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?

My World In Five Colours – 2013

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.

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

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YELLOW: Alley in Copenhagen, Denmark

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WHITE: The Pothala Palace, Lhasa Tibet

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GREEN: Highgate Cemetery, London, England

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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

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.

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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.

Morgon

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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Morgon

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.

Morgon

Morgon

For many more Good Mornings, click here.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Brown and Sepia Tones

Join in the fun! Click here!

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

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.

For more enterpretations, click here.

Travel theme: Through

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:

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 518Through a hole in a giant, a fallen tree in a valley in the Pyrenées.

Barcelona och Pyrenéerna 2011 389View through the giant windows at Salvador Dalí’s museum in Figueras, Spain.

For more interesting takes on the theme Through, click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

In Madrid there is an excellent park with interestingly pruned trees –

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 947 – I couldn’t resist taking a look inside...

Madrid Segovia Toledo 2012 956Even if the light is difficult, it was an interesting view!

Travel theme: Hidden

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På vår ötripp till Hallands Väderö upptäckte en av eleverna denna lilla huggorm. Väl gömd i det skyddande gräset låg han och solade – säkert född detta år, för han var inte så stor.

A student found this viper, hidden in the grass, sunbathing, This is a very seldom seen snake, and the only poisonous one in Sweden. Being very rare it’s a protected species.

More hidden things can be seen here, at Ailsa’s place.