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| # Posted 2008-02-28 14:43:12 | |
| bubo: | I love the pictures you´ve posted here recently from some of your outings! I particularly like the one of the stream - it looks almost like an oil painting with it's very special light... |
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| # Posted 2008-02-28 16:07:27 | |
| 'Bent: | Oh yeah, if one of the ESAR challenges is to do a portrait of the race course in oils, you guys will clean up :)
PS Bubo, you know who Hurtin is, don't you? |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 16:43:13 | |
| bubo: | Hmm, now I noticed that it actually IS an oil painting! No wonder I thought it looked like one ;-)
(And no, I didn´t know about Hurtn/Cory before - had to look him up.) Very nice painting! I really liked the setting and didn´t really question it at first since it was part of the photo set - that should be as good an opinion of the quality as any... |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 17:55:10 | |
| Bash: | Hurtn is trying to get some training hours in because he's going on his 3rd painting expedition to the Arctic this summer. Last year he found his heart rate a wee bit high once he piled his backpack full of paints, canvases, easel, brushes, paint thinners, HD video camera, still camera, lenses, batteries, etc. - not to mention the usual tent, sleeping bag, food, stove and clothes. Naturally, my suggestion was that he should work toward doing an adventure race just before he leaves - and he fell for it! |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 18:42:31 | |
| Hurtn: | Fell for it alright... and now I'm almost falling over from the training. But it's goooooooood.
Thanks Bubo for the feedback on the painting, and 'Bent and Bash for the plugs! More pics from our outing on my blog here: http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_3590/p... |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 19:55:57 | |
| Bash: | P.S. Bubo, I'm sure that Canadian landscape artists don't get much exposure in Sweden - except for Attackpoint, of course. |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:00:12 | |
| Bash: | I probably should have included the commentary. You know, for copyright reasons and all. See "Creekside".
http://www.trepanieroriginals.com/gallery_ctc.html |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:11:20 | |
| bubo: | I already found the website and also liked the commentary:
Fresh snow. Nothing quite defines winter like twelve inches of the fluffy white stuff. This location, found by snowshoeing through it all, highlighted that for me. We had planned our winter trip for March in the hopes of longer days and more enjoyable weather. It was actually milder than I had expected this day, and the benefit was that the Chikinashing Creek in Killarney Provincial Park was wide open and flowing. I even had the chance to canoe down the river for a ways. The clarity of the water and the blanket of pristine snow made for a memorable experience. I set up my easel alongside these waters as the late afternoon sun filtered onto the scene. At times, the quiet stillness in the forest amplified, by contrast, the soothing sounds coming from the stream. Adding to this winter symphony were tinkling notes created by water rushing past the ice along the banks. To this musical accompaniment, I painted." This is definitely the kind of art I´d like to have at home. Look at this link and choose Leif Liljeblad or Lennart Sand where it says Konstnär (=artist) to see something similar to what I have at home now... |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:16:32 | |
| Bash: | Nice! Some of the Swedish countryside looks very Canadian. (Or maybe you would say it is the other way around.) |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:19:34 | |
| bubo: | Canada is very much like Sweden when it comes to the forest landscapes of the north. We don´t have the climate of southern Ontario, the prairies, the Rockies and a lot of other things though... |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:25:07 | |
| bubo: | BTW - it looks like you have some real winter weather there right now with low temps. It´s been a terrible (bad) winter here for most of January and February with very short periods of temps below zero :(
This past week with Vasaloppet being one of the high-lights for active skiers has been mostly between +2 and +10C!! I made some research into finding snow-shoeing equipment here in Sweden earlier this year - it looked like an interesting winter training acitivity, but there really haven´t been enough snow to really need them. I´ve been able to do regular running in the 'deep' snow without major problems... |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 21:33:11 | |
| Bash: | There are a couple of other reasons that I like snowshoes, even when the snow isn't that deep:
1) They help to prevent injuries from unseen obstacles under the snow, e.g. travelling on foot, you could turn your ankle between a couple of logs that you don't see. 2) The ones that we use have big metal teeth, so you can walk up steep hills like Spiderman. Our old-style snowshoes used to slide around, which was less fun. See http://www.mec.ca for a good selection and comparison of snowshoes. |
| # Posted 2008-02-28 22:35:24 | |
| Dos Super: | Really? That's interesting. I had never considered the similarities until Hammer convinced me, beyond a doubt, that most of Ontario actually bears a striking resemblance to Denmark. Sweden never entered into it. He was quite insistent and he brings it up all the time. |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 00:03:02 | |
| FB: | When I raced Explore Sweden a few years back, we would often be asked by the locals (who were obviously very proud) 'how do you like our countryside?'
I didn't have the heart to say "I keep thnking I'm in Ontario" so I would just say "it's very nice"... which is also true ;-) |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 01:58:33 | |
| bubo: | Sweden never entered into it
Hammer is absolutely right - Denmark is very similar to Ontario (the southern parts I´ve been to). The south of Sweden also bears some resemblance - while the surroundings where I live further north in Sweden would be more like northern Ontario I guess... |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 08:08:15 | |
| flatfoot: | I sure miss living in Caledon, if I only had an extra $600,000 kicking around.... |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 19:03:33 | |
| hammer: | re: Denmark --> there ya go SuperWes. Actually there are many places in northern Ontario that are very sweden like but for whatever reason there are almost no orienteering maps made there and those that are aren't that good.
re: Canadian Landscape artists. Check out my posting from yesterday on my log about my parents' hobby regarding landscapes, maps and Group of 7 art. |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 19:15:24 | |
| bubo: | Yeah, I´ve noticed this thing you have about Killarney and the Group of Seven before and also looked at the documents available. Nice area, nice paintings and an interesting hobby!
As for the number and quality of orienteering maps in northern Ontario I guess this goes hand in hand with the number of orienteering clubs and active orienteers in the area... |
| # Posted 2008-02-29 20:05:36 | |
| Bash: | Hammer's parents' Group of Seven hobby:
http://www.friendsofkillarneypark.ca/media/ArtInPa... (This will save you from falling for Hammer's cheap ploy to get more hits recorded on his log! ;-) ) |
| # Posted 2008-03-01 07:00:49 | |
| hammer: | (This will save you from falling for Hammer's cheap ploy to get more hits recorded on his log! ;-) )
Well it was worth a try. I gotta maintain my #1 Canuck status you see. Did you see what i did for training yesterday? |
| # Posted 2008-03-03 19:55:32 | |
| Bash: | Another nice try, Hammer - and I'll bet it worked! ;-)
I see that you've done just about everything over the past few days - including training while eating cookies. I guess that's what I was doing at the SnowGaine too. |
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