Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Imagination

27 januari, 201428 januari, 2014 / Leya / 29 kommentarer

Imagination – life would be unbearable without it. I was an imaginative child, and much of it was sparkled by books and all those stories hidden inside…

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Stephen Leacock

This piece of Encyclopaedia Britannica was bought by my daughter, who used her imaginative creativity to make it end up as my birthday present!

Travel theme – Wood

25 januari, 201425 januari, 2014 / Leya / 37 kommentarer

Träd, trä och skog – vi människor kan inte överleva på Jorden utan dem. Vi har alltid tagit tillvara och använt vår skog och det material vi får av den på ett klokt sätt, men nu är det också hög tid att sluta massförstöra denna fantastiska levande organism vi alla är beroende av – växter, djur och människor.

Mitt bidrag den här gången är ett galleri, en livscykel från liten planta till fullvuxen skog, till…ja, kanske ska den ses baklänges. Förhoppningsvis kommer denna cirkel att fortsätta som den alltid har gjort. Det är vårt ansvar.

Wood – a living organism sharing our lives. We have always made use of it, and it has always been a great source of life, and of well being for mankind and our fellow travellers on this Planet Earth.

My contribution is a little gallery, a circle of life with wood. Start at the end…Let’s hope we will preserve this valuable source of life, our forests and woods – because without them, mankind will be wiped out – and with us, every living being on this planet.

Thank you, Ailsa, for another great theme!

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!

Side by side

On top of each other

Side by side and surrounding

Clinging to…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature

23 januari, 201423 januari, 2014 / Leya / 37 kommentarer

On my walks I often find things in Nature that have been put there by man, but still look like they really belong there.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature gives an opportunity to share some of them …

This open space in the forest is most certainly well travelled by many animals. The tower is for the moose hunters.

Following a narrow path, I came upon the old cellar that is all that’s left from ”Anna’s Cottage”. She lived here until about 1930.

Not ”Anna”, but another mum found in the same forest…

to taste life twice

21 januari, 2014 / Leya / 5 kommentarer

the hour of soft light...

still life of reeds and weeds on white

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely.

We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. When I don’t write, I feel my world shrinking. I…

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Buzz

21 januari, 201421 januari, 2014 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

I’m an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don’t like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don’t mind it, but I don’t seek it out.

Josh Holloway

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Man-Made-Items

20 januari, 201420 januari, 2014 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

Well, in this world of gadgets and trinkets and whatever they are called – but man made they all are and we are fascinated…

Please share to show my pupils how far a photo can go (even if you don’t want it to!)

20 januari, 2014 / Leya / Lämna en kommentar

Interesting lesson – hope we get to know its final destination…

Not about everything

Sharing this, because it seems an interesting lesson.

I am teaching E-safety to my pupils at the moment and wanted to try a little experiment. Please share this photo and see how far it gets, I want to show my students how easily photos etc can go viral, even when you may not want them to. Share it and see how far it goes!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

18 januari, 201419 januari, 2014 / Leya / 59 kommentarer

Familj – de man känner mest samhörighet med, de som står en närmst. Oftast är det den egna familjen, bestående av kanske föräldrar och barn. Mitt bidrag blir min älskade Totti och hans ”tjej” och deras gemensamma valpar. Det var mycket spännande att se hur han skulle reagera när han mötte dem. Först mycket tveksamt – snarast lite rädd för de små…men det tog sig efter hand. Han nosade gärna med staket emellan…för de var ju lite oberäkneliga de där små. Kanske de ändå på något sätt visste att de hörde samman, för Totti var mycket snäll och de små oförväget nyfikna.

Jag behöver väl knappast förklara att Totti och Mille tillhör familjen?

Family – those who you feel closest to. Mostly your own family, parents and children. My entry is my beloved dog, Totti, his ”girlfriend” and his first puppies. It was exciting to see how well they got along, at first the little ones felt a bit scary to him, but later he was more confidently curious. The puppies adored him and were very curious from the start. Maybe they know somewhere that they are kin – I would like to think so.

I suppose I don’t have to explain that Totti and Mille belong to our family too?