Month: November 2011

A history of the Sky

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This is a quite awesome project from “Murphlab”, with a camera directed towards the sky and each day is represented with it’s own square.

More information on the video below the video

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More information about the video:

“This is a year-long time-lapse study of the sky. A camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco captured an image of the sky every 10 seconds. From these images, I created a mosaic of time-lapse movies, each showing a single day. The days are arranged in chronological order. My intent was to reveal the patterns of light and weather over the course of a year.

This video is designed to be viewed in a large format, so it’s best viewed in full-screen mode at 1080p.

More information on the project site:
http://www.murphlab.com/ahots”

All great wo-/men are dreamers

On By saarimnerIn English, Inspirational, Nikon D5000, Photography, Quotes11 Comments

Sunday evening and I will soon hit the bed. Before I do that I thought I’d share a great and inspiring Quote I came across earlier today. The quote is by Woodrow Wilson.

Hope that it can inspire some to a great week start

We grow great by dreams. All great wo-/men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days til they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Sunrise in Piteå
(c) Pedro Hansson - Nikon D5000 - Sunrise in Piteå - Click to enlarge

5 good Online Photo Enhancement Solutions

On By saarimnerIn English, Photography, Tips & tricks6 Comments

I guess I’m a little bit old fashioned, but I’m not so much into using filters on my photos that I’ve taken with my DSLR. But sometimes you might wan’t to create something special or new, but you don’t want to download a new software, go through the hassle of installing and so on. That’s when the new Online Photo Enhancement Solutions come into play.

Yesterday I stumbled over this great collection of Online Photo Enhancement Solutions at PhotoZZ. Link to the article

If you’ll give any of them a go, I would be really interesting in your experience. My own favourite so far is iPiccy

Hope you have a great Sunday!

//Pedro

Vanbot – great new Swedish Music

On By saarimnerIn English, Music, Swedish2 Comments

If you like the Swedish artist Robyn, you’ll probably also like this. You’ll also find influences from groups like Justice:

From Vanbot:s webpage:

“VANBOT is the music that loves the synthesizer, lives for the nerve and longs to dance!

After several pop-projects Ester Ideskog, Stockholm, Sweden, has emerged producing sparkling electro-pop with Vanbot and her alter ego, Vanessa. Vanessa is the tougher, fearless Stockholm City girl who is driven by determined purposefulness and true DIY spirit.  Inspiring songs are born during bike rides through the City night. Shaped by nerve and formed with beats they come to life in the little studio with the oversized worldmap where dreams can fly.

Last years writing has resulted in the Electro-pop debut album VANBOT released mid April.

All songs written by Ester Ideskog and produced together”

 

Stockholm getting ready for Christmas – part 2

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Last weekend I posted some pics with the title “Stockholm getting ready for Christmas”. This is my second post around that subject.

I really must say that the city council has done a remarkable job with dressing the whole town for Christmas. So amazing just to walk around the town and watching it all.

(note: Some of the pics are a bit blurry, due to a bad lens -> Long shutter time and no tripod, but I hope I submitted the atmosphere)

Hope you’ll have a great weekend /thanksgiving!

Link to the previous post:
https://saarimner.com/2011/11/22/stockholm-getting-ready-for-christmas/

© Pedro Hansson – http://saarimner.com

World’s funniest and best salesman of all times?

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World’s funniest and best salesman?

Just listen to the start of his salespitch! Amazing! I’ve never heard more one-liners in so few minutes!

  • As Stevie Wonder says “Seeing is believing”
  • I’m like Nicolas Cage, I will be gone in 60 seconds
  • This is like the HBO special, you know what HBO means? No? Help your brother out!
  • Unlike Madonna this bottle have never been touched
  • and he goes on and on and on..

I would buy from this guy whatever he would sell! 🙂

Salesman
Link to video

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today

On By saarimnerIn English, Olympus XZ-1, Photography, Quotes8 Comments

It’s so easy to worry for things that are out of our control. Today many people worry about the new economic times, some are worrying about their kids and maybe some are walking away from great new possibilities –  a great new life, just because of worry.

I think this quote is good to think about when I’m struggling with a decision, both in my personal and professional life, or just being in a worrying mode.

