A walk alongside the Akerselva

One thing I really love about the city I live in, Oslo, is that you can be in the city and feel like you’re not in the city, but someplace else. Yesterday, me and my friend Ellen, took a walk along the river running through the city. It’s a 8.2 km long river, sort of … Continue reading »

To photograph is…

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Minds Eye I found this quote and I wanted to share it. It is beautiful said and very accurate – just … Continue reading »

Food project (ABC)

In my last post, I talked about maybe begin on a new food project (photography wise). After some thinking, I decided to go for it. I need a project to let out my creativity and  photographing food is both fun and challenging. This food project is going to be the same as I’ve done before; … Continue reading »

Are you hungry?

At the beginning of this year, I wanted to take more photo photographps. I wanted to improve my skills. I haven’t been photographing food as much I want to, but I do have taken some shots now and then. Maybe I should do another food ABC project? Not a bad idea, actually. I’ll think about … Continue reading »

The Botanical Garden, part II

On my second day at the Botanical Garden, I brought with me the 18-125 mm lens. If you’re going to photograph tall trees, you need something different than the 50 mm lens. My plan was to use both the 18-125 mm and the 50 mm, but I ended up just using the zoom lens. This … Continue reading »

Eastergram

Eastergram?! What is that you might think. That’s a combination of two things going on the last week, Easter and Instagram. To me Easter contains days off work, time with my family, great food, chocolate, crime shows on TV and playing various games. This Easter also contained downloading the app Instagram, photographing with my phone … Continue reading »

Scouting for bikes

I went downtown after I left work today. Along with me, I had my new camera. I was eager to test it out some more. The sun was shining and it was very hot outside to be late March. I heard on the news this evening that it has been the warmest day in March … Continue reading »

Hello new camera!

A week ago I got my tax papers back. It was a nervouse moment when I checked my taxes online, would I get money back or not? I had a feeling I would get some back, but had no idea how much. To my big surprise I got a pretty nice chunk of money back. … Continue reading »