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Back again

Back again

I’ve been off to Lund in the southern part of Sweden on a business trip. Long working days but since the daylight becomes longer by the day I still got some time to go out and test my new travel photo kit. Canon R8 with Canon 24-240 lens gives me a wide range but still is light to carry.

The picture is from the university area in Lund with shadows playing on the facade of the Dominican Order monastery. The order was established in 1216 and already 1223 they came to Lund. They stayed until the 1500 when the Lutheran reformation forced them out. With the freedom of religion they where back again in 1948.

Freedom is the best thing, but it doesn’t come for free! Ha de Gött!

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Sote canal

Sote canal

The man made canal, in Swedish Sotekanalen, has been dug and blasted through the rock as a relief work for unemployed stonemason workers. The idea to build a canal came up already in the late 1800 to create a safer passage over the dangerous waters in the Sotefjord. The decision was made 1913 but the work didn’t start until 1931. It was inaugurated in 1935 by the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf. This made the peninsula Ramsvikslandet to an island but it’s now connected to the mainland with a swing bridge.

The canal is 4800 meters long, 4,5 meters deep and 15 meters wide. Today it’s not used for commercial traffic but each year over 50 000 recreation boats passes this beautiful waterway.

No man is an island, ha de Gött!

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Water water water

Water water water

Like the Easter Bunny I was roaming the land. Don’t think we look for the same things but as I went through my pictures I realised that water is my favourite model.

I remember as a young boy, me and my friends spend our time by the creek. Like beavers we built dams, just to tear them down to see the fast flowing water fearlessly, like there’s no tomorrow, rush to the lake. One time we built a dam so large that people got their basements flooded, prescribed now I hope.

I can sit for hours watching the water flowing by. The soothing sound and the ever changing dance of the water. Most see the water flowing at a steady rate but if you sit down to watch you see it pulsing. Just like a mothers heartbeats.

Don’t take water for granted, ha de Gött!

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