Thoughts
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and White Photos
This is not something I usually do, B&W, but …well, I’ll give Cee’s Black and White a try. This young man I found sitting on the wall in Greyfriars’ churchyard. We were slowly walking through the silence towards Greyfriars Bobby’s grave – the famous little Skye Terrier who faithfully stayed on his master’s grave for 14 years.
Then I saw him. Alone and contemplating he was – I just had to… not forget him. And everything was…black, white and grey.
Köge – in FotoSketcher
I have been using FotoSketcher on these two from Köge, and I wonder what you think about them? I want to thank Lynne Ayers at Beyond the Brush for inspiring, and giving facts about the program. I enjoy using this immensely. There is much to experiment with.
Lastly – two orchids I got from a young man who graduated in June this year. They still stand here in my home, in the same place. The big phalaenopsis hasn’t lost a single flower!
Travel theme: Horizons
Ailsa’s Horizons is an enigmatic theme, and changing the horizon’s position is a great possibilty to create totally different photos – standing in almost the same position. My entry is from yesterday evening by the lake.
High horizon
Low horizon
No horizon
Köge
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water or the Season of Winter
Nothing in my photo stream fits this theme of Water and Winter better than Tännforsen in February this year!
The Virtual Blog Tour
Scrapydo at http://scrapydo.wordpress.com/ invited me to take part in a Virtual Blog Tour on Monday August 11, 2014. Thank you for inviting me!
Being a retired teacher from the Netherlands and South Africa, she now lives in New Zealand. She’s an animal behaviourist and her best friend and mate is Trompie – a sweet Schnauzer. ”In March it is going to be my third year in N Z. I love it to be here,…”, she says. I understand that completely, as I had the pleasure of seeing something of NZ for a month some years ago.
Do visit her creative and interesting blog! She loves everything crafty – and her lovely companion!
Travel theme: Endearing
Here comes Electra!
Biting Totti everywhere – but – he just waited patiently…for her to stop.
Then she tried my knee…
…but finally settled for my daughter’s fingers.
And there she remained for the rest of our visit!
For more endearings, click here.
Who’s who – or – Whose room is whose?
I have got two wonderful youngsters at home this summer – in a couple of weeks they will be back at university and my house will feel so empty. Now, both of them are active and creative people and they interact with a lot of other creative people. But…I think every parent knows how different their kids are even if they do have the same parents and – for the most part – about the same upbringing…
My son is 22 and my daughter is 24.
What picture belongs to the life of who?
Jag har två fantastiska ungdomar hemma den här sommaren. Om några veckor är de tillbaka vid sina universitet och huset kommer att kännas så tomt…Båda är kreativa och skapande människor, men ack så olika inom vissa områden…Alla föräldrar kan nog känna igen hur stora skillnader det är på barnen trots att de verkligen har samma föräldrar och i stort sett samma uppväxt.
Min son är 22 och min dotter 24.
Vilken bild visar ”vem” av de två?
Cee’s fun foto Challenge: Metal or the Season of Autumn
This week Cee is asking us for something metal or from the season of autumn – my choice is The Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland. Impressive metal sculptures that took my breath away this July.
The Kelpies, made by sculptor Andy Scott, stand 30 metres tall in the 350 hectares Helix recreational space in Falkirk. They are the world’s largest equine sculptures and towering over the Forth & Clyde Canal they form a gateway to the canal entrance. These sculptures are meant to pay tribute to central Scotland’s working horse heritage on the canals from years gone by. Read more about them in my post here.
For more entries, click here.
And, thank you Cee for featuring my entry on Harvest last week!
Leya 
Virtual Blog Tour
The Virtual Blog Tour is a relatively new project for bloggers. The rules are fairly simple:
So –
I am still travelling and still loving photography even if I’m not a trained photographer. Attending a photography course is one of my goals once I retire from teaching. My trips this summer went to Scotland and Denmark and all those photos have not been sorted out yet…And, I’m constantly loving my dog, Totti, of course.
From Scotland – Highland Cattle grazing – while a ship is sinking…
17th Century house in Köge, Denmark
2. How does my work differ from others of this genre?
Maybe it doesn’t differ that much… but I try to show the world around me, focusing on nature and other architectural marvels. Usually I give some information about the photos too, or show them as a short story in a gallery. I also have a blog for photos that I cannot easily fit in to a story, but are favourites anyway. http://faialflores.wordpress.com/
And, recently I started a third blog for the love of trees, for my hikes and car tours, http://treetreats.wordpress.com/ – here I also want to feature guest posts!
3. Why do I write/create what I do?
I think this started because of my work as a teacher. I spend so much time correcting students’ papers and essays – but I never get to write or express myself only because I want and need to. Another reason is my neverending love for nature. Nature is soothing and ever changing, listening and answering many of my questions…I think maybe it’s giving more than me some of the best reasons for living on this planet Earth. Creating posts here is also a must when I try to relax after a tough day at work.
Photography gives me the opportunity to capture special moments as well. Literature, theatre and movies are other great interests – I try to review as many as I find time for in my blog.
4. How does your writing/creating process work?
It usually starts with a view…a photo, or a series of photos, and then I try to give some interesting information around it/them. Sometimes facts I have read and sometimes I just try to put the reader in the same mood as I was when the photo was taken. I love weaving short stories of photos.
Can you feel the mood in this one – ?
Now I also hope to have the pleasure of introducing you to Maria at http://mariayarri.wordpress.com/ : I love animals and especially dogs … I´m half way to the hundred and during my life I have always been a person who like our nature in generally and forest in particular; and I try to combine that with my other interest photography
She is a marvellous nature photographer and doesn’t forget to include her friend Yarri in her posts. He usually has his say about things too…The other important part of her blog is about ageing parents and how to deal with Alzheimers.
Thank you for joining us on Monday, Maria! We’re looking forward to your contribution.