Reading a book on modern photography I came across a work that inspired me to experiment a little. The image was a montage of several black and white images of the same object from slightly different angles, each image as a translucent layer in the final image. So I thought why not do this with a colour image, but using the colour channels rather than the image itself to create a new image. And this is the result.
This is an example of the fascinating patterns you can find in small streams or shallow flows of water. It just takes a little work on contrast and levels to make it sparkle.
This is from Sognfjellet along route 55. The weather was changing, but the sun broke through the cloud cover and we had a few minutes to get a couple of shots before the peaks in the distance disappeared into the clouds again.
Visiting a "tourist" location and finding a shot that you haven't seen in a thousand variations already is a challenge. I tried some closeups of various details around the building, a couple of wide angle shots, but looking at the images now I think this is the one that stood out.
Without the ripples on the surface of the water focusing the sunlight into the lines running across the frame this image would have been less interesting. It happened by chance as I stepped into the water at the edge of the puddle looking through the viewfinder of my camera. Without that I probably would not have bothered to take the shot at all.
The patterns which had formed on this wall of snow, eroded by the wind and thawed by the warm air, reminds me of the installation "The Other Wall" by the danish-icelandic artist Ólafur Éliasson in the foyer of the Oslo Opera House. I have posted a few images of the installation earlier. They should be tagged "Oslo Opera House"