Ruben Nilsson Photography
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Midsummer park

A gate left open, an avenue of trees, still water at the end of it, and a hedge doing its best to be pink.

The gate stood open, so the walk started there: through the arch into a gravel avenue, ochre outbuildings on both sides and the lindens closing overhead. Ten minutes in, the water.

Midsummer light lasts all evening, so nothing had to be hurried. One afternoon, one walk, from the gate to the hedge — anything more would have been the same hour said twice.

The gate and the avenue

The entrance side of the estate: a passage with its doors folded back, two ochre outbuildings, and a grassy track that goes on until the trees take it.

A view out from a dark passage through an arched opening between two heavy wooden doors, a sunlit gravel path and lawn beyond, a red building among trees in the distance.
Through the arch 50 mm · f/5.6 · 1/200s · ISO 100
Two low ochre outbuildings with white pilasters and tall white gate piers framing a grassy track that leads away under trees, two green bins beside the right pier.
The way in 50 mm · f/5.6 · 1/200s · ISO 100
A two-rut gravel track running straight away between tall grass and shrubs, ochre outbuildings with white-trimmed doors on either side and tall trees closing overhead.
The avenue 50 mm · f/5.6 · 1/200s · ISO 100

The pond and the park

Past the buildings the ground opens out around the water: a pond, a lawn, and the yellow house keeping watch along the far edge.

A still pond reflecting a cloudy sky and a red building among trees, lily pads floating at the surface.
Pond 50 mm · f/11 · 1/200s · ISO 100
A dark open-top sports car parked on grass beneath tall trees, a red-roofed house and a white gate behind it.
Parked in the park 50 mm · f/6.3 · 1/400s · ISO 100
A yellow single-storey building at the edge of a calm pond, a large tree above it and lily pads on the surface.
By the water 50 mm · f/8 · 1/320s · ISO 100
A dense hedge of green leaves with pink and cream variegation, filling the frame in bright sunlight.
Variegated leaves 50 mm · f/4.5 · 1/800s · ISO 100

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