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

Worry
(c) Pedro Hansson – Olympus XZ-1 – Lake Mälaren Stockholm

Graham Bell and Chuck Norris

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When Graham Bell first invented telephone

he had 2 missed calls from Chuck Norris

Bell
Graham Bell

19 strange and unusual beds

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Well, this must be on the top of the charts for non-important blog-posts. Anyway here’s a few beds that I wouldn’t ever imagine that existed! Quite entertaining to watch 🙂

-> Link

Via WebUrbanist

 

Motivation

On By saarimnerIn D7000, Inspirational, Photography, Quotes2 Comments
Slussen
© Pedro Hansson - Nikon D7000 - Slussen - Stockholm

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar

 

There is in average of 4,74 persons between you and me

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Have you ever heard the expression that it’s a maximum of six degrees between you and me? Well, now University of Milan has investigated that a little bit further and the number to remember is 4,74 degrees between any two people on earth.

If this sounds interesting… Click on the link below for further reading.

Link to the article

Crowd
(c) Pedro Hansson - Interacting - Nikon D7000 - Stockholm

Amazing one-man band!

On By saarimnerIn English, Music, Other stuff5 Comments

A few weeks ago I posted a video of a beatboxer that sequentially built up a song, recording one step at the time.

This video is kind of the same but with a guy using instruments and singing. Quite amazing, and quite a good song too.

Thanks to the blog Worldmusic for posting this!

 

Stockholm getting ready for Christmas

On By saarimnerIn D7000, English, Photography10 Comments

This time of year is always great! The evenings are really dark, and all people start to prepare for the upcoming Christmas. Last weekend I took some pictures of the town getting ready for that same event. Even though there is some parts of the city that’s not ready, there are already many parts that are. This will be part 1 of

“Stockholm getting ready for Christmas”.

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Owls? – feelgood for monday morning

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Here´s a short feelgood-movie about… Owls! 🙂

Hope you’ll have a good start on the week

Ugliest LP-Album Covers, ever!

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Today I visited a photo fair, Fotomässan, here in Stockholm. At the show they had one station with the name “Worst ever LP-album Covers ever”, and I can assure you, they are amazingly ugly!

P.S Don’t miss the description under each image (only in Swedish) D.S

Fulaste skivomslagen 2
Ugligest Album Covers, ever (Click to enlarge)
Fulaste skivomslagen 2 (1)
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Fulaste skivomslagen 1 (1)
Ugliest LP-Album covers ever, (Click to enlarge)
Fulaste skivomslagen 1
Ugliest, Album Covers ever
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Ugliest Album Covers, ever, (Click to enlarge)
Fulaste skivomslagen 4
This must be the winner!!, (Click to enlarge)

A man with two dogs

On By saarimnerIn D7000, Day-to-day, English, Photography16 Comments

Yesterday I had a night out on the town and took some photographs for an album that I will post tomorrow “Stockholm getting ready for Christmas”. During the evening we came across this man buying flowers in an alley in Stockholm Old Town. I immediately thought that it looked like a scene from a movie. The atmosphere, the mans face impressions and the two dogs that looked like they’ve got a million dollar treat!

I took about 10 pictures and I actually think that the man with the two dogs came out the best…

This is my favourite out of the 10. It isn’t by far the most sharp or perfect out of them  but what I like with this picture is the atmosphere. I put the camera ISO really low (200), which is really low for evening time so the camera needed a longer shutter time, which let the image be a bit blurry due to handshaking, but I think that was better for keeping the atmosphere there. Don’t know if I succeeded in capturing the feeling but I thought I’ll share it for further commenting.

Hope you all have a happy weekend!

20111118 A man with two dogs
(c) Pedro Hansson – Nikon D7000 – A man with two dogs

Chuck Norris and Superman once fought each other on a bet

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Chuck Norris and Superman once fought each other on a bet.
The loser had to start wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants

Looser
The judge and the looser of the bet

Would you survive a nuclear bomb?

On By saarimnerIn Other stuff, Photography2 Comments

This site is quite scary, at least in my opinion. All you have to do is to tell the site where you’re at and the site will show you a map of how bad the cities around you will be affected by a blast.

Scary, but I guess a good way of telling us how terrible these weapons are.

Link to site

imagesizer
WouldISurviveANuke.com

iPhone Photo App review – Photo Toaster Jr.

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Photo Toaster Jr is an iPhone Camera app that delivers quality filters to the iPhone. At least in terms of being an app for the phone. Many of the filters are just there to improve your pictures and let you show the reality, as it actually was.

