Trick 'r Treat

Walking through the old town yesterday, looking for a fitting Halloween photo. Some photoshop here, but it is my photo, so my rules! I removed a bit of advertising and cleaned up the grey wall a bit.

Duggregnet

Three photos taken while making my way up the Hammarbybacken hill. Focusing on the white apartment building. Located in a suburb called Björkhagen. The building is called Duggregnet. Designed by the Swedish/ Hungarian architect Georg Varhelyi. Built in 1957.

Taklampan

Two photos taken as I made my way up to the top of Hammarbybacken. Showing two new apartment buildings at Finn Malmgrens väg at Hammarbyhöjden. The project is called taklampan. There are 64 climate smart apartments here. Built with ThermoWood. The architect firm was Wingårdhs. Very close to Stockholm and equally close to nature.

Taking a moment

I only met a few people on my way up to the top of Hammarbybacken. Two pensioners on their way down. Two people running up the hill, very impressive, and then a total of four people on the top. Three friends from up North that were enjoying the view while chatting away, and this young guy sitting down thinking about life and all that.

Hillside bench

On a glorious Autumn day last week I decided to walk up to the top of Hammarbybacken. The hill used to be 50 meters high, but after the construction of Hammarby sjöstad it is now closer to 100 meters high. The views are spectacular. This is a popular slalom hill during the Winter months. This bench looked very inviting after the steep climb but I didn't try it. Still working my way through all the photos I took, and eventually I will show you all of them.

Underpass

Stopping while cycling over a bridge for a photo through the metro bridge. Aiming the camera at Årstaviken and Södermalm. The router is still not working, but hopefully everything willl be fixed in a day or three. Currenty working on photos I took walking up a slalom hill.

Always in my heart

Autumn promenade at Norra Begravningsplatsen in Solna.

Down by the water

I sometimes ride the bike along Norr Mälarstrand on Kungsholmen and often stop near an ice cream place close to the water. There are many benches there so I can be seen sitting there checking my messages and whatnot. And when I am done with that I will often take a few photos. Like this one of a mooring ring.

View from a bridge

Cycling over Västerbron, a tough bridge for cyclists sometimes, I stopped for a few Autumn photos. And Swedish word of the day. Pråm. Barge. New issue with my router, will most likely take a few days to fix.

Autumn at Hagaparken

Update. My "new' router is down again. An Autumn visit to Hagaparken at Lake Brunnsviken in Solna. A beautiful area year round. In two of the photos, you can see Gustav III:s pavilion. The panorama shows the nearly empty marina at Stallmästaregården. This is a very popular park. Designed by King Gustav III, with a lot of help from a few architects, 250 years ag

The graffiti wall

I bike past this legal graffiti wall every time I ride to and from Stockholm, well almost every time, there are other options, but this is the main bike path that I use. It is just a few hundred meters after the beach at Hökarängsbadet where I often stop for photos, year round. And if I see something I like here I always stop for a photo.

Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen

After photographing the artworks in the Etnografiska museum park, I walked over to the Folke Bernadotte bridge for a few photos of the Autumn colours down at the canal. Always a lot of people at Royal Djurgården. Strolling, running and fishing. Or showing off in their expencive speedboat.

Spöke

That time of the year again. I took a photo of this ghost a while back on a day when the Canon worked overtime. But managed to lose all the photos on that memory card because I thought I had already transferred the photos to the pc when I left home the following day. Only the second time I have done that, btw. This is at Drottninggatan in Stockholm, the busiest pedestrian street in the country, and I walked back solely to take this photo.

Autumn Wedding

Walking through the Stockholm City Hall garden, I stopped for a listen to this bride as she was reading her wedding vows, in English, to her future husband. They had two photographers with them, and you can see one of them here. It was a beautiful Autumn day and several couples were tying the knot. The garden was filled with people enjoying a glass of Champagne and having a great time.

Tyra Kleen

Tyra Kleen. Born in 1894. Painter. Author. Spiritualist. Adventurer. A century ago, she travelled to Bali to study dance. She stayed there for quite a long time. These are a few of her gouaches from that trip.They can be seen in the park at the Etnografiska museet in Stockholm.

St Peter and St Sigfrid

The English church at Diplomat City in Stockholm. It has an interesting history. The first design was abandoned, and a new architect took over and redesigned the church. It was built at Wallingatan in Stockholm. Construction finished in 1866. And then in 1913 it was moved, stone by stone, to where it stands today at Diplomatstaden on Östermalm. One reason for the move was an initiative from the British-born Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Rock climbing

On my way to a hill called Fåfängan I decided to check out the rock climbers at Danviksklippan. It is a very popular spot for climbing in Stockholm. Known as kanalklippan. Between twenty and thirty meters high. It was a fine day for that sort of thing. I might do some climbing on my own here soon. But just up the steps to the apartment building you can see on the top of the hill.

Vita Bergen

High up on a hill next to the Sofia church at Vita Bergen on Södermalm in Stockholm. If you would like to live here, be ready to wait for a few decades. Anyone getting a rental agreement here are not likely to give it up anytime soon. The address on the apartment on the top photo is Bergsprängargränd 1. The lucky person living there today is Petra Nielsen. Singer, and actress. Don't know who lives in the other apartments here, but to me, they all look very inviting. I like the tilted window in the second photo, the third photo shows the entrance to that garden. The painter with the ruler is sitting in the garden at an apartment on Mäster Pers gränd, he was busy painting the facade on another old building up here.

Åsöberget

Three Autumn photos from a hill on Södermalm in Stockholm. Åsöberget. The streets are Skeppargränd and Lotsgatan. All the old houses that you can find in this area are today owned by the City, through a company called Stadsholmen. This was a very poor part of Stockholm three hundred years ago. The people that lived here back then often worked in the shipping industry, or tar industry. Both streets have been used in very famous novels about Stockholm, by Albert Engström and Per-Anders Fogelström, to name a few.

That time of the year

The Autumn rule is to photograph at least one mushroom. Found this one while walking through the birch forest at Skogskyrkogården.

Monochrome Art

The old hat factory

Out walking at Kungsholmen. This is an interesting facade and building. Pagen 14. Dates back to the late 1890s. Designed as a factory by the architect Gustaf Wickman. Today there are 39 really expensive apartments in this building. Made by Oscar Properties.