John Dudley
ALWAYS CREATING
Photo essay with pictures of some of the most common and loved Swedish signs of spring – everything from coltsfoot to decorated birch twigs.
Pharaoh of the docks. A graffiti artist with vision has turned the top of this yellow concrete piling into a suspicious looking Pharaoh.
Photograph of a cluster of blue anemones aka Anemone hepatica or Anemone nobilis pushing through oakleaf litter.
Photoshopped photographic image of Gustaf Adolf’s Square (Gustaf Adolfs torg) in central Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden
Crocus macro: A macro image of the patterned petal of a crocus. A landing strip for pollinating insects perhaps. Photo taken in the Botanical Gardens.
As 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.
Review of Seven Sisters, performed by German theatre group She She Pop, at Pustervik Theatre, Gothenburg, Tuesday, 29th March 2011
Butterfly. Can you see it? A very bent latch on an old metal door. In the low winter sun it pairs with the shadow it casts and forms … a butterfly!
Partly an “outside broadcast” recording made climbing a snowy mountain in Norland following reindeer.
