulmensterben verloren, da tut das besonders weh.

The elder stateselm, Penrhos, Anglesey. A great gnarly trunk branching left across a path and almost upright, cropped to a height of 3m or so.

This tree has seen some shit. One of the last healthy old elms of the UK, threatened by plans to turn the area into a massive holiday village nobody wants or needs.

Green_Knight@green-knight· 26d

'Verlorene Schuhe' #FotoVorschlag Ich habe eine ganze Sammlung. Dieser Schuh wurde vor ein paar Tagen verloren, und sorgsam and Geländer geklettert; am nächsten Tag war er weg. Hoffentlich mit seinem Freund vereint.

A teal child’s sandal with a cheerful pattern velcroed to a railing at our local green. The pucture is moderately closely cropped so that only part of the railing can be seen.
Very lonely, very visible. The bare tarmac and the stark iron railing bring out the contrast to the happy shoe; I hope it found its way home.

Green_Knight@green-knight· 28d

'Überwiegend weiss' #FotoVorschlag Schafgarbe. Fast hätte ich ein Bild vom ‘Rasen’ gewählt, der ist aber etwas gelblicher.

Multiple umbrella-shaped yarrow flowers against a slightly blurred greyish path with a triangular shadow adding interest. Yarrow isn’t the prettiest flower, but it will do.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jul 13

'Sonnenschutz' #FotoVorschlag Waren nur 30 Grad mit einer frischen Brise. Rückansicht wegen Privatsphäre: einer mit Baseball Kappe und Sonnenbrille, eine mit Stoffzelt zum drunter-verkriechen (eben noch Arme erhoben auf Schulterbreite), einer die Hand so platziert, das das Handy lesbar bleibt)

Three people walking on a hot day. The teenager at the back raising his hand to shade his phone screen and the guy on front with baseball hat and sunglasses aren’t uncommon sights. The lady in the middle who hides under a piece of fabric which she has draped over her head was a more unusual sight.
Parched, yellow grass, if you can still call it that and dusty looking trees provide the background.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jul 9

'Rotes in deiner Umgebung JETZT' #FotoVorschlag Ein T-Shirt, klatschnass. Ausgezogen für die zweite Dusche des Tages. Spazierengehen by 32 Grad bringt das halt mit sich.

A very crumpled and very damp T-shirt, chucked over a small red stepladder, the veneer of a folding table in the background. This T-shirt is soaked.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 27

'Heavy Metal' #FotoVorschlag Da muß Henry Moore noch mal ranhalten.

Another Henry Moore sculpture, this time green copper (exhibited in Kew Gardens). I can’t even describe it. Seen from diagonal perspectives it’s all struts and a large ball-like object inside, twisted and turning.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 24

'Großstadt in der Nacht' #FotoVorschlag Smithfield Market. Größter Fleischmarkt in Europa, von Mitternacht (um 3 geht’s richtig los) bis 7 am Morgen, manchmal auch ein bißchen länger. (Bin nur vorbeigelaufen; um die Zeit kauf ich nicht ein. Erst recht nicht mit Kühltasche in der U-Bahn.)

Smithfield Market, ca 7pm on a grey, wet day. A large white lorry with a Dutch company name is unloading; a second lorry can be spotted in the distance. In the foreground to the right, some white and green e-bikes, a red postbox, a very sodden pedestrian rushing past. The rain gives the whole scene a slightly surreal feeling. Golden hour is over, night has not yet fully begun.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 21

'Dutch Angle' #FotoVorschlag de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_A... Wenigstens wurde das Kind nicht vergessen…

A brick wall that looks like it runs steeply uphill (a lie in front of a pinkish apartment building. On it sits a child car seat, black with a fluffy white padded interior. I’m sure the parent put it down for a second while they wrangled the kid. Hours later, it was still there.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 19

'Beschirmt' #FotoVorschlag Neu beschirmt ist dieser Platz im neu angelegten Kohlenstoff-Garten in Kew. (Hier stand ein toller Schieferbrunnen. <sniff>)

A large wooden mushroom offering shelter to curved benches. This is part of the new carbon garden. The sky is blue, the sun is scorching; multiple people appreciate the shade.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 15

Immer noch nicht die Katastrophe, die ich erhofft hatte: Noise, 'near Brightness' und mehrere mystische Filter wie 'Atmosphäre'. Und eine falsche Sonne. Der Effect ist... gar nicht mal so übel.

The same teazles with a fake sunburst, a light outline, against a darker background. I tried to make this into a bad edit and... kinda like it?

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 15

Und hier sind sie mit dem bewußt unscharfen Hintergrund von Schilf am Seeufer. Keine Wolke in Sicht.

