Category: January

All the photos published in January

A giraffious smile

A giraffious smile

One of The Three Giraffes – sorry, The Three Graces – in Keillers Park has been given an eye, eyebrow and half a smiling mouth – so she’s smiling on at least one side of her face. Surely a gracious – or a giraffious smile.

See also Conversation in the Snow from last year. … Continue readingA giraffious smile

Birds on snowy steps

Birds on snowy steps

A jackdaw struts and a young seagull mews on the snowy steps down to an angled bastion on Gothenburg’s moat canal. … Continue readingBirds on snowy steps

Pussy?

Pussy?

The poster for this year’s Gothenburg International Film Festival clearly references the Russan punk performance art group Pussy Riot. Here the one eye in a balaclava is reflected in the glass of a pus shelter and seems for a moment to make a full face. … Continue readingPussy?

Cathedral pollard pyramid

Cathedral pollard pyramid

The clock tower of Gothenburg Domkyrkan (the Cathedral) forms a pyramid with the bare pollarded trees in the Cathedral Close, snow clouds beyond. … Continue readingCathedral pollard pyramid

Flora's Fountain face

Flora’s Fountain face

One of four faces, lips grasping a fountain spout, around the basin of Flora’s Fountain, its features accentuated by the snow. … Continue readingFlora’s Fountain face

Reeds, water, ice

Reeds, water, ice

Reeds, water, ice and vertical reflections at Slättadamm in Hisingsparken. … Continue readingReeds, water, ice

Snow mirror

Snow reflections

Part of the Trädgårdsföreneningen park (and photographer) under snow, reflected in one of the distorting mirrors by the canal.

One of last year’s most popular new words – and selected by Oxford Dictionaries as their Word of the Year – was “selfie”. Not sure whether this fully satisfies the selfie requirements… … Continue readingSnow reflections