If you, like me, LOVE the thrill of speed (not the chemical one), you’ll love this video, shot with a GoPro Hero 2-cam.
Happy weekend!
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Last days of snow in Stockholm
This winter went by so fast. There wasn’t much snow to talk about and on the news they are talking about 10 degrees celsius today, Saturday and Sunday, so I guess we will not see so much snow in Stockholm anymore.
During a day when I took a really long walk (the same day that I shot the pic of the seaweed posted recently) I also passed by this snowy roof against the sun. I really liked the lines of the roof and the crispy cristals of snow.
Life doesn’t have to expensive to be absolutely beautiful.
Hope you’ll have a nice weekend
Tara Miller, a blind photographer
Tara Miller from Winnipeg entered the Photo Contest “Canadian National Institute for the Blind”. The contest was aimed at the public, both blind and non-blind. Tara was the only one with under 10% sight, 6%. Despite that, she went ahead and won the contest.
This is the pic she used to win the contest. Click the image to read more about Tara and her husband Jeff. Don’t miss out the galleries either.
The inspiration for The Terminal and Stuck in transit
Earlier today I browsed Wikipedia and came across this amazing story that’s been the inspiration for two movies.
What a strange and unbelievable destiny… Mehran Karimi Nasseri fled from the Shan in Iran and was awarded refugee status in Belgium but wanted to settle down in UK. Unfortunately, while he was on his way to a detour in France he lost all his papers (they got stolen) and he got stuck at Charles De Gaulle-airport in France.
This was in August 1988. Who would’ve thought at that stage that he would be stuck there until July 2006? Two movies has picked up inspiration from this story; “Stuck in transit” and “The terminal”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
A weekend in the snow
Last week I had a business meeting in Sälen, which is a famous ski resort here in Sweden. Since I have a friend that lives at the same place, I decided to stay over the weekend and what a weekend it turned out to be, especially Sunday with blue skies, just -3 degrees.
This is a pic from a ride with the snowmobile. Will get back with more pics during the week. What I liked with this view is the trees that almost gives a surreal experience and even though I’ve been in the Swedish mountains I’ve never seen them as frozen as this.
Hope you all have a great start of the week.
HDR – Ugly or Beautiful?
Recently I’ve read quite a few articles about HDR.
Is HDR a “real technique”? Is it a “true” technique? Should I use HDR on all images or just some type of images? I guess this debate is interesting because the debate is much about new technology. Those in favor of HDR usually says that HDR is the closest thing to reality, and I guess those against arguing in the absolute opposite direction.
Anyway, here’s one of the interesting articles on the subject.
Hope you all have a great Wednesday evening
Link to the article -> http://www.pixiq.com/article/hdr-garish-or-realistic
Word of the day
Formula 1 – season 2012 – The Cars
This post will be updated as soon as there is more information/new pictures
As some of the readers of this blog already know; I’m a big fan of Formula 1. I’ve followed it almost my whole life and visited races (only in Europe). The speed, the sound (!!!), even though they lowered the effects during the last years, the technique and finally the design! If you like photos and beautiful designs, you gotta love F1.
During the last weeks the teams have presented the new cars for the 2012 season. To be honest, these cars are not the most beautiful I’ve seen. There has been some new rules, among those a rule to lower the nose, which has dramatically changed the design of the noses.
I’ve put together a list of the cars for the new season. Below every picture you’ll have a link to more pictures for each car.
Enjoy, and let’s hope that february goes by quick. Can’t wait for the first races to kick off!
If you find any errors or get information of any of the cars to be announced, please let me know!
F1 Car Line up 2012
Red Bull Racing – RB8
Ferrari
McLaren
Force India
Mercedes F1 W03
Caterham
Link to Caterham
Link to the images site
Lotus – E20 – 2012
Lotus F1-team
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk
Toro Rosso – str 7
Williams
Sauber – C31
Not announced – To be updated
Marussia – Link to Marussia F1 site
HRT F1 Team –
NASA:s new HD-images of the earth
I’ve always been a big fan of images from, and images of space. These are some images of the first kind, images from space. Love the detail and quality, ans as always it makes me think of how small we all are.
On the Flickr-site you will also get an insight on how these images were done.
To get the full image size, click on “original”
Have a great end of the weekend.
Link to the pictures:
Earth, with focus on USA
Earth with focus on Africa
3 hour walk
This morning I took a really long walk. At the moment it’s pretty cold in Sweden (-20 degrees in the morning and around -12 degrees Celsius in the day), but it’s also so beautiful. I’ve always loved winter and these clear blue days together with the snowy scenery is so great and it’s almost like you don’t wanna go inside again, even though it’s pretty cold.
So I got up early, stopped by at 7-11 and bought myself a big Latte and off I went. What a great way to start a weekend.
Two photos from today that started cloudy but around noon, it was clear blue skies.
Billboard Fun
I wish more companies /ad agencies would have the same kind of creativity when they’re creating Billboards. Almost every ad on this page is truly amazing!
Hope you have a great weekend! (Click on the image to jump to the site)
Seaweed – from my Sunday walk
This is a photo from my walk last Sunday in Grimsta Naturreservat, just outside of Stockholm.
