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Each year, 10 year old norwegian kids dress up in traditional wedding costumes, and go for a ride through the village. Afterwards, barbeque and dancing.
Models are Missy and Chris
Makeup and Hair by Loran Bean
Styling, Photography and Post by myself
For my bohemian calender, which can be purchased at Deviant Art and Red Bubble
Comments are appreciated!
Thanks to Adam, my excellent production manager :)
This is a picture from June 2012 when I still lived in the Stockholm area. (I actually miss that apartment a little bit). The picture was taken while watching the Simpsons and writing a letter to my penpal, as a part of my "one day in pictures" activity I do on my blog sometimes.
If your curious you can check it out here: zerudaswonderland.blogspot.se/search/label/one%20day%20in...
North Wales weather rises to the occasion of Midsummer's Day in classic fashion, during the Linnean Society of London's field trip visit to Cwm Idwal, Gwynedd, in the Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri).
Yes this is a terribly bad picture of one of the most important and famous natural history sites in Britain, which I snapped spontaneously on my smart-phone (I didn't dare take my camera out in these conditions). But I've uploaded it to record The Truth. The rain was so heavy (though you can't see it, as such, in the photo), the conditions so gloomy, and my specs so covered with rain drops, I couldn't really compose the shot at all except in a 'trust-to-luck' way. It was a case of point and shoot. I've not even tried to edit it in any way to change anything, because it records the scene precisely as we experienced it. In fact it makes things seem even a bit better than they really were, since I'm sure I couldn't see the cliffs in the background at all, when I took it.
The view (such as it is) is looking S straight into the N-facing wall of Cwm Idwal, where, if it were visible, we would see the notable feature of the great chasm of Twll Du (Devil's Kitchen).
Apparently, Midsummer's Day (June 23rd / June 24th) is an ancient Celtic festival going back thousands of years, so where else should we be but Wales? It rained heavily all day driven by strong gusting winds. I've seen this place, famous for its geology, natural history, and associations with Charles Darwin, in beautiful weather in late autumn when one would reasonably expect to get the kind of weather we had here on Midsummer's Day. And I've seen it now, in high summer as here, in pouring rain. The field party leader had planned for us to have a picnic on the shore of the little lake (Llyn Idwal, out of sight here), but in spite of everything, the party was surprisingly game, and good humoured, and persistent in seeing the sights of the Cwm pointed out, as best they could, by the field trip guides.
(The Flickr geotagging names the locations of this photo as Nant Ffrancon, which is not strictly correct. But in the case of this particular photo, only those who know the skyline of Cwm Idwal well, would be any the wiser.)
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IN DARWIN'S FOOTSTEPS
DARWIN'S 'WELSH EXPEDITION' TO THE 'NORTH-WEST MOUNTAINS': AUGUST 5-18, 1831: LLANGOLLEN TO BARMOUTH (ABERMAW)
Darwin did this field trip just a few months before he sailed on HMS Beagle. The field trip was instigated by his then geology professor at Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick, whom Darwin accompanied as a student assistant for some of Sedgwick's longer trip. Darwin also did some the expedition separately from Sedgwick. Much of the geology of North Wales is challenging and there were few previous studies. Although it was a relatively short trip, Darwin later acknowledged that it significantly helped him to develop his geological knowledge and field skills, as well as his enthusiasm for geology generally. It therefore laid important foundations for his Beagle voyage. (It is not always realized that in the years before he published his best known work (Origin of Species, 1859), Darwin regarded himself primarily as a geologist, and was recognized as such by his contemporaries during those years.)
Darwin did not record the exact dates and route of much of this trip, but Michael Roberts (source below) has drawn on various sources to make a plausible reconstruction, which I have used to caption these 'footsteps' photos.
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not a lot of time to upload photos, this weekend, is the midsummer fair in archeon, yesterday spend 12 hours photographing lot of beautiful people like this one (and now I'm off again ;-)
Sarah Seawell==
PARRISH ART MUSEUM MIDSUMMER PARTY==
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY==
July 14, 2012==
©Patrick McMullan==
Photo –PATRICK MCMULLAN/PatrickMcMullan.com==
June 23th, Sweden hills, Tohbets, Hokkaido.
Canon AV-1, Tefnon 70-210mm F3.5, negative ISO 100 exposed as 200 ( should be 100 ), developed with reversal processing as described before, scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100, edited with GIMP.
"Matches? What matches?" (Midsummer bonfire and midnight sun).
Shiba Inu Hiro (FKC reg. Kitsune no Daitan, ER44034/08).
Exakta Varex IIa, Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm/2.0 and vintage pol. filter.
Kodak Gold 200. Cropped in PS
Rørvig, Denmark
Terrie Sultan==
Midsummer Party 2013==
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY==
July 13, 2013==
©Patrick McMullan==
Photo - Owen Hoffmann/ PatrickMcMullan.com==
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Bob Hormats, Catherine Azmoodeh==
Midsummer Party 2013==
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY==
July 13, 2013==
©Patrick McMullan==
Photo - Owen Hoffmann/ PatrickMcMullan.com==
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Midsummer leftovers...
Here's a link to a page on how to make a midsummer garland: Midsummer garland. The instructions are in Swedish but there are pictures too...
I visited the Midsummer celebrations in Jordbro earlier today. A lot of singing and dancing around the Midsummer Pole with people from all over the world.
Whoever comes to the Istituto Linguistico Mediterraneo, arrives bringing with them their own color and their own way of living life and when they return home they bring with them a bit 'of color from all the people they have met. We are not from Italy, or Spain, or Japan, neither from Israel, or America, or Europe, neither from Africa, or Brazil or Uruguay... We are a family ... Yesterday we mixed all our colors in a party the craziest ever seen. Balloons, fancy dresses, colorful cocktails, soap bubbles and of course many colors... your colours... our colors...
Chi viene all'Istituto Linguistico Mediterraneo arriva portando con sé il proprio colore e il proprio modo di vivere la vita e quando torna a casa porta con sé un po' del colore di tutte le persone che ha incontrato. Noi non siamo italiani, né spagnoli, né giapponesi, né israeliani, né americani, né europei, né africani, né brasiliani, né uruguagi... Noi siamo una famiglia... Ieri abbiamo mescolato tutti i nostri colori in una festa che così pazzesca non si era mai vista. Palloncini, travestimenti, cocktail colorati, bolle di sapone e naturalmente tanti colori... i vostri colori... ‪#‎ColorParty‬ ‪#‎ColorFest‬ ‪#‎MidsummerParty‬ ‪#‎VeryILMpeople‬ ‪#‎ILMconnectingPeople‬