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Swedish tradition to light up a fire to burn the winter away.Singing and being together to look at the fire and also to welcome the Spring
The Vasa Museum is Scandinavia's most visited museum, located in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. The Museum was inaugurated in 1990.
In the large shiphall stands the warship Vasa - the only remaining, intact 17th century ship in the world. The lower rig has been rebuilt, complete with masts, stays and shrouds.
It's the 30th of April and Valborg in Sweden (Walpurgisnacht in German I believe). Even though the night has roots from religion in some part of Europe, in Sweden it has very little to do with Religion and very much to do with the arrival of Spring. We love to have an excuse to celebrate something, and today we celebrate the spring with bonfire and singsongs :-)
"While the name Walpurgis is taken from the eighth-century English missionary Saint Walburga, "Valborg", as it is called in Swedish, has very little to do with religion and everything to do with the arrival of spring."
~Wikpedia
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Walpurgis Night, torchlight procession to Riddarholmen, Stockholm.
Welcome to Spring! (last day of april)
Old tradition in Sweden. We celebrate the arrival of the spring with light bulbs and singing songs about the spring.
Hasselblad 203FE
Carl Zeiss Planar 2.8/80 T* FE
Kodak Portra 400VC (expired) at EI100
Nikon Coolscan 9000
Image Mechanics wet mount
As tradition holds, Valborg / Walpurgis was celebrated with food, drink, good friends and a big bonfire.
This is Valborg JĂłnsdĂłttir, 80 years old and lives in ReykjavĂk. She is my grandmother on my mothers side, some of you may remember a shot of her I took october 2006 with her sticking her tounge out at me, a b/w studio shot. I wasnÂŽt actually going to have Valborg as this week, was going to save her for week 50 and take a picture of my sister Tinna this week, both of us underwater, scuba diving. My sister however broke her arm this friday so Valborg was more than up to switching weeks with Tinna. I wanted to do something different so I wanted to photograph her in her home but didnÂŽt really had anything else planned so I just packed up the camera, wide angle lens and no lights and paid her a visit.
If you notice that wall right over her head, there are a ton of photographs there of the entire family, among others two photos of my kids that I took and a wedding photo of me and HennĂœ, like I said, the entire family. Well I started out shooting her sitting the table that is in front of those photos, her sitting pretty much in the middle of them but it wasnÂŽt quite working. I then decided to run out to the balcony, had her sit in a chair in front of the window where she spontaneously decided to gawk back at me with these "binoculars". What can I say, sheÂŽs a loon allright! :)
Only used ambient light for this and a polarizer to tweak the reflection in the window to my liking.