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Hammarkullen Carnival
Hammarkullen is a district or suburb of Gothenburg to the north-east. It’s a place with a large number of immigrants from many different cultures. The annual carnival started in the 1970s when the...
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Negative to positive
The last time my mother was able to visit me in Sweden she brought with her a negative that she’d found which she thought might be of my father. This is what it looked like. I scanned it using a high...
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The Moon in June
The full moon disturbingly bright behind driving clouds. Saturday 17th June 2011, 23.39 Olympus SP55OUZ | 10/20 sec | f/4.5 | ISO400
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Water Salamander
In the pond of the fountain at Gunnebo Slott, Möndal (south-east of Gothenburg) This little water salamander was probably hunting microscopic insects, but looked like it was just having fun. Saturday...
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A skytrap for the moon
And over head wires make a skytrap for the moon. Saturday 6th July 2011, around 22.55 Olympus SP55OUZ | 10/400 sec | f/4.6 | ISO125
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A Shortcut to Mushrooms
n Sunday 2nd October our friend Lena C took us mushrooming in the mossy-floored pine woods north-east of Gothenburg where she grew up. Mushrooms everywhere. In about 1½ hours we picked a mass of funnel...
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Autumn Squares
Autumn is here again. An opportunity to share some recent seasonal photos. This selection is mostly about colour and form. Some of these pictures were taken in Gothenburg’s Botanical Gardens on Sunday...
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First Frost
ast night we had our first real frost – unusually late in the year. This morning I took the opportunity to go photo-hunting in Central Gothenburg’s pride – Trädgårdsföreningen (the Garden Society...
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Faces in the Rocks
ometimes you just never know what you’re going to find. Someone says: That rock’s looking at me! And you look closer and you see … faces. Faces everywhere. Calm faces, angry faces, wise faces, sleeping...
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Walking the burned land
n Saturday 19th May 2012 I took part in a guided tour on the island of Rörö. Rörö is the most northerly of the islands in the Gothenburg archipelago and it takes a couple of hours by bus, ferry and...
View ArticlePortrait wall at Overleie in Kortrijk
A tourist visit to Kortrijk (Courtai in French) leads us through the town on the Golden Spurs trail and out to Little Buda and a wall of portraits that turns out to be an artistic protest. More...
View ArticleA brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery
A bief return to Brussels for a boring bureaucratic task yields photo-memories of places we planned to visit but never managed during our three years in Belgium. More...
View ArticleSkagen – why we went and what we saw
To Skagen in Denmark - a long weekend away with Mrs SC in the Danish town of artists, tourists, fisherfolk, history and weather. More...
View ArticleSummer 2018 – some social network photos
Summer 2018: a selection from June, July and August of some of my photos published on the social networks that didn't previously make it into the website. More...
View ArticleA photo catch-up in October Brussels
Back in Brussels for a photo catch-up and an attempt to round off my Brussels years, I don't quite manage, but I do get a lot of pretty decent photos. More...
View ArticleCook and Book – books and breakfast in Brussels
Cook and Book in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert: it's a bookshop and a restaurant, a café and jazz venue. And did I mention it's a bookshop? More...
View ArticleFirst frost – frosted leaves and flowers
Gallery of photographs of first frost: the early morning sun, on frosted leaves and flowers in Gothenburg's Trädgårdsföreningen park.
View ArticleFaces in the Rocks
Faces in the Rocks: Someone says "That rock's looking at me!" And you look closer and you see ... A gallery of photographs of rock faces by Joakim Stampe.
View ArticleWalking the burned land
Gallery of photographs taken during tour of Rörö on Saturday 19th May 2012.
View ArticleWest Pier across shingle – more photos from Brighton
What is left of the West Pier across the shingle. I am on holiday once again - a new blog entry will follow just as soon as I have the time to write it!
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