Roughly about a months ago … I decided to look for beauty in a roughness, our rail yard here in Landskrona, Sweden … and the old abounded railway station, that has been standing all closed up for years now.
I was surprised what I beautiful world I suddenly was walking around in – and here is some of the photos I took. Not really an environment I look for my objects, but at the time I was a bit tired of taking endless photos of the beautiful spring.
I have also made a post about my experience – “roughness with beauty“.
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
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We have old railway sleepers in our garden which provide a home for our lavender where they provide plenty of beauty in the rough
You should go there and take photos … you have to get that camera going. The more you use it the better you will be as a team.
There is beauty everywhere … if we only take our time to look.
Nicely done! I really like these shots. You have inspired me to take my camera down to our old mill district and see what happens.
Heather, yes do … I was amazed how much beauty I found … looking forward to your post.
Great to have you around .. visiting.
Exactly. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by *smile
Very nice, they are appealing like memories. I mean those photos are exactly like memories 🙂
Though U didn’t say if my post is visible or not,if you mind to read my scribble ‘Resilience’, don’t forget to give your feedback 🙂 thanks Viveka
I can’t come into your post … need password and I have written to you about that issue.
Thanks for visiting again.
Somebody has said that we don’t take photos .. we borrow them.
Yes that true (about photos)!
I request you to check again, it must be visible now!
Okay … will go back!
Anyway, here is the link, if you can….
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Thanks a lot Viveka
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” I just love this saying… love your photos Viveka…
Thanks, Bob … some I have used before … in my post, some are new.
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perfect accompaniment too.
Thank you so much !!!!!
Your work is always amazing, some minor details. stunning.
Thank you so much … happy to have a little great camera too. Not always on my side, but most of the times.
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I love urban photography, the contrasts and colours tell so many stories
I start to like it more and more … did a post about a modern urban environment earlier this year and … my camera like that too. If you are interested – it was before I change my setup of photos. http://wp.me/p293Pw-3NN
oh great … love the play with steel and colour … tres chic
Thank you so much …. I love the cleanness in all the photos – haven’t altered any of them. Thank you for taking the time.
yeah, I don’t alter my photos either .. i think the image should work on it’s own
Remember what the quote say? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?
Yes, a very good quote … but I think we can help find beauty for others to enjoy too … in the roughness.
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Some striking images, Viveka. It’s all there- you just have to look. Thank you for showing us your “ugly” side. Have a nice evening. 🙂
Thanks Jo, for your nice comments … and same to you.
Will be away most of the week from my world here, some quick French visits maybe, but no posting.
Be good to yourself, girlfriend.
Thanks for letting me know. I won’t worry. 🙂 Take care.
… I will – going to stay with friends up to the funeral, feels good.
I love old buildings and old metal. I love old buildings that people find new uses for but keep part of the spirit of it’s ‘oldness’. Great shots Viveka.
Thanks, girlfriend .. have used some of the photos before.
Our old station house is so beautiful .. and I would love to be able to turn it into a hostel … or something.
Oh that would be fabulous. I love when old is made in to new but not totally redone. So many people here are trying to do just that with “old” downtowns here. I love revitalizing things. 🙂
Totally agree with you … terrible to see a beautiful buildning like this just stand and falling apart.
I love every shot!! Beauty from ashes……
Thank you so much … so do I – I was so pleased with my hours along the rail yard.
As you should be! Now I’m ready to go on a photo hunt!
It’s not a place where I normally would … look for objects – but I found them straight away … I learned so much for those two times I was down. Run out of battery the first time.
Understand. Sounds like you saw them and were instantly drawn to them. I know (& love) that calling. I hate when I lose my battery…..I scold myself at not having my backup….and then I do it again. 😉
I always carry an extra with me .. but they were flat too.
But it gave me a chance to got back … for more.
It must have been meant to be ~
what is the building with all the windows?
It’s our old railway station … when they put the line outside the town .. they closed it up.
interesting building, personality with all the windows
It’s a lovely building I would love to be able to do something with it.
You capture everything so beautifully my friend, thank you 😀
Love this town!
Cheers
CCU
When are you coming to visit ?????? This town will love you too. Thanks for your support.
I love that bit of music. . .
Thank you so much .. heard it for the first time today .. and I love it too – Beauty in the World … but I don’t know who the singer is.
What a great choice Viveka! I especially love the close up of the old rail car. Nicely done – everything DOES have beauty, doesn’t it?
Yes, everything has some beauty … only for us to see it – and with a camera in our hand we see so much more than those without. Thank you for your support.
Great photos as usual, Viveka 🙂 So glad to see you are okay.
Yes, the cold is gone now … but we had cold rainy days and .. with a bit of luck I can get it back.
