Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Intricate

Ese’s challenge this time is about being IntricateMy 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.

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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Christopher Alexander

Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit

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.

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Höst

Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie

Eerie…

Vanås … in the ceiling… moving and changing positions…

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…like a jelly-fish

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While on the floor…

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…and in the corridor on your way out…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

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.

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Obsession

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.

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Early morning sun and cloud reflections in the autumn wetlands
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The old stone bridge
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The pond
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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

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.

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Ese’s weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly

See more of the ugly truth here.

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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

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?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!

My mornings – when the weekend finally is here – are usually Good…especially when the sun is shining in there is a smile on my face. I walk slowly through the rooms, watering my flowers. Alone up and awake. Beautiful silence.

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Morgon

A couple of hours later, I hear my daughter’s bare feet in the stairs. Immediately two tails start drumming heavily…so, she says hello and picks up Mille or Totti and sits talking for a while – to both of them.  They all agree on the fact that life’s worth living…

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Then I smile, open the door and walk out into my garden, shoes on my feet now,  to find some herbs and maybe some last flowers to put on the table. Not much is left …and frost has turned green into red and yellow. It’s a good morning.

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Morgon

For many more Good Mornings, click here.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Scent

Certain scents bring back old memories like nothing else can do.  Memories from childhood and younger days. Sometimes a scent brings tears to my eyes and other times a smile on my face…For this challenge I chose a quote from the world of animals. Maybe it seems like a joke to some of you, but I have grown up with animals and I just might agree with Mr Stewart.  What do you think?

For more quotes, photos and thoughts about scent, click here.

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On a warm summer evening… one of the last days before autumn arrives…the old stone steps are entirely – His.
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True delight…
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When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.
Booboo Stewart