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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Obsession

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Listening to Eric Clapton, and Tears In Heaven, you realize that his explanation is well chosen: An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. Ese’s challenge reveals  that I have many obsessions: My children, my dogs, orchids, my work, photography… I read somewhere that to cure one obsession – get another. But mine seldom go away…they pile up. I’m convinced that they are all of the same origin.

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Early morning sun and cloud reflections in the autumn wetlands
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The old stone bridge
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The pond
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Crisp open air
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Marguerite Young
Click here to find other and more obsessions.

On Gratefulness

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I would like to dedicate this post and its photos to you, all warm hearted friends out there – you stood by me, were with me and my father in your thoughts. Your waves of supporting, positive thinking touched the shores of my heart again and again. Thank you for being there. For being you.

Ese’s weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly

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See more of the ugly truth here.

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Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you…the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ”Lying” is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon

My World In Five Colours – 2013

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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!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual Point of View

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What’s unusual? Well, angles of course, but much more, maybe. Here are some shots from the trip to Germany and Walsrode!

For more unusual POV, click here.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Feel

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Feel, that is something we all do. The quote chosen for today’s challenge was given to us by the Dalai Lama.

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Beginning

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Beginning is the prompt from Ese in her new challenge. Read more about it and join in!

Detta foto togs idag på Hallands Väderö – en fin dag för att introducera nya elever!

My photo was taken today at Hallands Väderö on the west coast of Sweden, where we had our introduction days for the new students.

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Houses

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge gives you a topic and you search your photo archives for a suitable photo and then share it on your blog and at Cee’s blog. Visit other people joining in as well. Share the love!

Houses are irresistable…so I just had to try and join in! These little boat houses are to be found in Smögen, Bohuslän, on the west coast of Sweden.

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