Hope you’ll have a good day at work or wherever you are.
Music for Tuesday evening – Marit Larsen, Coming Home
I’ve never heard this song before. A little on the safe side but I just can’t stop playing it.
Hope you all have a great Tuesday evening!
Todays sunset in Stockholm
On my way from work today I had to stop two times. Just had to preserve todays sunset that was awesome. Unfortunately I didn’t have my DSLR, but I’m really starting to like my “little friend”, the Olympus. Small enough to keep in the pocket everywhere I go and I think the quality is satisfying compared to the size.
Hope you have a great evening!
Cat vs Alligator
This is one tough kitten! Takes nerves to fight an Alligator over food, but it doesn’t keep this one from trying!
Now that’s attitude!
Short introduction to Swedish by Ola Lustig
Since I’m living in a country where the word for Married and Poision is exactly the same (and pronounced the same) and, as you will learn in the video the number six is the same as sex, I thought it would be of great value to share a quick introduction to “how to speak Swedish”.
A little international warning: In Sweden everyone’s allowed to speak words like fxxk, and other foul words in TV and press, so if you’re offended by those words this is a little warning that there are no “beeeps” in Swedish film clips in general. If you, on the other hand likes a little bit of irony and language comparisons you might find this extremely short introduction interesting 🙂
Last day of an intense week
So, this is Sunday evening. The end of a week, that in many ways feels like a month! The week started of hectically with all the work that needed to be done, before getting up from bed at 3:30 Tuesday morning to jump on a plane to London for the ICE fair, so Tuesday night was a night out, and do I need to tell that my eyes were both pointing at my nose?!
Wednesday went by pretty quick. Had some nice discussions during the day and in the evening I had a great dinner together with some new acquaintances and a colleague of mine. Back at the hotel I found out that an old school friend from Piteå also was in London. 15 minutes later we had a beer and shared some laughs at a restaurant and talked to a French woman in her 60:s about life in general, and the history of Europe. A friendly conversation that made some sudden U-turns at the end when she started to repeat “I wanna kill, I wanna kill”…. 🙂 so, we jumped in a taxi and finished the night down at Picadilly.
Thursday afternoon I went back to Stockholm and had a full night of sleep. Friday morning I had some really interesting business meetings before I went on a conference with me and my colleagues company, DevCode. We stayed at a conference center called Skepparholmen which I really recommend! Great service, great view and excellent food! In the evening we spent two hours in the outside pool, surrounded by snow and all the boats that enters / leaves Stockholm. Magic! A good conference that I think can be important for the future.
Suddenly, it was Sunday. A week that went by as fast as it can and at the same time feels like it was an eternity.
To get back on track I spent the whole Sunday walking in the spring like weather in the woods in Stockholm. Don’t think that are any better ways to slow down and fill up the reserves again.
I hope you all had a great week too, and best wishes for the new week.
B/W photos colored to reflect history
This is a powerful article I’ve found yesterday, about old B/W-photos that now has been colored and how they actually describes the reality in a new way. Two of the photos are really graphic (warning), and when colored even more horrifying than before.
For me this was an eye-opener. It’s easy to think that the history looks so much different than the present, but I guess it’s easy to imagine that things were more different than they were.
Sunrise in Norrbotten – Sweden
This is a pic I took a few months ago (also in Piteå). The pic has just been lying around on my computer but I recently got some new inspiration in composition from a close friend of mine and the composition of this pic is actually a suggestion from my inspirer; and I think the result came out so much better than the original. It’s strange. Sometimes you just need that push to get out of the blocks.
In terms of other adjustments I’ve added some Noise reduction. Part from that the image is all natural.
Polar bears and dogs – Svalbard
I didn’t thought that polar bears (as I’ve learned to be one of the toughest animals out there) could be this gentle and playful.
Really great short video!
Electric moon
During my winter holiday I spent some time in Piteå. The 27:th of December was a remarkable day in terms of a beautiful sky and a clear moon, so I spent a whole day walking around in my old home town. On my way back (behind Nolia for those that are familiar with Piteå) I came across some electric wires, and just behind the wires, The Moon – so I thought I’d call the pic Electric Moon…
Hope you all get a good start of your week.
A clever page turner
Happy New year!
So, Christmas and New Years Eve is over and things are getting back to normal. Have tried to keep my hands off the blog world for a few weeks and find new inspiration, and boy, inspiration I’ve found!
Let’s kick this year off with a really clever page turner 🙂
Best wishes for a happy 2012!
Julbord in Stockholm
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
Parents give their kids terrible presents and tape it
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!
iPhone 4S – camera test
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.
Received the Versatile Blogger Award
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!).
so.. thank you Xandimusic for giving me this “The Versatile Blogger Award” !
Here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award:
- Nominate 10-15 fellow bloggers
- Inform the bloggers of their nomination
- Share 7 random things about yourself
- Thank the blogger who nominated you
- 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!
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!
Unfortunately Marina Chetner already received this blog, but it’s still a great blog. Don’t miss it…
Renslittleworld is a truly great blog with travel pictures. The pictures are subtle but yet full of life. Don’t miss it!
Saarimner.com 