Teazles straight out of the camera. The background is a blurred sea of Reeds at the shore of a lake, uniformly light brown, with lighter and darker bits adding just a touch of texture and interest and maybe a hint of green here and there. Not a single cloud in sight.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 15

'Übertriebene Nachbearbeitung' #FotoVorschlag Hatte eigentlich eine andere Gräuslichkeit im Sinn, aber dann ist mir die Maus ausgerutscht, und die KI (Luminar Neo) meinte, dies sei, was ich wollte. Ganz bestimmt. Blauer Himmel, Schäfchenwolken. Was könnte schöner sein? Kardendisteln, mal... anders.

The heads of several teazles, some overlapping, some isolated. The AI integral in my editing software swapped the background for a blue sky. It has yellow streaks throughout, because the original had no sky, so the isolation was a bit... imprecise. In return, one of the teazles now has a blue stem.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Jun 15

'Objekte die mit "K" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Kartoffel. Im Blumenbeet, bei uns im Park. Wie die da wohl hingekommen ist?

It’s a potato surrounded by somewhat straggly grass. In a public park, in a flower bed. It lies on the surface, plump and well-shapen.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 31

'Nahaufnahme Natur' #FotoVorschlag Eisenhut, ein entfernter Verwandter der Butterblume, soll gegen Werwölfe helfen. Wer weiß. Giftpflanze des Jahres 2005. Mit Hummel.

Aconite/Wofsbane, close up and in beautiful purple colour. The foliage takes up around a third of the image. A bumble bee, seen from behind, is stuffing its face.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 26

'Museum' #FotoVorschlag Nach langer Reise hat Birnam Wood das Britische Museum erreicht.

The space in front of the British Museum (corner of which juts into a dramatic sky from the right of the picture). It is transformed from a wide open empty space to one with birch trees. This provides shade as well as seats. Not shown: far fewer people sitting on the museum steps than usual.
I’m not sure how happy the trees are about people sitting on their roots, which are wrapped up in canvas, but I hope they get enough TLC to thrive.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 21

'Straßenkunst ohne Graffitti' #FotoVorschlag London, Islington, am Regent’s Kanal

Greyscale painting on a white wall. It shows the head of a black woman looking somewhat shocked, one hand raised and resting against her lips. A barrel planted with greenery and a couple of stacked tables from the cafe next door are not in her line of sight. Instead, she’s looking at the canal. Whatever she saw is long gone.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 20

'Unter der Brücke' #FotoVorschlag … ist kein Platz für eine Kamera. Hier bleibt der Wasserstand geregelt.

A brick road bridge in dappled sunlight with leafy trees around it. Four inches below the straight bottom edge is a bright green cabal feeder showing an assortment of old furniture, bottles, and unidentifiable objects.

There’s water underneath, but the surface is pea green sludge. I would not try to walk on it, but it’s not far off solid.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 19

'Ball (Das runde Ding)' #FotoVorschlag Zaun: gut Container: gut Ballspiele: richtig gut Zaun + Container + Ballspiele: Problematisch

A trap for balls. Between the fence and an old shipping container lie all the balls that have come down at just the wrong angle.
Now they are trapped, while elder and brambles tease them from both sides of the steel mesh fence and the grass looks on silently.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 17

'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag Leichte Flauschwolken, frühsommerlich. Welsh Harp Reservoir, mitten in London.

An over abundance of death carrots, sorry, cow parsley rendering a meadow nearly white. A hawthorn flowers off to the right, many other trees dot the horizon. Above a sky in median blue is invaded by a light fluffy cloud, diving into the picture with its beak opened, ready to devour something.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 15

'Asymmetrisch' #FotoVorschlag Henry Moore, ‘Double Oval’, zur Zeit in Kew Gardens. Diese Skulpturen sind für die freie Natur gemacht, und die Ausstellung lädt dazu ein, durchzugucken und die Landschaft mal anders zu betrachten.

Two large asymmetrical Bronze rings – finds sorta rings, with a square edge on one side and all skewed and not entirely in line with each other in typical gigantic rounded Henry Moore style. To the left of the sculpture you can see the palm house in the distance; through the sculpture you can only see a solid chunk of a tree.

Green_Knight@green-knight· May 12

'Abseits der Touristen-Pfade' #FotoVorschlag Auch in einer Touristenattraktion wie Klee gibt es unentdeckte Ecken. Diese hier ist privat. Was sich da wohl versteckt?

