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!
You answer the wrong phone.
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)
I’m joining the 111111-project and post my pic from today at 11:11
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:
In Stockholm we have a pedestrian street called Drottninggatan where the city council have put down famous quotes in shiny steel. This is a picture from earlier today on my way to work when the streets were still pretty empty.
Music for Tuesday – What a combo!
I saw an old pic from the moon today. At first it’s “just” Amazing because, well there’s the surface of the moon.. remarkable(!) …. but then, HEY… there’s the earth rising over the hill (!!), with all of us being just there; on that little “ball” in space.
I’ll keep my spirits high and hope that I’ll live to be able to see an “earthrise” someday.
Anyway, what an amazing shot this is!
This video is from Conan last week where Louis C.K were talking about social media and Twitter. Some interesting points here! 🙂
Yesterday Paulo Coelho wrote something at his Facebook-page that I truly believe in, and he wrote it in such simplicity (maybe that’s why he is a writer and I’m not? 🙂 ) that I just felt I had to comment on it.
“I stopped to self-improve myself many years ago. The idea that “the great opportunities lie just over the horizon, in the next valley, with the next job or the next big thing” is not true. It lies here and now – and you are ready to grab it, regardless your imperfections.”
– Paulo Coelho
For me this is the sweet spot, a home run and a grand slam of what I believe in when it comes to happiness and life.
I think that we often try to find happiness in so many things and ways, that “are not”, instead of just accepting ourselves as we are, and with our own capabilities. Today there is a huge Happiness-industry that make a living on telling us how to live our lives, how we should be, what we shall believe in and so on, instead of just letting ourselves believe in and being in our own present.
… guess happiness never will be a quick solution, it’s an ongoing fight to be here right now and appreciate what we got, instead of what don’t. It’s never easy but I truly believe in not thinking to much, and be thankful for what we got, and the cures for our happiness that are on sale in the nearest store, very rarely brings any happiness at all; in the marathon we call life.
I found this clip at xworldmusics blog. I’ve seen beatboxers before, but this guy is just amazing!
Dub FX ‘Love Someone’ from Ben Dowden on Vimeo.
Since this weeks posts mainly is from the Gläntan beach in Piteå I thought that these songs might fit well into the other material.
First one is a great song from Deportees, Islands and Shores! It’s one of those rare songs that first is ok – good, and for every play it just get’s better.
The second one is from an upcoming artist from Piteå, Ludwig Hart.
Hope you enjoy!
This might seem as a weird shot but what I liked about it was the melting and matching colors between the sunrise and the rusty nail. Maybe it’s just me that has a weird taste, taking photos of things like this? or maybe not. 🙂
This is a picture från Piteå – Hällskär.
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Soft and beautiful
As some of you might know I’m totally addicted to new apps in my iPhone, and quite frankly I’m surprised how often I use many of these apps. The last time I counted I had 540 apps installed, and it’s increasing almost every day. A little embarrassing, isn’t it?
It’s very rare that such an app-addicted person as me finds a list with totally new apps, this great top-100 list is doing just that! Go ahead and check it out! Best iPhone-list I’ve seen so far.
As the readers of this blog already know, I’ve spent the last weekend in my home town, Piteå. A weekend that promised some, but delivered a lot. Met some old friends, spent time with my family, had a Palt-dinner (local course) and also had an amazing photo session on saturday.
Since we had cloudy weather on friday (and to be honest I also felt terrible due to my cold) I didn’t expect much for saturday, but what a day it turned out to be.
This is my first posting from that day.
Hope you enjoy!
(Please watch in full screen mode)
Currently i’m in Pitea, in the northern part of Sweden and today was all about photo. Started off early and headed out to Glantan (a beach close to, in Sweden famous Pitea havsbad).
And what a morning! The colors and the light were all there. During the morning I made a time-lapse of the sun rising with my D7000 and took stills with the Olympus, D5000 and my iPhone. I also tried out my new Sigma 70-300/macro.
Is this the new brand that Sony will use now when they’ve finally bought the rest of the Sony Ericsson?
Happy weekend!
This must be one of the better views for a space shuttle launch… Pretty lucky to pass by at just the right time.
Here’s a little pic I took a few hours ago just to show a little trick I sometimes use when I want to create a more dramatic atmosphere in my pics.
Hope this can help you get more drama in some of your future pics (unless you already used this little trick)
This pic is unedited except for sizing and adding (c)-information. Shot taken in A-mode.
Today Sammi Naughton posted a great link on Facebook, and this is quite fascinating!
“Ultra fascinating discovery. Wow, my mind is racing… Forget all previous theories (love that about science!). Stars have now been shown to be able to create complex organic materials — and they are literally everywhere.
For theologians, apparently if you let there be light, that light has a few ideas of its own — that may be the catalyst of a profound series of events. 😉 Both science and religion can expect to be pondering for a while with this one.
We are made of stardust? Is the universe itself a living thing? Wow, this finding could mean that there is an almost infinite range of possible life, throughout the universe…”
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On monday there will be 7.000.000.000 people on the planet earth (and I guess a few out in space) according to United Nations Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Some facts (quote from worldometers.com):
World Population:
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