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Sad news about Steve Jobs

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For the last years I’ve been a true fan of Apple (as I might some of you already figured out…). I often even joking about my home as a live “Apple store”.

I’m really sad to receive the sad news about this inspiring man leaving us. A man with true visions and a clear sense of where we are going.

If you haven’t read the blog post, or seen the video in “one of the most inspirational speeches ever”, today is a good day to watch it.

Rest in peace, Steve Jobs!

https://saarimner.com/2011/10/01/one-of-the-most-inspirational-speeches-ever/

Music for wednesday evening

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Swedish group Blacknuss feat. Titiyo & Jennifer Brown

 

10 Landscape Photography Tips

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I often go back to this article that I think, in it’s simplicity, is really good! Short, and precise tips for better pictures.


Photo from Smashandpeas website

Link to article

Hans Rosling – World statistics presented with animations

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If you still haven’t seen Hans Roslings speeches about the world and where we are heading, you might think that this is interesting. It’s a bit long but watchable in bits.

Next iPhone, how good is the camera?

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As some of the readers of this blog have found out I’m using my iPhone quite heavily. While yesterdays news about the new iPhone 4S was a big disappointment, it will be interesting to see how the next iPhone’s camera will come out. And if you would like to see some examples already, you don’t have to wait.

I think it looks really promising!

Photo from The Next Web

Link to the article

Couldn’t resist

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I think we all have seen thousands of clips like this and I almost promised myself to not post things like this on my blog, hmmm but even I had to surrender to these guys! 🙂

Hope you have a great day!

Autumn signs – iPhone pic

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Since today was the big launch day for what many of us thought to be iPhone 5, and we instead got the iPhone 4S where the main feature seems to be, besides better battery and faster processor, a better Camera with 8MP, I thought it might be a good idea to put up a pic with the current cam.

What do you think of the new iPhone? Disappointment or exactly what you were waiting for?

Summer in Piteå

  Summer in Piteå

 

Music for tuesday evening

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Swedish artist Stephen Simmonds. For Spotify users you’ll find more of him here.

Get ready for the next natural disaster inside a big yellow ball?!

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Well this is an invention that’s a little different. A big yellow ball to hide in when things get rough… Would you like to hide in one of those? It looks funny but maybe the idea isn’t so bad? What do you think?

Link to Gizmodo

 

Impressive infrared photography

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Screenshot from inspirationfeedI haven’t tried this myself but I hardly can’t wait to do it! The pictures are really stunning.

After clicking the link, you’ll fly off to inspirationfeed.com (the creator of the article), where you’ll find a really good article on how to achieve Infrared Photos. What really stunned me was the surreality at the same time as things also look natural. Can’t explain it any better, sorry 🙂

Hope you like this introduction to Infrared photography. There are som linkes in the article that also are really good. Have you tried something like this? Would really appreciate to hear/see what you learned.

Link

Stockholm – Riddarholmen

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Last Sunday I promised one of the readers of this blog that I would post another pic over Stockholm from the Södermälar-side.

Have a great tuesday!

Riddarholmen Click for larger image

Music for monday evening

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The voice of this man speaks for itself.

 

Rough day at work?

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Monday morning.The weekend has come to an end and you think it’s hard to get up for work. The weekend have been nice and you just can’t find the strength to get things moving.

Maybe you’re working in a warm cozy office where all material things are there and last thing you’ll think about is your safety. The main problem of the day is whether or not the coffee machine or the Xerox is working or not… and still you think it’s hard to bring the smile up.

If that is the case I think that you just need some perspective. One reader of my blog has done this amazing reportage of workers that would be a great inspiration…

Hope you enjoy it!

http://xandreverkes.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/builders-in-the-sky/-> Link to the article

My home

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As I haven’t really introduced myself on this blog I thought that it might be time to show a little bit. So I start off in a safe way… 😉

This is a picture from outside my home in Sundbyberg, 7 km north of Stockholm City. The picture was taken in spring 2011 during an evening when the light was really special. The sky was totally blue with some small clouds hanging like drapes from the sky.

Sundbyberg, Bällsta River

What I really enjoy with Sundbyberg is the distance to the city center in time, just 7 minutes by commuter train and still it’s so small and quite small-townish in a way. In many ways it sometimes feels even smaller than Piteå…

The periodic table of Photography

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The periodic table of Photography by PhotoWeeklyOnline. Actually a quite good  table in it’s simplicity.

Hope you have a great Monday!

Periodic Table of Photography

Links for downloading:

If you like it you’ll find links to downloadable versions here:

Colour PDF
B&W PDF
Colour JPG
B&W JPG

What does it feel like to fly around planet earth?

