Another month has passed and it passed quickly (February is short). I took the time to shoot some photos from Oslo for this monthly photo challenge called “The Changing Seasons”. If you want to join the challenge it’s not too late yet. You can read about the few rules in the first post: Monthly Photo Challenge: The Changing Seasons 01
The idea behind it is to get you to shoot often and continuously, to build up your portfolio, get some photographic experience and have fun. If you do post something, please leave a link to your blog in this post.
The photos in my gallery were shot on different days in February and with two different cameras (DSLR and pocket camera).
Karl Johans Gate
Gang of gypsies in front of the railway station.
Østbanehallen
Østbanehallen
Østbanehallen
Junkies used to hang around here. Pigeons live here now.
Self-portrait with cakes.
Tram
Tram @ Rådhusplassen (“The City Hall Square”), a square located between Oslo City Hall and the Oslofjord.
Quiet morning in the harbor.
Quiet morning in the harbor.
This is the place to buy fresh fish.
This photo contains an element from last months gallery.
Early morning winter light.
St. Hanshaugen
St. Hanshaugen
St. Hanshaugen
The Trinity Church (Trefoldighetskirken).
Broken glass in a news display case.
Stortorvet (‘The Grand Plaza’) is a square in Oslo, Norway, located west of Oslo Cathedral.
I’m looking forward to see your entries!
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
Last month the link section was a bit unorganized and for some reason I didn’t get all the pingbacks (sometimes WordPress’ pingback function doesn’t work properly – I don’t know why), so there was 4 of you that “went under the radar”. Luckily I discovered those 4 when preparing this a few days ago and I added the links to the post.
Check out the participants entries:
- lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/03/cg-monthly-challenge-changing-seasons-03.html
- woolgathering.org.uk/2015/03/the-changing-seasons-03/
- bethloft.co.uk/index.php?/phlogs/2015/03/the-changing-seasons-03/
- silverinthebarn.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-february/
- sariscorner.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-february/
- debs-world.com/2015/03/08/monthly-photo-challenge-changing-seasons-03/
- belgianstreets.com/2015/03/08/changing-seasons-03/
- thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/country-market-the-changing-seasons-03/
- mylifelivedfull.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/changing-seasons-its-march-im-ready-for-spring/
- musingsofafrequentflyingscientist.com/2015/03/09/beautiful-brisbane-march-2015/
- bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/monthly-photo-challenge-changing-seasons-03/
- angleandviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/spring-is-close/
- maraeastern.com/2015/03/11/monthly-photo-challenge-changing-seasons-3/
- debrabooks.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/changing-seasons-photo-challenge-march/
- lolako.com/historic-monterey-photos-for-the-monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons/
- empireoflights.com/2015/03/14/the-changing-seasons-marching-into-march/
- eclipseofthemoon.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-part-3/
- ceceliafutch.com/2015/03/15/monthly-photo-challenge-north-chagrin-reservation-march/
- thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-3-february/
- luciledegodoy.com/2015/03/15/the-changing-seasons-3/
- thismelbournelife.com/2015/03/16/the-changing-seasons-march/
- smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-3/
- viaja2photography.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/the-changing-seasons-03/
- michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/seasons-monthly-photo-challenge-march/
- treerabold.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-changing-seasons-month-3/
- acbistro2014.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/monthly-photo-challenge-season-3/
- teepee12.com/2015/03/23/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-03/
- dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/the-changing-seasons-03/
- motherdaughter2013.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-03/
- eclecticoddsnsods.com/2015/03/23/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-03-march-richmond-park/
- collinesblog.com/2015/04/30/the-changing-seasons-march-2015/
- Links to your blogs will appear here after you’ve posted them.
Cardinal Guzman 
a brill’ collection of photos, saying well done is not good enough…
Thank you Cobbie.
hello my friend. how i contact you? i dont find any contact details on your web……im mihai negrea,the guy from borgen bilding,you make pictures. i whant to speak something with you…..thank you
Hello Mihai. You can email me: cardinalguzman gmail.com
I meant to say which ones I liked best then by the time I got to the bottom I had got distracted by another photo and forgotten. I love the collection there seemed to be something different in subject matter this time. The first photo had that vintage look which I love. The morning harbour was serene and the one inbetween the lampshades towards the end reminded me of some French movie but I’ve no idea which one lol darn it! Wonderful photos as always x
You’re right: that photo has some sort of movie feel to it. The harbour is a great place to be in the early morning and on really cold days you get this cool fog on the water.
its sounds amazing, very theatrical in a serene way, would love to be there, the sloshing of water, the fog, WoW I am there in my head heh
are we there yet?? are we there yet??? (=is it 7th, is it 7th??) 🙂
wonderful photos. so you finally got rid of snow.
mine for this month:
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/03/cg-monthly-challenge-changing-seasons-03.html
The snow has disappeared, but it normally has a comeback in March/April so I’m not hoping for the spring to arrive just yet. This weekend the temperatures are +8° Celsius and there’s strong winds.
