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Daily DeviationGiven 2009-07-21When I saw Midsommar by ~Socratim I thought of everything but a festival - and that is in itself one of the greatest compliments I ever made to a photo(grapher).
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DMC-FZ18 10/2000 second F/8.0 62 mm 100 Jun 23, 2009, 9:18:37 PM Share
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Can you tell me more about it?
Great capture.
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as for the Danish tradition, here is the excerpt:
In Denmark, the solstitial celebration is called Sankt Hans aften ("St. John's Eve"). It was an official holiday until 1770, and in accordance with the Danish tradition of celebrating a holiday on the evening before the actual day, it takes place on the evening of 23 June. It is the day where the medieval wise men and women (the doctors of that time) would gather special herbs that they needed for the rest of the year to cure people.
It has been celebrated since the times of the Vikings by visiting healing water wells and making a large bonfire to ward away evil spirits. Today the water well tradition is gone. Bonfires on the beach, speeches, picnics and songs are traditional, although bonfires are built in many other places where beaches may not be close by (i.e. on the shores of lakes and other waterways, parks, etc.) In the 1920s a tradition of putting a witch made of straw and cloth (probably made by the elder women of the family) on the bonfire emerged as a remembrance of the church's witch burnings from 1540 to 1693. This burning sends the "witch" away to Bloksbjerg, the mountain 'Brocken' in the Harz region of Germany where the great witch gathering was thought to be held on this day.
Holger Drachmann and P. E. Lange-Müller wrote a midsommervise (Midsummer hymn) in 1885 called "Vi elsker vort land..." ("We Love Our Country") that is sung at every bonfire on this evening.
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Living is easy
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können ja stichworte sein (auch auf die anderen bilder bezogen...):
langweiliges motiv
schepp
blöde farben
schlechter bildausschnitt
klischee
zu farbintensiv
nicht aggressiv genug
nur so als beispiel...
kann ich machen. dazu muss es ein bild erstmal wert sein
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