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The Gallery is where you can find galleries of my pictures, mostly photographs, but also digital art, collage, visual humour and manipulated images.
By TheSupercargo
 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 faces, troubled faces, amused faces.
The faces are to be found painted on the rocks bordering Dr Allards gata up against Landal Egnahem between Dr Fries torg and Wavrinskys plats. Painted (so the artist says) with eco-friendly paints that will fade with time leaving no poisons, they were made during 2011, probably before the summer. The artist is Joakim Stampe, a performance artist from Göteborg.
There’s a gallery of his work here: http://gallery.me.com/joakimstampe
You’ll find an article about his street art (in Swedish) from our local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten
(published 20 February 2010) here: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/1.316186-han-lar-ut-laglig-gatukonst
And there’s a film of the whole sequence of the Dr Allards gata paintings on YouTube (not posted by the artist and sadly not showing the artist at work) here: http://youtu.be/r8B9WbM-h1Y
By TheSupercargo
 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 Park). The final picture shows the rising sun reflected in a window of the Garden Master’s House (Direktörsvillan). You may be able just to make out a tower in the reflection – it is the bell tower of the Catholic Church at Heden.
Visit the English language page of Trädgårdsföreneingen’s website here.
By TheSupercargo
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 23rd October, others during a walk by the sea on Sunday 20th. Click on a photo to see a slideshow. The images are quite large, so you may need to zoom your screen to find the button to start the slideshow!
By TheSupercargo
 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 chantarelles. (Which then took 4 hours to clean and prepare when we got home.) It was a beautiful autumn day – misty and damp to begin with; later the sun came out and filtered down through the trees. Very peaceful except briefly when a family with young children came by.
A couple of these pictures were previously posted on Twitter.
By TheSupercargo
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 largest immigrant groups were from Latin America, but it continues today with participation from many different groups (Kurdish, African and Swedish folk-dancers for example, and the “study circles” that make the costumes and dance in the parade are mostly not ethnically exclusive). This year, sadly, while the participants might have be tropical in their spirits, the weather was resolutely west-coast Swedish. Still, I got some nice pictures.
See also the carnival kids here and another part of the audience here.
By TheSupercargo
wedish papers start running stories about signs of spring as soon as possible after Christmas (and sometimes even before). This year, like last, they were wrongfooted by the weather. The winter has dragged on and on, but suddenly one morning a couple of weeks back, the traditional signs of spring started to appear.
From one grey, misty morning just two weeks ago when the dew hung on the bare thorns, it was a short step to the first catkins; pollen factories that are the heralds of the spring for all hay fever sufferers.
Leaf buds were not far behind, swelling up, bursting open and unfurling their delicate wet-green wings to dry in the spring sun.
The first wild flowers this year were the snowdrops, but coltsfoot (tussilago in Swedish) was quick to follow, then the anemones, (Swedish blåsippor and vitsippor), and on their tail of course, the May flowers which children sell for children’s charity here in the streets.
The dawn chorus swells as the birds get into the spirit of the season, starting to pair off.
Finally, the sun draws people out of hibernation, to wrap up and take their first icecreams sitting against south-facing walls. The shops start to sell Påskris, twigs of birch to stand in water at home and decorate with coloured feathers and hanging eggs.
… and now … why, it’s almost summer!
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I took all the pictures in the gallery over 9 days between 16th and 24th April 2011, with the exception of 8 & 9 (the beech leaves) which I took on 5th May last year.
By TheSupercargo
 s the snow melts, things lost re-emerge. You’d think, the weather being the way it has been this past winter, people would keep their gloves or mittens on and notice if they drop one. Not so, it seems. I took all but two of these photos within a few streets of my home in Gothenburg, and all but one in the last few weeks.
By TheSupercargo
ast week my wife and I took my sister and her husband on a skiing holiday to the Swedish mountains. We stayed at the ski-and-spa hotel at Storhogna in Jämtland (here) and went skiing almost every day. The light was fantastic, perhaps especially at dawn. The first few days we had brilliant sunshine which gave the snow a meringue crust, then clouds piled in and we had a snowfall. Out in the snow, I was able to photograph reindeer.
Two Momento pictures belong to this series: Lone tree and snowdrift and Ski track whiteout.
By TheSupercargo
 inter’s grasp is still strong. The sea is still frozen, but the sun is shining and the days are noticeably longer. We took a walk from Hjuvik by Hästvik to Tumlehed – a couple of hours. The sea had opened and re-frozen since we were last here (Walking on Water). Though it had refrozen, it didn’t look safe, so we didn’t risk walking out on it. Someone here before us had built an ice castle on the shore.
These photos were taken between 1pm and 3 pm on Saturday 19th February 2011.
By TheSupercargo
In Sweden there is a season called vår-vinter (spring-winter) when the days are longer but cold still grips the land. A week of thaw weather had freed some of the water-courses inland, but the cold had returned. At Munkedal in Bohuslän the cold but not quite frozen water boiled down the stream under the old bridge by Munkedal Manor, but water vapour and splashed water froze quickly on the hanging branches of the trees and on the rocks in the stream.
These photos were taken at midday on 13th February.
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