PhotoHunt: TOGETHER - November 7 -2008

There will still be an effort for you to watch this TOGETHER PHOTO.
But, it's only a single click away.

PS. It has something with Blogger Friends to do. May they be TOGETHER across Border Lines?

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PhotoHunt: SAD - October 4 -2008

It's allways SAD to sign a Condolence Protocol. In this case, for our Son Ruben who died on May 18 this year - 40 years young. The writings lasted for 2 1/2 hours.

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PS. We are returning to our Winterhome this Weekend, thus we are very busy

PhotoHunt: View - Sept 27 - 2008

I had many VIEWpoints on how to pick one photo for this weeks post. I did not make it, so bear over me for the 3 to come:

View from Victoria Hill in Hong Kong. Ingelin had seen the View before. LOL.

View the Crabs and the Fish down under the platform

View from the Bus between Santiago de Chile and Mendoza (Argentina) - In the background you can view the highest point in the Americas: Aconcagua: 6954 m or 22815 feet.

You can also have a view of how Norwegians celebrates when 60, from a Swedish point of view - Thanks to Mrs Lifecruiser.

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PhotoHunt: Dark - August 9 - 2008

Here is my new Dark, black Camera, Which I bought at Best Buy 8 Days ago.

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Scroll down to meet my great American Blogger Friend Suzann. Pls. comment on her site. It's great pictures there. Intercontinental Blogger meeting.

Bright - PhotoHunters June 28 - 2008

My dear readers do know I have not participated as normal lately here at PH. Even been a lousy commenter. Let me first of all say thanks for all kind words and warm thoughts in the past weeks.
Then, to this weeks theme: Bright.


I must admit, among my thousands of photos and scannings, I needed a little inspiration to figure out what to present. Hence, I did a Google Search. It's allways a natural story behind - yeah?
I found an inspiration more powerful, that I could ever expect. The Brights. You should visit this site if you will have a clue what Respect and Peace and a Naturalistic view can do for this Planet.





Then I found a Picture taken by my Father in the late 50'ies. It was a Bright Idea to capture me when diving into the Nature - The Oslo Fjord.

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PhotoHunt: Me

Wow, I can't show you me as I am. Not in public. People would go crazy of such a sight. Me, with a tie, only LOL.

Here is me. The "old man and the Sea" - that's me

PhotoHunt - Saturday April 19 - 2008: 13

--- Baked with Seaweed. Very crispy and tasty. Only 13 calories, if you add butter. LOL.

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This weeks theme is Metal. Since it's Easter my choice this time was a photo, scanned from a slide taken back in 1997, in Arica, Northern Chile. Why a Church? Read the photo-text.

Arica, church designed by Gustav Eiffel

Perhaps the most interesting place to visit in Arica is the San Marcos de Arica church. Founded around 1570, the original church was destroyed in 1888 by an earthquake and was replaced by this construction by the famous architect Gustav Eiffel. The more sturdy structure is comprised entirely of prefabricated wrought-iron plates. Only the doors are wooden.

With other words a Metal Church

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Photo Hunters - Curvy

I, in fact ,have lots of curvy photos. Yeah, I do have. Too sexy, according to the definition of curvy and what to be presented here. *giggles?* But this old, scanned capture from a slide taken in the early 1980'ies (SW France) is very special. The scan is not the quality as on the original. But look at it from a distance - then you will see the artists meaning of "curvy" - A real woman from that time - hard working and giving. A real woman - that time to be.

Mother Earth.

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Photo Hunters September 1 - 2007

Please do not be frustrated. The DIRT is after this short text.

It was very well planned. Our Mushroom "hunting" in the wilderness this Saturday. We have had a secret place for years. With plenty of Mushrooms. More than we could bring back. Positive as we are, we equipped with what mushroom pickers allways bring: A wooden basket (no 2 large) and small, sharp knives. Went into the Car, and drove for some "secret" time, and into the wilderness. Mushroom paradise.

What was there? Dirt. All destroyed. Our Mushroom paradise destroyed.

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Photo Hunters - August 25 - 2007

We have some traditions in our family that makes 4 generations very HAPPY.

Here is a representative of this tradition. Yezz, we were all around around the table - making traditional Norwegian X-Mas cakes. And you can all see how this tradition goes from generation to generation. With joy and happiness. You should know how proud my Mother (88) was, when we told and showed the photos of Seb making cookies for her. Nearly teardropping.
My mother is 82 years older than Seb. They play well together, when togethered.
That's my contribution to HAPPY

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Photo Hunters - August 11 - 2007

This week: Row - Here Boats in a row at Göta Channel in Sweden - We were invited to the channel by blogger friend RennyBA. And this photo is taken in the heartland of our CruiseCaptain Mrs. Lifecruiser - Have look at this one too - incredible.

