Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

16 november, 201316 november, 2013 / Leya / 40 kommentarer

The word Layers is a very useful word, so many interpretations are possible here. I picked what first came to mind: Flowers and stone.

Ranunculus is a wonderful species, to which also ordinary buttercups belong. But this one, above, is one of the most beautiful specimens I have put in a vase on my table. Its delicate layers in yellow and orange nuances speaks to my senses as few others do.

In the mountains you sometimes come across beautiful coloured layers created thousands of years ago. And if you get the chance to get a close-up, they can seem almost like a rainbow.

See more Layers of beauty here.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Spread

15 november, 201315 november, 2013 / Leya / 4 kommentarer

Spread is the word from Ese this week. Being a book lover that just had to be IT didn’t it?

May books spread the world over!

Yann Martel

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Intricate

10 november, 201310 november, 2013 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

Ese’s challenge this time is about being Intricate. My daughter used to draw portraits of her friends – even on dogs and whatever people wanted to be portrayed. This is the photo and a scanning of one ordered portrait.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Christopher Alexander

Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit

9 november, 201311 november, 2013 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

I walk the dogs – or rather, they walk me… and several times a day. That’s a habit I would not want to be without.

Their habit is to dig and to roll in the leaves, and for Mille to run ahead of us, just to be caught up with again by Totti and me.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie

7 november, 20137 november, 2013 / Leya / 14 kommentarer

Eerie…

… in the ceiling… moving and changing positions…

…like a jelly-fish

While on the floor…

…and in the corridor on your way out…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

26 oktober, 201326 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 38 kommentarer

I’m not much for big cities – for long. I love visiting for a week or two, then I have to go back to the woods and the open air, to breathe.

Horizon. A word of beauty with endless possibilities – how will I be able to choose? I must choose my own country. I must choose the mountains. This feeling leads me to a hike to the Kebnekaise massif, with our highest mountain. Crisp air, silence, walking towards the tiny boat that will take us to – the Horizon.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Obsession

22 oktober, 201322 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 23 kommentarer

Listening to Eric Clapton, and Tears In Heaven, you realize that his explanation is well chosen: An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. Ese’s challenge reveals that I have many obsessions: My children, my dogs, orchids, my work, photography… I read somewhere that to cure one obsession – get another. But mine seldom go away…they pile up. I’m convinced that they are all of the same origin.

Early morning sun and cloud reflections in the autumn wetlands

The old stone bridge

The pond

Crisp open air

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Marguerite Young

Click here to find other and more obsessions.

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

19 oktober, 201319 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 35 kommentarer

In every respect, these photos are the closest I get in representing The Hue of Me. Colour, motif, light, time of the day. They also represent my greatest Love – Nature.

Ese’s weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly

14 oktober, 201314 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 23 kommentarer

See more of the ugly truth here.

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you…the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ”Lying” is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Richard Avedon

Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

11 oktober, 201311 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 49 kommentarer

Infinite. I believe everyone has his or her thoughts about its meaning. This gallery contains some of my ideas. I think infinite is a beautiful word, and to me it sounds positive and promising. What do you think? Here are some more interpretations – why don’t you join the conversation?