The Mood of Winter
I’m not one for the cold of winter, but sometimes the world becomes a much fresher and clearer place when the temperatures crawl beneath -10 (Celsius) and even I find it more than bearable to enjoy the cabin in the woods. On the technicalities of this image: I haven’t done a thing except sharpening on [...]
Enkle og profesjonelle fotoblogg-tema til WordPress
Er du på utkikk etter nytt design til fotobloggen din, eller til din grafikkbaserte blogg i det hele tatt? Eller kanskje liker du designet på bloggen min? Jeg vet hvordan det fungerer? Du blogger, men blir aldri fornøyd med designet, og bruker minst like mye tid på å fikle med innstillinger og grafiske snurrepiperier som [...]
Apparition, apparently
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this came as a little surprise at the Hel peninsula in Pomorze (Pommern, Poramia) of Poland. For me beauty is in the open landscapes and the blue waters of any sea, so this came as a little surprise, I must say. — Ikke akkurat det man [...]
Birkenau Love Story
Birkenau being the symbol of the worst kind of inhumanity, the industrial genocide. But in the middle of terrible memories, other stories are there to tell. Like this Birkenau Love Story? These tracks carried thousands of people to their death. This time the tracks witness a little story of love. Vel tilbake fra en liten [...]
The Lighthouse
Alone it stood on the windswept island through the years guiding frightened sailors across the black depths of the Northern oceans towards safe havens.
The House on the Hill
The solitary spud stood in it’s corner looking up towards the house on the hill.
Twilight in February
With the sun setting at just before midnight, and the temperatures reminding us of what Summer is all about, February seems like a long time ago. This is from the Våland Tower in Stavanger, looking west accross the Mosvannet pond. Being February or June, you can’t take these images indoors.
The Apocalypse – or the sky above my head?
I was sitting on MSN chatting with a chatter colleague, when she suddenly wrote: Look at that sky! So I had to take a look outside, and this is what I saw. Or rather, this is what my fisheye 8mm Zuiko f3.5 lens saw with a little help from creative angling. Sometimes you are hit [...]
Cheating Dandelions
Continuing rambling about everyone being able to produce “perfect pictures” (See my previous post, Norwegian language only), here’s another excample of how a mediocre image with ten minutes of work in Aperture 3.0.3 can turn into more than acceptable images, challenging professional photographers and fooling amateurs into believing that they are better than they really [...]
Et bilde kan fortelle tusen historier
I utgangspunktet er jeg en dokumentarfotograf. Jeg tar bilder, bearbeider det nødvendigste og litt til i Aperture 3 og Photoshop CS4, men gjør lite for å fortolke virkeligheten ut over det som øyet ser. Fordelen med en slik innfallsvinkel er jo enkelheten, og den kjensgjerning at jeg i minst mulig grad gir stedene jeg dokumenterer [...]
Portraying Anthony
Anthony is leaving for the States on Tuesday. It’s been a pleasure getting to know him, and to see him prove himself as a photographer. Last night I got the chance to take som portraits of Anthony and Lydia, and used the opportunity to do some portraits of Anthony in the studio. This is one [...]
Beauty is in the small details
A leaf. That’s all it is. But it’s got a big brown mark on it. I don’t know what it is. But to me it seems like a wound of some kind. Or it might be some kind of symbiosis between plant and guest. Wound or welldoe, the beauty is in a small detail
Misty waterfall
Last week we went to a place named Månafossen, a valley formed from the glacial slides after the last Ice Age, in the mountains some 60 kilometers from Stavanger. The weather wasn’t friendly with us, but it elicited the fog and clouds, and left a mystic impression. I don’t shoot much B&W, and these kinds [...]
The Black Panther
I seem to be in a portraiture mood at the moment. I shot this image today at a cabin at a place called Månafossen in Frafjord, Rogaland. I really don’t know if the Black Panther label is a politically inflamed term, forty years after the fists of the the athletes at the Mexico Olympics in [...]
Close up – a softer way
While Peder was to the bare bones, Lene goes glossy. Same settings, same lights, same room, same technology. Still a little handling in Photoshop creates a totally different expression. But mainly, the character is in the expression caught at the right moment.
Close up for The Face Book
One of my favorite photo projects is the Close Up series by the American photographer Martin Schoeller, where he uses very simple technologies to capture the human face to offer a study of characters rather than personalities while seeking to answer the basic question, what can you read in someone’s face? I like the simplicity [...]
By the lake
We have a few small lakes around Stavanger, and on a lucky day you may see more than humans and lame dogs around it. Because of the cold winter, animals like these deer have drawn close to people and to the lake in search of food. The good side is that we are reminded that [...]
En kamerafunksjon fra helvete
Ta en titt på dette bildet. Jeg har lagt inn litt exif-informasjon, som forteller om blender og lukkertid, samt hvilket objektiv som ble brukt. Det kan du se ut fra brennvidden, 200mm. Selve bildet er ikke all verden. Fargene er greie, komposisjonen ikke optimal men den fungerer såvidt. Jeg skulle gjerne kommet litt nærmere denne [...]
Change of moods
Change of moods today. After three weeks under a different sun just a short bypass to the local pond, Mosvannet, before I return to the dreamlands of Sabah. Mosvannet is a spot for watching life pass at different speeds. Image: ISO 100 at 79mm (crop factor x 2) at f2.8 at 1/200 sec.
Faces of Sabah
A girl at the vegetable market in Rapau, Sabah. The image was shot on the way from Kota Kinabalu to the Porin Hot Springs near the foot of Mt. Kinabalu. Sabah on the north tip of Malaysian Borneo has it’s wealth of impressions from lush jungles to the mighty Mt. Kinabalu and the white sands [...]
iPad og PEN: Den ideelle løsning for reisende fotografer?
Støy og leven Lørdag slipper Apple sin svært så omtalte iPad ut på markedet i ni land. I Norge må vi vente enda en stund, men diskusjonene har gått høylydt, og både kritikere og tilhengerne har hatt mer enn nok å si om dette nye vidunderet. Det har vel bordet på grensen til støy og [...]
To stop time
Every travel is about finding a place to fall to rest. To let your feet leave the ground and ease up in a cussion or a hammock, to let time fly or to make time stand still. Kids grasp it without understanding it. Somewhere on the road we forget it, and misconstrue it with adventure. [...]
Gratulerer, Jan Ivar!
For seks uke siden fikk jeg en sms av Jan Ivar. Han skulle relansere bloggen sin med nytt design og innhold. Han hadde holdt på et par år med bloggen sin på vikfoto.no, og hadde hatt brukbart med trafikk, og opparbeidet seg et rykte som en seriøs og dyktig fotoblogger. Men nå var det på [...]
The Joshua Tree?
Jeg vet ikke om assosiasjonene dine går i den retning, men med litt fantasi kan du vel kjenne igjen litt av stemningen fra The Joshua Tree, treet som utgjorde deler av omslaget og som gav tittelen til U2 sin klassiker av en 80-tallsplate med samme navn. Det er morro å presse seg litt og prøve [...]