The app is free but you have to live with the ads (but I guess that’s a small price to pay when the app is as good as it really is).

Phototoaster
Image of Stadskyrkan in Piteå

 

  • “easy-to-use” – 4
    Since there are so much functionality I’m not sure how all the functionality will benefit everyone. The app is all about try, point and click.
  • Image Quality – 6 (as an iPhone-app)
    I think many of my images get the touch up they deserve with this app and I think that many of my pictures looks more true to the real motive after using the app, instead of apps like Hipstamatic that creates an image that’s more artistic.
  • Creativity – 4
    Many fillters and many functions but I guess it’s more in a photographic way. Maybe the app deserves a 6 for not being to creative? 🙂
  • Level of usage – 5
    Easy-to-use, great “save functions” and really quick makes this one of the apps that I really use frequently.
  • Overall score – 5
    Really good, quick and easy to use!

Beautiful day in Stockholm

On By saarimnerIn Day-to-day, iPhone, iPhonepics, Photography7 Comments

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Today is the first day that really feels like winter. On my way to work I had to walk through leafs that were all covered with frost, and I had premiere in wiping the ice from the cars windows. But it’s a really beautiful day with blue skies.

Really looking forward to the first snow.

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Last day of golf – part 2

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With a sun set high, and skies as blue as a typical Swedes eyes, we went out on our golf journey last wednesday (as I posted a few days ago). But.. suddenly the weather changed and a really thick fog made it’s entrance over the golf course. If you, like me, enjoy both golf and Photo this is just an amazing opportunity and I actually enjoy the photos more from the afternoon than from earlier on during the day.

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(c) Pedro Hansson - Autumn Golf - Olympuz XZ-1

Talented young artist – a must see

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This is a must see! The story is about Akiane Kramarik. After the jump you can follow her artistic development from age four and onward.

What an amazing talent!

Link to her page here

One of the coolest “earth from space” videos I’ve seen

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One of the coolest “earth from space” videos I’ve seen.

“Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera
by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from
August to October, 2011.”

 

New world record for most expensive Photo in a photo auction

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This morning I read an article about the world’s most expensive photo sold in a photo auction, so far. The picture is taken by Andreas Gursky.

It’s a really great image, but is it really worth $4,338,500??

For more information on this, clich here!

World's most expensive photo sold in a photo auction - http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5496716

Chuck Norris doesn’t call the wrong number

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Chuck Norris doesn’t call the wrong number.

You answer the wrong phone.

Last days of golf 2011

On By saarimnerIn Day-to-day, English, Olympus XZ-1, Photography6 Comments

This autumn is really special in terms of weather. Normally we should’ve had some snow and really cold temperatures, But 2011 is so far the warmest autumn in Swedish history, so what could be better than dig the clubs out of the storage room and let them work for a last time?

This Wednesday me and some friends took a vacation day to try out golfing in November, and what a day we picked. The day started out sunny, a little bit cold but with blue skies. As the day passed it got really foggy, but since I’m combining golfing and photoing it was an amazing and beautiful day.

I start of with the morning pictures and make a new post out of the afternoons pic later.

Hope you all have a great Saturday!

(all images are taken with Olympus XZ-1)

20111109 Bro Hof
20111109 Autumn Golf

 

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20111109 Bro Hof - Mälaren

 

 

iPhoneimage - Golf in wool cap (mössa in swedish)

 

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(c) Pedro Hansson - Autumn Golf

 

 

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(c) Pedro Hansson - Autumn Golf

 

 

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(c) Pedro Hansson - Autumn, Golf

 

 

11/11-11 11:11

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I’m joining the 111111-project and post my pic from today at 11:11

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Chuck Norris can make Orange Juice

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Chuck Norris can make Orange Juice out of bananas

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-bananas-and-orange-juice--image12364073

Cinemagraphs

On By saarimnerIn English, Inspirational, Photography, Tips & tricks5 Comments

This technique looks really nice; a still shot with some movement in it. Images like this is called cinemagraphs and can in my opinion, if it’s done properly and made with some thoughts beforehand be really cool.

What’s your opinion? Have you tried this? Is it ruining the beauty of a still shot?

Here’s two examples:

http://twentytwowords.com
http://twentytwowords.com

 

More information on this image - www.gyorffyfototips.se
More information on this image - http://www.gyorffyfototips.se