Captured at the roadside in Victor Harbor, Australia, January 2011.

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January 30, 2010 I published my first post here on this blog. Actually I totally forgot the 2 year anniversary of my blog here recently!

My last post “Danish winter landscape” – was my post number 200…..!

And today i can see, that I now I have also passed 20,000 views on

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These days we have Brrrrrrrrrrrr-COLD temperatures and snow – and winter has in has the very highest degree arrived to Denmark.

I  hope that I one the next few days may have the opportunity to shoot some pictures from the COLD winter here…..

Until that:

More memories from last winter – which was long and very cold here. — While I was enjoying summer in Australia!:

More

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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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No… I’m not describing my self or anyone else, I’m referring to the lovely online store I got a delivery from today!! Weeehee :) Packages delivered to the door is one of the most amazing feelings in the world!!!

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“Rule of thirds” is not really a rule – but a thousands of years old help for image composition.

It is based on four lines, two horizontal and two vertical, that divides the image. And also form four points from the crossing lines. Please click on the link “Rule of Thirds” above to see an example (from Wikipedia).

This is a simplification of the “The Golden Ratio” –

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Spring – April

Summer – June

Autumn – October

Winter – December

This is my contribution to Scott Thomas’ Assignment “Four seasons”. The photos are captured at

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In this post you can see more details of the sculpture “Man At Sea”  outside Esbjerg. Made by the Danish artist Sven Wiig Hansen.

Do you like to see more sculptures by the sea??

Have a look at my posts “Sculpture By The Sea”:

June

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In my previous post I introduced you to a sculpture in Esbjerg. The title of the sculpture is “Man At Sea”.  It portrays four men, who are watching the view over the Wadden Sea outside Esbjerg. The sculptor behind the work is the Danish artist Sven Wiig Hansen.

The stunning 9 meter high sculpture was erected in 1994 on the occasion of Esbjerg Municipality’s 100 th anniversary.

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In my previous post I introduced you to the Danish city Esbjerg in Southwest Jutland. One of the most prominent and impressive landmarks here is the sculpture of four men who are looking westward over the sea. It is located between the harbor and Hjerting – I showed you what they are looking at in my last post!

In the background you can see some of Esbjerg’s

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Jeg drømmer meg stadig bort når jeg lager bilder...dette er intet unntak..

Tenk å ha det så fint som dette bildet forestiller....

Jeg vet at virkeligheten er en helt annen, men derfor elsker jeg å lage slike

fantasibilder. Det er som terapi for

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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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Dette bilde laget jeg en gang for ca 1 uke siden. Jeg ville lage noe som på en måte

skulle vise mine drømmer og håp for sommeren som har vært. Denne tunge og

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This is another photo from Helgenæs.

The light and the water was playing that day……

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One Saturday in August I was invited to the 60th birthday-party of a good friend. The party ran for the entire day – first in and around a holiday house – and later in a village hall – at Helgenæs.
In between the festivities, I fortunately also had time to shoot some photos from the scenic Helgenæs.

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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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Path

-near Skanderborg Søerne (Skanderborg Lakes)

In the middle of this week we finished a coupple of weeks her in Denmark with summer weather!!! We have enjoyed sunny days and temperatures above 20 dgr. C. People have been smiling because at last we had some summer weather

According to DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) we had a record-warm October 1, 2011: 26.9 degrees

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This summer I visited Rødvig. It is situated on Sjælland ( Zealand ), which is the largest of the Danish islands. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is 70 km north of Rødvig.

This is the view from the cottage area south of Rødvig overlooking Fakse Bay.

To the right of this small road leading to the

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This is my last post from the West Coast of Jutland this summer.

This evening we were lucky to watch the sunset.

A lovely evening.

Let’s finish with a lovely song from this Danish acapella vocal group :

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Before leaving the West Coast of Jutland this summer, I want to take you with us for an evening walk to the beach:

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Here are a few flowers more from the dunes in July at Jutland’s west coast.

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Summer in Denmark is not always the same as sunshine, blue sky and warm temperatures ….
We clearly could feel this in Denmark this summer! As reflected by some of my entries here
According to the DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) the rainfall this year was 321 mm rain in average this summer. Only two mm less than the record in this country from 1980 – 323 mm!

Fortunately, there have been

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The spider web with the raindrops is looking fine in black&white too:

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From the late-summer photo in my last post – to some midsummer photos in this and coming posts.And where are we going?

I spent some days in July at Jutland’s west coast. I love to be out there in the grand and rather rough nature – not far from where I was born (in Ribe). And some of you may remember some of my previous post from

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This is the landscape viewed towards west from Tisetvej south of Mårslet, Denmark.

I have shown photos from here two times earlier, last summer and in my first post in January 2010.

Last week I stopped here again and enjoyed the view:

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Bilde fra sommerhuset ved sjøen vi er så heldige å få besøke hver sommer:)

En herlig plass hvor det er sosialt og koselig. Det blir småpusla litt med prosjekter på det stedet også og jeg skal se om jeg etterhvert kan vise noen før- og etter-bilder…..huset var nemlig temmelig forfallent;)

Go søndag videre:)

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Not far from Geehi, NSW, Ausralia, where we met all the kangaroos, you will find Scammell’s Lookout, with some breathtaking mountain views.

I have picked two different photos from this place. I couldn’t choose between them, so I publish both of them.

Now you have the choice!

Which one do you prefer – and why?!

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In my my earlier posts Mt. Kosciuszko and  Kosciuszko National Park I introduced  gum trees – or Eucalyptus – , the most common tree species in Australia.

Here is detail I loved of one of the trees there:

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En tidligere kollega inviterte oss til en liten sommer-samling, herlig krabbe!

Det var en grå dag, men ikke inne. Egentlig spiller det ingen rolle når man er ved sjøen – det har en beroligende effekt uansett.

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