Last month I experimented with a drunk, bicycle photo technique for the challenge. This month I took things more slow and tried out my new camera for «The Changing Seasons».
For those who don’t know, «The Changing Seasons» is a monthly photo challenge with a few basic guidelines. I started the challenge in January with photos that I shot in December, so in this gallery I present the photos that I took in May. Here’s my “20 shots” from last month (new camera, sorry, couldn’t help myself. Rules schmules…I still have more photos that I’ll post in a follow-up post):
Outside the City Hall
Flowers & tram
Fountain, Spikersuppa.
There’s no ice skating here now…
To B&W or not…?
To color or not to color…?
Spikersuppa
St. Hanshaugen
St. Hanshaugen
St. Hanshaugen
A random duck.
Random people.
The Royal Palace Park
A random pigeon.
Freia – A Norwegian chocolate brand. Bought by Krafts Food and turned into feces.
Spikersuppa
Can you recognize this spot from one of the previous posts in this challenge?
A random seagull.
A statue representing the Norwegian “delicacy”: farmed soya/anti-biotic fed salmon.
14-42mm lens
40-150mm lens, same vantage point like the previous shot
Still no ice skating…
Lunch in the sun.
Flowers in Spikersuppa.
Water in Spikersuppa
The Parliament
if you’re in Norway during the month of May, you’re bound to see teenagers dressed in stupid suits like this.
A balloon selling gypsy.
The best ass in town?
Or perhaps it’s this one?
Gypsy, praying to the ATM-God (Minibank) across the street.
The bikes in Bjørvika
The same bikes (still in Bjørvika).
This is a bike shed for some corporate wankers.
St. Hanshaugen
St. Hanshaugen
- Find a location near your home. Each month take somewhere between 5-20 photos and post them in a gallery in your blog (I’ll post mine on the 7th, but you can choose your own publishing date).
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- Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
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Links to participants posts:
- https://eclipseofthemoon.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/play-of-colours/
- https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/changing-seasons-06/
- http://bethloft.co.uk/index.php?/phlogs/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-06/
- http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-6/
- https://angleandviews.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/seasonal-changes-sunny-june/
- http://teepee12.com/2015/06/09/june-in-the-valley-changing-seasons-06/
- https://marshaleith.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/the-changing-seasons-winnipeg-in-june/
- https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-6-may/
- http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/06/cg-monthly-challenge-changing-seasons.html
- http://maraeastern.com/2015/06/10/monthly-photo-challenge-changing-seasons-6/
- http://belgianstreets.com/2015/06/10/changing-seasons-06/
- https://mylifelivedfull.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/the-changing-seasons-the-beauty-of-june/
- https://mithriluna.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/thankful-thursday-a-vivid-life-and-the-changing-seasons/
- https://sariscorner.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-may/
- http://thismelbournelife.com/2015/06/14/the-changing-seasons-june/
- http://ceceliafutch.com/2015/06/14/monthly-photo-challenge-north-chagrin-reservation-june/
- http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-6/
- https://viaja2photography.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/the-changing-seasons-6/
- https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/country-market-the-changing-seasons-06/
- http://luciledegodoy.com/2015/06/16/the-changing-seasons-6/
- http://debs-world.com/2015/06/18/changing-seasons-06-winter-is-upon-us/
- https://motherdaughter2013.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-06/
- https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-6/
- http://terriwebsterschrandt.com/2015/06/15/monthly-photo-challenge-dry-june/
- https://treerabold.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/the-changing-seasons-june/
- http://evergrowingfarm.com/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-may-in-review.html
- https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/seasons-monthly-photo-challenge-june/
- http://livingineastsheen.co.uk/2015/06/25/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-05-may-richmond-park/
- I’ll add your links here after you’ve posted them, but don’t be afraid to leave a link to your post in the comment section too!
Cardinal Guzman 
Lovely set of shots. Quite a variety, from the birds to the bare bum (I wonder did it get burned…) Now that it’s summer over there, your town certainly looks more cheery. The warmer weather would probably make for easier getting around. Hope you are having fun with your new toy.
A bare bum is definitely not an ordinary sight in the middle of the city center on a busy Saturday!
Nearly all of these were shot on the same warm day – a summerday in between all the cold & rainy ones. The weather has been really bad lately, but I’m sure we’ll get some nice and warm days too.
Very daring for a bare bum out like that! In Australia, if the police comes by you’d get told off. Hopefully more warm days for you and you can share more of what summer is like in Oslo. It’s been cold, wet and dreary so far in Melbourne this winter.
