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My drawings and watercolors on FritsAhlefeldt.net
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Alarm clock story
Remember the alarm clocks? Those in the old days, mechanical ones with sounds that could wake up everybody in the whole house - so different now...
Great crested grebe
Dw00067 Great Crested grebe ( Podiceps cristatus - Toppet Lappedykker ) Research and watercolor
Great crested grebe sketch
Dw00066 Great Crested grebe ( Podiceps cristatus - Toppet Lappedykker ) Watercolor research Sketch
Arctic loon
Dw00065 Arctic loon / Black throated loon (Gavia arctica, Sortstrubet lom ) Declining species of loon. Global distribution with subspecies
Red-throated Loon
Dw00064 Red-throated loon research - Gavia stellata - Rødstrubet lom ) Watercolor of the smallest loon in the world
Finding stones
Not many tourists find their way up here, so we had the place to ourselves. Me watching the baltic sea and painting while my daughter walked around looking for stones and crystals among the granite rocks
fishing food chain
Fish caught by fisherman, caught by businessman, caught by robot...
Bed for the night
Stopped for a minute, just to watch the morning, still cold, still early, a feeling of happiness came out of nowhere
The old babyjogger
Still running
Antivirus Architecture as urban design
Can we design and build our cities better to stop virus from spreading
Stopping the shopping
Sketched up this drawing yesterday… Researching it, I wonder why it is so often the young that have to change the ways of the adults, and the kids that take action to stop their parents from ruining our planet
Two Grey plover watercolors
Dw00169 + Dw00170 Grey plover ( Pluvialis squatarola - Strandhjejle ) The wader bird nests far North Arctic regions, all around the globe from Siberia, to Canada. The Grey plover, or Black bellied plover, as it is called in America, migrates all the way down south - Even to South Africa, Argentina and Australia.
Northern lapwing watercolor
dw00171 Nothern lapving (Vibe - Vanellus vanellus ) Watercolor
European Golden Plover
dw00173 - European Golden plover ( Hjejle, Pluvialis Apricaria ) is the fastest game bird in Ireland - Or is it? - The question kicked off the beginning of the book Guinness World records in 1951
Eurasian Dotterel male watercolor
Dw00167 Male dotterel ( Pomeransfugl - Charadrius morinellus ) sits on the eggs and rear the chicks, while the more colorful female leaves to find another male
Eurasian Dotterel female watercolor
Dw00168 Female dotterel ( Pomeransfugl - Charadrius morinellus ) is the colorful one, while the pale male sits on the nest and rear the chicks she flies off to find another male...
Colliding mindsets
We meet tough times wearing different glasses
Kentish plover bird
Dw00166 - Kentish Plover ( Charadrius charadrius - Hvidbrystet Præstekrage )
Common ringed plover bird
Dw00164 Watercolor of the 19 cm. large, ground nesting bird: Common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula ( Stor Præstekrage)
Little ringed plover bird
Dw0165 Watercolor of Little ringed plover - Charadrius dubius ( Lille Præstekrage) , a 15cm. ground nesting bird, living close to water.
Selv-isolation and loneliness
Still trying to grasp the change here, from fighting loneliness, to moving as far away from each other as possible... it seems like it happened in a second
Reporting from a distance
Will journalism change as new technology and risks change the ways reporters can work
Pied avocet bird watercolor 02
Dw00163 - Pied avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta ( Klyde)
Pied avocet bird watercolor 01
Dw00162 - Pied avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta ( Klyde) Bird study of a large wading bird, living in Europe, Asia and migrating to Africa and Southern Asia in winter.
Reality out of order
Some days it seems to me like the digital dimensions might still be working, but reality is less so...
