I am really trying to stop putting up images from Sweden but it is really hard, please believe me!
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Archive for March, 2008
I have so many images to put up from Sweden but dont want to bore you all with them but I did get some great shots. This was taken in Skansen Park again this timelooking up the sail of a windmill, it made me feel awfully dutch.
Another one of the many hundreds of photos taken in Sweden, this time from Haga Park, and the cooper tents were built in 1787-90 and designed by Louis Jean Desprez. He proposed that all the façades of the buildings should be designed as tents, clad in decoratively painted copper plate. However, tent façades were only built on the side facing the main lawns, which still gives the desired illusion of a sultan’s encampment on the edge of the forest.
Today the middle copper tent is home to the Haga Park Museum. The tent to the east houses a restaurant and the one on the western side is accommodation. The copper tents are a national monument.
Yep still have so many photos from Stockholm Sweden to show. We went to the Butterfly house in Stockholm which is 800 square meters in size and the environment is tropical. The temperature never goes below 25 degrees during the day, and 18 during the night. The humidity is high, just as the butterflies like it.By god did we sweat it, but I got lots of pictures of some very exotic butterflies which fly freely around yo, it really was quite amazing.
On another note, no I am not becoming a media whore as Ryan put it, but yes I was on radio again this time on “the last word with Matt Cooper” to talk about photoblogging and Flickr. I was also joined in Studio by freelance Journalist Adam Maguire who arrived with his notepad full of research notes and facts and figures. I arrived with my wooly hat, no research etc, what was I thinking!
Anyhow by all accounts it went well and can be heard here, I am also thinking a page with all interviews shall be created as a log for Rebecca of what Daddy did when he was young.
On my second last in Sweden we went to the gondolen bar in the centre of town, and on my way there I came across this unusual scene of a glove left on the handlebar of a parked bike, I dont know if this was intentional by the owner (I doubt it) or whether it had been left there by someone who found it on the road.
We stopped by a cafe in the Heron Centre in Stockholm me with my 50mm lens and Dolly with her 2 lens for a camera she has not yet got, and these lights caught my eye.
Yes I am back from Stockholm with over 500 photos to go through, an EF 50 mm f/1.8II and a longing for another break.
We had a ball and our host, Dolly, made us feel very very welcome.
I will be putting up more photosfrom Sweden when I have some time too, but this was one image I did not want to hold back on, this was taken across the lake to the City Hall in Stockholm. This hall is also where the yearly Nobel Ceremony takes place, but for me the architure mixed with the fantastic skyline really make this photo.