Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

6 februari, 20156 februari, 2015 / Leya / 49 kommentarer

New Zealand’s great glaciers, Franz Josef and Fox make their visitors feel exceptionally small. The Franz Josef (Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere in Māori) is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long glacier located on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km (12 mi) to the south, it is unique in descending from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level, amidst the greenery and lushness of a temperate rainforest.

Walking up to the glaciers was very easily done, and we were greatly rewarded. I have walked glaciers in several countries in Europe – but these two are the most remarkable ones of all. Imagine the rainforest coming down almost to the floor of the glacier, and you could touch them both from the path!

The photos show the scale very clearly, but the feeling of walking there is impossible to convey…you have to be there yourself.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

24 januari, 201526 januari, 2015 / Leya / 40 kommentarer

I don’t know if this is a proper example of how I express myself…but we had great fun – and that surely is a way of expressing oneself.

The three of us had been a whole day exploring British Museum, and on our way out, my son caught sight of this bench with sleeping people. Irresistable! So we sat down beside them and tried to look exactly as tired as the other ”benchers”. My daughter took the picture. Nobody noticed…they kept sleeping as we left.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

9 januari, 20159 januari, 2015 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

Shadowed – is this old bridge and the waters running under its arches.

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth

28 december, 201428 december, 2014 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

Warmth can be interpreted in several ways… My choices are from a hot beach reflected in a warm window and what the warmth of Totti’s body did to our frosty lawn.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Yellow

19 december, 201423 december, 2014 / Leya / 53 kommentarer

Yellow is a very strong and happy colour, life giving and stands for intellect. In some countries in the West, it’s representing cowardice, but in Old China it was the Emperor’s colour, the most beautiful and prestigious colour of all.

According to Wikipedia, the word ”yellow” comes from the Old English geolu, geolwe (oblique case), meaning ”yellow, yellowish”, from the Indo-European base, gʰel-, as the word yell; gʰel- means both bright and gleaming, and to cry out.

Wearing yellow though, is not easily done for everybody – but looks stunning on people with dark or tanned skin, and preferably, dark hair. Lucky you who can shine in this beautiful colour!

To me, yellow means sun, spring and autumn. And, of course, the yellow houses in Denmark! For more of Yellow, click here.

WP Challenge: Twinkle

14 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

No stars to be seen, no snow, no nothing…I live up north in the darkness, so the twinkling I must search for – in my old vaults and chambers…This Christmas will be my number four, blogging, so here are some memorable twinklings from 2011-2013!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

29 november, 201429 november, 2014 / Leya / 6 kommentarer

This courtyard is said to be the most beautiful one in Rome. Even the sky above seems to say so. The theme is Converge.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular

23 november, 201423 november, 2014 / Leya / 35 kommentarer

Angular – two roofs and a ceiling for this challenge. From Sweden, Poland and Italy. All of them old, well preserved and very special.

The old monastery church at Varnhem, Sweden

The old Mill, Gdansk

A Roman church – we visited many…

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

7 november, 20147 november, 2014 / Leya / 39 kommentarer

I guess I don’t have many of these…but I found a couple from Jämtland last winter. The second one I have published here before. The colours of winter bring out the monochrome feeling and clear freshness. Minimalist.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent

1 november, 20141 november, 2014 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

A story of – Descent.

I have just returned from Rome, and a trip back in history to the once lively old seaport of Rome, Ostia Antica. This was ”the mouth” of the River Tiber, but due to silting it now lies 3 kilometres from the sea. The theatre, once double the hight of these remains – is still, today, a beauty. Three hours of walking through the whole area of magnificently preserved buildings with frescoes and mosaics, listening to birds singing and the old stones telling their silent story – is time well spent.