Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts

Friday, 29 June 2012

Friday My Town: Pictures that Tell a Story

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Friday Thursday My Town – “Waiting for Loreen”

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An ordinary Summer Thursday in my town!

No, I’m not kidding; even if this Thursday probably set a new attendance record. Ever since 1989, Thursday nights from late June to early August mean free public concerts with nationally more-or-less-famous artists in the town square; and the shops keeping open until the main concert starts at 9 p.m.

This year the organizers struck gold when back in winter they booked the singer Loreen for the first summer concert this year. As it turned out, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – see music video at YouTube – and suddenly got a lot more famous than she was before that!

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▲ My own photos above ▲ were taken about 1½ hours before the main concert. Actually, since I’m not really too keen on standing around in a crowd of around 25.000 people listening to extremely loud music – I did not stay for the concert.

Even if I had stayed, there is no way I’d have been able to get shots like these two below (making an exception here from my policy of only posting my own photos on this blog):

▼ Photos from www.bt.se

photo from bt.se

 

photo from bt.se

 

Go to Friday My Town Shoot Out to see what story-telling photos other members have found!

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Friday My Town: Arms and Legs

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▲▲▲ From a Textile Museum day back in April 2010, with demonstrations how people used to do their washing in the river back in the early 1900’s.

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▲ One of our more famous sculptures from recent years:
Pinocchio (9 m high) by American artist Jim Dine.
(At his feet friends of mine who were visiting last summer.)

 

Friday My Town Shoot Out – Jan 13th

Friday, 18 November 2011

Friday My Town: Symmetry

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▲ Reflection symmetry ▲

▼ Nature’s symmetry ▼

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▼ Butterfly Symmetry ▼

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▲ One Red Admiral, one Small Tortoiseshell ▲

 

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▲ Red Admiral ▲

▼ Small Tortoiseshell ▼

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▼ Man-made symmetry: ▼
 

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▲ Medieval ribbon-weaving shown at the Textile Museum ▲

 

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▲ Kaleidoscope Symmetry ▲
made by me in Corel Paint Shop Pro X
▼ from these autumn leaves ▼

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▼ Couples Symmetry▼

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Sea lions at the Zoo – in perfect sync!

 

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This pair of grandparents (I assume)
seemed pretty much synchronized too!

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I wish you all a nicely balanced weekend!

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Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Ruby Tuesday: Twins

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Young mother (I suppose!) with red twin pram,
walking in the park on a winter afternoon.

I just happened to be walking behind her,
couldn’t resist picking up the camera…

For Ruby Tuesday

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