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Photo Hunters - August 4 - 2007

Funky or bizarre statue in the Vigeland Sculpture Park - Oslo - Norway

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Shadow(s)

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Art: That means so much and is extremely important for humans. Even if we do not think about it. That's why I choosed to show a painting by a very young kid, combined with classic elements from "Stilleben" and modern design.

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Saturday

This weeks theme is the ultimate WATER - cradle of all life. Humans are searching, and spending tremendous effort in time and money to discover life outside our "green planet". To find life.

My contribution this week is photo from East Washington state, USA . I do hope you can, from this modest picture, see what difference WATER does.

A water hug from all of us here in Oslo;)

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Pont du Gard is a unique monument of Roman utility architecture located in Southern France.
(Yes, Anna is on the photo).
Please take a minute to visit the UNESCO site-description to find more information.

This is the description in brief:
The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who designed this bridge, which stands almost 50 m high and is on three levels – the longest measuring 275 m – created a technical as well as an artistic masterpiece.

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PHOTO HUNTERS March 3 - 2007-03-01

Theme: Salty

A salt statue of Pope John Paul II , more than 600 feet below the surface

In 2005, Anna and I did a visit to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, near Krakow, in Southern Poland. For one reason or another, we had never heard about these Mines before. When in Krakow, we received a SMS from our daughter, who strictly ordered us to go to the Mines.

- They are fantastic. You’ll never regret going there.

She was absolutely right. It was a memory for lifetime in many ways.

The most impressing part isthe chapel of the Blessed Kinga, which to all intents and purposes is a full blown church, the only difference being that it is 200 metres undergound, and carved entirely from salt, (including the chandeliers that hang from the ceiling). It is a quite astounding sight, and all the more so as it was carved not by an outsider, but by a group of gifted miners themselves.

Some background

The Wieliczka Salt Mine, nowadays practically on the southeast outskirts of Krakow, has been worked for 900 years. It used to be one of the world's biggest and most profitable industrial establishments when common salt was commercially a medieval equivalent of today's oil. Always a magnet, since the mid-18th century Krakow's Wieliczka salt mine has become increasingly a tourist attraction in the first place. Today visitors walk underground for about 2,000 m ( 1.3 miles) in the oldest part of the salt mine and see its subterranean museum, which takes three hours or so.

Nine centuries of mining in Wieliczka produced a total of some 200 kilometers (130 miles) of passages as well as 2,040 caverns of varied size. The tourist route starts 64 m deep and ends 135 m (430 feet) below the earth surface, where the world's biggest museum of mining is located with the unique centuries-old equipment among its exhibits. Still below, some 210 m (650 feet) deep, there is a sanatorium for those suffering from asthma and allergy. Occasionally concerts and other events take place in the Wieliczka mine’s biggest chambers.

UNESCO has entered the Wieliczka Salt Mine in its World Heritage Register.

Wieliczka Salt Mine

Soft on Saturday - Feb 23-2007

Soft Alarm here: Heat up in the Cold and Cool down in the Heat.

Snow is a Soft state of Water. Clouds and Fog (low clouds in fact) are softer. But in that condition you can't jump into it and feel the softness as you do when jumping into soft snow. With other words, Snow is expanded frozen Water. Like Airy Powder. But Snow can be packed as well. But normally Soft shaped.

Snow can reflect the most Soft meaningful valeurs of colours. And you can make white angels, snowlamps and drawings that can soften the hardest shadow and heart. During dark Winternights, what does make your mind soften up but the soft light from snow. And a Christmas Card with Pinebranches stacked of snow: Beauty, melancolique, harmony, tranquillity. Softens my heart. Turns me into the full pleasure of Nature. And put me into real Christmas Mood. A Time to give and forgive. Without to be softhearted, but softminded. And when the Sun rises higher and higher the Soft Snow changes its forma and shapes and predict new life: Spring.

Have you read the book? Do you need a Soft Loan? Do you like Fruit de Mers? What about Music? Afraid of falling? And last but not least, you could not view this without Computer Software. Free Open Source Software? New Pro based on Open Source Software?

A tribute to soft:
Soft Whispers, by Seashell

I long to feel the warmth of your skin,
Your hand, reaching for mine.
I get lost in the tenderness of your touch.
Your caress ignites my senses, and softly whispers,
"I love you."

I long to see the glow in your eyes,
Your stare, connecting with mine.
I get lost in the boundless depths of your soul.
Your gaze frees my spirit, and softly whispers,
"I love you."

I long to taste the sweetness of your kiss,
your lips, gently brushing mine.
I get lost in the intensity of your emotions.
Your passion captures my heart, and softly whispers,
"I love you."

Have a Soft Life (not naïv) . Start (s)now:))