Sheep and the big bad city

Evil Eyes

2011-09-27T20:38:00.000+02:00

Lost Hope

2011-09-04T16:43:00.000+02:00

Scott's Monument

2011-08-30T07:09:00.002+02:00

Birka

2011-08-30T07:08:00.002+02:00

I got the blues

2011-08-29T22:05:00.000+02:00

Yellow

2011-08-29T22:04:00.000+02:00

Summer flowers

2011-08-29T22:02:00.000+02:00

A bit of colour

2011-08-28T21:14:00.002+02:00

Texture

2011-08-28T20:58:00.000+02:00

Morning preparations

2011-08-28T20:52:00.002+02:00

Window

2011-08-28T19:33:00.000+02:00

Summer is almost gone

2011-08-28T15:31:00.000+02:00

Closing in

2011-08-22T21:22:00.003+02:00

A room with a view

2011-08-22T21:22:00.000+02:00

Profile

2011-08-20T17:54:00.003+02:00

Darkness

2011-08-17T20:31:00.002+02:00

Lights

2011-08-17T20:24:00.000+02:00

Street

2011-08-17T20:22:00.000+02:00

Arch

2011-08-17T20:20:00.003+02:00

Activity

2011-08-02T23:07:00.001+02:00

I completely suck at taking photos during winter time in Sweden, as you can see by the dates when I have last uploaded photos. But now it's summer so I owe half a year of photos in activity to this blog. Will be uploading photos from my trip to Edinburgh mainly, and then hopefully more of Sweden.

Summer is back

2011-08-02T23:01:00.001+02:00

I miss autumn

2011-02-03T10:00:00.000+01:00

Undecided

2010-12-16T22:54:00.000+01:00

So I don't know what banner I should go for...

Withered Rose

2010-11-03T15:09:00.000+01:00

Love Hate Relationship

2010-11-01T16:08:00.000+01:00

I have a love-hate relationship with this photo. I love the setting, the costumes, the action. But I hate the shoes. I just hate them. And I didn't realize that at the time the photo was taken.

Forgotten Flower

2010-11-01T10:10:00.001+01:00

Golden Afternoon

2010-10-29T17:30:00.000+02:00

Falling for Autumn

2010-10-25T19:54:00.001+02:00

Old Town Square

2010-10-24T17:45:00.002+02:00

Harvest Lady

2010-10-24T12:45:00.001+02:00

2010-10-23T19:07:00.003+02:00

Autumn Road

2010-10-21T23:08:00.001+02:00

Castle Garden

2010-10-21T11:33:00.003+02:00

Dream of Autumn II

2010-10-20T17:50:00.003+02:00

Dream of Autumn

2010-10-20T00:53:00.003+02:00

More stripes

2010-10-20T00:04:00.001+02:00

Close up

2010-10-19T11:19:00.001+02:00

Coming to get you!

2010-10-19T11:00:00.003+02:00

Can't You See I Am Eating???

2010-10-18T17:42:00.003+02:00

Mother and cub

2010-10-18T10:58:00.001+02:00

Mother and child

2010-10-16T20:05:00.001+02:00

You looking at me?

