Tuesday Photo Challenge – Stone
Frank, of dutchgoesthephoto, challenges us to bring him stones this week – here are mine! Also from Ireland, and I think one of the broadest stone fences/walls I have ever seen.
Travel
CFFC: Gardens – Kew of Course!
Macro Monday – Fiery Flowers
Abundant in Vestmannaeyar and the lava landscape –
Hieracium – fox-and-cubs, orange hawk bit, devil’s paintbrush, grim-the-collier…
…setting fire to the slopes!
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Trail
For Frank this week – a hiking trail in Switzerland
CFFC: Stairs or Steps
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Round
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Round
The world is spinning – round. But not much is really, really round, is it? For Frank:
Still, there are many quite round things that I really love…like Dalí’s art and his home in Figueres, Spain. And the Beehive in Kew Gardens!
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Layer
This week Frank, at Dutch Goes the Photo, challenges us to find some layers.
The glaciers of New Zealand provide magnificent layers in stone, and as a contrast, colourful clothes can also be displayed in layers. A bit less sustainable though…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #31: Landscapes
The challenge from Amy this week is Landscapes. And I must agree with her, searching the archives for landscapes I have traveled through brought back many fond memories. I also got reminded of my love for two English painters, namely John Constable and William Turner. Constable a naturalistic painter and Turner a Romantic – they merge into the kind of art I love the most. So, let me start with a photographic painting from the winter where I live in the southern part of Sweden. And then, some different Swedish landscapes.
”The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.”
Molly Parker
If we go abroad, the landscapes of course change for every country. Here are some of my favorites, starting with the Alps of Switzerland.
Endless, lonely beaches in Latvia
…and in Iceland. More Icelandic landscapes are here and here. More? Here and here!
Early morning dunes in Morocco – so different from the warm yellows of the evening sun!
This view from a kapok tree in the Amazon basin is one of my loveliest memories ever
The unforgettable, strange landscapes of the Galapagos Islands. The impressive, 5-40 ft, endemic Opuntia cactus is common, but
– every island is different…
Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers of New Zealand display extremely impressive landscapes
Back in Europe again, and the lush, rural landscapes of Bastán, Spain
A spectacular landscape hidden somewhere in the Pyrenees, Spain
And finally, China, along the Yangtze river…
… and the vast landscape of the Tibetan Plateau – shot through a train window. We traveled on the highest built railroad in the world, and the only train running on the permafrost.
Thank you, Amy, for this opportunity to revisit some favorite landscapes! I quote Charles Lindbergh: ”Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
Thank you for visiting, and welcome to join in the challenge! Also, be sure to tune in for Tina’s challenge next week, February 9!
Friendly Friday Photo Challenge – Revisited
Amanda asks us to revisit this Friendly Friday, and I have chosen Iceland. We have visited several times, and never tire of this magical saga country. This summer we are going back again, to the western part of Iceland, and to revisit Vestmannaeyar.
Seljalandsfoss 2006 – in the header, 2016 and winter.
Gullfoss winter 2016 and summer 2006.
And the mesmerizing lava fields, 2006, just have to have it again!
Thank you, Amanda, for a chance to remember and revisit!
Leya 
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