SL-WEEK 24: Machine

Machines I’m impressed by are the mountain trains – here in Switzerland. They climb, sometimes very steep, several thousands of metres and they go down the same way. Seemingly undisturbed, effortless. And they are comfortable as well.

For Sylvain Landry. What machines are you impressed by? Join in and let us know!

 

 

WPC: Oops!

 

Well…this is by far my most oopsy picture ever – me doing food photography outdoors,  suddenly finding a cat literally IN my lens. I was so shocked, nearly dropped the camera, and the shot went off. Salmon must have been one of his favourites…

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Travel theme: Fabric

 

I believe we all love fabric, and we all go looking for them in the market and in shopping centres and…love to surround ourselves with them at home.

Thank you, Ailsa for always having lovely themes and keeping us going! Click here for more inspiration and join in yourself!

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A Swedish fine tablecloth, woven and then cut, drawn together and ”embroidered” in this special way.

Chinese carpets – pure silk. Header – bedding in pure silk, China.

SL-WEEK 23: Narrow

 

For Sylvain Landry this week – Narrow.

Some weeks ago, we went down the Yangtze River on a cruiser, and had to pass the Three Gorges Dam – the biggest dam project in the world. We went through the lock during the night, but I stayed up late to touch the wall and feel the claustrofobia…

Travel theme: Self

Ailsa’s theme this week gives you another chance to reflect on who you really are. What is the very essence of you? Not easily done in only one picture…so I had to choose two.

The loner, hiking in nature – but I am also the photographer and the lover of my job and my students. The results are one picture from a hike at Svartisen, Norway, and the other taken by a student at the final dinner for my class, leaving school, heading out in Life.

Why not take the chance to figure out the very essence of You? Click here for more inspiration.

 

WPC: Transition

Everything is in transition.

The WordPress Challenge is to show this in pictures.

The old houses in Jurmala outside Riga most certainly were – living evidence of transition not always being a word with a less positive meaning.

 

SL-WEEK 21: Love

Sylvain Landry – Love. My two dogs loved each other dearly. And I loved the two of them dearly. Now Mille is gone and only Totti is here – left alone. Love very seldom lasts for ever.

 

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#242 Reseminnen – Travel Memories (349/365)

Från min senaste resa till Kina och flodfärden på Yangtsekiang, kommer jag för alltid att bära med mig minnena från Water Village. En resa in i det gamla Kina, sinnebilden av kinesisk tradition, konst och måleri, ja även poesi. En oförglömlig vandring i en gången tid. Om du är intresserad kan du gå till hela inlägget. Klicka på länken under bilden.

From my latest trip to China and the Yangtze River, there is one memory that will never be erased – the day we visited Water Village. This day was a hike into the heart of Old China. The essence of every art form, be it painting, writing, marriage traditions…  Unforgettable, true beauty.

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WPC: Happy Place

A happy place where I can relax and get away from a busy life…WPC wants to know my secrets…and then they are secret no more. Near and far, some easily reached when needed, some only in my world of memories.

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Sitting in my garden listening to  bees humming in the flowers.

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Walking in ”my” forest every day…

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Far away…not easily reachable, but still…in my memory a place of utmost happiness.

Coromandel, NZ.