2010-10-16T16:15:00.001+02:00

Hello there

2010-10-13T14:15:00.002+02:00

Soft

2010-10-13T10:50:00.001+02:00

Delicate

2010-10-12T20:59:00.003+02:00

Bear Family

2010-10-11T16:08:00.002+02:00

Lomo Beads

2010-10-11T15:34:00.003+02:00

Tyresö Kyrka

2010-10-11T15:31:00.001+02:00

Unlikely Subject

2010-10-10T22:53:00.001+02:00

Depressed Stripes

2010-10-10T21:20:00.003+02:00

Gotland Tower

2010-10-09T20:16:00.001+02:00

Long Time Ago

2010-10-08T18:12:00.001+02:00

The Velvet Darkness

2010-10-07T18:32:00.001+02:00

Celebrating Autumn's Colors

2010-10-06T22:03:00.003+02:00

A Summer's End

2010-09-21T16:45:00.003+02:00

The path of green

2010-09-20T22:24:00.002+02:00

my first attempt at hdr :D hopefully it's not terrible

Saffranspannkaka

2010-09-05T11:49:00.001+02:00

Swedish Style Door

2010-09-01T11:50:00.003+02:00

Gotland Church

2010-09-01T11:49:00.003+02:00

Old Window

2010-09-01T11:35:00.001+02:00

Stripes

2010-08-29T18:56:00.003+02:00

Apelsin Mascarpone Muffins

2010-08-12T19:35:00.007+02:00

Chocolate cupcakes with Baileys Irish Cream

2010-08-12T19:35:00.006+02:00

Västerbotten Muffins

2010-08-12T19:34:00.001+02:00

Fallen King

2010-08-12T12:03:00.007+02:00

The king of the jungle, now fighting the greatest fight of all. Against time. But time is a cruel enemy. It has no mercy, it does not care. It just passes over you, taking little by little the strength of a king.

The Joy of Baking

2010-08-04T12:46:00.001+02:00

There are a few things that I like to make, but number one has to be muffins. Any type of muffin. I just like making them. Yesterday's choice was marängmuffins with lemon curd. MUMS!

Summer's return

2010-06-02T22:48:00.003+02:00

The traveler

2010-05-11T11:10:00.001+02:00

" I had been on the road for 2 months, going over huge mountains and difficult terrains, heading towards home. I knew my children we're waiting for me. I kept pushing forward through wind and rain, which only make things more slippery. But I knew I was on the right path.

But then the cyclop came! with its huge hand grabbed me and moved me. I was all of a sudden back were I had been 2 weeks ago!!! Darn, now I have do to all that climbing all over again".

I have the bad habit of saving snails from walked paths. I can hear the crack of their shell in my skull when I see them on sidewalks. So I just grab them and move them to grass patches or bushes.

Smoke the Sky Away

2010-01-19T09:41:00.001+01:00

this is the last semester of my masters. which means that this is the semester in which I am to write my thesis. as usual I have picked a subject that others might depict as weird or unbusiness like, but to me it is very much business. it deals with a field that is growing as we speak, to such proportions that it more than qualifies to be investigated. I am going to research creative consumption in online games, more specifically World of Warcraft.

If you did not know, I have been playing WOW for 5 years. And it is more than a game, it's a social system within itself. When you begin to play, it takes on such a power over you than you actually need it every day. You can be whatever you wish, a knight in shinning armour, a grumpy dwarf, a jolly gnome or a graceful elf. The choice is yours and helps you wash away the dissapointments of the real world. In the world of the game you have more power than in the world in which you were born. But ultimately, you do need to remind yourself that it is just a game, otherwise you won't be the one with the power, but you will be the one controlled by your needs to be all that you are not.

might sound a bit gloomy, but it's true. in the beginning I was addicted to WOW, I needed my daily fix. Now I see WOW as more of a recreational activity. I don't think WOW is a bad thing, I still love the possibilities it offers in terms of storytelling and roleplaying, but all that seems to have died away a bit since the start of it all. Now it's more about who has the better items, or who deals more damage. So needless to say that I will try and capture that lost side of WOW through my thesis. :D

Scream

2010-01-15T19:32:00.001+01:00

I am so happy Linda recommended Serieteket to me. Up to this point, I have been literally drooling in the comic book store in Gamla Stan or in the Sci Fi store, but comic books are so expensive to buy. 100kr is quite a lot for someone who doesn't have a salary or help from the government. But never fear! Linda came to the rescue! and so I discovered the comic book library of Stockholm!

it's a pity that so many are in swedish. I hoped to find comics like DMZ, Walking Dead, but no such luck. It was fun to find out that I am allowed to take out 50 items!!! 50!!! I went into a frenzy! I stuffed 11 heavy comic books in my backpack until it almost popped its seams. Hellboy and 30 days of night will keep me company the following days.

Light and Frost

2010-01-13T12:07:00.001+01:00

"evil laugh" first try outs with my new lens, the 55-200. i really do enjoy it, but i still feel the need to buy more... if only i had the money...

it's becoming brighter and brighter outside, perhaps signaling the impending doom of winter, whispering to us that we should take out and dust off our non-winter clothes. but then again, this is sweden, so no such luck. according to my bf the snow might stay here till june...

