New Toys! ND16 Filter and remote
Just came back from the shop after buying some new toys: a ND16 filter from ProZigma and a Hähnel Giga T Pro 2 remote. I’m looking forward to play with my new toys!
With the ND filter I can change the aperture or exposure time by four steps.
EDIT: Here’s a couple of shots taken with the ND16 filter. Now I don’t have to wait until the sun goes down before I can capture the movement of the trains.
Planet Earth according to Gunda
The question was «What is the mass of planet Earth?»
In the science section of howstuffworks.com the answer is this:
«The quick answer to that is approximately 6,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 (6 x 1024) kilograms.
The interesting sub-question is, “How did anyone figure that out?” It’s not like the planet steps onto the scale each morning before it takes a shower. The measurement of the planet’s weight is derived from the gravitational attraction that the Earth has for objects near it.»
6,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 (6 x 1024) kilograms? Not according to Gunda…
I shot a few versions of this photo before I was satisfied. I ended up with this overexposed version, which I think highlights the important objects that makes the photo and leaves out the rest (the background was just creating noise and unwanted attention in this image). The theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Future Tense and I think this photo suits the challenge:
«In today’s challenge we want you to grab an image from your world that holds the promise or portent of the future.»
Sources:
Old, Norse Warrior
Here’s more from my «Mannequin & Music» project.
This mannequin is an old, viking warrior, so I thought it’s suitable to pair him with some Norwegian Black Metal music. Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music and Norway’s largest ‘cultural export’.
This band is called Taake (fog/mist) and the song is called Orkan (hurricane)
If you want to experience Taake live, they’ll be playing at the Black Music festival in Oslo in March. For more info, check out www.infernofestival.net
More info on Taake here: taake.svartekunst.no
Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
Currently one of my numerous projects is a «Mannequin & Music» project. The theme for WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge this week is ‘Forward’, so my idea was to combine the two. Here’s the result:
I think these two mannequins have a futuristic and forward feel to them…
..and so does this song:
More forwards here:
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/forward/
P.S. If you’re interested you can check my previous posts for more Mannequins & Music.
Inspector ’71
Mannequins & Music. The combination continues.
Inspector ’71
Inspector ’71 is the title of another tune by the Norwegian band Kåre & The Cavemen.
Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning “an artist’s jointed model”, which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word manneken, meaning “little man, figurine”
Mannequins & Music:
- Hey! Mr. Wild Guitar – cardinalguzman.wordpress.com
- We are looking in on you now what do you think you can do now – thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com
- I don’t know why she’d see me – cardinalguzman.wordpress.com
- Mannequins from the past – sedge808.wordpress.com
- Pop Art Mannequins – tanjastark.com
Feel free to join in on the Music & Mannequins days by posting your own mannequin photo.
Hey! Mr. Wild Guitar!
It’ll be mannequin time for a while here in the blog!
Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning “an artist’s jointed model”, which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word manneken, meaning “little man, figurine”
Hey! Mr. Wild Guitar!
«Hey! Mr Wild Guitar!» is a song by the Norwegian 1990′s band Kåre & The Cavemen.
Feel free to join the mannequin party by posting your own mannequin photo (together with a quote from a song).
Other Entries:
We are looking in on you now what do you think you can do now – thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com
I don’t know why she’d see me – cardinalguzman.wordpress.com
I don’t know why she’d see me
It’ll be mannequin time for a while here in the blog!
«Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning “an artist’s jointed model”, which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word manneken, meaning “little man, figurine”»
Furthermore, each mannequin will be accompanied by a quote from a song. Kudos and great honour to those of you who’ll know which song each quote is from (without searching the internet for answers of course).
I don’t know why she’d see me
I don’t know what else to be
I’d like to think she cried for me
If you can/will: name the song, or join the mannequin party by posting your own mannequin photo (together with a quote from a song).
If you’re going to try
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Trying a Sigma lens at the Travel Exhibition
Sigma 85mm f1.4 ex dg hsm. photo: dslrphoto.com
Last weekend we went to the annual Travel Exhibition (you can read about the previous one in the link section). The previous years this exhibition has been held in Lillestrøm in co-operation with the Photo Exhibition, which has (at least for me) been a perfect combination. This year they separated the two exhibitions, to my huge disappointment.
The Wooden Box
What’s in the wooden box?
Obviously it’s a box meant for keeping playing cards.
The further content will be revealed on a weekly basis in the new photo blog:
http://artishorseshit.wordpress.com
Rusty thing and new old font
I have no idea what this thing is for, but it was worth a picture.
Rusty thing I found on a rainy autumn day back in 2012…
I had some old cd’s lying around that contained back up from my prehistoric, ancient computer. The cd’s were so old that they were unreadable for the modern day hardware, so I had to rip out the cd-rom from the old computer and install it into the new one to be able to read the cd’s. The old cd burner was so slow that it took around 9 hours to copy the files from the cd onto the hard disk. Eventually it worked and after two days of copying old material, I could finally have a look at all the old files. Among the files I found a whole bunch of fonts that a friend gave me. The font I used on this photo is called HourPhoto.
White Christmas in Norway
Christmas holidays is here and it’s a perfect time to use the camera. The Weekly Photo Challenge this week is “My 2012 in Pictures”. Some of these photos are grainy because I shot them handheld in low light, which means I had to crank up the ISO.
Check out these images/logos for the Weekly Photo Challenge 2013:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/surprise-a-gift-for-the-blogging-community/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/weekly-photo-challenge-my-2012-in-pictures/
Surprise: a gift for the blogging community
The theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge this week is surprise. Last year I made some logo suggestions for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge. Well… New year, new logo, right? So, I made these new suggestions that are yours to use if you want to. They are Public Domain, which means that you can feel free to post them on your blog, alter them, print them in your local newspaper or whatever you feel like. As you can see I made different versions with both Canon & Nikon, plus one neutral for those of you that have other brands.
