Mekong Boatswain
I’ve wanted to show you this image for a few days now. The guy was the boatswain on a neighboring long tail on the Mekong taking us to look for Irrawaddy dolphins. There’s no place in this image, but there is something about the way he looks at me that gets to me, a skeptical [...]
Purple daze
During the day you won’t believe that Sunday Times rated Pranang Beach in Krabi as the world’s third most beautiful beach three years ago. During the day the whole place is full of Longtails spewing out diesel and creating noise havock. But come sunset, they mostly disappear and you are left alone with one or [...]
A short walk in the wood
Crossing your own doorstep is sometimes the biggest departure of them all. What happens after you shut that door to your own safety, the world is your oyster. Today I just had to do that big little journey, just to see whether there was something out there worth discovering. I found these pictures just a [...]
Life on the river
It’s been a while since I published pictures here. The reason is quite simple: I’ve been traveling again, this time to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Since returning last Friday I’ve been hit by the heaviest jet lag ever, sleeping at all hours, hurting at the cold and the inability to function as a [...]
The Door at Guantanamo
Evening light hitting a whitewashed wall at Guantanamo, Gran Canaria.Click to see full version of image
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. Click to see full image
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. Click to see full version of image
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 [...]
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.
In honor of lighthouses
There are more than 200 lighthouses along the 25 148 kilometers (15626 miles) long Norwegian Coastline (83 000 km’s including islands). The first was built at Lindesnes in 1655, and the final automatization of the lighthouses was completed in 1992. There is drama connected with the lighthouses, built on treacherous rocks and dangerous islets along [...]
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 [...]
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