Dreams of escape
I’m not one for winter, nor for dark, cold mornings. Searching through my image bank last night, I came across this person contemplating or checking his smartphone at Angkor Wat. The image didn’t cure my dreams of escape.
Tricky lines
It’s not always easy to see which lines are straight and which aren’t from an image full of lines like this one. But if you look carefully, there is a perfect inverted L shape within this image, with the long stem standing at degrees to the short stem of the reversed L. Can you find [...]
Dreamland
Sometimes you wish were somewhere else, away from the places of hard reality and escape into that place of dreams where your soul is quiet and your mind agile and fresh. Like this moment captured in Masai Mara.
Cut the crap
Time to go back to Africa, and the helpless male lion not anywhere near getting his way with this fair lioness. The way she states it is pretty clear, and you don’t have to be a lion to recognize the situation;)=
48/52 – Cold space
I went for a photo shoot with my class on Thursday. The natural place to pick was were the wind and the sea met the continent, so we went to Tungenes. What struck me this time, was not the power of the wind and the waves, but the coldness of the wide open space. Although [...]
47/52: Beautiful storm
Høstmørke, Autumn Darkness, was the subject for the weekly assignment. For someone who is scared of heights and wants to break free in crowded spaces, staring into the approaching storm at Tungenes today was an exhilarating experience, maybe the best taste of Mother Nature I’ve had for ages (bar the African safaris of course). I’m [...]
46/52: Froth from an angry sea
Light comes in many forms, like the froth from this angry sea today when the storm winds hit the coastline.
45/52: Splash
A picture that catches the mood from a book I’ve read? I thought I had it, and prepared these three images captured within a second, illustrating the title of a book that made a big impression on me. by Iris Murdoch. Just one small catch: I never read the book. But the pictures are here, [...]
44/52 – Alone (Alene)
I’m trying to play catchup here on the One Image a Week project. Seems more like one image a month these last six months. But I got a chance to go on a trip with my students last Thursday, and had this chance to grab my solution for the Alone subject from week 44. Nothing [...]
Concerto
Doing things I ordinarily don’t do is a good thing. It freshens up things turning stale, like shooting pictures from a concert when I prefer portrait or street, or editing in Lightroom when Aperture is my opus. This image, for instance, was captured in a sports hall, and the edits were done in a software [...]
43/52: Ghosts
This could be a shower of lights, a starburst, it could be a witch dance – or it might just be from a concert. But if you look closely there are at least three ghosts downhere(*) at the bottom of the image – not to say a rush of fools. Sonja Elisabeth gave us the [...]
42/52 – Solitary benches – tomme benker
It’s been a long time since I posted anything on the X/52 project, but the challenge from my brother was one I just wanted to take. He wrote: What I want you to do, is to get out of doors and capture the weather – good or bad. Ståle @ x/52 I didn’t find the [...]
Instagram safari #2
Jeg gav forhåpninger om å legge ut bilder via instagr.am før Kenya-turen. Desverre strevde jeg på tross av overraskende god wifi bredbånddekning selv langt ute på landsbygda med å laste opp instagram-bildene fra iPhonen. Men vel hjemme igjen er alt på plass, og selv om det ikke ble mange bildene å vise til, gir instagram-måten å [...]
Instagram safari
Jeg ble litt inspirert av Thomas på Autofok.us i dag. Han skrev en liten sak om sin duppedingsavhengighet, og spesielt om avhengigheten av sin iPhone 4. Ikke det at iPhone var så genialt, andre smartphones er mindre klamme enn Jobofonen, men den har én ting ingen andre smartphones har enda: Den lille app-en Instagram. Da [...]
35/52 Green spot
It’s been a while now, the muse of photography has escaped me this summer. But Vibeke’s challenge in the one picture a week project was unavoidable. Find a green spot near you, get outdoors and grab your camera. Stavanger is a green city, but Mosvannet is the place par excellence for recreation and resurgent energy. [...]
Twixt sea and sky
Nothing clears the mind like a walk on a beach, with the fresh winds from the sea and the high sky above your head.
Where their hearts lie
The number in itself doesn’t really matter, but they say between 75 and 100 000 people, that is up to 2/3 of the whole population. Never before have so many people gathered in the center of Stavanger to show where their hearts lie. Here are ten imprints from the evening where Stavanger made their stand [...]
A light for Norway
My good student Andrea has started a Flickr group called “A Light for Norway She writes: There is several support groups on facebook, but not a single one on Flickr as far as I can see. Join to show that you care, and that your thoughts are with the norwegian people through these times of darkness. [...]
Meditation
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time [...]
For those who suffer
For those who suffer, let us show goodness and courage. Re. the things that shouldn’t happen
Gramstad: A landscape in green and blue
I must give Cambodia a little rest today, and instead try to show that you don’t always have to travel so far to find beautiful nature. Gramstad is an area 15 km from where I live, with great views of the surrounding counties, fjords and mountains. This summer has seen more rain than you wish [...]
Timeless Head
I don’t know what they call the head of a sculpture like this, but I imagine this was the kind of find travellers like Henry Mohout was hoping for when he made the Angkor temples famous in the West after rediscovering them in 1857 – statues, gold and remains of large empires – that old, [...]
28/52: The boy who ate a match with a troll
I guess you’ve never heard about the Norwegian fairytale about the boy who ate a match with the troll. The short of it: A farmer sent his sons to cut wood in a forest he owned, to pay off debts. A troll threatened them as they came, one by one; the two older ones allowed [...]
Bathrobe
You’re not suppose to own much when you’re a monk. You rely on a few very necessary items for your daily life. Who needs excesities like a bahtroom when all you need is a bathrobe? Of course it does have something to do with the climate you live in, but still…