Welcome to
Monica Johansson and NatureFootstep.com
I am interested in nature photography and photo art and travels
as much as I can to find new areas to document.
I have many blogs and below you find links to them.

Photo and PhotoArt blogs
NatureFootstep Photography and PhotoArt
Image files:  File 1,    File 2,   File 3,    File 4,   File 5

Bildverkstan - Image workshop
Image files:   Bildverkstan/Image workshop       Creative playroom ART

NatureFootstep World   Image file:  NF World

Birds blogs
NF European birds    Image files:  File 1,  File 2,  File 3
Birds around the world, Honolulu, Norway, Iceland, Japan    Image files: Around the world,   part of Japan birds
Birds in Costa Rica  Image files: Costa Rica
Birds in Morocco  Image files: Morocco
Birds in Queensland, Australia  Image files: File 1    File 2 


Thursday, June 25, 2020

Too hot for comfort

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Rains TAD theme for the week is "Heat wave!" And this week in Sweden has been/is really hot.
I went to the local lake where we have a small beach. It always makes me restless while tanning so I brought some pens and paper with me.

Trying to catch the view in front of me with gelly pens. A sweet water lake 10 min walk from my home.


Then I noticed the shadow of the grass moving on my paper. So had some fun trying to catch it.
 Same thing as above and added a cone. So, this actually shows the grass, the shadow and the sketch.
 😊
 Think I have to find a way to make the grass itself more visible. 💥



At home I continued the "grass" project. Now with watercolor on paper.  A4



This is watercolor on sketch paper A5
A little pencil exercise 
© NF Photo 200625 

Hope everyone is still safe. I am but I have fans going to keep me from being too hot!

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday      Rains TAD      MSB

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A little Magic

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Dried roses I got from my daughter at Mothers day. I dried them and put them in an artful glas I have.

I painted my first volcano. Watercolor with think paint
CARBon paper A5


And a little Magic for Rains TAD
 The golden world
Photoshop, a statue I have and some water photos was the base for this one.


Afrodite in the ocean

I created this one several years ago, 130307.  You can see the objects I used below. Also added a shot with water drops as backdrop.

Afrodite, a dolphin and a glass ball

© NF Photo 200618

I hope everyone is still safe. In Sweden we are now allowed to travel a bit. But we still have to keep distance.

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday     Rains TAD

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Canceled summer plans

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Summer plans for Rains DAT this week. Well forget about it.  I guess everybody knows why that is.
I was thinking of driving to Öland. An iceland in the south of Sweden. Not to windsurf myself but to photograph them. I made this watercolor painting inspired of a photo I took several years ago. I love watching them and if I was young I would certainly try it!

Yellow Magnolia
One photo used three times in different ways and combined.

I have now put the small, bright, paintings on a white canvas.I might call it
"Black and White kitchen wall"
😄

© NF Photo 200611

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Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday      Rains TAD

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Dreams, pros and cons

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Warning! 
This will be a different post I believe. Rains theme for the week is "Your dream" and she mention her own nightmares. I don´t really have nightmares but now and then have dreams that pisses me off. I am not religious but I am spiritual and meditated for a lot of years. Lots of things happened.

My spiritual journey was difficult as I seem to be as somebody told me "a mess" and "all over the place". I see myself as three different pieces, body, spirit and soul. They are not One entity. Spiritually I also seemed to have two different guides and they disagreed most of the times about what I should or not should do. Which pissed me off pretty much.

In my book dreams and meditation experiences comes from the same source. The difference is, in meditation you can control what happens most of the times. But the "other side" can interfere and take over.
For dreams the brain rules the show. Unless you learn how to interfere with it.

I have an experience that include both meditation and dreams. Several days apart.

The attached one
When I meditated I had several times felt that I had an entity attached to the right side of my butt. It was a strange feeling.  I also had a dream about a coffin below a staircase. The coffin was filled with water and a dead man.

I told a man in England about it. He knew a female medium that might help out. One day I was meditating and she was tuning in on me.
Next day I got a mail from my friend. The message from his friend was that I had a Russian, dead soldier attached to me. When he died he had seen a green light radiating from me and thought he had come to heaven. And hold on to me. The medium has sent him to where he should be. And I never felt him again.
The strange part of this was the green light. When I meditated I sometimes experienced green light in my chest. But I did not mention that to my friend.  I think that is the heart chakra glowing.

Now, to the bad part.
I was often badly treated by the "guides" or what ever they were. The last thing was two hands grabbing my brain and pulled it apart. I fell to the floor and cried my heart out. I cried for weeks. And never meditated again.
I hated them. That was the only thing they actually taught me. How to hate! It took many years but I finally learned. In my book violence and abuse is NO WAY TO TEACH LOVE! NEVER!

Now I have blocked them all out. I am my own master! And will never go down that path again.

Now, back to bad dreams. Maybe some might be useful for somebody. When I had those bad dreams like running after trains, planes and whatever and never reach them. Frustrated.  Then I remembered I heard about somebody who had learned how to interfere with dreams.
When I wake up from one of those dreams I get pissed. So angry they tell me to do things and never let me do them. When I go to bed I angrily tell my brain to realize when I dream and let me interfere. After a few nights that actually happened. I was in the dream, aware of it. I looked around, saw the ship going away and I stopped running. Looked at the boat and turned around and walked away. So I changed the outcome of the dream. I stopped running after it. Every time I have any of those recurring dreams I go in and stop them and change them. The dreams no longer have any power over me.

I share two drawings and a photo to help you understand what I talk about.
Attached person in meditation.

Dream with dead person in water coffin

This is an LP I painted to remember to chase off bad dreams. It is beside my bed.

There is a lot of things I have to avoid but, as I am born to see light, I always do that in my photography. And keep myself busy with photo and art.

© NF Photo 200603

A crazy post, but life is crazy! I hope I did not scare you off. This is a onetime post!
Take care. stay safe.

Linking up with the following memes. My thanks to the hosts:
Paint Party Friday     Rains TAD

Meet me on Instagram:
NatureFootstep_Myworld
NatureFootstep_PhotoArt
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