Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns

9 april, 201419 april, 2014 / Leya / 56 kommentarer

From Cee this week – patterns. Mine are rectangles from a church roof and rings from a bird in the lake. Very different but they give me a nice feeling both of them.

Varnhem, monastery and church

Coot – Hornborgasjön

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

5 april, 2014 / Leya / 34 kommentarer

Threshold is the WordPress challenge this week – and the concept might be interpreted in several different ways. I have chosen the thought of walking through an open door into another world.

Tibet and the Sera monastery – the threshold to the debating courtyard where monks are training and enhancing their knowledge of the scriptures and how to interpret them. The debating is fairly lively and very entertaining to watch.

This open door signifies the threshold to the basilica of la Sagrada Família in Barcelona. A room of contemplation and spiritual enlightenment.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smooth Objects

1 april, 20142 april, 2014 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

From Salvadór Dalí and Figueras, Spain – Smooth!

Door handle…

…and seductive lips

One Trip EVERY Month Challenge: Östersund and Maria

6 mars, 20146 mars, 2014 / Leya / 28 kommentarer

Marianne has begun a new challenge where you take one trip every month, near or far, and take photos or write all about it. Join her here http://eastofmalaga.net/2014/01/20/new-challenge-one-trip-every-month/

Here’s how:

Each month, visit somewhere and then write about your trip or describe it using photographs – whichever suits you best.
Don´t forget to title and tag your entry ’One Trip EVERY Month Challenge’, and link back to this page.
Display the Challenge logo on your post or in your sidebar.
HAVE FUN!

I should have gone before Christmas, but a storm closed down all transportation in the southern part of Sweden. My flight was cancelled only a couple of hours before take-off. I was finally going to meet one of my blogger friends, Maria, living in Östersund up north, and I can’t say how disappointed I was. And Maria too. We had been planning this for about half a year, and we both laughed in the phone at the disaster …there was nothing else we could do…

I had to book another flight – not until February was it possible for us to meet. I was looking forward to a lot of winter, snow and fabulous walks on their big lake, Storsjön. The trip turned out to be … something quite different, but maybe not less wonderful!

My room

The real thing – Yarri!

One good way of transporting yourself on ice

Östersund – on wet ice

Åre and the mountains

Studio glassworks – Storsjöhyttan

Hot chocolate and …..

Östersund by night

For more on Jämtland, see my previous posts: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/en-pa-miljonen-one-in-a-million/

https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/frozen-gems-ristafallet-och-tannforsen-a-john-bauer-and-j-r-r-tolkien-dream/

And MariaYarri who is the true source of Jämtland pictures and stories!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sepia tones

5 mars, 2014 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

Some photos are enhanced in sepia tones – this scene from a street in Tibet shows a couple looking at a variety of bells for their cattle.

A local market in Tibet

Amritsar and the Golden Temple

20 februari, 2014 / Leya / 8 kommentarer

http://treetreats.wordpress.com/come-and-sit-under-my-tree/gyllene-templet-i-amritsar-the-harmandir-sahib/

Sitting Under My Tree just now is a guest post on the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Welcome!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Orange

18 februari, 2014 / Leya / 40 kommentarer

Orange is beautiful and oranges are tasty. My choices for this challenge are some of my favourite oranges…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Empty

16 februari, 201416 februari, 2014 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It’s very mystical.

Jean Dujardin

For more empty spaces – go to Ese here!

Travel theme: Yellow

8 februari, 20149 februari, 2014 / Leya / 53 kommentarer

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is all about Yellow!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

25 januari, 201425 januari, 2014 / Leya / 32 kommentarer

Juxtaposition är ett roligt ord, nästan onomatopoetiskt eller ljudhärmande, om du upprepar det några gånger…I Madrid hittade jag ett flertal exempel på sådana kombinationer av levande eller döda ting som befinner sig intill varandra och medvetet eller omedvetet bildar kontraster. Några fler, och bättre, finns i ett tidigare inlägg, här i the green wall.

Idag har jag valt fyra andra exempel. Det första sida vid sida, det andra ovanpå varandra, det tredje omringande varandra och i det sista exemplet klänger de sig fast vid varandra…

Juxtaposition is a funny word, and it sounds almost onomatopoetic when you pronounce it a couple of times…In Madrid I caught some of them…the juxtapositions. I know I used the green wall in an older post with (more and better than these…I won a competition with that one) juxtapositions, but this time I have picked another four examples. They do stand in contrast, the first one side by side, the second one on top of the other, then almost surrounding each other, and in the last picture they are clinging to one another.

Somehow it’s easy to find buildings and architecture showing this, but of course you find it everywhere if you just take a look around…Find more of juxtapositioning here!