The ships
Yesterday my girlfriend and I got back from a weekend spent on a cruise to Oslo. It’s a mystery to us but everywhere we go, whether it’s Kraków or Öland, the weather seems to be exactly the same. Allvaret in Öland and parts of Nowa Huta outside of Kraków is probably beautiful and/or nice to see but we have to take somebody elses word for that. The reason? A fog so thick you can cut it with a knife seems to follow us over Europe, almost as an homage to our hardships and efforts;) This weekend was no different in this regard so the “lovely trip up the fjord to the Norwegian capital” was reduced to some barely visible shapes and contours through the white thickness. You could indeed say we mist it all;)
In spite of the bad weather the weekend was very nice and I’ll come back to that over the days to come but I thought it would be better to start from the very beginning. Down below is a picture of two ships in the harbour of Copenhagen that we passed as we left Denmark.
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Cat soup
Cute story of the day (in Swedish though): Yesterday I did some shopping at Malmborgs. I don’t know exactly what they do there in the morning but they offer some kind of service to shop for people which they then deliver to their houses. I presume? Anyway. I was browsing the pet food section when a man in his early 60′s approached me. I had noticed him before and written him down as one of those “special service guys” since he had a huge written form in his hands. He was very nice but it was probably at this time I came to the conclusion that he didn’t have Swedish as his native language because he was looking for cat food, or should I say “kattsoppa” when the note he showed me clearly read “köttsoppa”. I helped him with his tiny error but what a sweet story:)
The crane below can be found in Gothenburg and used to belong to Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB. They closed in 1979 and all that now remains from that era is the 84 meters high orange beast seen here.
Happy birthday R:)
Cranes
Yesterday evening I was robbed of 75 minutes that I will never get back! What happened, you ask? Well, I watched the handball game between Sweden and Argentina and what a senseless waste of time it was. I’m not worried though. There is still one team to cheer on. Go Denmark:)
press and you get the chance to win a million SEK;)
Ystad harbor
Ystad is surely one of the prettiest and most picturesque towns in Sweden. It is virtually impossible to walk the narrow streets without remarking on an even nicer house you pass by on your stroll. Because of that it’s unfathomable to me that the harbor looks somewhat like what is shown in the picture below. Perhaps Ystad should be doing something like they did in Malmoe with their harbor area? Instead of keeping all the warehouses and industries, get rid of it all and build something enjoyable and good-looking there. Just my two cents:)
Barbed wire
This is a pair of huge pipes found at the old premises of Kockums in Malmoe. I don’t know what they are used for and can’t come up with any plausible ideas. Suggestions?
Forklift
When I was out walking near my grandparents house I came across a huge forklift just standing there in a glade by itself and let me tell you, it wasn’t in mintcondition anymore. This is perhaps easy to see even in this closeup of the chains in the machine.
Nuclear plant
This picture was taken last summer in July. It was one of those wonderful warm evenings with that special soft light you get sometimes during the summer. The building and its famous silhouette is well known for most and is of course the old nuclear plant of Barsebäck. There’s not that much to say about the picture more than I had the good fortune of coming here just as the moon was directly above the two chimneys.
Ga Ag – Ga Ag – Ga Ag
This is a picture from last summer and a trip a friend and I made to Landskrona shipyard. One thing about photography that I find hard but am trying to get used to is actually finding something to take a picture of. It doesn’t always have to be, for example, something special or beautiful. Ordinary things can make just a good picture as anything but it’s a real trick “seeing them” for a beginner:)
So, to sum things up this is a picture I walked right by until my friend Stefan snapped a few shots of it which made me curious enough to go back and try it as well. It didn’t turn out to bad or what do you think?
Credit to Stefan for helping me with the idea and Anders for the title;)
Barbed wire
This picture was taken at the same visit to Landskrona shipyard as this post over here. There are many cranes within the shipyard area and I’m not really sure if it’s the same one in both shots but in any case it’s from a different angle and an alternate composition. I know it’s a simple picture in its own way but I usually like these shots with focus on something closer than the real motif. How about you?:)
Cranes
A roadtrip with a friend of mine last summer brought us to the old shipyard area of Landskrona. Visitors can’t see the whole area since certain parts are closed to the public but the parts you can see are great. When you walk around in a place like that you suddenly feel quite small. Everything is so big being adjusted for building large ships. I had luck when we were there that the sun was out. It really highlights the color of the first crane.
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