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Time lapse from the front of the International Space Station..

One of the coolest pictures I’ve ever seen

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I’ll let the picture speak for itself

Screenshot

Link

Amazing footage of Snowboarding!

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If you, like me are into downhill skiing and photo, you’ll love this 3-minute video! Absolutely amazing footage aswell as performance on the boards! Hope you enjoy it! (found through feber).

Enjoy!

View over Stockholm – Kungsholmen

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This is one of my favourite views of Stockholm. Standing at Södermalmsstrand watching towards the city hall and Norrmälarstrand. This picture is from the summer.

View of Stockholm

(click for larger image) Nikon D7000 – 18/105

Autumn – 3rd sign

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Signs of autumn

D7000, 35 mm – cross processed (1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_processing

One of the most inspirational speeches ever

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“Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.”

App review – Iris Photo Suite

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Iris Photo Suite (15 SEK = $2)

Iris has during the last two days became one of my favourite iPhone-photo-apps. Why? Well, so far I haven’t found an app that have so much functionality in a Phone and still it’s so easy to use, and at the same time comes packaged with so much great functionality.

In the app you’ll find many features that you normally just find in quite advanced photo editors on your laptop/PC/Mac. But this isn’t just the case, you’ll also find filters that’s quite like Hipstamatic, Instamatic and so on.

Iris

  • “easy-to-use” – 4
    Since there are so much functionality I’m not sure how all the functionality will benefit everyone. But if you’re used to image processing software in general you’ll love it!
  • Image Quality – 6 (as an iPhone-app)
    I haven’t seen so many functions in an iPhone app before and when you have sharpening tools as well as reduce noise tools you can come pretty far just using your phone.
  • Creativity – 5
    There are more filters and tweaks in this software than I have seen before. But the most screwed ones are off course not here.
  • Level of usage – 5
    When it comes to workflow and picture processing management I really love that you can go directly to so many functions. For the photo interested audience it’s definitively a 6.
  • Overall score – 6
    Best image processing software I’ve seen so far.

At this moment this is one of my absolute favourite iPhone-apps.

App reviews – In general

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I’m really interested in Apps for the phone since the phone is the nr 1 camera in terms of mobility. However there are so many apps out there at this moment. In this blog you’ll find app-reviews from time to time.

To make these reviews a little more generic I will start a small, on volley invented, point system and will in future judge (1-6) iPhone apps in terms of:

  • “easy-to-use” – How easy is the app to actually use in terms of GUI, user friendliness and workflow?
  • Image Quality – Is the app focused on good pictures in terms of noise level, pixel-level and so on
  • Creativity – How creative is the app in terms of artistic freedom (this doesn’t necessary mean that the app is good but will let the user to a number of settings for each picture)
  • Level of usage (is it an app that’s REALLY good but you won’t use it or is ut just an average app but there’s something about it that still will make you use it?)
  • Overall score in terms of an app that I truly will use (since I guess we all already have to many downloaded)

The point system may change but I’ll start off with the settings above. If you have any feedback on this, please let me know.

The Ark – It takes a fool to remain sane

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Music for saturday evening

 

Music for friday evening

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If you’re into vintage kind of photography and soul you may like this video.

Thinking of you with Blacknuss, Nai Jee Ria

Best wishes for the weekend!

Autumn signs

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Today we have a beautiful day here in Stockholm – Sweden, 20 degrees celsius and amazing blue skies. Even though the shiny weather, the signs of autumn are all there, the greatest season for nature photography.

Best wishes for the weekend!

Signs of autumnNikon D7000, 35 mm

Great post of “10 small Things that make a big difference… photo”

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No matter how long you’ve been taking photos or for that matter how MANY photos you’ve been taking. At some point you need to go back, think of the basics to get a chance to restore yourself. When you’re there, this article might work as a good source of inspiration. Hope you enjoy!

http://www.pointofutterance.com/2011/09/28/10-small-things-that-make-a-big-difference-in-your-photos/

GuitarImage from Hard Rock Café in Stockholm. Nikon D7000, 35 mm.

 

Home, gocart and Kent

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So, finally at home after a great evening out with my colleagues driving gocarts. Guess the best part just is to hang out, but since we’re all hard stubborn winning focused animals it’s always a great fight, and enjoyable talks to hold the others down. And the fight wasn’t less intense today. Great racing!

But now I’m off to bed, leave this day with the Swedish group Kent and “The king is dead”. Great song in my opinion.

5 hearts – winter time

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Same flower as below, but in winter time. Almost like a heavy metal flower…

5 hearts, in winter-timeShot taken with a Nikon D5000 35 mm-lens.