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.

Travel theme: Brown

19 oktober, 201320 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 49 kommentarer

När jag var ung var brunt min favoritfärg. Jag hade bruna stövlar, bruna manchesterjeans, en brun tröja och en ljusbrun skinnjacka. Genom åren har jag alltmer börjat använda ljusare och mer färgglada kläder – åtminstone på sommaren.

Brunt är en av de mest framträdande färgerna i vårt liv och vår miljö. Jorden, från vilken vi kommer, från vilken vi får allt vi äter och i vilken vi till slut hamnar när det är dags för oss att sluta vår vandring här.

Jag tycker fortfarande mycket om brunt i alla dess nyanser. Men, jag vet också att många människor inte tycker om brunt – kanske till och med hatar denna färg…gör inte det! Den bruna jorden är en del av oss, den tillhör oss och vi tillhör den.

When I was young, brown was my favourite colour. I wore earth coloured boots, jeans and sweater and a light brown leather jacket. But, over the years, I have started to wear more colourful clothes – at least during summer.

The colour brown is all around us. It’s the colour of earth, where we come from, where we live, from where we get our food and in which we will end up in due time.

I still love this colour and all its nuances and shades. I know that many people don’t like it, maybe even hate it…please don’t! The brown earth is a part of us all. It belongs to us and we belong to it.

For more brown colours, go to Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack?

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.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt

18 oktober, 201318 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 26 kommentarer

Well, this new challenge of Cee’s gives me the great opportunity of entering some beautiful sand, directly from Scarborough.

And, also one of my absolute favourite pictures… Peppe and Nicke back from a nice roll in the dirty field!

Inte mina…men kunde ha varit

Have some more fun here.

On Gratefulness

17 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

I would like to dedicate this post and its photos to you, all warm hearted friends out there – you stood by me, were with me and my father in your thoughts. Your waves of supporting, positive thinking touched the shores of my heart again and again. Thank you for being there. For being you.

Precious Days of Extra Time

15 oktober, 201315 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 27 kommentarer

Someone has listened…and suddenly I see the autumn colours again! He is coming back to us – my father.

It is strange the way life turns…being close to the end and then waking up. Being given some precious extra time…

He is walking our paths once again, through the dense woods, turning around the bend…

…and out in the open! Breathing in the crisp Autumnal air.

Thank you.

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?

Fundacio Gala, Figueres, Spain

New Zealand

Lava field, Iceland

Père Lachaise, Paris

My World In Five Colours – 2013

8 oktober, 201325 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 48 kommentarer

I have been nominated by Madhu of theurgetowander for My world in five colours for the Capture the Colour photo competition, the 2013 edition.

The rules say that I publish a post with five original shots from my travels, that best represent the colours blue, green, yellow, white and red, on or before 9 October. I then need to tag five other bloggers and link back to Travelsupermarket on Facebook or Twitter with @travelsupermkt and #CTC13 hashtags.

So here are my five snapshots from different countries in the world:

BLUE: Floating icebergs on Iceland.

RED: Pohutukawa (” Christmas tree”), New Zealand

YELLOW: Alley in Copenhagen, Denmark

WHITE: The Pothala Palace, Lhasa Tibet

GREEN: Highgate Cemetery, London, England

My nominees, with due apologies for the very short notice, are:

1. Seonaid of breathofgreenair

2. Nina of Vackrare

3. Viveka of myguiltypleasures

4. Meg of Meg Travels

5. Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack?

This challenge is open to everyone – you don’t need to be nominated to take part. The deadline for submitting your entry is 9 October.

If you don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account simply email your entry to capturethecolour[at]travelsupermarket.com, complete with your name, address and phone number.

Good luck to Madhu and to all my blogger friends that are taking part in this challenge!

Travel Theme: Height

6 oktober, 20137 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 21 kommentarer

Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? urges us to show something of Height. My entry is taken from the train ride to Tibet over the great plateau in the Himalayas. For more about Height – click here.

The Tang Gu La or Tanggu Pass is a wide mountain pass over 5000 metres elevation used by the Quinghai – Tibet Railway to cross the Tanggula Mountains. On August 24, 2005, rail track for the Qinghai–Tibet Railway was completed 28 kilometres to the WNW of the highway, reaching 5072 meters (16,640 feet)—the world’s highest, 255 m higher than Cóndor station, Peru.

We travelled Peru 1987 and Tibet 2009 – both fantastic adventures. I had the great luck of catching this sign, Tang Gu La, from the train window. We were never allowed to go outside for photos, and the train rarely stopped anywhere. The compartments all had extra oxygen. The feeling is not possible to describe or explain.