Thank you so much for your support. Staying with friends until the funeral on Friday – so that’s why I haven’t been active in my world here on WP.
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Beautiful pictures. 🙂 Hope all is well.
Thanks, Seth … things are so good as they can – after the funeral on Friday I hope that life will be back to normal so much as possible.
Thanks for the visit.
Funeral?
Yes, my mom has passed away in the beginning of the month – that’s why I haven’t been active in my world here.
Aww. I am so sorry to hear that. 😦
Thank you, mom became nearly 91 – it was her time to fall to rest.
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I love the vintage beauty you found here, with textures of ageing. It’s a great collection
Thank you so much for visiting and .. for your kind words.
They are so beautiful Viveka. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you for your support.
Takes a special eye to spot beauty in mundane, abandoned, broken things! A fantastic gallery Viveka! Love the broken glass and the wagon details, but they are all beautiful. Take care and stay well 🙂
I love that broken glass shot too – a bit tricky to get it right, but after 12 shots I got one that I was pleased with. Love to take photos from an ant’s view.
Out of the cold now – wonderful, but we have rain and more rain. And it’s cold .. so I have to be careful so it is not back next week. Thank you for your support.
Hi Viveka, you’re right, not usually the subjects you think of photographing, but you absolutely showed that rough can be beautiful too. Well done. I especially like the picture of the sign against the weathered brick. Great photo!
Debbie
Debbie, thank you so much – I just love that old beautiful station – such a pity that nothing is going to be done with it and it’s in the town center too.
Great gallery, Viveka! Beauty is everywhere…as you say, the camera helps us in finding it!
Thanks, Ann-Christine … so true. We are going to find some in CPH …. soon. *smile
Great job, Viveka.
Thanks, Lori!
Finding beauty within ugliness….that’s simply – art…. 🙂
Thank you so much – I think we miss a lot of beauty becasue we never take the time. *smile
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Thank you so much … you’re so kind – you gave my rainy morning a big smile.
thank you dear Viveka at least i can give you something that made you smile
thank you so much dear
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There is much beauty in the world, and much is right in front of us, but only in sight of those who take take to see …. just like you did and always do.
Thank you so much, Frank …. I’m the same beliver just like you, but sometimes we have to look a bit deeper maybe.
The way you’ve captured these little pieces of roughness, does make them look beautiful, Viveka. Confucius was right. 🙂
Thank you so much …. I think that there is beauty in everything, only that we need a little time maybe to find it.
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We have old railways near my home and I always think the flowers growing there look beautiful. Someone made a garden there to beautify the area. Loved these photos
I think it’s because the flower and the weed … can grow as it wants – that is way they create such a beauty.
Morning sweetheart:) Just stopping by to wish you well and hope that your week passed by peacefully. Thinking of you and your memories. Big hug!
Jo, thank you so much …. back home in Landskrona now – the funeral was so beautiful yesterday and the weather was fantastic. Now I will have some days at home before I start to deal with what mom left behind in material things. I wish you a great weekend and thank you so much for thinking of me. Just what I needed.
That’s what I needed to hear. Glad it went well, Viveka. Take care, and thank you too. 🙂
Jo, thank you so much for your concern … means to much to me.
How perfect! There is beauty in roughness and ugliness, even. Some of my favorite pictures are are truly ugly people – old people, raggerty people, dirty kids. There is something about their eyes, or toothless smiles that is truly beautiful. Now why is that? Because there is beauty in the world! 🙂
Yes, I love faces with character too – and as you said there is beauty … especially in faces that tells us about life experience.
I have problem to find beauty in medical deformed faces … and that is why I support the the charity as I do.
But it’s easier to see and find the beauty with a camera in the hand.
Well I have a medically deformed face, and I don’t think I’m ugly! My father did, though. He couldn’t see that I was more than just my mouth. His criticism made my mouth go down more than go up. I’m sure I was a bit melancholy, but I am not really a melancholy personality. 🙂
I’m sure you know I meant – I meant severe deformed faces – so glad that you don’t think you’re ugly, because you’re not … I don’t mean that deformed faces are ugly, only that it hurt me so much when I look at them and I know that is so wrong of me, but my whole heart crying. We have a fireman in Gothenburg that lost the structure of his face during a gas explosion – he works now with burn victims, the most wonderful man and he met his wife after the “loss of his face”. I know he is doing great and are a very happy person today, but I react the same way. That is why “my charity” is so important to me.
We saw a really handsome young man on the news the other day. He was adorable before surgery, but like Michael Jackson, he wanted a different nose. Today after 50 some surgeries he has a plastic tube sticking out of his face. He lost his nose in the process. So sad! 🙂 It made me thank my lucky stars, and great surgeons that I didn’t try to do more work on my nose. Every surgeon has backed away from my nose like a snake was going to strike them dead if they even attempted to improve on it.
