Street portrait. Jerusalem, February 2019.
Hasidic jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Street Photo
Category Archives: Black/White
Black & White Photos
Awakening
Good morning!
For WPC: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/awakening/
Get in touch if you’re in Oslo and want to do some model shoots.
The Changing Seasons: September 2017
September is here and brought autumn with her. This is the third consecutive year that I cover September in this challenge and after this (as you probably already know) there’s only 3 months left of the year.
Oslo Opera, Bjørvika.
Petra | Jordan
Petra, Jordan.
Petra, Jordan.
Posted for Paula’s B&W Sunday.
Waiting for Whatever
These photos are from a series I’ve named «The Punk Years». I’m not sure what we were waiting for, back when we were teens, but I guess it was for something to happen. Anything. Hopefully something cool and exciting.
At the docks… from «The Punk Years».
In Memory of Gunhild 1978 – 2017
I shot these with my first digital camera back in the summer of 1999. They’re all I have left now. These and a handful of faded memories.
In Memory of Gunhild 1978 – 2017
Tattoo Artist Ronnie Cyndi
WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge this week asks us to post something that’s unusual (in some way for you). If you’ve seen my previous post, you already know that I was in Belfast during the weekend to attend the 4th Titanic International Tattoo Convention.
Tattoo artist Ronnie Cyndi.
Mango Sticky Rice
Near the Wat Pho temple in Bangkok you can get some really good sticky rice. It’s a small, confined space – a tiny place where the only thing they serve is mango sticky rice.
Preparing mango sticky rice, Bangkok, Thailand.
It might look dangerous the way she’s chopping away at the mango, but the chef is in full control.
You Wanna What My Moth? (Warning: Art Heavy Post)
A photoshopped version of a painting from a museum in Firenze. The original was painted by Agnolo di Cosimo (a.k.a. Bronzino (1503-1572)).
I wanna f**k your moth / Self-portrait as chubby moth molester and bird trainer. (Original painting: Agnolo Bronzino, Doppio ritratto del Nano Morgante (fronte))
Can you handle an art heavy post? Then keep on reading.
Samsung Building Milano
Samsung, Milano
Havnelageret Reflections
Havnelageret, Langkaia 1, Oslo.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/shadow-2017/
The Changing Seasons: January 2017
The Changing Seasons is here again. Like they say: “new year, new possibilities”, or perhaps you’re one of those people who don’t want to get out of your comfort zone? In that case: “New year, same, same”. Either way you’re welcome to join this challenge that will run throughout the year.
Havnelageret, Langkaia 1, Oslo.
How you interpret “the changing seasons” is all up to you: a painting or perhaps a digital manipulation? One photo, a gallery with plenty of photos? Photos of the same place each month or different spots? A recipe (with an illustration photo that you’ve shot), your aging face, your declining health? Street, flash or portrait photography?
Be creative or don’t.
The photographer’s Mise en place
Mara Eastern said in a post on my other blog that she wanted to see some nude dudes. Well, tomorrow I’m shooting a friend (he won’t be nude – sorry Mara), so today I decided to clean the camera, test the flash, charge the batteries etc, etc. The photographer’s Mise en place. Which again led to this self-portrait.
Testing different flash settings… Self-portrait. I still got stuff attached to me after a hospital visit yesterday (had to document it).
Mise en place (French pronunciation: [mi zɑ̃ ˈplas]) is a French culinary phrase which means "putting in place" or "everything in its place." It refers to the set up required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift.[1] - Wikipedia
Resilient Retrospective 2016
Here’s my resilient retrospective post for the last photo challenge I’ll participate in this year. I didn’t shoot all these photos in 2016, but I edited and posted them in 2016.
Tattooed Sailor
Some old-school ink for all you tattoo lovers out there. I found this at a museum in Oslo.
Tattooed sailor. Forsvarsmuseet, Oslo.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Anticipation
Skull with Curly Hair
Skull with curly hair. Model: Magdalena
I’ll admit that this portrait is shot using artificial light. I might also have altered the image slightly using software. If you ever come across a woman looking like this, then quickly head for a new horizon..
Check out Paula’s post for more B&W Sunday stuff or WordPress for more horizons:
Weird Portrait
Double magnifying glass portrait of the day.
Weird portrait…
For WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge: New Horizon
Conceptual Photography
Surrealism.
Conceptual Photography
It is more about the message of a photo than about what is in the photo. Some artists intend to be clear in their messages, in illustration of their ideas, and some do not care if they will be understood or misinterpreted. – Paula
See more entries in Paula’s post:
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/thursdays-special-conceptual-photography/
Vodka Skull B&W
I usually forget to join Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness posts, but not this time!
Vodka Skull
This skull is filled with vodka and it’s pretty cool.
Do you want to see the colour version of this? Check out my other blog: https://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/vodka-skull/
Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness: http://leannecole.com.au/mm-3-23-monochrome-madness/
B&W Sunday: Lysebotn
A little teaser of what’s to come in this blog.
Lysebotn
This is Lysebotn on the West coast of Norway.
Check out Paula’s black & white photo this Sunday:
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/black-white-sunday-composition/
The Changing Seasons: July 2016
My changing seasons post this month is a scheduled post.
I don’t have many photos from this month (yet) and the ones that I do have is basically just different takes on the same scene. I went nuts on the post-processing, but it was fun and I don’t regret it! Hehe. Hopefully, after the summer, I’ll have plenty of landscape photos and lots of portraits to share with you.
