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They have been there for three months now so I don't hesitate to name

this a Still Life.

So simple and yet ..... well.... funny.... or cunning.

Delicious colours.

This is good.

Deserves full screen mode.

Very good except the blurred lipstick and the i-pod wire or whatever it is.

Colours, light and focus very good.

20°C below, the still not frozen river is steaming in the background.

The lantern is a part of the blacksmiths sign.

A flash of the sun through one of the icicles attracted my attention.

Thanks for a tranquile smile.

And thank God for all photographers with an eye for the funny picture.

Two men from Chile (!) shovelled ice and snow from our roof today.

The ice fell everywhere but on these bikes.

And so, after all these years hunting for elk, there he was: the

golden elk

More than 60 years ago this was the house of a shoemaker down in the

village some 15 kilometers south of this place. It was dismantled

and sledged by horse during winter to this place where it became a

hunting lodge. There are still no modern conveniences here and

nobody cares. One can have a wash when the annual moose hunt is

over. Candle light is not only romantic, it is good enough in a

place where men still are men :-)

If your surname is Fock and you succeed in handfeeding a wild fox

(cub) then the pictures caption is obvious.

It was a dark evening and no time for exclusive features so it had

to be head on with built in flash.

One evening in our hunting-lodge, far out in the wilderness, an old

friend of mine told me that somewhere down the stream there once had

been a sawmill. 200 years ago someone hewed his timber here during

the winter and sawed his planks during the summer. Then he had to

wait for the next winter to sledge his lumber home by horse.

Every year for 34 years I have spent one week here hunting and newer

saw anything like a sawmill. The next day I went down the stream and

within a couple of stone's throws I found it. I spent a while there

humbly thinking of my ancestors efforts.

Good PS job. Dramatic landscape. Good light.

Without the trashy horsebox I would have rated 6/5.

The vikings made a toxic drink from this mushroom, drank it and then

went berserk. I might try it some day :-)

For those of you who rated low esthetics for "The end" :-)

This is the power station in an old abandoned coastal artillery

fortress

Interior of a long ago shut down costal artillery fortress in the

Stockholm archipelago