This with plastic surgery has totally gone out of hands – some people look like monsters after .. all the surgery the done. It’s up to people themselves, but some make themselve scary. Why are not doctors saying enough is enough??? I have looked at your photo and and I can see nothing wrong with your nose … and your doctors had some common senses left.
When I read about teen girls that want to make their breast bigger. I only know one famous person that has done fantastic improvements to her look and did it just right – Sharon Osborn. She became stunningly beautiful and her doctor has just done it perfect, she didn’t lose her old self.
Viveka you are full of Interesting information! I would never have guessed. I don’t really read up on stars. I would learn all sorts of things. I always think of Michael Jackson, and how cute he was as a boy. He obviously didn’t think the same thing. Surgery can do amazing things, and I am the grateful recipient of their help. But plastic surgery IS surgery, and surgery can not be taken lightly! 🙂
You’re so right …. surgery is surgery and it’s an alteration to our bodies – Sharon did it many years white she was in jury for American idol. She got it just right on all counts without losing her personality and her old her.
Michael he even made his skin lighter – what sad story – I read somewhere that he wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor.
I found some fantastic photos of me now going through my mom’s stuff … what a beautfiul woman I was in my 30-40, wonder what happen to her. *smile
I’m sure you are beautiful now, too. My mom was not attractive by any stretch of the imagination, but when she was in her late 70s, had lost all her teeth, lost 4 inches of stature, and in general looked old, I thought she LOOKED so adorable. There was something about her toothless smile that lit up the room when I walked in to it. So maybe we do get more beautiful in our “ugliness.” I don’t know how that works, but I actually think it does. Who is more adored than a soft, cuddly, fat, old grandma? Marsha 🙂
I suppose I can be beautiful today if I try a bit .. but not like on those photos – nearly got a shock when I saw them, never seen myself that beautiful – great feeling.
I agree that beauty comes from the inside – there is so many beautiful people around, but when they open their mouth the beauty fades straight away.
An old face has some stories to tell
Unless it has Alzheimer’s. so why is it I don’t want mine to look like that??? They have character! Do I vainly want to be a woman without character???? Perish the thought! Then why this dichotomy? 😝
Beautiful photos, but sad that the place has closed down, I wonder if those walls could talk, what wonderful stories they could tell.
Linda, somebody has bought the station now .. and they are going to do some kind of galleria with shops and a small restaurants there. An investment company has bought it and they have to keep it, not allowed to be destroyed.
So happy.
I am so glad to hear that Vivka, thank you for letting me know.
Hopefully there will be some photos when it’s ready, but they haven’t started.
great set of photos… perfect location for a weekend party with friends, just need a few things incl. good sound system… cheers from Ireland
Hi there, Ireland …. you got me lost -party at a railyard ????? I know that you Irish can be mad at times. *smile Lived on Ireland for 11 years in total.
It’s not about the railyard, there must be some proper warehouse… in my 20’s we used to organize spontaneous house music parties over the weekends in different spots… just for the craic. Those days I used to live in Poland with frequent visits to my fav city, where the music never stops… I mean Berlin 😉 Which part of Ireland by the way ?
Okay, now I understand … the old station building – it has been empty for years, but now they are taking care of it .. and make into some galleria, stunning building. Berlin, one of my favorite cites too .. going back for my birthday in Sept.
A fantastic city.
so, have a good time over there… old styled place and building perfectly fits into gallery, which connects the past with future possibilities…
Yes, I hope they will do a good care of the fantastic station building – and that it will get it’s visitors. Need some work. So sad that it had been empty and fallen a part as it had.
it’s a part of life… some pieces are falling apart while other ones are reshaping the future 🙂
So true. *smile
Forgotten about the Ireland. I lived nearly one year in Dún Laoghaire and 10 years in Belfast.
I used to live in a few locations incl. Dublin as well… and travelling up the north is always great craic 🙂 Have you done any mountain walking, while living in Northern Ireland ?
No, mountain walking isn’t my thing – but otherwise I do a lot of walking … so much as my poor feet can handle. Yesterday was a walking day in the beautiful sunshine. They have some stunning scenery ….. in Northern Ireland, but whole Ireland is just about breathtaking sceneries.
yes, I do walking as well… since about 11 years already… it’s my way of catching up with myself 😉
some parts of the trails in Ireland are prepared for ‘on street walking’ like the one here: http://wp.me/p4mUeK-CE
Have you ever joined in with Mundane Monday Viveka? You have an eye for beauty in the ordinary!
Thank you so much, Lucid … for the lovely comment. Never heard about Mundane Monday and looking at it with help of Google didn’t make me any wiser! This one of my favorite galleries. I wish you a lovely weekend.