Author: saarimner

Julbord in Stockholm

On By saarimnerIn D7000, English, Photography, Swedish12 Comments

In Sweden we have a tradition called Julbord (Christmas table). Almost every company  as well as all the familys meet up to have “a Julbord”. This is a tradition that goes on from first of Advent until Christmas day, and is a “must have” on Christmas eve. A typical julbord consists of Herring, ham, meatballs, salmon and many many more dishes. It’s almost like Spanish tapas but served in the middle of the room where all pic up their food.

Yesterday I had a Julbord at an old ship called Mälardrottningen. The weather wasn’t typical Swedish since we still have no ice (!!) and just a little snow, but we have plenty of clouds and rain 🙂

This is a pic that’s taken from the ship towards the southern parts of Stockholm. The reason for the pic is the lights that I suspect comes from Zinkensdamm.

Hope you had a nice weekend

Söder
© Pedro Hansson - Stockholm Söder - Nikon D7000

Parents give their kids terrible presents and tape it

On By saarimnerIn English, Just for fun, Other stuff8 Comments

Jimmy Kimmel has made some hard tricks against the kids during the last months. First he asked the parents to eat their kids Halloween candy and tape the crying kids when they told them.

This is the follow up, “give your kids a terrible present and tape it“.

Hope you enjoy! Happy fourth advent!

Amazing talent – Man draws two portraits simultaneously

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iPhone 4S – camera test

On By saarimnerIn iPhonepics, Photography8 Comments

Last month I upgraded my iPhone 4 to the new 4S. I couldn’t say that there is a big difference between the two.

The main reason for upgrading was the improved camera so during the last weeks I’ve taken some pictures and to be honest, the difference isn’t as big as I thought, but of course it’s better.

But maybe it isn’t about the cam when it all comes down… a good photo is always a good photo, with almost any cam 🙂

Almost all pics are taken with the app Pro HDR in Stockholm and are not edited in a computer afterwards.

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Received the Versatile Blogger Award

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This week has been really hectic so the work with my blog hasn’t been up to par to say the least, but it filled me with great joy to receive this award from Xandi (a truly great blogger that I’ll never miss a post from – big fan Xandi!).

versatilebloggeraward

so.. thank you Xandimusic for giving me this “The Versatile Blogger Award” !

Here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award:

  1. Nominate 10-15 fellow bloggers
  2. Inform the bloggers of their nomination
  3. Share 7 random things about yourself
  4. Thank the blogger who nominated you
  5. Add the Versatile Blogger Award Pic on your blog post.

Things about me:

  • Born above the arctic circle
  • Love photography, music and debates on TV
  • Love people with civil courage combined with big hearts
  • There isn’t a single day when I’m not thankful for living in the world’s best city Stockholm (a little bit subjective on that point..)
  • I started blogging to meet and interact with people all over the world

Here’s my nominations:

Adrianharveyphotography is a great source for the photo-interested. What I really enjoy with this blog is the workflow descriptions for each pic. Great blog when I lack inspiration.

http://adrianharveyphotography.com/

Great stories and higg quality blogging with 1001scribbles

http://1001scribbles.wordpress.com/

La Plume Noire was one of the first blog’s I started to follow. Great pics and great stories!

http://laplumenoire.co.uk

Lesley Carter – this blog could be described as the blog for the adventurer.

http://lesleycarter.wordpress.com

Katie is definitely in the top 5 photographers I follow on the internet and I think we share the same type of images. Always a pleasure when new material is out there. I’ll never a miss post from this blog.

http://katiescamerablog.wordpress.com

I recently discovered this blog that I truly appreciate. I think we share the same thoughts about life as well as our interest in Photography.

http://nandinidhiman.wordpress.com

Don’t be fooled by the name of this blog. It’s nothing about stupidity. Great blog with great pics!

http://oceanofstupidity.wordpress.com/

Ristinw’s blog is a great one to follow. This blog is all about life and follow every day activities in her life. Check it out!

http://ristinw.wordpress.com

Unfortunately Marina Chetner already received this blog, but it’s still a great blog. Don’t miss it…

http://marinachetner.com/

Renslittleworld is a truly great blog with travel pictures. The pictures are subtle but yet full of life. Don’t miss it!

http://renslittleworld.wordpress.com/

Dive like a dolphin with this “flyboard”

On By saarimnerIn English, Just for fun, Other stuff4 Comments

Ever wished that you could feel like a dolphin? Just cruising around in those waves, jumping up and down. Well this must be the closest thing so far.

It looks like something taken out of last Spiderman movie, this crazy and amazing gadget Flyboard Zapata. Don’t miss this!

Man in the mirror

On By saarimnerIn D7000, English, Photography4 Comments

This morning I looked through some pictures from this years summer. A summer that was truly amazing. One pic that I’ve forgot that I took during the summer was this self portrait in the front window of a boat on our way out in Stockholm’s Archipelago.

