The Joys of the Free Museems in London

And some special exhibitions spring 2016   Staying at the attractive Kensington as a tourist it’s easy to take a bus to Knightsbridge and from there walk to the Victoria & Albert Museum also called the V&A. It’s huge so priorities have to be made or more than one visit is also a possibility. This time I went to see […]

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Photo Challenge 

“Share a photo inspired by a poem, story ” from the Photo Challenge “Half-Light” from the Daily Post, a recurring event on Fridays.     Ode to a Grecian Urn by John Keats the fifth and last verse: O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out […]

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Connect & Benches

At the Photo 101 course today’s assignment is “Connect and Social Medias”. For a long time I have wished to show you the old benches in Copenhagen.   In Copenhagen we still have benches like the ones that existed a hundred years ago when my grandparents met each other. I always think of them when I see one of these […]

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Street

Assignment for the blogging course Photo 101 “Street” I am convinced that the photo I took a few years ago in London in New Bond Street is the same place as beneath painting by the famous Swedish painter Anders Zorn. The painting is at the permanent exhibition at Gothenburg Art Museum. It is difficult to take a picture of it as the painting is behind […]

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Connected

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.” The photos I have chosen are connected in the way that the toys are all about a hundred years old and the children on the roof of a house in Copenhagen are collecting money for poor children in 1914. Mesh

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My Favorite Flowers today

I found these in my garden and would like to share them with you. What I really love about them is the color, the scent and the shapes. I have strong memories from my childhood’s garden of these lovely Sweet Peas in Danish we call them by the Latin name Latyrus. I am training on photography with our Nikon DX camera. […]

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Heather Landscape

Inspired by my fellow blogger Judy Dykstra-Brown in Lifelessons, who put a question on a flower, if it was a Foxglove? Yesterday I went on a Sunday walk in a heather landscape close to us. The first picture I took was of a Foxglove that so much reminded me of the Beatrix Potter landscape in the Lake District in England.    

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