Flower time

With the winter just around the corner and trees without leaves, I need a flower. Here's a good one that I found one October Sunday. I thought a close-up would be nice and this one actually looks a bit like an anemone from some coral reef somewhere.

The fog

October and November has been very foggy here in Helsingborg. Since I've never taken pictures in the fog, I decided it was high time. I've always wanted to take pictures of the Denmark ferries cutting through the fog so I went straight to the harbour only to find it was so foggy I couldn't even see the dock where the Denmark ferries come  in. I could hear them though, I could hear the bow visor unlock, the walkway go down, the trucks driving off the boat... but I couldn't see a thing.

And then the fog turned dark in one place and suddenly this ship comes through. It didn't make a sound, it just came gliding towards me. Try focus with your camera in the fog. Not easy. The ship had to come pretty close before my Nikon wanted to snap a picture. But the view of the black bow cutting through the fog was pretty amazing.The poor ducks below had to scatter not to be overrun by the ship, they were just as surprised as I was.

Rusty old thing

If I had a rusty old bike like this, I'm not sure I would use it. But it makes for some good pictures. Notice the lamp is in good condition. And the lock looks fairly new. Could be that the bike is waiting for a new coat of paint. Or it's the latest and greatest thing when it comes to bicycles, maybe it's an ecological bike?

Flying high

I took this picture from my living room window just because I wanted to see if my camera could take the shot. I take many of these kind of pictures thinking "Can my Nikon do this?" It's a darn tiny little flying thing, at least on the picture but it stuck so I guess my Nikon could do it this time.

Windy city

In southern Sweden it's very windy, it's such flat country. There's always some kind of wind going on. At the coast it's even worse. This dog knows what it's like to stand in the way of the wind coming in from the sound. He cannot even keep his ears on straight. Too cute!

Old and mossy

I feel the need for another tree. This is one gnarly, mosscovered old tree that stands in the deer pen in the childrens zoo in my hometown, Engelholm. I thought the top roots were quite impressive and deserved a picture and a blog post. Sadly the deer didn't show themselves the day I was there, maybe they are camera shy?

Tower town

Another theme I have when taking pictures, towers. Lots of houses in this city have towers on them so after awhile I developed a sick fascination and started taking pictures of the towers. One of my colleagues lives in the yellow house to the right. He says there's no way to get up in the tower to get out on the flat roof, apparently it's just for decoration. Shame, it would've been a nice place to sit and have coffee in summer evenings.

Scary spikes

Perhaps I should've posted this picture yesterday on Halloween? These spikes are located on the Kronborg Castle wall that is facing the inner courtyard. I have no idea what they was used for. I can only hope that they weren't populated with people that needed to be punished because they had been rude to the Danish Royals or something like that. They sit too high on the wall to be coat hangers or pegs to tie horses. And actually they are too close together to be fit for hanging people on them. I suppose this is just another thing to add to the list of "things-I-know-nothing-about-and-will-most-likely-not-know-ever".