Mar 05, 2010
Recently I posted the B&W version of a color image which I posted earlier . And this time it’s the other way round . Originally I intended them to be in colour but then changed them to B&W, but still I like the colour version also. I just can’t decide.
And as I have used this image for my recently launched online card over at Flavors.me , I thought I can post it here also.
The light was wonderful the whole night through. It was...
Recently I posted the B&W version of a color image which I posted earlier . And this time it’s the other way round . Originally I intended them to be in colour but then changed them to B&W, but still I like the colour version also. I just can’t decide.
And as I have used this image for my recently launched online card over at Flavors.me , I thought I can post it here also.
The light was wonderful the whole night through. It was like this for hours. There was enough time to travel from one location to the other without hurrying and being afraid the conditions might change. What more can one want.
Should you like my work, it would be nice if you could take the time to leave a vote for me over at the Photoblog awards .
Thanks for visiting and I hope you like it.
Feb 19, 2010
As announced already last week, I break my schedule of posting a new image every two weeks, and post something fresh today.
I know this is a little bit of a cliché image but still I couldn't resist the opportunity when I passed this pier. I spotted this pier already in the early evening, but the actual image I took on our way back to the hotel in the early morning. In the evening there were two fishermen having picnic on it, which would...
As announced already last week, I break my schedule of posting a new image every two weeks, and post something fresh today.
I know this is a little bit of a cliché image but still I couldn't resist the opportunity when I passed this pier. I spotted this pier already in the early evening, but the actual image I took on our way back to the hotel in the early morning. In the evening there were two fishermen having picnic on it, which would maybe had been fun to have in the picture, but not sure would it have improved the composition ;-)
With the sun rising behind the mountains it wasn't the easiest shot to take, but with the help of my filters it went quite fine still. But the colours that night were crazy. The sun not really set, but only hid just below the below the horizon and lit the sky beautifully for hours. It was just wonderful.
I hope you like it and thanks for visiting. Also I would like remind you that the Photoblog awards are open again, and if you like my work and enjoyed your visit, you're more than welcome to vote for me here .
Feb 12, 2010
Time flies and the two weeks since my last post are already over. But that's good. It means spring will come soon. Well, being optimistic about this one.
I have been planning to do a certain image, but somehow, even during now more than two months of winter, the conditions are right always at the wrong time. Guess I have to wait a little longer. Maybe I get my chance.
In a few weeks I'll be hopefully off for a few to Norway if nothing...
Time flies and the two weeks since my last post are already over. But that's good. It means spring will come soon. Well, being optimistic about this one.
I have been planning to do a certain image, but somehow, even during now more than two months of winter, the conditions are right always at the wrong time. Guess I have to wait a little longer. Maybe I get my chance.
In a few weeks I'll be hopefully off for a few to Norway if nothing unexpected come up that is.
Todays post is something that I haven't done before. Meaning, posting a different version of an already published image, Rekvik Pier .
I decided to do so for several reasons.. I like it very much and it should find it's place in my portfolio of course. Also it marked the beginning of my venture into B&W conversion, which since then has become an integral part of my imagery. As this was one of my images that I converted into B&W, a major credit to the editing goes to my friend and Kai Tirkkonen , who used this image, to show me how the software works. And additionally, and here comes the shameless self-promotion plug, I have it on sale at the moment in my newly launched "Print Of The Month" series.
On a side note, I'd like to point out that, the Photoblog Awards are opened and you are more than welcome to vote for this blog of mine if should like it, of course.
And on another little note, I would like to point you to my recently launched personal blog over at Wordpress, Too Much Latte .
But that's enough for today. As this is not a "fresh" image, I will post the next one already next Friday. Until then I hope you enjoyed this image and thanks a lot for visiting my site.
Jan 31, 2010
I spent the whole the weekend in Lapland due to a work-related trip. Unfortunately the conditions were rather unpleasant, so there's was no chance for some photography, even though I took the camera for a little walk . Since I had no W-Lan available there, I couldn't update this blog as I hoped I could.
On the blog I announced a little projec t that I started to keep myself a little busy during the not so bright and grey times. This...
I spent the whole the weekend in Lapland due to a work-related trip. Unfortunately the conditions were rather unpleasant, so there's was no chance for some photography, even though I took the camera for a little walk . Since I had no W-Lan available there, I couldn't update this blog as I hoped I could.
On the blog I announced a little projec t that I started to keep myself a little busy during the not so bright and grey times. This original project is still in a stage of research and development, but it kind of evolved into a little side project, meaning this one.
I have been visiting this location before, but now I decided, to make a little project from it. Originally I thought a "Four Seasons" kind of idea, but that somehow didn't look too inspiring. I chose therefore, to return to this location multiple times and do the same kind of composition. Maybe like once a month, or a little less maybe.
I'm not sure yet, will I have access to the very same spot in spring and summer, as the ice I was standing on will not be there then. At least it shouldn't ;-)
Either way, I'm looking forward to the next results and I hope you like it.
Jan 15, 2010
It's about time again, the first image of this year, and a little late happy new year to you all. I had only limited possibilities to go out shooting so far. The light and my work schedule don't agree too much at the moment. Nothing new, but that's the way it is.
I have started a little project which I have announced on the blog a while ago which is still going on, but still needs some more material. I have some shots in the bag for this...
It's about time again, the first image of this year, and a little late happy new year to you all. I had only limited possibilities to go out shooting so far. The light and my work schedule don't agree too much at the moment. Nothing new, but that's the way it is.
I have started a little project which I have announced on the blog a while ago which is still going on, but still needs some more material. I have some shots in the bag for this one already, and it evolved also into another little side-project. The first image of the latter will go live in two weeks. So for today, it's a little older one.