The 7th came quickly this month. So quickly that it almost took me by surprise! On the 4th I was like: “Shit, I have to finish my post during the next couple of days!”
Thanks for your entry Klara!
These are fabulous. I can’t even pick a favourite. I love the pink skies, just gorgeous. I went out today to do mine, will post in the next few days. Great work Cardinal!!
Brilliant. I’m looking forward to see your shots Desley
I so agree with Desley Jane’s comment!
Beautiful images and so nice to see another place.
Thanks Robyn. I soon have to get started with my next post in this series.
Beautiful photos once again of your city. I really can’t tell which photos you took using your DSLR and point-and-shoot. I’m guessing the sunrise was done with the pocket camera on the way to work…stunning colours. The last one has to be my favourite – looks similar to an European town, and the clouds give the illusion that there are mountains in the distance.
By the way, I’m loving my point-and-shoot Canon G7X. It was fun to use at a recent concert, but today I went to the aquarium with it and it was a different story altogether 😀
You’re absolutely right about the sunrise photo: pocket camera on my way to work. That last one is shot in the afternoon and it is in fact a European town 🙂
Forgot to say: aquariums can be really tricky places to shoot: a lot of reflections, people here & there, fishes that just refuse to pose for the camera topped off with difficult light conditions.
You really do wield that point-and-shoot very well. Without a clear shot in low-light, sometimes post-processing can’t save it.
At the aquarium the fishes were tiny and weren’t swimming near the glass at all. Zooms on point-and-shoots really don’t make photos turn out good, especially on this trip. Have a good week, Cardinal.
A beautiful gallery, as ever. I like the broken glass the most. I’m pleasantly surprised that you use a pocket camera too!
The pocket camera is actually the one I use the most, because it’s always with me. I only wish that it could shoot RAW files. JPEGS are shit.
Lovely collection of Pictures again! In Vienna, we also got rid of the snow. Although I suppose that it will come back once more before Easter. 🙂
Same here. I doubt that the spring will arrive just yet. The snow always tries a comeback, sometimes as late as April and even May.
I will post some pictures later today. They are from different days and some of them were posted before but I hope that is not considered cheating 😉
As long as they’re shot in January/February/March 2015, it’s OK. 🙂
I’m, looking forward to see what you’ve come up with. Leave a link here and I’ll add it with the others.
I am not sure if the pingback worked but here is my post: https://sariscorner.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-february/
Lovely images once again. It’s good to see the year moving on but it looks very much as though the cold remains with you. My WordPress mosaic is here: http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/2015/03/the-changing-seasons-03/ and the words to go with them and better quality images are here: http://bethloft.co.uk/index.php?/phlogs/2015/03/the-changing-seasons-03/. It seems to be all about the clouds in February.
Beautiful scenery and shots. Thanks for the entry Plumbum.
Absolutely brilliant and wish I could participate. It keeps snowing my in my little corner. 13 inches 2 days ago. Oh Spring, come soon! There’s a transition I want to see.
Yes, come on spring! We’ve been waiting for too long!!
Make it happen. I am doing the spring dance.
I looked with envy at your pictures of the city with virtually no snow!! I’m insanely jealous 🙂
Now that I know for sure I’m going to be in Oslo this summer, I found myself trying to pay very close attention to every little detail in each picture. I loved the harbour photos … there’s just something about water 🙂
… and the beautiful pink sunrises!
Seriously? Are you going to Oslo this summer? We’ll have to meet up for a photo walk!
I would love that! I’ll let you know as our travel dates solidify but it will be in the week of August 16th.
Remind me in August (I’ll probably forget) by writing me (cardinalguzman gmail.com) and we can make an appointment on time and place.
How long will you stay? Are you going to see other places in Norway too?
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Another great collection of shots! I just ventured out today to take my own shots for the third shot at this challenge, and this time managed to return to the venue for my first contribution…coming soon! Greta work again!
Superb collection of shots. Oslo looks so stunning in your cameras. I would love to participate in this challenge from next month, once I have stacked up some good photos of city where I am staying currently 🙂
I’m excited already: I’d love to see some shots from you! You’re more than welcome to join!
Sure. I will definitely join it. I will try to document Washington DC where I am currently located. And I am all excited to participate the famous Cherry Blossom Festival of Washington which heralds the beginning of spring. 🙂 🙂
Oh, the cherry blossom festival sounds great. Amazing opportunity to take photos.
🙂 🙂
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Great collection, Cardinal! Oslo looks good in Winter.
Thank you very much Richard. It might look good, but it doesn’t feel good.
I can imagine…
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Fantastic shots Cardinal! I love the one of the blue squares but really all of them are beautiful. Here’s my entry for this month. http://wp.me/p2juKh-Oq
Thank you very much Debbie. I’ve added your link and I’ll look at your entry later.
