Neulietzegöricke (with photos added on "This Old House")

LaFoto · Oct 18, 2006

A little village in Brandenburg, east of Berlin, very close to the Polish border - used to be East Germany and still looks a lot like it today, mostly so with this "Trabbi" going along the streets.

Photo taken while on summer holidays in the area in July/August of this year.
(Original photo digitally taken in colour)

And don't even TRY to pronounce the name of this place!

mysteryscribe · Oct 18, 2006

It's a very nice shot foto but do you know what is the very best little item in it? Oh heck I can't make you guess... the thing that turns if from a vacation snapshot to something more is the little bit of frame at the top left of the image...Most people wouldn't have bothered

LaFoto · Oct 18, 2006

Oops, well actually my intent was to get this car into the frame at all costs and not losing any of the foremost house, i.e. not to cut off any part of its roof. Those were the two things I took in when I framed it (this is totally uncropped). The little bit of framing by the leaves ... thanks for the compliment, but ... stole itself into my frame all by itself.

mysteryscribe · Oct 18, 2006

shame on you for admitting it....

you are supposed to say "I'm glad someone finally noticed."

LaFoto · Oct 18, 2006

Oh. Mistake after mistake tonight (it is "tonight" where I am already) ... how silly I am.

Yeah, "I'm glad someone finally noticed" ...

... :er: this is too late now, isn't it? :blulsh2:

hovis · Oct 18, 2006

Nice shot!! I like it a lot..
- I know it's right, but the car looks like its half the width it should be... funny cars, and no mistake

LaFoto · Oct 18, 2006

Yes, the "Trabant" (always referred to as "Trabbi") was a purely East German brand and the cars are not necessarily made from metal, but a lot of it is hard paper...

There were few cars in that village only, but those that were there were Western brands, so when this came puff-puffing along the road I just COULD NOT not photograph it.

oldnavy170 · Oct 18, 2006

I love the cute "little" car.

mitake · Oct 18, 2006

mysteryscribe said:
the thing that turns if from a vacation snapshot to something more

Sometimes I wonder what does? This is an ordinary picture, and yet it looks so great. I doubt it's the top-left corner alone.

DeepSpring · Oct 18, 2006

I love that little car and the houses it all works. That tree on the top left looks like its making a tunnel for it kind of

mysteryscribe · Oct 18, 2006

try looking at the picture without any foreground and note that the illusion of depth disappears. Foreground in a shot is a classic compostion trick of painter mostly but also photographers.

A painting and photograph is a two dimensional object but the illusion of depth can be created by foreground or leading lines. Those and lots of other compostion tricks turn snapshots into something more even if they dont rise to the level of fine are.... whatever that is.

Mansi · Oct 19, 2006

wow! lovely tones and composition corinna

love the simplicity of this one

very nicely done

LaFoto · Oct 19, 2006

:goodvibe: Thank you so much, all, for looking at my little pic and for liking it - makes me happy :goodvibe:

LaFoto · Oct 20, 2006

Maybe just some more information on this very village:

The entire village is listed these days. A good many houses are still waiting for restauration and eventually the entire village will be made up.

Here is a town map taken off Wikipedia:

You can see that the village is primarily houses to the left and the right of a street that forks open into two lanes while they go through the village and becomes one again at the end.

To show you whereabouts in Germany it is situated, here another map taken off Wikipedia:

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And this aerial view taken off the site www.oderbruchpavillion.de shows you what it looks like ... and my photo was taken on the part of street on the right heading north:

I took MANY more pictures in Neulietzegöricke! I was totally SMITTEN by that village! (My family were dismayed ... "Ah, she must take ANOTHER photo, *groan*!")