Updates

2010-01-07T17:43:00.001+01:00

and the cold keeps getting worse... two days ago it was so cold outside that our car's battery died. it was a predictable expense at a certain point, considering the car is 8 years old, but in good condition. and when the problem was fixed, we had to struggle to get the car out of the parking lot, because it was stuck on ice.

as of next week, i am a full time student studying swedish... monday=1 and a half of computers in swedish, tuesday= 2 h of swedish, wednesday= 2 h of swedish, thursday= 90min of swedish biology, 90min of swedish AND 1h of consumer behaviour or something like that in swedish... and to top it off, on friday 3h and a half of swedish... hopefully i'll remember how to speak my native tongue after all this :D i'm already dreaming in english, now i corner romanian with swedish in a forgotten room of my mind.

Winter... when will you be over???

2010-01-04T22:36:00.001+01:00

it's frickin cold here! and I've been sick for 3 days now, with aches all over my body, fever and feelin dead tired all day. I'm on vacation, I'm supposed to feel good not sick.

bf's been playing wow all day "pouts" I played a little too so I can't complain. but I sort of wanna go to the movies. I wanna see both Dr. Parnassus and Sherlock Homes. He doesn't wanna see the last one because he loves the old type Sherlock Homes movies, and he doesn't wanna ruin his idea of Sherlock by watching the naughty Guy Ritchie one. Oh wells...

Missing summer

2009-12-18T00:08:00.001+01:00

resolutions

2009-12-15T15:27:00.001+01:00

as I sit here in my cold living room (what do you expect, it's Sweden) watching the blizzard tearing our communal garden apart, I say to myself... what happened to my photos... it's been ... wait for it... 4 months since I last posted something... naughty naughty!

maybe I should force myself to also write on my blog, though I never thought of myself as a writer, or even in the least a person with interesting thoughts for somebody else other than myself.

did I mention my laptop, my one and only baby (well, maybe not anymore since I also have a netbook... baby no.1 and baby no.2), ever since Dell serviced it and replaced the screen, can blind a person with the screen? it's so bright I might have to kidnap my bf's big computer to edit my photos, because I can't be sure of how it's gonna look on somebody else's screen...

apart from that itsy bitsy tiny problem, I am in the final week of this semester of studies! I just gotta pull through 2 more nights of not so much sleep, and then I can sleep like the dead...

Boom Boom

2009-09-02T12:55:00.001+02:00

Let me prescribe love

2009-09-02T12:54:00.001+02:00

My dream is orange

2009-09-02T12:53:00.001+02:00

Sometimes time stands still

2009-08-06T20:51:00.002+02:00

Dusseldorf Part I

2009-06-30T11:00:00.001+02:00

Classic

2009-06-30T10:57:00.001+02:00

Missing home

2009-06-25T12:10:00.002+02:00

Liliac

2009-06-25T12:09:00.001+02:00

Dicentra spectabilis

2009-06-19T15:05:00.001+02:00

Vintage Flowers

2009-05-25T22:03:00.001+02:00

Chain of blue

2009-05-25T22:00:00.001+02:00

The street issue

2009-05-23T20:07:00.001+02:00

The boat issue

2009-05-23T20:04:00.001+02:00

Paint me blue

2009-05-23T19:54:00.001+02:00

What's for breakfast?

2009-04-14T21:09:00.001+02:00

Fly

2009-03-23T13:58:00.003+01:00

Little House

2009-03-10T09:58:00.006+01:00

Love at first glare

2009-03-10T09:58:00.005+01:00

Stockholm, my cold home

2009-03-10T09:55:00.002+01:00

Lost in darkness

2009-01-02T19:43:00.002+01:00

Gamla Stan

2008-11-20T23:27:00.002+01:00

a normal day in stockholm... crappy light... very cloudy... and as soon as you say it cant get any worse... it rains...

Surreal

2008-11-03T11:46:00.001+01:00

Splash of color

2008-11-02T21:51:00.002+01:00

The mechanics of life

2008-09-10T11:01:00.001+02:00

Fooling Around

2008-09-10T10:58:00.001+02:00