These days the tennis tournament, Australian Open, is played in Melbourne.

I was in Australia last year at this time – and followed the tournament – on TV!

Australian Open 2011: Novak Djokovic is defeating Andy Murray in the men’s finals last year:

I followed the match – and enjoyed an Australian beer – which  was tasty, but very expensive (even compared to Denmark!).

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As in many other cities contrasts meet in Melbourne. Old and new. Nature and culture. Warm and cold. Green and concrete. Joy and sadness. Life and death.

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In this post there are none of my photos (my first post without a photo!).

This post marks the end of a series of entries from Denmark. And the beginning of a series of entries from my trip last year to Australia.

Before I move on to Australia, I will give my contribution to Scott Thomas’ latest Assignment “Rule of Thirds” - If you want to participate too, you must make your contribution before Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

Today I will give

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The Australian artist Ron Muecks (b. 1958) has created the sculpture “BOY”. It is the landmark of ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. The five meters tall and 500 kg heavy boy is squatting in all his impressive glory at the northern end of the museum’s special exhibition foyer.

BOY is a

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Some more photos from  “Your Rainbow Panorama”, the large installation by Olafur Eliasson at AROS, Århus Museum of Art.

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Video about “Your Rainbow Panorama” and the surroundings – the city of Aarhus:

(Sorry the speak is in only in Danish

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AROS is the name of our Art Museum here in Aarhus. A modern and new museum, which already after a few years has distinguished itself in the Danish museum world and abroad.

In 2011 a new permanent exhibition opened, “Your Rainbow Panorama”, a gigantic installation with a weight of 250,000 kg, built on top of the entire museum building (whose structures had to be reinforced to carry this construction)!!

The artist behind this artwork is Olafur Eliasson. He has

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I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

This is not a Christmas elf – or me – but a boy. And there will be more about him in my first posts in 2012. After Christmas my next post will be my contribution to Scott Thomas’ Asssignment “Four Seasons”.

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In my last post i visited Frijsenborg near Hammel, Denmark.

Here are two more summer photos from here :

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In August I drove with my son to Viborg to buy a used bike for him.

On the way I persuaded him to make a stop at the manor Frijsenborg near Hammel, where I had not been for a long time…
It was a nice revisit!

And while his father enjoyed seeing and photographing the beautiful

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An August summer evening I passed Ejer Bavnehøj.

I was impressed by how different the evening sky looked like – just within a few minutes ….

I also watched “Blue Hour”:

For more info about “Blue Hour” – please read some of Scott Thomas‘

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Summer has come to an end, but it is also time for some more good summer memories….

This summer I visited  Sjælland ( Zealand ), which is the largest of the Danish islands. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is is located on the east coast of Zealand at Øresund, which is sound between Denmark and Sweden.

In Copenhagen there are many interesting sights. Museums, castles and other buildings, the Little Mermaid – and much more, but

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Driving B400 through the Murray Valley towards Albury I photographed this Aussie chap in a small town:

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In recent times I have been reasonably busy with anything other than blogging – I started a new job in June (I will tell more about this later ) and have just been on two weeks holiday by the West-coast of Jutland (many of you will know I love spending much time there – and some new photos from there will also likely soon show up here – in between more travel photos!).

A few

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Read in my previous posts about the exhibition “Sculpture By The Sea”.

Here is my last post with photos from the exhibition:

Artist: Raquel Corona Justo (Mexico)

Title: Obsevando la fantasia

Statement: “The work invites us to reflect about how we can sit down and watch people in spaces”

Artist: Gangadhar Mahato (India)

Title: Inner expression

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Read in my previous posts about the exhibition “Sculpture By The Sea”.

Here is my third post with photos from the exhibition:

Artist: Sasha Reid & Dominique Sutton (Australia)

Title: Melt

Statement: “The work is a quiet reminder of the effects of global warming on the sea level”

The sculpture consists of 5 of these special boats.

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