Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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Same weather as yesterday – windy, overcast and cool. I needed to find something steady for my 365 so I had a look at the junkyard (=the landlord’s open storage area) and was going to shoot an old bicycle, when I spotted this little flower growing in a crack on the floor. Nature will always…
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When I went to work this morning, I saw this… thing… parked in front of my house. So I knew what I was going to do for the 365 when I got home, which is a good thing too because it was twice as windy today as yesterday so any kind of outdoors macro photography…
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Today was ”De vilda blommornas dag”, an event arranged by the botanical association to increase public awareness of the importance of protecting wildflowers. It was great to meet with other botanists and talk about flowers – I can’t even tell you how much I’ve missed it! Unfortunately it was quite windy so it was pointless…
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Took my bike to Kasteln again. The water level in Ljusnan has receded but now I noticed that it doesn’t make all that much difference at Kasteln because the shores are quite steep. But still, a very interesting place and it gave me a lot of composition options. The biggest challenge I had was to…
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I got this plant because I liked the leaves, soft and fuzzy and a bit oak-like (the Swedish name ”silverek” translates to silver oak). I must confess that I didn’t know that the plant actually produces flowers and belongs to the familiar aster family, until now that I needed to give an ID to the…
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It wasn’t a very good day so I made apple pie when I got home. It looks a bit disappointing in the picture… but with vanilla ice cream, it has the power to fix any bad day!
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This post is actually written on the 12th, but dated on the 11th for the picture’s sake. Here’s why. When I was driving home from work, there was a huge black cloud over Föne, it was pouring rain and I could hear the roll of thunder even as I was driving. The first thing I…
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I thought I was done with planting flowers, but then it started bothering me that I still had one empty balcony box. So when I saw the flower truck parked opposite our office, I had a look in case they had flowers with that little something extra. When I spotted this African daisy with curled petals, I just…
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When I finally decided to shoot some flowers for my 365, the wind picked up. Horribly. But all my frantic flower planting paid off – I noticed that the small carnation plant which grows in a tight bush wasn’t as much affected by the wind as the other flowers. So I just made sure to…
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Done painting – almost. I finished with the first coat by lunchtime, packed my stuff and drove home. I’m looking forward to sitting in the office tomorrow, I need the rest! Not so easy to go from sit-in-front-of-the-computer-all-day to balance-on-a-ladder-and-paint-all-day. As you can see, the paint is not entirely even. Just like it was with…