Take Cover, Yacht Cover Aloft
Category: Photography
You might want to weigh the winter cover for your boat down with water tanks.
Posted by Martin R at 1:57 PM • 1 Comments •
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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Photography:
Colours Turning on Boat Hill
Category: Homeownership
Here's what's currently outside my kitchen window. Rosehip in the foreground, rowan berries in the middle, and cloned white brick houses like my own in the background....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Viper Eating A Shrew
Category: Biology
Came across this viper on a bike path one evening in July.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
Not the Big Chinese Power Dam
Category: Archaeology
The rivers run almost dry in Qingtian prefecture, Zhejiang province, China, because of recently built power dams.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 21 Comments •
Tombs and Opium in Qingtian
Category: Archaeology
My mother-in-law grew up in the mountains near Fushan in the prefecture of Qingtian (pronounced CHING-tien), inland Zhejiang province. Though the prefecture's name means "Green Field", it's pretty poor and has been a major emigration area for decades. The...
Posted by Martin R at 11:47 AM • 7 Comments •
Is Child Porn In the Eye of the Beholder?
Category: Art
In issue 2011:1 of the journal of the Swedish Photographer's Association is a fine essay by Jens Liljestrand. Here's a translation.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 26 Comments •
Robot Rhino
Category: Photography
I really like this shock absorber at the end of the Minneapolis light rail line under the Mall of America parking garage. It looks like a robot rhino....
Posted by Martin R at 9:30 AM • 9 Comments •
Antiquity Archaeological Photography Prize
Category: Archaeology
Antiquity invites the submission of high-quality archaeological photographs for publication in the journal.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
Union Depot, Duluth
Category: History
I particularly like this image of the 1892 Union Depot, as the architecture is similar to that of the station houses along the Saltsjöbanan commuter railway that I've been riding for most of my life.
Posted by Martin R at 4:36 AM • 6 Comments •
Snow Boa
Category: Photography
Stockholm, Karlavägen, 20 December 2010....
Posted by Martin R at 9:47 AM • 4 Comments •
Shrinking City
Category: Photography
Check out Yves Marchand's and Romain Meffre's poignantly beautiful photographs of abandoned buildings in Detroit! Explains Wikipedia,Detroit has numerous neighborhoods suffering from urban decay, consisting of vacant properties resulting in low inhabited density, stretching city services and infrastructure. These...
Posted by Martin R at 8:55 AM • 15 Comments •
Weekend Fun
Category: Having Fun
Sunset seen to the NW from the birthday party Made huntun (wonton) with my wife & kids, "good to eat and fun to make", as the song about cookies that Junior likes goes. Watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus...
Posted by Martin R at 4:53 PM • 36 Comments •
Kvarsebo Car Ferry
Category: Photography
I rode the Kvarsebo Car Ferry twice yesterday....
Posted by Martin R at 4:21 PM • 0 Comments •
Ford of the Hind
Category: Archaeology
When the Hyndevad dams were built, the river bed was temporarily laid dry. A major prehistoric sacrificial site was discovered.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Riverside Walk
Category: Photography
A springtime walk along River Nyköpingsån from Täckhammar bridge to Lake Långhalsen. [More blog entries about beavers, photography, rivers; bävrar, foto, floder, Nyköping.]...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Landscape Archaeology, Muddy Boots
Category: Archaeology
I've walked around, looked at sites, gotten to know the lay of the land, searched in the plough soil ("fieldwalking") and taken a lot of photographs.
Posted by Martin R at 2:57 PM • 7 Comments •
Scilla siberica
Category: Biology
Spring is coming slowly, but it's finally coming. The squills have been awakened by heat radiating from our house, but still they reach for the sun.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Been Shoveling Snow
Category: Photography
Sunday, 07:53 Sunday, 11:13...