July: Cityscape and flaming sunset.
I also had time to create something artistic for the V2 (version 2) part of the challenge this month.
This is a double exposure (post-process) of a nude model that I shot in a studio and a monkey skull I captured at a scientific museum (Yes, I’m a geek that sometimes do “boring stuff” like visiting museums).
What’s this «Changing Seasons» blogging challenge?
«The Changing Seasons 2016» is a blogging challenge with two versions: the original (V1) which is purely photographic and the new version (V2) where you can allow yourself to be more artistic and post a painting, a recipe, a digital manipulation, or simply just one photo that you think represents the month. Anyone with a blog can join this challenge and it’ll run throughout 2016. It doesn’t matter if you couldn’t join the first month(s), late-comers are welcomed. These are the rules, but they’re not written in stone – you can always improvise, mix & match to suit your own liking:
These are the rules for Version 1 (The Changing Seasons V1):
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
- Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery.
- Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
These are the rules for Version 2 (The Changing Seasons V2):
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
- Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month.
- Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
Links to participants:
- https://tishfarrell.com/2016/07/20/changing-seasons-julys-the-time-for-ladys-bedstraw-up-on-windmill-hill/
- https://andytownend.com/2016/07/21/changing-seasons-v2-seven/
- https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/july-2016-the-changing-seasons/
- http://lisadorenfest.com/2016/07/22/july/
- http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.no/2016/07/hypnose-gratuite.html
- https://mylifelivedfull.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/changing-seasons-the-lost-month-of-july/
- https://teepee12.com/2016/07/25/the-changing-seasons-july-2016-rebirth-and-drought/
- https://emiliopasquale.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/cardinal-guzmans-changing-seasons-july-2016/
- https://patriciasplace.me/2016/07/27/july-in-my-neighborhood/
- https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/july-the-changing-seasons-v2/
- https://robynsfineart.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/june-and-july-behind-the-scenes/
- https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/the-changing-seasons-july/
- https://playingwithmyfirstdslrcamera.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-changing-seasons-2016-july/
- https://maraeastern.com/2016/08/01/changing-seasons-712/
- https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/changing-seasons-2016-july/
- https://cornwallincolours.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/monthly-photo-challenge-july/
- https://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-changing-seasons-july-2016
- https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/july-the-changing-seasons-v2/
- https://musingsofafrequentflyingscientist.com/2016/08/23/beautiful-brisbane-july-2016/
- https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/july-2016-the-changing-seasons/
- I’ll add links to your posts here every now & then…
Also make sure to out my spreadshirt shop:
Norwegian shop (NOK):
https://shop.spreadshirt.no/1123203/
English (EURO):
http://shop.spreadshirt.no/100035802
God and Man at Yale
In her latest post, Paula asks the question: «Mirrors do not always show the true state of things, do they?».
No, they don’t. Mirrors flip everything in a Z direction. If you’re interested in the physics behind it, you can check out Physics Girl on YouTube and her video “Why do mirrors flip horizontally (but not vertically)?”. A self-portrait is kind of like a way of mirroring yourself, but I can assure you that this digitally manipulated self-portrait does not really mirror the true state of things…
God and Man at Yale
Speaking of self-portraits: For a while I’ve been contributing to a blog that posts self-portraits, but recently I got banned from this blog and all my works there got deleted. Here are the reasons and I’ve added my comments to it as well:
There have now been three instances where I have chosen to delete comments from you – twice on the blog and once on Instagram.
1. A comment lacking sensitivity towards a cross-dressing contributor.
– When I wrote the comment I misunderstood and thought that the cross-dresser was dressing up for the photo, so I wrote something like “this is hilarious and brilliant”. A few minutes later I realized that I was mistaken and immediately withdrew my comment and explained the reason.
2. ‘Woo hoo’ in response to the first full frontal female nude that I posted. You’ve told me that that’s what you say when you like something, but I found it inappropriate in this context.
– Woohoo is a compliment and besides: if a person doesn’t want feedback on his/hers photos, then they shouldn’t post them online.
3. On Instagram: The cruel treatment of battery hens is no cause for making jokes. The suffering of any sentient being is abhorrent.
Of course you are entitled to your views and opinions, but I am entitled to censor as I see fit on my sites.
– What? We’re getting offended on behalf of the chicken population of the world now? I was inspired by a comedian that made some jokes on free range chickens (Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live | Fowl Play | Channel 4) and wrote some hilarious comments on one of your posts with a chicken photo.
Grow the fuck up. If you can’t handle comments, you shouldn’t run a blog. Getting offended on behalf of chickens? That’s just beyond retarded.
Here’s Steve Hughes thoughts on being offended:
That’s it for today’s Thursday’s Special post.
Go check out what Paula’s up to: https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/thursdays-special-mirroring/
Thursday’s Special
Det Gode Selskab – Rooftop Party @ Rockefeller
Some photos from Det Gode Selskabs rooftop Party at Rockefeller, Oslo. 28.05.2016.
Thanks to the organizers, dj’s and the numbers of people that showed up to make this party so great!
More photos from the event here:
https://www.instagram.com/cguzmanofficial/
https://flic.kr/s/aHskAGKhwp
Ilaparken
For Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness.
Ilaparken, Oslo.
https://leannecolephotography.com/2016/04/14/mm-3-1-monochrome-madness/
Cardinal Guzman 