A private corner of Kew Gardens. To the left, the plant family gardens, open and sunny. Right in the middle, a fence with a somewhat overgrown sign saying ‘private’. To the right, a gravel path sneaking along the fence with wildly overgrown margins. They lead into a deep dark wood, destination unknown.
Most off limit areas in Kew are glasshouses and gardening stores, but this path is too narrow for a wheelbarrow.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 21

'Gebrauchsspuren' #FotoVorschlag Diese Tasche hat so einiges gesehen. Keine Ahnung wie’s um den Inhalt steht.

A rather beaten up guitar case – or maybe viola? I’m big certain – dumped outside a house entrance, leaning sgaindt a moss-infested bricks. In the background is a whole array of rubbish bins; the foreground is uneven flagstones with done rubbish and dry leaves.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 20

'Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)' #FotoVorschlag Schwere Aufgabe! Ein dunkelgrüner Abfallbehälter der Erinnerungen an Star Wars hervorrief. Und Gras. Aber sonst hätte ich noch wesentlich weiter blättern müssen.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 20

I have a whole collection of discarded fruit. I started with banana skins, but oranges are REALLY popular in my neighbourhood.

Discarded orange peel, nearly intact on the pavement. Some twigs and what looks like a broken scart round off the left edge of the picture.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 20

'Einsamkeit' #FotoVorschlag Dieser einsame Einkaufswagen hat die jährliche Migration nicht überlebt. Es gibt viele Gefahren, die diese scheuen Individuen auf ihrer langen Reise erwarten.

A shopping trolley in a clear watercourse, cruelly ripped apart and stranded. The predator cannot be identified. The reflections of trees and some leaves hide the concrete brutality of the environment. Branches and other plant materials are partly hiding the yet-bright metal construction, but soon, it will be swept away to rest in the trolley graveyard further down the stream.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 14

'Ziemlich schräg' #FotoVorschlag Bisschen schräg steht sie schon da, die Kirsche. Hab dann noch mal nachgeholfen.

A young cherry tree, slightly askew. If you angle the photo ca. 55 degrees to the left, it grows up straight; a young tree with a mass of pink flowers. The bottom corner is in shade, followed by a very large tree area, a row of trees on the horizon; a layer of white clouds, and a blue sky that gets darker and darker.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 12

'Was ist das? (Ratespiel)' #FotoVorschlag So hatte ich mir das Urlaubsende nicht vorgestellt, mit Ratespiel, auch wenn ich dank Tagesthema vorgewarnt war. Ein Tip: Mae’n gas gyda fi llygod! (Mehr im – englischen – Alttext.) Aufgesaugt ist’s.

These are the scattered remnants of a near-full packet of one of my favourite teas, which the mice got into, and scattered in the floor. There’s a teabag label stuck in the middle, and a couple of corners of shelves in the kitchen. You might think this was dropped, but no: we left the corridor impeccable and we did not gnaw a hole into the bag.

We have almost everything food related sealed away. Never thought tea would be a target.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 11

'Ungewöhnliche Situation' #FotoVorschlag Hier ist der Weg zu Ende. Einfach zugemacht. (Ist gut, das Reparaturen ausgeführt werden, dieser Weg führt über einem Bach entlang, wenn da die Bohlen nachgeben, wird’s weniger witzig.) War aber etwas überraschend.

A boardwalk, well, half a boardwalk with gaps and slightly ratty looking underlay and a very tired sign saying ‘Footwalk closed’. Right now, it’s more parcour than walk. Would not wish to continue.

Scrubs to the left and tall, bleached grasses to the right frame the boardwalk and its chest-high railings.

The sky is just a touch dramatic with ominous grey clouds. Ten minutes later, they dumped a load of hail.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 10

'Schlösser und Burgen' #FotoVorschlag Beaumaris Castle. Steintürme? Check. Brurggraben? Check. Burg? Hmmm. Geplant 1284, gebaut von 1295 an bis 1330, nie fertiggestellt. Bei meinem ersten Besuch hieß es, Beaumaris wäre bloß eine Vorzeigeburg gewesen. Stimmt scheinbar nicht.

A slice of a picture book castle with strong walls (but fairly low) and round towers (very low) mirrored in a suitably wide and imposing ditch. This is Beaumaris Castle, built entirely on the flat; not where I’d have put a castle, because there’s nothing much to defend here. It’s the least impressive (and least finished, but most expensive) of Edward’s English castles.
Its purpose apparently was not only to flex against the Welsh, but to disrupt the local economy and plonk down a town that says ‘you’re stuck with us’.

Green_Knight@green-knight· Apr 8

'Regen / Regentag' #FotoVorschlag Regen… und Konsequenzen. Habe ziemlich weit zurückblättern müssen, um ein deutliches Regenbild zu finden. Zuletzt hatte es am Sonntag geregnet, aber auf allen Bildern scheint die Sonne.