In the Hall of the Mountain King - Sepia Saturday

When I saw our prompt for this week I knew where I was going.

But just to show willing I found some men on a mountain top.

Major Charles S Cotter of 1st Ohio Light Artillery Regiment at Point Lookout, Tennessee (Library of Congress)

Major Cotter has the telescope; the other seven officers and men are unidentified.

I doubt that they would have been able to see our three composers across there in Norway even if the time period had been the same. They definitely wouldn't have known where the Norwegian Mount Løvstakken was located.

Bergen and Mount Løvstakken

Bergen would not have looked like that through the telescope wielded by our composers and the 1500 seater concert hall would not have existed. I wonder what Grieg the man on the right in our prompt would have made of it.

Grieg Hall
(By Nina Aldin Thune - CC BY-SA 2,5)

I spent quite a time in Bergen when I worked in Norway at the end of the 1970s and the 1980s so recognised Løvstakken  immediately; it is one of the seven mountains which surround the city. I've even a photo or two.

I just wonder where our composers sat.

And Bergen would not be complete without a shot of Grieg himself.

Statue of Edvard Grieg, Bergen

You may recognise his hair style if you compare the statue with the man on the right of our prompt.

I don't think you would split hairs or pick a bone with me over that,

Sam might, now that he is exploring that great bone yard in the sky.

Just make sure you are looking through the right end of your telescope when you visit Sepia-Saturday-217.

In The Hall of The Mountain King

Composed by Edvard Grieg of Ibsen's play Peer Gynt

Travel, Travel - Thematic Photography

The travel theme is so broad that it's difficult to know what to include. In the 1980s I lived and worked in Norway and sometimes had to use a hydrofoil like this.

Stavanger - Bergen hydrofoil

The old town of Stavanger is very picturesque and isn't always as empty as it was the day the shot was taken.

Gamle Stavanger

Perhaps this was the day that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the town aboard the Royal Yacht.

HMY Britannia (passing Rosenberg Verft)

I never got to see the Queen as I was at Rosenberg Verft at the time.

I did get the chance to capture this shot in Germany when my daughter was at university there.

Freiburg

 However I know that the chance to travel in space will never come my way but that does not stop me admiring pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Telescope docked with the shuttle Endeavor (ex NASA)

 Now you should travel over to Carmi's thematic-photographic-218 and see where other folk have been.