If the police had spotted him, he would have been arrested and probably been charged for being drunk in public. Cold, wet and dreary sounds like a typical winter!
beautiful images- so vibrant and full of life- the re awakening after a long winter. love this!
Yes, the city is coming back to life!
A brilliant set of photos! Many of them are so quirky – why try to tan your ass in a park? – and many of them are almost untypically cute, as the tulips and fountains. But most important – there’s a TRAM! 🙂
It’s not even in a park. It’s on the grass lawn outside the Parilament building in the middle if the city!
The same location that this was shot: https://cardinalguzman.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/p5150123.jpg
I assume the nude ass was a political statement in this case…
I saw him around both before and after this and the guy was extremely drunk. Being extremely drunk doesn’t contradict the fact that it might have been a political statement, but it seemed to be intoxication taking over rather than political commitment.
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great gallery!
Thank you Nalinki 📷
I note you were in a random kinda mood for this months selections 😉
Lovely to see people out and about enjoying the sunshine and the tulips of course!
Yes, random mood for sure! Always!
Mine is up now, a little later this month as I have been away.
https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/monthly-photo-challenge-the-changing-seasons-6/
I don’t need to visit Oslo.. I can see it all here. This is an exciting gallery. I really love your pigeon 🙂 Mine is coming shortly. Have a good day, CG!
I’m pleased with the pigeon shot and whenever I shoot a pigeon I always think about your balcony!! 😀 Haha.
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There: Maksimir (Zagreb) in June. https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/changing-seasons-06/
Beautiful gallery as always Paula.
🙂
You’re getting some really nice shots with your new camera CG I take it you ‘re enjoying it muchly .
Month 6 already !! surely not …. good to see some fun going on 🙂
We have to enjoy it while we can. In a few weeks our side of the planet will start facing away from the sun again!
CG this is a beautiful gallery, they are gorgeous photos, bums and all!! I was at my parents’ house when I saw your post and they both said the photo are fabulous – a great snapshot of your space.
I’m glad to hear that your parents liked my photos too! I have something for each generation 🙂
LOL you do!
Dads favorite was the corporate wankers 😉
Wonderful series, especially the black and white ass ;))
I just had to take a few shots when the opportunity to sneak some ass into the Changing Seasons showed up!
Lovely. What’s the new kit?
Mine are here http://bethloft.co.uk/index.php?/phlogs/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-06/
and, as ever, a less good version in my WordPress site (I’m struggling with a new theme that insists on arbitraily cropping my images) http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/2015/06/the-changing-seasons-6/
Insane cropping! The mailbox photo is almost unrecognizable.
Here’s one of my new toys: https://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/new-toys/
Wonderful gallery! It’s great to see the place really coming to life as they days warm up. 🙂
We love warmer days here! Finally some heat!
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Great gallery of shots. Reflections, blurs, colour, black and white. Everything!!
I am joining up for the first time this month. You can check my “small gallery” for June here:
https://marshaleith.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/the-changing-seasons-winnipeg-in-june/
Thank you for joining. I’m looking forward to see your area change during the seasons!
St. Hanshaugen is really interesting, I should keep it in mind for the next trip. 🙂 New photos every month? Might be tricky, I’ll see what I can do about it.
New photos every month, but they can be from the exact same place if you like. One of the participants is photographing a tree in her garden. I’ve chosen the wide subject: “downtown Oslo”, but St. Hanshaugen isn’t even downtown…. I wrote the rules in this challenge, but I don’t even follow them strictly myself!
Great set of photos. And so various. Yeap, one desperatly needs some vitamin D after winter. What a better way than through the skin. Bare. That’s why sun is for. 😉
Here is my entry:
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/06/cg-monthly-challenge-changing-seasons.html
Yes, the best way of absorbing vitamin D – through the skin. I guess that “where the sun never shines”, doesn’t make any sense for this guy! 🙂
I can never find my ping backs. Maybe it’s just buried. Anyway, you photographs are rather spectacular.
Living in the country, we have a different kind of spectacle. I often miss the city and the grit and geometry of it.
June in the Blackstone Valley:
http://teepee12.com/2015/06/09/june-in-the-valley-changing-seasons-06/
Oslo is Norway’s largest city, but sometimes I miss living in a city too. It doesn’t really feel like a city…
Wow, Max. I’d say your playing with your new camera was hugely successful – so many brilliant pics and I have so many favourites. The bicycles are such an interesting art fixture (I’m assuming that’s what they are) and the shot from inside the tunnel is great. That kind of shot would give me a lot of trouble. ok – lots of your pics would give me trouble – like the blur of the tram with the flowers. Nice.
