Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Memories

8 december, 20138 december, 2013 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

Memories, well, some say you should forget the past and only live for the future. I do not think that is a wise way of thinking. I think we all need memories to be able to live for the future. I simply had to use two quotes to make this work:

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honoré de Balzac

My children when they were small. The happiest days in my life.

Occasionally I stumble upon a student who loves books and reading…and who even stays behind in the classroom when the lesson is over!

Mille came back to life again…his severe illness almost cost him his life. This photo is from April 2012, when he was home again after a stay in hospital. He had lost at least half his weight.

A happy moment when I believed we had saved this magnificent bird. We found him exhausted under a tree and took him to a wildlife specialist. Unfortunately he couldn’t be saved in the end.

A Christmas greeting from a student – found one morning on my locker at school.

My always smart, funny, inspiring and lovely children – thank you for all the happy, hilarious and wonderful moments we’ve had together so far!

For more great memories, visit Ese!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lights

29 november, 201330 november, 2013 / Leya / 65 kommentarer

Light and lights are essential to almost all living beings. And, the play of light is fascinating. It cathes the eye and holds our imagination alive.

My choices for this challenge about Lights are all from Spain. The first one from an early morning outside the great palace, when the sun lets its rays play with the lamp post making us believe it’s being lit up from inside… The second photo from a gallery, is also lit up naturally by the sun.

The third photo and the fourth are both from Gaudí – The lamp from the ceiling in his house, lit up from inside as well as from the natural light through the side windows and the figure of Christ bathing in light – also from above.

Travel Theme: Short

16 november, 201316 november, 2013 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? gives us all the opportunity to be Short this week…so, here are my contributions:

This spring was very, very short this year – and so were the stems of the small, daring daffodils trying to survive in the frozen surroundings.

I have had a couple of dachshund ”ladies” in my life, but unfortunately their legs are too short and their back too long. One of them got paralysed because of this. They always had to be carried when we were hiking too. Very sweet dogs, but a bit too stubborn for my taste perhaps… This beautiful gentleman I met in a park in Madrid.

My son on his first visit to China! Beside this giant of a warrior he felt a bit short…

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: 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…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Statues, Carvings, Sculptures

10 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

I just love statues, carvings and sculptures – who doesn’t? From Cee I was happy to find this fun challenge! Here is a small collection of my favourites. For more of this, click here.

Maori gathering house, NZ

Monk in Copenhagen

Marzipan in Toledo

Lonely Dog, Auckland

His owl…Louisiana

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

22 september, 201323 september, 2013 / Leya / 56 kommentarer

From lines to patterns. We see lines and patterns in the world around us, in nature and things man-made. Sometimes we don’t realize they’re there: on the street, across the walls, up in the sky, and along the ground on which we walk.

Here are my choices, taken from my world.

More Copenhagen

Patterns with an expert on patterns…

On my way home from work

Shopping here is popular

Kings Cross Saint Pancras

For more enterpretations, click here.

Travel theme: Through

22 september, 201322 september, 2013 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

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:

Through a hole in a giant, a fallen tree in a valley in the Pyrenées.

View 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

18 september, 201322 september, 2013 / Leya / 15 kommentarer

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.