Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Brown and Sepia Tones

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Travel theme: Through

Through – open for many interpretations! Ailsa’s travel theme had me thinking about finding one natural through and one manmade through. Here are my choices:

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 518Through a hole in a giant, a fallen tree in a valley in the Pyrenées.

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 389View through the giant windows at Salvador Dalí’s museum in Figueras, Spain.

For more interesting takes on the theme Through, click here.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Bare

This challenge is a real challenge…not easy. My choice is Art by Gaudí for the theme. His life and nature theme is strong and holistic.  Click here  to meet more of Bare.

      Layer by layer art strips life bare.

       Robert Musil

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Soft Pastels

What a lovely idea – soft pastels!

Enjoy some more beautiful pastels here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

In Madrid there is an excellent park with interestingly pruned trees –

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 947 – I couldn’t resist taking a look inside...

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 956Even if the light is difficult, it was an interesting view!

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Feel

Feel, that is something we all do. The quote chosen for today’s challenge was given to us by the Dalai Lama.

Hundar och pelargoner i juni 2012 003

Karön och sommar 2013 058 Sommarens sista 014 Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

Travel theme: Distance

 

Hallands Väderö 2013 111A sail

Hovdalafältet 013A man

Kina och Tibet 2009 100

A palace

For more distant distance – go to Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Open

This week’s Shoot and Quote from Ese is about being Open. When the students are flown out in the world, the corridor looks something like this…

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We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Gordon B Hinckley

Travel theme: Play

Introduktionsdagar! Ailsas tema är Play – och vad kan passa bättre?

Now there’s only hard work to look forward to  –  school is here again! The two first days are always dedicated to getting to know each other, old students and new ones. So, playing games is only one of the things we do…

For more play and games – go to Ailsa and Where’s My Backpack?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Bekymmerslös på svenska, men fri från bekymmer låter mycket skönare. Som så ofta säger det engelska ordet mycket tydligare vad det är frågan om. Men, hur visar jag en känsla som den? Vilken eller vilka bilder kan över huvud taget visa den?

Naturligtvis ligger bilden i mig och i min kropp och själ. Det beror på min bakgrund, mitt yrke och  den kultur och geografi jag är född i. Det beror på…mycket. Jag har funderat ett tag och kommit fram till några nyckelsituationer och nyckelord. De viktigaste ingredienserna är: vår eller sommar, ledig från arbetet, öppet landskap, ljudet av vind, vatten och fåglar,  blå himmel, hög luft, mina barn och/eller mina hundar.

Carefree is this week’s challenge from WordPress. I have spent some hours thinking about –  when do I really have that feeling? And, what pictures might best show it?

To imagine this feeling I had to think about some essential ingredients. My conclusion is that they are: spring or summer, vacation, open air landscape, the sound of wind, water and birds, blue sky, crisp air, my children and/or my dogs.

Nya Zeeland Emmas kamera 258There is one place on Earth, that more than any other place makes my heart soar by merely thinking about it. One place where my feeling of freedom and being carefree never left me. New Zealand. This photo is from a lonely beach on the Coromandel peninsula. My son is walking barefoot in the sand, where his sister’s footprints still are visible. I was walking right behind them feeling the warm wind in my hair and the soft sand under my feet. A crystal clear moment of sheer happiness. Far away from all troubles, but together with my loved ones.

Favoriter 017This photo is from a day on the southeast shores of Skåne in spring 2008. Mille running wild and free in the waves and not a single other human being on the beach. Totti wasn’t born yet.  Being a water dog, Mille’s joy over the rolling waves was unstoppable. I remember shouting at him when he jumped too far out and the waves seemed to swallow him. But freedom is a great thing…We both felt its presence that day.