I had never really looked at this picture so close before but it struck me that it’s  almost like two pictures in one. It’s almost hard to see where the reflection starts and finish, and at the same time there are so sharp edges between those two. Do I sound weird? Maybe a little?!

Also like the look on the women’s faces inside the boat, staring at me with a look on their faces “What the xxxx is he doing?!”.

Hope that you can see a little of those things too. 🙂

Since there are quite a lot of details, the image looks best in full size.

I hope that you’ll have a great 3:rd Advent!

Man in the mirror
© Pedro Hansson - Man in the mirror - Stockholm Archipelago 2011 - Nikon D7000

200 best videos from 2011 in 3 minutes

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Luc Bergeron has put together the best 200 videoclips from Youtube in this 3 minute long amazing video.

if you wan’t to find the original clips from the video you’ll find them here:

List of 200 videos in order here: http://on.fb.me/vxKDJA
Liste des 200 vidéos en ordre ici: http://on.fb.me/vxKDJA

 

Short feelgood movie, just 2:25 long

On By saarimnerIn English, Just for fun, Other stuff2 Comments

I’ve got this movie sent to me from one of my friends on Facebook. I call it a movie even though it’s really really short, 2:25 to be exact.

During the first four days after launch it had 700.000 viewers, and I can understand why, it’s a really great feel good movie.

 

School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.

The 3 symptoms of killing our dreams

On By saarimnerIn D7000, English, Inspirational, Photography10 Comments

This is the second time I’ll make a post with a reference to Paulo Coelho. The writer that never got The Nobel Prize, but definitely should have got it by now.

The article is from Paulo Coelho’s blog and it’s about how we sometimes just let our dreams vanish instead of keep chasing them.

I hope you find it interesting…

Link to the article

Seaweed in Piteå
(c) Pedro Hansson - Seaweed in Piteå - Nikon D7000

Wishing for snow

On By saarimnerIn English, Olympus XZ-1, Photography8 Comments

Sweden is experiencing the warmest November, and start of December in 200 years. It has almost been like spring. But today we got our first snow flakes and there is more to come according to the weather people.

A Christmas with Christmas lights towards rain drops isn’t exactly a Christmas so I keep my fingers crossed for a White Christmas.

These pics were taken during a walk yesterday evening, bringing my small Olympus with me.

Hope you had a great start of the week

Karlbergs Castle in Central Stockholm
(c) Pedro Hansson - Karlbergs Castle in Central Stockholm - Olympus XZ-1
Karlbergs Castle in Central Stockholm
(c) Pedro Hansson - Karlbergs Castle in Central Stockholm - Olympus XZ-1

Chuck Norris doesn’t need Twitter…

On By saarimnerIn Just for fun, Other stuff4 Comments

Chuck Norris doesn’t need Twitter;
he’s already following you!

for more Chuck Norris,
click “just for fun” in the
left panel

 

Awesome Macro

On By saarimnerIn English, Photography15 Comments

This must one of the coolest Macro:s I’ve seen!

Shot taken by shikhei goh

You can almost feel the insect fighting against the rain. Truly awesome picture!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/u/H6yMi6fUB_1JR964xxG8RxsYArlNNn1lR5PWutchIbrc8X7w3TMDYyd-NIeJatc2Gr0eQv7-09KQ2g/

From National Geographics homepage: (link)

“This photo was taken when I was taking photos of other insects as I normally did during macro photo hunting. i wasnt actually aware of this dragonfly since i was occupied with other objects. When I was about to take picture of it, it suddenly rained but lighting was just superb. I decided to take the shot regardless of the rain which caused my Eos 7D and 100/2.8 L Macro to get wet. The result had caused me to be overjoyed and hope it pleases the viewers.”

I really suggest that you follow this link to check out the rest of the images in this photo contest, and vote for your favorite!

A true Christmas story

On By saarimnerIn English, Inspirational, iPhonepics, Photography8 Comments

We’re approaching Christmas; a time when most of us will ask ourselves the question “was I a good person this year?”. There will also be a lot of “good” stories, and to be frank I love many of those stories, they aim at keeping us as good as we possibly can.

So, if you heard all the stories of Christmas before, you might know what will happen. With this story you won’t. It’s a true story with all parts of Christmas in it.

Hope you enjoy!

Link to the story

Stockholm 2011 - 12 -02 - Hötorget - iPhonepic
(c) Pedro Hansson - Stockholm 2011 - 12 -02 - Hötorget - iPhonepic

A history of the Sky

On By saarimnerIn English, Photography2 Comments

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

Back to http://www.saarimner.com

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

On By saarimnerIn English, Nikon D5000, Photography5 Comments

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

On By saarimnerIn English, Just for fun, Other stuff, Quotes6 Comments

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
Fulaste skivomslagen 3
Ugliest Album Covers, ever, (Click to enlarge)
Fulaste skivomslagen 4
This must be the winner!!, (Click to enlarge)