The following set of pictures were taken last May. I’ve been to Sweden once since then and am going yet again in mid-May this year. Thought it might be a good idea to post the pix before I lap myself again…
(As always, please click on the picture to see a larger version.)
Because of flight pricing, I ended up flying back on a Sunday, so I spent Saturday afternoon wandering about Stockholm. Here are some things that caught my eye…
Stockholm was built on fourteen islands in Lake Mälaren. Some of them are no longer completely surrounded by water due to city growth.
The L.O. (Landsorganisationen i Sverige - the Swedish Trade Union Confederation) building.
Petruskyrkan (St. Peter’s Church).
Carl Eldh’s statue of August Strindberg in Tegnérlunden park.
Still in in Tegnérlunden park…
An interesting pair of statues…
The sumo boogie?
The Rådhuset (courthouse) on Kungsholmen island.
A statue in the gardens of Piperska Muren, across the street from the Rådhuset.
I took a bunch of pictures of these nice flowers growing on a tree on the grounds of the Landstingshuset (City Council House) in Kungsholmen. I wasn’t happy with any of them, but each of the following three have features that I like, so you get three for the price of one…
I’ve been struggling to identify these flowers. Seems to be similar to pears or plums, but the first picture, showing the immature fruit, doesn’t seem to fit anything…
I posted on the UBC Botanical Garden forum asking for help. One poster replied, "I think a big part of the problem is that the inflorescence in the [first] shot is diseased and monstrous."
Well, huh. That could make it tough…
I like the composition of this picture (with the sky and the Landstingshuset in the background), despite the varying depth of focus on the flowers themselves…
I like the light shining through the petals on this shot…
A coot (NO! not my father-in-law, a Eurasian coot, AKA Fulica atra) enjoying Lake Mälaren.
Stadshuset (Stockholm City Hall)…
The other end of the Stadshuset.
Södermalm, across the water.
Statue of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson at Stadshuset.
Looking toward the Västerbron (the Western Bridge) from the Stadshuset.
Ahh, a rakish bit of ivy is all the fashion today…
Another statue by Carl Eldh. This is the female half of a pair of statues on the waterfront at the Stadshuset. I believe they are called "Sangen og Dansen" (Song and Dance). The gal is "Dance".
I didn’t actually make it into the Stadshuset, but I kinda looked into one of the courtyards…
The portion of Gamla Stan (old city) on the tiny island of Riddarholmen.
The cenotaph (empty tomb) originally intended for Birger Jarl’s remains.
Another shot of Södermalm.
Since I’m in the business of moving containers around the world, I’m always interested to see a new use for an old container. In this case, a covered bridge…
A statue of Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna in front of the Riddarhuset (Swedish House of Nobility). (While the statue is located in the garden of the Riddarhuset, the building in the background of the photo is the Gamla Riksarkivet (Old National Archives), across the canal on Riddarholmen.)
Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholmen Church) which so (nicely) dominates the Riddarholmen and Gamla Stan skyline…
The sun sets over Ridderholmen, Gamla Stan and Centralbron (Central Bridge), taken from Södermalm.
Guardian kitteh thinks, "Job well done."
And, hopefully, y’all think so as well. (About this post)
Your pictures always make me green with envy. You get composition, lighting, colors - beautiful, frame-worthy shots - and I’m lucky if the picture I *take* is of the actual thing I *aimed* at.
Beautiful shots, but, how are the tweedledee and tweedledum statues supported? They look like they should be falling right over, on those little tiny feet. I see the little bar under the one’s feet, but it still doesn’t look like it’d be enough to keep the statue upright, considering the size and the angle it’s at.
Comment by elayne — 25 March 08 @ 11:21 am
OMG, the statues of the odd couple! Someone has seen us in the nude! Oh, the humanity! Oh the nudity!
Great photos. I have no idea what that tree is, with the gross inflorescence that you mistook for fruit.
Comment by Pie — 16 June 08 @ 6:25 pm