Nuts and a holocaust reminder…

Today Oslo set a temperature high record. It was actually warmer here than southern Europe. I went for a walk. All the snow was gone today, and thing started to appear. This witch lay on the grass staring at me, together with an golden angel.

On the fifth print, you can see bronze inlays in the pavement in Oslo. This are reminders of norwegian jews who were deported during the war. At the start of the war, there were apx 1800 jews in Norway, some of them refugees from Germany. About half of the jewish population managed to escape to Sweden, but 767 jews were arrested and deported with the ship M/S Donau, the 25 of november 1942. As the dates show, they went straight to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Ages? 22, 23, 43 and 52…

Of the 767 deported, only 34 were to return.

First Snow…

Yesterday we got our first snow this winter. Normally it starts in october/november, but this year its late in the coming. And it has snowed 5.5 inches in just a few hours now…

All prints are the John S Lens, combined with the AO DLX Film, and the Blanko Noir film.

The Sun…

I love  the sunrise and the sunset… Simply because the sky explodes with colors, shadows get very long, and the light is often soft and beautiful.

All prints are the John S Lens and the Blanko Noir Film.

Drive-by shooting…

I was traveling with a bus last wednesday. I did some shooting through the bus window. This was fun, because its impossible to tell which effects or object you will get in the final print.

Here are my favorites. The ones over the bridge are very dramatic and visually strong I think.

All prints are the John S Lens and the BlacKeys B+W Film.

 

This way, rivets and steel…

On my friday walk, I was looking for details. This can be found in rocks, walls, concrete, pavements. To keep it short, all over…

I am getting quite used to the frame on the Hipstamatic now. I always shoot with the precision framing option, because this gives me better control over the cropping. For newbees, this option is found in settings on the iPhone. the path is: Settings/Hipstamatic/Viewfinder Mode/Precision Framing.

I seldom shoot more than one or two times now for each object. As for the car underneath, its a one shot. I have almost 15000 prints with Hipstamatic now, so this has given me the experience needed. But I usually do two shots when I am this close to the object.

There is one more important detail, which is often forgotten. I have done this hundreds of times myself. Let the camera on the iPhone finish the zooming. If you shoot from the hip, you often get blurry pictures. Sometimes this is fun, but most of the times, just annoying.

The details which is shown in the prints, often amazes me. If you look at the steel rivets, bolts and spikes below, the details are beautiful.

I have a passion for building sites, that is true. So this is often seen in my prints.

In the corner of my eye, I spotted the little graffiti on the wall. Someone had sprayed La Linea on a red brick wall. I love these small details.

All prints are the John S Lens and the BlacKeys B+W Film.

Trains and the writing on the wall…

On friday I had to run some errands just outside Oslo. And Then I took the commuter train. I did some trainspotting while I was waiting. There is something fascinating about these monsters on tracks…

The writing on the wall in the title is actually the writing on the streets. The main avenue in Oslo, which is called Karl Johans Gate (street), are named after the king on the statue shown below. On the pavement there are lines of text from famous norwegian authors. Both engraved in the concrete, and stainless steel inlaid letters.

On my way home I passed the barcode building project. And it was actually raining on the other side of the building. Not my side though…

All prints are my favorite John S Lens and Blackeys B+W Film.