St.Michaels Mount.... What a wonderful and mystic location in Cornwall . It's soon a year ago that I have been visiting there and still I haven't finished processing all the images, not that I took too much images there, I guess I'm just a tad slow ;-)
I took this one on my last day of this trip, when everything came together just nicely and I had the conditions I was looking for the whole week. A little later I got the image I didn't even dare to dream of . A little coverage of my trip you can find here on the blog if you are interested.
Thanks visiting and I hope you like it.
Dec 31, 2009
The near now is almost over and I thought it's about time for one last image in this year. It was quite an exciting year and a little and yet unfinished summary of it and a little slideshow you can find on my blog.
Winter has now really kicked in and I have some ideas for some hopefully nice wintery images, but somehow the conditions are not yet quite there yet. Waiting for a little heavier snow storm at the moment, but the forecast...
The near now is almost over and I thought it's about time for one last image in this year. It was quite an exciting year and a little and yet unfinished summary of it and a little slideshow you can find on my blog.
Winter has now really kicked in and I have some ideas for some hopefully nice wintery images, but somehow the conditions are not yet quite there yet. Waiting for a little heavier snow storm at the moment, but the forecast doesn't look so promising at the moment.
This image it captured earlier this year after a few nights of heavy frost, covering the branches of the trees in beautiful white.
I hope you like it, thanks for visiting. I wish you a happy new year and see you in 2010.
Dec 18, 2009
After now quite a few Black&White images I thought it's about time to post a colour image again. I just enjoy the B&W conversion so much, that sometimes my colour images start to look like explosions of colours to me. But well, I guess that's just me.
So here's another one from this summer. We ran into these waterfalls somewhere close to the Norwegian border in Sweden and at this place my photographic ambitions for that trip could have ended....
After now quite a few Black&White images I thought it's about time to post a colour image again. I just enjoy the B&W conversion so much, that sometimes my colour images start to look like explosions of colours to me. But well, I guess that's just me.
So here's another one from this summer. We ran into these waterfalls somewhere close to the Norwegian border in Sweden and at this place my photographic ambitions for that trip could have ended. As I wrote earlier on my blog , my sloppy shoes somehow decided that it would be "smoother" to slip down the rocks, instead of climbing them down to the falls. As painful as that was, luckily nothing happened to my gear, besides some scratches on my tripod. I got rewarded with a beautiful and exciting location though.
In terms of post-processing, this image hasn't seen much, besides the obvious cropping and some minor colour adjustments.
I hope you like it and thanks for visiting.
Dec 04, 2009
This time it's a little unusual (well.. at least for me), slightly dark image. I was running through my archives last night and discovered some long forgotten images which inspired me.
I took this one during my trip to Cornwall in spring, near St.Just.
The wind was strong on that day and I basically only could shoot from the right side of the bay, which was giving some shelter from the heavy wind. I was hiding next to a big rock,...
This time it's a little unusual (well.. at least for me), slightly dark image. I was running through my archives last night and discovered some long forgotten images which inspired me.
I took this one during my trip to Cornwall in spring, near St.Just.
The wind was strong on that day and I basically only could shoot from the right side of the bay, which was giving some shelter from the heavy wind. I was hiding next to a big rock, which is why I couldn't compose the rocks in the sea more to the middle of the frame, without having my "shelter-rock" also in the frame. But I think in this crop the rocks are actually nicely positioned and add some interest to the background.
I have some other, much more silent and minimal images in the works, and additionally look forward to winter finally breaking out here, so that I can try to get some of the shots that I have planned.
I hope you like it and thanks for viewing.
Nov 27, 2009
A little more silent picture than the last ones today....
Single trees are hard to find somehow. This one we found during our trip to Norway and there was also a nicely placed rock in front of it along the road at the coast. What more do you want? The reindeers which were there a little earlier didn't dare to pose for my shot though. Well, you can't have everything I guess.
Converted as usual in Silver Efex Pro and finished off with...
A little more silent picture than the last ones today....
Single trees are hard to find somehow. This one we found during our trip to Norway and there was also a nicely placed rock in front of it along the road at the coast. What more do you want? The reindeers which were there a little earlier didn't dare to pose for my shot though. Well, you can't have everything I guess.
Converted as usual in Silver Efex Pro and finished off with some minor curves adjustments in Photoshop.
On a little side-note I would like to point out that I'm still in the process of restructuring this and my other sites. One adjustment was moving over my Live-Blog to Tumblr (you find the embedded version here on the blog also) and also I'm moving over my highly underused Flickr account, to another one, which has a better address. I thought this was necessary as the new address ( ...../from10to300mm ) somehow is easier to remember than the old and cryptic one ;-) It will take some time to get everything over, and hopefully I get more active there in the future also.
There's still some more stuff to come (I finally have to re-arrange the Galleries and the Portfolio, fix some links and whatnot) So please, to keep up with my recent changes and other news and posts, you're welcome to visit my blog also.
I hope you like it and thanks for visiting.
Nov 13, 2009
As announced on the blog, today sees the second anniversary of this blog and with it finally goes live the last image of my "Bay Series".
It was an interesting location. Within a distance of maybe 150 meters were three totally different looking bays, all bathed in the beautiful last light of the evening. It was a wonderful location there, north of the city of Tromsö and we're looking forward already to next summer to return to Norway ....
As announced on the blog, today sees the second anniversary of this blog and with it finally goes live the last image of my "Bay Series".
It was an interesting location. Within a distance of maybe 150 meters were three totally different looking bays, all bathed in the beautiful last light of the evening. It was a wonderful location there, north of the city of Tromsö and we're looking forward already to next summer to return to Norway .
I hope you like it and thanks for visiting.