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Here are my shots for this month, believe it or not, it was 18 degrees today in sunny Molenbeek!
18 degrees!?! It’s like summer in March!
It was lovely although it’s colder now, that off time of the year here when the temperature bounces up and down…
Beautiful. Though it still looks very cold.
It’s, relatively speaking, always cold in Oslo (I get cold easily, so for me it never seems warm enough).
I know how you feel
Mine’s up, but I see you already grabbed the pingback so you don’t need a link. Time to grab a coffee and wander through the rest of the contributors posts this afternoon [well, actually make that a POT of coffee and probably some sandwiches and cake too… there are a lot of them 😀 ]
Jude xx
Beautiful photos! I love the mesh of grey and colors! I made my post but I don’t know if there was a ping back. So here is my post:
https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/country-market-the-changing-seasons-03/
I have to say that ‘m looking forward to see that market in the summer season. Is it a farmers market there too? Or mostly flowers and stuff like that?
The market sells flowers and vegetables too! There are other farmer’s markets in town where rows of farmers sell their produce, but I think this one is more solitary. I have bought hanging flowers, tomato plants and fresh produce there. I’ll be paying better attention to their offerings this season!
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Wonderful selection of photos, CG. The skies are really lovely. 🙂
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Great gallery, Max!
Your photos are gorgeous!
I love this idea and will absolutely jump in with an April selection of photos if it’s not too late! We will be moving to a new piece of property at the end of this month and I intend to document the changing seasons from a permaculture perspective as we embark on a new homesteading adventure 🙂 Doing so through journaling *and photos through this challenge would be so much fun!
I’ll be short – MAGNIFICENT (all of them)!
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Hello CG 🙂 I haven’t forgotten about your challenge. We were away last week. Here is my offering https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/monthly-photo-challenge-changing-seasons-03/
Especially love the photos of the boats – the water reflections are wonderful!
Thanks Stacy. I should have used my ND16 filter and a tripod to get a long exposure of the water, but I had my son with me and he’s not to fond of hanging around for too long while daddy is taking photos…
Wonderful shots, like usual! I will be shooting mine in the next day or so:)
Excellent. I’m looking forward to see your area.
I may wait till the 16th. I’m off that day and may do some sunrise pics:)
Sunrise pics sounds nice!
Let’s hope I get up. 🙂
Sorry for the delay, crazy busy. Here are my shots on the sunrise. Critical tactical error though…the sun cannot actually be seen rising over the river. Hhhhmmmm. I guess I forgot to consider that aspect, lol. https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/seasons-monthly-photo-challenge-march/
Cool. I’ll have a look at the photos and comment after work today.
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You’ve captured a VERY nice February in your gallery CG ! Such a dull and dismal month I find but lots of subtle *pop here 🙂 Can there be such a thing Lol I’m now wondering ….
Wonderful images…most especially of the Stortorvet (‘The Grand Plaza’) — wow!
I’ll post my photos shortly, and based on seeing the comments and some longing for spring to arrive, I hope the photos of gardens and what is already blooming in historic Monterey, California will at least put a smile one some faces.
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Here is my entry 🙂 http://lolako.com/historic-monterey-photos-for-the-monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons/
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Hi CG, your pictures show that it already getting nicer (brighter) in your part of the world too. And I did not forget you. So here is some beautiful March light for you: http://empireoflights.com/2015/03/14/the-changing-seasons-marching-into-march/
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Great photos, as usual. Karl Johans Gate and the early morning sunrise photo are two of my favorites in this collection, but all of them are show the beauty of Oslo.
Still don’t know if I have that pingback thing figured out, so here is the link to my entry for this month: http://ceceliafutch.com/2015/03/15/monthly-photo-challenge-north-chagrin-reservation-march/
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Otra vez unas fotos preciosas. Me ha impresionado pensar que aunque la nieve se ha retirado en Oslo es solo de momento, que volverá de nuevo en primavera… Por aquí ya hemos tenido primavera unos días por las temperaturas y el sol radiante, aunque los últimos días tenemos otra vez bastante frío, incluso con heladas, y parece ser que va a durar un poco.
Con lo agradable que era pasear con esas temperaturas¡¡¡
Los árboles siguen su curso y ya están en primavera total.
Saludos.
Esta es mi contribución este mes:
https://viaja2photography.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/the-changing-seasons-03/
Your photos are amazing. The colors are so clear and bright….against the winter backdrop.
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A lovely stroll through your February Cardinal, the water shots are so relaxing.
Thank you Patti. Water is strongest.
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I’m somehow comforted knowing that we are not the only people in the world with snow still on the ground! Everyone is sending me pictures of their spring flowers and we are tracking snowstorms. Not giant blizzards, but not spring showers, either. Maybe next month we will have flowers!
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En flott serie, mer som et galleri!
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