First here’s a gallery, then the photos are posted individually so it’s easier for you to donwload the one(s) you want.
Please follow the links to WordPress at the bottom of the post to learn how to add text and image widgets to your blog.
How to add text and image widgets to your blog:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/
And here’s the 2012 logo:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/weekly-photo-challenge-2012-logo/
Changing Seasons – The Nutcracker
We went to the Oslo Opera to see the Nutcracker the other day. To me the Nutcracker is a sign that the holiday season – the Mid Winters Blot (Mid-Winter Fest / Christmas) is about to begin.
Normally when I’m around the Opera, it’s just to shoot some photos, but this was my second time being there to see a show. It is not allowed to take pictures during the show, so I had to hide the screen on the Canon Ixus compact camera while taking sneak photos without being able to aim. It’s fair to say that I ended up with a whole bunch of useless pictures, but this one was close to OK:
The Nutcracker, is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, 18 December 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky’s opera, Iolanta.
Here’s an older photo, shot a few weeks ago:
Related Posts:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
I was wondering what happened to the Weekly Photo Challenge last friday: for many of us bloggers it’s the highlight of the week, where we get to see a lot of interesting photos and interpretations of the theme from fellow bloggers. As a social online event the WPC is something that connects bloggers and can often make you discover new blogs that you might wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. It turned out that the new WPC-post was scheduled by Sara Rosso and that it didn’t fire off as planned because of some technical glitch. Finally it’s here and the theme this week is “Mine”.
Mímisbrunnr
This place is located on the North East coast of São Miguel, Açores, Portugal.
Near the area called Nordeste – which means North-East on Portuguese.
Açores, Waterfall II
From Wikipedia:
In Norse mythology, Mímisbrunnr (Old Norse “Mímir’s well” is a well associated with the being Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Mímisbrunnr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. Both sources relate that the god Odin once placed one of his eyes within the well. The Prose Edda details that well is located beneath one of three roots of the world tree Yggdrasil, a root that passes into the land of the frost jötnar where the primordial plane of Ginnungagap once existed. In addition, the Prose Edda relates that the water of the well contains much wisdom, and that Odin’s eye sacrifice to the well was in exchange for a drink from it.
Here’s another post from the same area: Long Exposure Waterfall
Pariserhjul – Ferris Wheel
Pariserhjul is the Norwegian term for ferris wheel.
Pariserhjul – Ferris Wheel
Related post:
Give Me Head!
Give me head!
Give me head till I’m dead!
Photo shot in Grenoble, France with my good, old & trustworthy Canon EOS 300D
Random Street Art – Açores
Please enjoy this random collection of street art from The Archipelago of the Azores. These photos are shot at the islands Terceira, São Jorge and Faial.
You’ll find more of my music in these posts:
Everyday life: Rainy day (weekly photo challenge)
Rainy day, dream away… Rain is also a part of everyday life.
“Some people get wet others feel the rain” – quote from one or two Bobs (people argue whether Bob Dylan or Bob Marley said it first)
Who knows who said it first? Who cares and does it really matter anyway? What do you prefer to do on rainy days? Go out and feel the rain? Or perhaps stay inside to play guitar, read a book or catch up on some blogging?
Even when it’s rainy you can still catch some nice photos.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
Related articles in other blogs
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life romceg.wordpress.com
- http://beijingcityphoto.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://humbledpie.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/trying-to-keep-balanced/
- http://jinancitydailyphoto.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://ayearinmyshoes.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://kattermonran.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://chrisbreebaart.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/the-weekly-challenge-everyday-life-elderly-advice/
- http://smkelly8.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://theeternaltruth.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
- http://lamandraka.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/un-cafe-matinal/
- http://expresswithphotos.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/weekly-photo-challenge-everyday-life/
You’ll find more of my music in these posts:
Near and Far
Hallway at a hotel in Terceira, Azores, Portugal
Flower & Terceira
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/weekly-photo-challenge-near-and-far/
Enjoy a Long Play
Sit down. Relax. Enjoy a Long Play.
Vinyl is King
The record player you see on this photo is an old “Rølex” (seriously, that’s the name of the brand!) and, if you were in doubt; Yes, it’s old.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge
Many surprises can come out of merging two different entities into one. Sometimes this fusion of the elements is what we call art. - Cheri Lucas, Weekly Photo Challenge, WordPress
Super-excited about the Weekly Photo Challenge this week. Last week I had a look at the History of Tattoo, this week I’ve chosen 3 photos that represent the theme “Merge”.
Picture taken through a magnifying glass.
Merge (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/merge)
1. To cause to be absorbed, especially in gradual stages.
2. To combine or unite: merging two sets of data.
A photo exhibited behind glass at Blaafarveverket in Modum
Merge (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/merge)
1. To blend together, especially in gradual stages.
2. To become combined or united.
Architecture merged with vase.
How about you, did you like the WPC this week? Please share a link to your post if you’ve posted for the challenge this week.
Fellow bloggers interpretations:
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge (dailypost.wordpress.com)
- Flickrcomments.wordpress.com: Merge
- Windagainstcurrent.com: Merge
- Betigaklaten.wordpress.com: Merge
- Eagerexplorer.wordpress.com: Merge
- Laavventura.wordpress.com: Merge
- Warmhotchocolate.com: Merge
- Brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com: submerging
- Bukaningrat.wordpress.com: Merge on panoramic
- Annarashbrook.wordpress.com: Merge
He said/she said: