Cooling
Here in Scandinavia – and several other European countries – we have endured a more than two months’ long heat wave, with temperatures exceeding everything since measurements started in Sweden hundreds of years ago. To function – cooling is essential.
One of my fondest memories of cooling is from 2015, when we were hiking the spectacular Verzasca Valley in Tessin, Switzerland. After some tough hours on foot, the temperature hit 34 degrees C – and we felt an urgent need to cool down. Fast cooling was offered with a swim in the 14 degrees C glacier water of the Verzasca river.
How would you capture cooling in a photograph? Is it an image like this one, showing a much-needed, cooling swim? Or is it maybe a giant ice-cream on the beach, or a dog in a bucket of water in your back yard? Show us your interpretation in a new post.
Here are the guidelines:
- Lens-Artists Photo Challenges are published every Saturday at 12 noon EST by one of our moderators. Post your reply any time before the next challenge is announced.
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- Subscribe to all 4 moderator blogs to receive the challenge each week.
Week 1 – Patti of https://pilotfishblog.com/
Week 2 – Ann-Christine aka Leya of https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/
Week 3 – Amy of https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/
Week 4 – Tina of https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/
We had so many great responses to our first photo challenge!
Have You Seen These?
Deborah found a really special wonder in the Perry Sandhills – Wentworth. See her entry here:
https://debbiewhittam.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/lens-artists-photo-challenge-wonder/
And Helen reminds us that ”Everything is a wonder, when we see through children’s eyes.” See her entry here:
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Wonder
Amy will be your host for the next challenge on Saturday, July 21.
Missed our initial challenge announcement? See details here.
Leya 
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Cool!! 😉
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Hello all!
Here’s my belated submission.
https://stupidityhole.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/afternoon-at-st-kilda-beach/
Again, cheers for the continuing of the challenges.
Cheers to you for posting your lovely entry!
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You bring a beautiful scenery with a thinkable subject.
Due to ozone layer depletion heating wave are increasing so there is need to be coolent.
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Beautiful images Leya. You are right cooling is essential. We had some rain a day ago and all are so happy and feeling cool!
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What a wonderful spot Leya – I adore that stone bridge.
And thanks to you and your blog friends for a new challenge. Here is my first contribution: https://travelwithintent.com/2018/07/19/vietnam-hue-cooling-elephant-springs-suoi-voi/
Thank you for a truly inspiring entry! I cannot answer at your blog from here though!
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Let me add my contribution on the theme of cooling to the numerous gathered already. It was an excellent experience despite the cheeky tone of my post. 🙂
https://manjameximovie3.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/lens-artists-photo-challenge-cool-cooling/
Thank you my dear!
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Hello Ann-Christine, here is our second contribution with a different kind of cooling – still much needed on these warm days: https://whippetwisdom.com/2018/07/18/wordless-wednesday-staying-cool/
Glad you found more coolings!
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Hello Leya, I went with the Trevi fountain for this week’s challenge: https://wp.me/p2owKx-109
Cheers, Amy
I am glad you did, Amy – thank you for a much longed for cooling in Rome!
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I can’t make my mind up what I like the most about these photos – that gorgeous arched bridge or the colour of the water. How extraordinary that so many places around the world are experiencing this heat. Now I am worried about the sort of winter we may have ahead of us. Climate change like this is never good.
I agree – I worry all the time about this. It is our whole existence changing, and we do not know how.
Hi Leya, nice to meet you. Thanks for creating a new weekly challenge, I’ll join in as often as I can. This week I’m not far from home in Devon.
https://lucidgypsy.com/2018/07/17/lens-artist-photo-challenge/
Thank you for participating! I hope we will have fun with it!
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This new challenge sounds nice. Here is my contribution:https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/cooling-3/
You are welcome!
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Here is my entry for the week!!
https://norasphotos4u.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/lens-artists-photo-challenge-topic-cooling/
Thank you for joining in!
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The pond with the rocks all around looks like something from a movie. So pretty and refreshing to look at. Beautiful photographs, Leya.
Hope you enjoy my photos. I couldn’t get the pingback to work. Is there a specific url?
Isadora 😎
https://insidethemindofisadora.com/2018/07/16/cooling-with-jazz/
That movie feeling came to me as well – and further up the river is a famous dam hosting one of the biggest bungy jump settings in the world. It was used for Bond in ”Goldeneye”!
Thank you for joining us – I don’t know about the url though…hope it works for you anyway!
I’m not abig on adventurous bungy jumping or anything like that but I enoy watching others have a grand time. I enjoyed the challenge very much.
Isadora 😎
I don’t do bungyjumping either…glad you liked the challenge!
Thank you, Anne-Christine for mentioning my blog. I feel honored and happy 😉
What a beautiful bridge! Switzerland is definitely a place I want to go back. Seeing your photo, I can’t wait… Thanks for sharing.
Have a great day.
Thank You for a lovely entry!
Beautiful scenery in these cooling images Ann-Christine, the water looks so clear and refreshing! Thank you for hosting this lovely challenge and my contribution for this week is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2018/07/16/haibun-dragonfly-wood/
I am glad you and your best friends are joining in the fun – thank you!
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Just found this challenge by way of Restless Jo!
http://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2018/07/lens-artists-photo-challenge.html
Welcome, Jackie!
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Here’s my entry for the week, A-C, and thanks for being one of the hostesses for the new challenge. Happy Monday!
https://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/lens-artist-photo-challenge-cooling/
janet
Thank you, Janet, for joining in – I am so glad you are with us! Happy Monday to you as well!
What lovely views; images of summer! We are having the heatwave here in Finland as well. Nowadays, I ”work” next to a lake so that I can dip in the water more often to cool down. 🙂
Btw, I like this photo challenge. Need to read more and see if I can participate in it, and a way of keeping up with blogging.
You are so very welcome! It seems you have arranged a way of cooling where you”work”?
I might have missed the sea breezes but they’re out there somewhere! 🙂 🙂
https://restlessjo.me/2018/07/16/jos-monday-walk-a-tall-ships-treat/
I will follow the winds and find them!
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What an amazing place, with the undulating bridge built right into the natural landscape of rocks and logs. I guess Scandinavia is also experiencing climate change!
https://amoralegria.com/2018/07/15/running-through-the-fountains/
We are in a climate change – it has to be, because this heat is completely unnatural to us. The country is unprepared, so cows and horses are starving and crops are sadly failing. In the old days the catastrophe would have been complete, but today we will find ways to manage.
The Swiss valley is a gem – and the Romans knew their art of building!
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I got caught in your Swedish heat wave so this is a perfect challenge. That glacial pool looks so inviting! Here’s mine: https://elizabatz.com/2018/07/15/back-from-tropical-sweden/
Ah – so you were here!
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Great choices, and as the temps are rising toward 100, the theme was a perfect diversion.
Thank you, Sally – hoped to bring us all some cool and fresh air. 100F? That is more than enough…
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Beautiful images! Love them all.
Thank you very much – and have a cool Sunday!
Not sure my link worked Ann-Christine. Sorry if this is a duplicate https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/lens-artists-photo-challenge-cooling/
No duplicate, Tina, and if it was, I could enjoy your photos in every duplicate you send!
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Thank you for the time and creative effort you put into this week’s photo challenge. I’ve found that ice packs on the back of the neck are one way to keep cool especially since the heat seems to drain my energies…oh to be young and full of energy despite the heat.
https://ameditativejourney.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/lens-artists-photo-challenge-cool/
Thank you for participating, Brenda – and for the piece of good advice to keep cool. I will certainly try it, because my memory suffers from the heat and also is my energy low. And the young – well, they seem not to bother if it is warm or cold…their energy seem constant.
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Wind Kisses stole my reaction: beautiful and inviting. 🙂 Cooling, too, which is appreciated here where it’s been quite hot and, too often, humid as well.
janet
Thank you, Janet! Yes, I have understood it has been hot over there as well. Humidity makes it even worse. I spend most of my days indoors…and it is summer! It is a shame really – but the heat is too much for my system.
Loved your sunset Janet. Couldn’t get my comment to post 😩
Thanks, Tina. I’ve been having some computer/WP issues as well and they always seem to occur just when i want to go to bed. Sigh.
janet
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The water looks very cooling as do the shady trees in the first photo.
Thank you – I think I still can feel the heat of that day, looking at the people on the bridge. And you are right about the water – cooling, almost too cold for a swim. As you can see there are not many people in the water!
Beautiful photo and it looks cool. What a lovely place to spend a hot day. Even though we are in mid-winter and night time temperatures at an all time low, the days are beautiful. But looking forward to our hot, hot, hot summer this is the sort of garden I love. https://retiredfromgypsylife.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/lens-artist-photo-challenge-cooling/
I know you have a beautiful garden and you are two skilled gardeners. I am curious about your sort of garden for the cooling theme!
We have a pond corner but it would be even better with water trickling into it. We did have a fountain feature once, but it stopped working. ☹️
Another try…? I would love to have one, instead I have 7 different little ”pools” for the birds, bees and the hedgehogs.
Your garden sounds like a wild life paradise Leya
I try…but I am happy to offer what ever help I can.
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Hi Ann Christine, I hope the weather is colling off a little bit for you. I love your photos, the bridge is very interesting.
https://theshowerofblessings.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/lens-artists-photo-challenge-cooling/
Thank you, Miriam, but the weather is going on in the 30’s…so I still need cooling! Thank you for posting – looking forward to seeing your choice!
Thank you. We just had record breaking a heat wave since 1942 last weekend. It went up to 114 F. Some ares went as high as 120 F. But it only last for 4 days. Now it’s in 90’s F, so it’s about the same as yours.
How do you survive 120F?
We didn’t go out the weekend, just stayed home with air condition. We knew that it would only last for three days.
Well, Swedish homes don’t have any air condition systems…I guess it is time to install it with the climate changes.
I mean, space air conditioner. Just enough to keep downstairs or upstairs cool. We don’t have central air condition.
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We are in the middle of winter. Where you have been having a heat wave we have just had the coldest temperatures recorded for our area in Queensland. Still, I enjoy looking at cooling photographs. Yours are wonderful and I have put it on my list of places to visit next time we are in Switzerland. Mine https://irenewaters19.com/2018/07/15/cooling-lens-artists-challenge/
Ah, glad you enjoyed the place so much that you would love to visit! I’m looking forward to seeing your choice of cooling!
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Perfect theme!
Will be posting mine soon!
Looking forward to it!
posted it actually!
I found it – my comments are on your page! Please put a link on this page to your post so that others can easily find it!
What a beautiful bridge that is, Ann-Christine!
It is – thank you! The Romans were very good at these…
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hi ann-christine two great pictures for the challenge theme here is my contribution, https://wp.me/p2AvI7-2ND.
regards robert
Thank you for joining in the fun, Robert!
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Marvellous place!
Thank you, Sue! A bit different it is – nobody finds it…
Let’s hope it stays that way…..
Sorry I posted…
Nooooo!
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Ah, just found this…it didn’t pop up in my Reader…shall have to have a think
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Wonderful images, Ann Christine. That looks a great spot, whatever the weather. 🙂 🙂
Thank you so much, Jo! I think we were lucky to find it through my husband’s sister who is married to a Swiss. A very much hidden place. The village has less than 100 inhabitants – but they even have their own language!
How unusual! 🙂
That looks like an amazing place!!
It was! A tiny village with less than 100 people – and they even had their own language. Amazing.
Two month long heat wave in Scandinavia. It sounds like a long summer.
Thank you, Ann-Christine for sharing the beautiful photos of Verzasca Valley, that was an ideal place for cooling!
It was, Amy – I’d love to go back. Swedish summers are usually rather rainy with approximately 5 days above 25 degrees C. This year is extremely dry and hot.
I’ll have to sleep over this one to get ideas. Maybe I must reblog last week’s post 😂
Sleeping on it is a good idea – welcome back!
I am sending you cool 😎 greetings, that’s it because actually I am not in challenge mood, but I have you four in my very focus.
Cool greetings sounds cool! Challenge mood comes and goes. Welcome back!
Perfect theme for this week, Ann-Christine😎😎
Thank you, Patti – I guess it is hot over in the US as well…
Yes, it is! A high of 87 degrees F today.
Then we are rather equal in the need for cooling!
I’m with you Ann-Christine, cooling is definitely in order. Love your photo and post
Thank you, Tina – I wish I had that glacier water in my garden now…
The photos are beautiful, and more then that, so inviting. And the bridge is quite interesting. This is truly a challenge for me as Arizona is hotter then hot these days. Thanks Leya. Donna.
I am looking forward to an Arizona cooling!
Me too. lol. I am still thinking.