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