Looking East

[Pete Askew]

The venue for one of my meetings last week was at Vår Gård, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden. It was built around a villa (castle), commissioned by one of the industrialists who established a resort there in the 19th century, as a training college for a chain of hotels. Now a hotel and conference centre in its own right, it contains a large collection of original works of art by many famous artists (including Marc Chagall) including the statue in the image below.

Ricoh GR. PP in LR and Nik SilverFX.

 

[Brian Moore]

That's a nice shot and it looks a lovely place. I bet that fellow with no shirt is frozen stiff, though.

 

[Beth Carter]

looks like a peaceful place, would be nice to get lost there for awhile.

 

[Dave Moss]

Love the shot Pete I wonder what their looking at

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks all.

looks like a peaceful place, would be nice to get lost there for awhile.

Well, in the summer at least!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice toning, Pete. Did you have 24 hours of sunlight?

 

[Pete Askew]

Not quite. The sun dipped below the horizon for a few hours, but it was fairly light at midnight and sunrise was at about 03:30. You need to go up further (Stockholm is only slightly further north than Aberdeen) to somewhere like Tromsø to to get a midnight sun.