My favourite To answer your question, in my understanding (from when I was dragged around Italy as a child and made to look at religious art), it's a fresco if the painting is done on fresh wet plaster. So essentially the painting becomes part of the fabric of the building rather than being something added on top. I'm sure there are other technical explanations, but that's about the extent of my knowledge :)
Oh wow! What a good find Ake. I love these 3D murals - they are excellent. I agree that the bus one looks extremely realistic, and I had to keep telling my brain there wasn't a gap in the buildings in this one. I think the effect works best on buildings, nature and skies, and I wish they'd been able to extend the painting to cover the gutter / top of the building. My favourite is the one made to look like the building is curtains pushed back to reveal a scene... a nice surreal touch, and they cleverly used the gutter as the curtain rod :)
Very well made The murals were very well made and were better IRL than on picture of course. Glad to hear that you enjoyed watching our photos from this little gem. /Ake
Oh, you checked it out I didn't have the time to check it out myself this morning. Nice to know that we went there now that I know that it was a nice place. /Ake
We love street art You found a marvelous collection of street art. I'm always amazed because I would think it is much harder to create on these surfaces and on such large canvass.
It was worth the detour To go to Sherbrooke we had to make a bit of a detour. It was totally worth it. It was really great fun to walk around and see all the street art./ Ake
We love Quebec City We long to return to Quebec and have often dreamed of staying at Chateau Frontenac. Maybe someday. The places you stayed sound marvelous. Accommodation does impact the fun on a trip. We love staying in unique places. Thanks for taking us along and allow us to rethink our memories.
Reliving memories I absolutely love when I read a blog entry published by someone else and get flooded with memories from a trip a made myself many years ago. I hope the memories our blog entry brought back made you happy. /Ake
Quebec City Quebec City has been on my list for a while, particularly its Château Frontenac. The city looks beautiful, I can see the French influence. It looks like you chose some wonderful accommodation options, a big part of any journey and experience I think, so I feel it is important to choose well. The Montmoroncy Falls look spectacular!
Bigger and better waterfalls On this trip each time we published photos of waterfalls we managed to outdo the previous one. We agree, Montmorency Falls was pretty impressive. It was a bit difficult to find a waterfall that was even more impressive. But we managed. We will publish a blog later on with those pics. /Ake
Trompe-l'Å“il art of Sherbrooke Your blog makes Sherbrooke a must-see I must say, Ake. Wall Art or Murals around the World come in all shapes from the untalented to the majestic. Sherbrooke has presented the magnificent and hats off to the foresight of their municipal authorities in making sure it is so. Wonderful that none of your images appear to be defaced by graffiti. A worthy addition to TB's "Wall Art or Graffiti" thread in the Photography Forum. Check 'em out.
Again thanks for the Forum update ...and once more I have to thank you for adding my pictures to the photography forum. Glad you enjoyed the blog. /Ake
Jogging and Sightseeing Yay! I love how, because you were pressed for time, you decided to do your sightseeing in Ottawa by jogging - time efficient indeed! Very interesting to read about a number of places I'd never heard of, you do seem to "travel between the lines" on your trips - so many undiscovered places to explore.
On lesser known places The wellknown and famous places are often a great experience. But many of the lesser known places can be charming and interesting too. It can be a bit of a challenge to find them but when we do we enjoy it a lot. Good to hear that you also enjoy reading about those places. /Ake
Running I remember your last blog on Running (didn't realise there were two others). I can totally see how it would be a great way to combine two loves and sight see while jogging through a place. Very impressive collection of photos Ake and Emma, I particularly like the one with the camel in Senegal :)
We won't stop We don't have any plans to neither stop travelling nor stop running so hopefully there will be a fourth running blog in the future. I think the best running photo we have taken is the first one in the first "Running all over the world"-blog. It came out very good. The first photo in the second "Running all over the world"-blog is also interesting. /Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info
RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew
My favourite
To answer your question, in my understanding (from when I was dragged around Italy as a child and made to look at religious art), it's a fresco if the painting is done on fresh wet plaster. So essentially the painting becomes part of the fabric of the building rather than being something added on top. I'm sure there are other technical explanations, but that's about the extent of my knowledge :)