What a difference from winter to now … everything looks so vibrant and alive.
Like others before me, I questioned the bare bum. Since you mentioned it was in front of the parliament buildings, I can’t help but wonder if there is some kind of political statement in there 😉
The bikes are bike racks meant to lock your bike too. You can see night shots of them here:
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/star-effects-double/
I love playing with my new camera(s) and I love the fact that it’s warmer and more pleasant to live in this part of the world now! The bare bum was a drunken statement more than a political one and it surely made people laugh. There’s so many different ways to spread joy in this world and this was one that you don’t come by so often. 😀
Fabulous images, CG. Love the bicycle images, and I prefer the tulips in colour. 🙂 The bare buns pic is hilarious. Never seen anything quite like it. Well spotted. 😀
Couldn’t avoid to notice the white ass there in the middle of the city center!
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Wow, another great set of reasons to visit Oslo!
Here is my contribution from my rather gritty street in Molenbeek…
http://belgianstreets.com/2015/06/10/changing-seasons-06/
Thanks for the gallery this month, but fantastic news to read about your book! (I just discovered it in your other blog now). Wow!
Thank you Cardinal, yours is one of my favourite challenges and you were so right to get us to focus on the changing world under our noses….and the book, well that was a lucky break that could probably only have happened in Belgrade – if you haven’t visited please do, before it changes too much…
I’ve never visited. With a bit (a lot) of luck I might be able to visit during your book event.
now that would be awesome!!
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I wish I was able to see those changes of season here in Shanghai. Beautiful colors. 🙂
Thanks. You’re always welcome to see them in Oslo! 😀
Your pictures are wonderful. Thank you for starting this challenge! Here’s my submission.
https://mithriluna.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/thankful-thursday-a-vivid-life-and-the-changing-seasons/
Thanks for the entry. Nice gallery with many great moments.
what a fantastic set, Cardinal… I was just about to write under the metal bikes on Bjorvika shot that it is incredible (I honestly can’t make up my mind between the bw and the color)… then I clicked on the next one, St. Hanhaugen, it’s just as incredible… then the Freia shot with that beautiful street… and the lunch in the sun, which is such a great everyday scene… wow… these all give such a great sense of the place…
even the ass detals lol 😀 well, maybe one of them was not so incredible lol…
great set once again..
Thanks for all your beautiful feedback Alexandra. Here, let me add further confusion to the bikes in Bjørvika: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/star-effects-double/
😀
my pleasure!
oh, I remember the star effects post… this is why the bikes looked familiar 🙂
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Wow! What a difference a month makes! The fountains, the tulips, children playing and people meandering. This is my favorite post of your in this challenge thus far. B&W is my fav when it comes to photography, and the mix with the color photos in this selection is wonderful. The colorful clown in a B&W world is top notch. The humor or the B&W sun-bather who is mooning the world made me laugh. Oslo is gorgeous. My favorite photo of the whole bunch (thanks for posting so many — thoroughly enjoyed perusing) is P5150051.The composition, the lighting, reflections in the water — the whole image is stunning! Love it.
Here is my entry for this month. Hope you enjoy it. 🙂
http://ceceliafutch.com/2015/06/14/monthly-photo-challenge-north-chagrin-reservation-june/
P5150057 is pretty spectacular, too. Every time I look through this gallery, I pick out another new fav. You really outdid yourself this month.
Thanks for the lovely feedback Cecilia! 😀
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Hola Cardinal, espero que te encuentres bien.
Verdaderamente tu ciudad parece ahora mucho más divertida y animada. Y ya veo que los culos son llamativos en cualquier parte. Me encantan las fotos de reflejos y, bueno, casi todas.
Esta es mi entrada de junio:
https://viaja2photography.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/the-changing-seasons-6/
Espero que te guste.
Saludos, y cuídate.
Thank you Viaja. That ass was a fun surprise in the gallery this month!
I see what you spent great with your new camera, and always seeing a naked ass is cause for laughter and fun comments. Although we believe to be back in all these views , right?
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It’s tulip time there still? Ours are long gone. Interesting to witness the differences. I love your fountains but my favourites are those bike shots. Beautiful! 🙂
I like the bike shots too. Especially the one in colours. And I like the best ass in town! It’s still tulip season.
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I am very late to the party, but I do have a good reason: I was whisked away on a fairytale romance. But, here are my late pictures that I took back on the 12th and the 13th of the month: http://wp.me/p58fTH-YS