Posted by Martin R at 4:29 PM • 6 Comments •
Fieldfares
Category: Biology
Great flocks of fieldfares are hanging around Boat Hill, feeding off the frozen parkland rowan berries instead of migrating.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
Rowan Trees
Category: Photography
Frost on rowan trees in Fisksätra at sun-up on New Year's Day. (Note the blackbird.) [More blog entries about photography, trees; foto, träd, nacka.]...
Posted by Martin R at 1:01 PM • 3 Comments •
Winter Comes to Baggensfjärden
Category: Photography
Before lunch yesterday I took a walk and listened to Planetary Radio. And I mused, as so often, that I am very lucky to be living and working on the inner margin of the Stockholm archipelago. The picture below...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Sunlight on Frost
Category: Photography
[More blog entries about photography, frost; foto, frost.] More pix below the fold!...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Weekend Fun at the Manor
Category: Gaming
[More blog entries about Sweden, photography, manor; Närke, Askersund, foto, herrgård.] I was headed for a lonely November weekend with wife & daughter abroad and son with his mom. So I rounded up three friends (though Paddy K was kept...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
October Drizzle
Category: Photography
October drizzle can be quite photogenic in my part of the world. Here's a view from the bridge to Fisksätra holme. (I just discovered Pixlr, an excellent free on-line image editor that runs in your browser.)...
Posted by Martin R at 7:06 AM • 2 Comments •
Psychedelic Circus
Category: Psychedelic
Somebody calls you and you answer quite slowly: a girl with kaleidoscope eyes....
Posted by Martin R at 2:44 AM • 2 Comments •
Swiss Auto Graveyard
Category: Photography
Near Kaufdorf, Switzerland is an auto junkyard that was in use from the 1930s to 1970. It has become overgrown with various forest flora. Recently, the government has decreed the place an environmental hazard.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Stjernsund Manor
Category: Photography
[More blog entries about Sweden, photography, manor; Närke, Askersund, foto, herrgård.] My part-time employers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, sometimes receive rather hefty donations. This is how they came to own Stjernsund manor near Askersund in the province of...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Phone Pix October-April
Category: Photography
29 October: Sunny autumn morning among the sailing boats hibernating along Pålnäsvägen. 21 December: The dark spot marks where our feet and the wheels of our office chair have damaged the flooring over 7½ years at the home desk...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Phone Pix September-October
Category: Photography
13 September: Samuel and Ludvig play the piano at Ludvig's aunt's house in Viggbyholm. 12 October: Playing Pandemic at a gaming convention in Gröndal. 21 October: A mechanical excavator is delivered to my dad's property to start work on...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Tuscan Photographs
Category: Photography
I've put some pix from my recent trip to Tuscany in Italy on-line. In other news, my wife has suggested a brilliant and radical re-interpretation of the Swedish 70s dansband pop hit "Margareta", by Sten & Stanley. Comprehensible only...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Snakes and Saints and Ants
Category: Photography
Got up early this morning, six thirty, and slipped out for an hour's walk. The sun was already pretty high but still veiled in mist. I walked past vineyards and olive groves toward a farmhouse until yapping guard dogs made...
Posted by Martin R at 4:58 PM • 8 Comments •
Orkney Photographs On-line
Category: Photography
74 snaps from my recent visit to Orkney.
Posted by Martin R at 3:24 PM • 5 Comments •
New Mircheva Photograph Subverts Beauty
Category: Photography
My talented on-line buddy, Birmingham-based design student Tatyana Mircheva, has a new photo blog where she puts up some really interesting stuff. This series is a feminist commentary on the superficiality and narcissism of the beauty industry. The young...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Onion Peel Egg Dye
Category: Photography
There's actually a use for onion peel. Wrap it around an egg, wrap egg and peel in aluminium foil, and boil the egg the usual way. Red onion peel dyes the shell yellow, while yellow onion peel dyes it...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
Bike Crash Glamour Shot
Category: Photography
Shot at home with the aid of a bedroom lamp and a blanket from Ikea!
Posted by Martin R at 5:47 AM • 3 Comments •
Stockholm Art Shows
Category: Photography
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
