#140 Islossning – Ice melting (191/365)

8 juli, 2015 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

St Gotthardspasset, Schweiz

WPC: Door

8 juli, 20158 juli, 2015 / Leya / 5 kommentarer

I very much like to take photos of doors – but for this challenge I have only chosen one door, and a Swiss one. For more doors, click here.

#177 Lyx – Luxury (187/365)

8 juli, 2015 / Leya / 13 kommentarer

Hotel Intercontinental, Davos. Luxury.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: More than 5 items

7 juli, 20157 juli, 2015 / Leya / 16 kommentarer

Today I’m back from Switzerland – and Cee’s challenge suits perfectly after this trip! Why not join in? How to do ? – Read here.

Isola Bella

29 juni, 201529 juni, 2015 / Leya / 14 kommentarer

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Two Very Different Items

16 juni, 201516 juni, 2015 / Leya / 14 kommentarer

For Cee this week – two very different items... The lower part of this picture shows one of my students (in a bar in Madrid) and the upper part of the picture…

At least they both smile!

WPC : On the Way

30 maj, 20154 juni, 2015 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

Sometimes the way is more interesting than the final goal or end of destination.

Reina Sofia in Madrid is a modern museum containing among other famous works of art – Picasso’s Guernica. On the way to the painting, we walked in the beautiful, lofty corridors of the former hospital. The vaults and ceiling works of art in themselves.

Home in Sweden again, and on my way to an ordinary dog walk, Looking out the window I realize that on the way there is a stone wall clad in bright green ferns and snow white meadow saxifrage. I just had to stop for a photo…

So, don’t hesitate to look out the window, up in the ceiling or down on the floor – On the Way there are treasures waiting for you!

Travel theme: Modern

30 maj, 201530 maj, 2015 / Leya / 5 kommentarer

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, or Queen Sofía Museum, is Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art. Formerly an 18th century hospital, but was renovated into a modern museum situated near the Atocha station in Madrid. It was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992,

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain’s two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Even if Dali´ is my personal favourite, the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso’s painting Guernica.

In this picture is one of the elevators at the entrance to the Sabatini building.

For more modern things at Ailsa’s – go to Where’s My Backpack?

Warsaw – A Miracle of Old and New – Stroll III

8 maj, 201510 maj, 2015 / Leya / 41 kommentarer

Time for a final stroll in Warsaw – a city of surprises. Much glass, interesting architecture. i fell in love with the University Library and its gardens. And also the pride of the city – The Copernikus Centre on the river Wisla.

The library, finished 1999, was invitingly modern and I knew it was to have a gigantic glassed garden terrace overviewing the river and surroundings.

The impressive entrance – a dream in green and lilac.

Indoors, much air and glass – again. We tried several assistants and guards to get to the glassed gardens on the roof…but…no, we were not allowed there. They didn’t open until…the next day!

Instead we went out in the lower garden to see them from the outside. Art work everywhere and interesting architectural ideas.

The glassed gardens are on the right and left side here, and the closed gates are on either side of the solar cells.

The huge middle ”half moon” would have been great to see from the inside as well – maybe a couple of weeks later with a green canopy.

Further down the road, on the banks of the river Wisla, is situated the pride of Warsaw, The Copernicus Center, ”Heaven of Copernicus”. In Copenhagen we have a centre built on comparatively the same ideas: Experiments and journeys in time and space; but we stayed on the outside this time.

Back in the city centre again. Of course I have to finish with Zlote Tarasy – ”The Golden Terraces”, in rain. For me, this shopping centre is a symbol of the new Warsaw.

WPC: Forces of Nature

8 maj, 20158 maj, 2015 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

One of the strange and interesting forces of nature is the force of eruptions, volcanoes. This lava stream was flowing down the Icelandic landscape in the 17th century, and is now a beautiful but dangerous moss covered area. You cannot see what’s hiding under the moss – there could be huge holes several hundred metres down – now neatly covered death traps.