Photography
This is a site I have photographed from different angles several times over the past year. It is the building of the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. I like the building and the area surrounding it, and i have often found an image or two when I have been there with my camera. This time it was the contrast between the rocks in the pool and the mirror image of the building that caught my attention.
Well. perhaps not in full autumn colors, so I looked for other angles than the typical "colorful trees" shot. The leaves had faded enough to become translucent though, and i stumbled upon this.
A couple of days ago a friend of mine and I visited a park downtown to do some photography. The light was kind of flat and the autumn colors where not quite as bright as we had hoped. I guess we need a night or two with frost first. So I decided to try to make an image of this artificial waterfall instead. It is a merge of two 30 second exposures, one with the plant in the foreground in focus, and one with the background in focus. A bit tricky to merge the images as there was a slight breeze moving the straws around during the exposures.
Last Friday I was in Copenhagen for a one-day workshop with the danish architect and photographer Adam Mørk. The workshop was organized by ALPA and Photografica, and we got to try a range of ALPA cameras. The image here is taken with a 12STC hooked up to the FPS module, a Rodenstock lens (I forgot to make a note of which one, but I guess it was a 40mm focal length) and a PhaseOne IQ180 back. The low quality JPEG here does not convey the image quality, but trust me, the level of detail captured by this package is stunning.
I find this building quite fascinating. Someone has returned from his travels throughout Europe and has been inspired by grand buildings, perhaps in Paris or London, and have tried to mimic the grandeur of those buildings. This may look like masonry and plaster, but it is all wood.
A few weeks back I posted an image from this area. This image is from the following day, and as you can see the weather was quite different. The wind had died down and the tide was out exposing the seaweeds and creating this reflection.
Here is another shot from Nigardsbreen I tok this summer. I visited the area almost 15 years ago, and what struck me this time is that the glacier has retreated quite a lot from last time I was there. The area it has retreated from so far is relatively flat, but once we get to the steep part of the valley things will happen very quickly. Perhaps five to ten years from now you will have to climb the up the valley to get to the foot of the glacier.
Lichens are "... are composite organisms consisting of a fungus and photosynthetic partner growing together in a symbiotic relationship" according to Wikipedia. And I think, mind you I am no expert, this is what is know as "map lichen". You will find them on rocks in alpine regions. They grow very slowly, and form beautiful, map like patterns.