A. Aronsson's WeBOLLog

In June this year I was invited to Lysekil, a friend’s home town, to celebrate the Swedish holiday Midsummer Eve. A group of us went there and had a great time!

First we had some food while trying to survive on the rocks, it was a bit scary due to the strong winds. Everyone survived though, but I bloodied my knee while clinging on a ledge :x

Then we ran around in the barren landscape geocaching, I jumped around like a crazyman because I love climbing so much, but I do not get the opportunity too often… maybe I should change that.

After that we went into town looking at buildings and other interesting things. We ended the day with food at a floating restaurant where our friend had once worked. All in all a very nice experience!

A few weeks ago my parents asked me if I wanted to head for the Hornborgar lake to watch the cranes as they had arrived with the spring, or the other way around. Apparently it was a crane record, with 18500 of them camping it out next to the lake. They munched away on grain that had been spread out the evening before, while the cranes slept in the shallow water a bit out into the lake to avoid predators. The feeding is financed by tax money, all 150 tons of grain per year, and is a way to keep the cranes in one place instead of having them ravaging the fields of farmers. I ended up posting a whole bunch of pictures, but then I also managed to snap about 350 of them while there.

This summer I was invited to join my parents and my brother to camp a week in their mobile home on Öland, an island outside the main land of Sweden. Hesitantly I accepted the offer, but I regret nothing as it was very nice to get away for a while!

While I was there I could not help but spamming photographs with my camera, as well as videos, which I guess is my normal behavior. I tried out my underwater camera housing in the ocean, but the sub surface visibility was incredibly bad, and it was my first prolonged experience of swimming around with flippers and a diving mask, both very cheaply bought.

Instead of writing a ton of text to insert the images into I’ve added titles to the images themselves. My choice of picture viewer for WordPress is Shutter Reloaded, sadly it does not yet support using the title of the IMG tag as a caption, it takes the title from the A tag, but the default behavior of WordPress is to post the title in the IMG tag… I’ve requested it twice, but nothing yet. I really like Shutter Reloaded except for this small issue.

Anyway, here comes the pictures! In chronological order, even.

I was going to post just a few pictures, but apparently it turned into quite a lot… oh well. Beneath is the camera running while I soak it in fresh water to dissolve the sea salt which would otherwise store up in the underwater house making the buttons wonky.

Just a little late, but I still have more summer pictures! Not sure when the next batch will be posted, but that will most likely be the last for this years summer :)

Two days ago, that is Monday, the day started with the announcement that we had no water, as a water leak had been discovered near our building. During the day I saw various machines and people coming and going outside my window. At one point I was up on the top floor so I spent a couple of seconds snapping a few pictures from there. It’s not everyday that people sporadically dig up a large pit on in the lawn on the other side of the road. A change to my view.

We eventually got water from a nearby supply to keep the factory up and running, but midday yesterday things were like normal again, except for the pit then.

Oh, and while I’m talking about pictures… I have to sit down and pick some out from my vacation to post. Someday… soon, hopefully.

I also tried my shaky hand to record a zoomed in video to be able to create a loop. As you can see below my hands were indeed shaky, but at least it kind of loops! Next time I’ll make sure to get a tripod. I like video loops… but this one is a bit too wonky :P played back in four times the original speed.

A week ago I took a walk with a friend to scout out a track for running. While strolling along I snapped a few pictures of the wonderful vegetation. Below is a very small collection of five pictures, of which three are panoramas!

The last panorama was made up of more than 35 snaps! Original resolution is 8475×4817 pixels :) Not super-huge, but large enough to take up a lot of memory!