Category: Places

Photographs showing identifiable places in and around Gothenburg

Shadowed bars

Shadowed bars

[dot_recommends] In strong spring sunlight the shadows of bushes on the green bars outside the Liseberg funfair make a nearly abstract composition.

Steeples and masts

Steeples and masts

The steeple of the still ice-bound floating church sculpture in Lundbyhamnen lines up with the steeples of Oscar Fredrik Church and (possibly) the tower of the Natural History Museum in Slottskogen Park.

The floating church sculpture is called Tempel för tvivel och hopp (Tempel of doubt and hope) and is made by Kent Karlsson. … Continue readingSteeples and masts

Kneeling to fish

Drilling for fish

[dot_recommends] Yesterday, an arctic wind was not making it much of a pleasure for these anglers, drilling holes in the ice of Lundby harbour and ‘pimpling‘ for sik (whitefish). Still,Continue readingDrilling for fish

Cross and altar

Cross and altar

[dot_recommends] Wooden cross behind modern altar in the ruins of the old church at Härlanda. This church is Gothenburg’s oldest and predates the city by many centuries. According to aContinue readingCross and altar

Pi

3.14

[dot_recommends] Pi to the 260th decimal place – a painted mural on the wall of a building at the corner of Drottninggatan and Ekelundsgatan (which may perhaps have once housedContinue reading3.14

Rickety jetty

Rickety jetty

[dot_recommends] The marina at Södra Hästeviken frozen in for the winter, beyond are houses on Björkö across the Björkö Fjord in Gothenburg’s northern archipelago.

Open water - frozen sea

Open water – frozen sea

[dot_recommends] From the top of the headland north of Hästeviksberg looking across Björkö Fjord towards the northern tip of Björkö. The sea is frozen and there’s snow in the air.