B&W Challenge 4-5: Early Winter Morning

The wonderful Ksenia has challenged me to post black & white photos for the up-coming five days. It took me a few weeks to notice that I’d been challenged, but better late than never!

In return I nominate Robyn @ robynsfineart.wordpress.com/

In order to take this challenge, you must post B&W photography for the next five days, and each day nominate another photographer to enter the challenge. Good luck!
(Needless to say, but of course you can also choose to not participate or to do it later if it doesn’t fit your current schedule).

Also check out Photo101 rehab: http://luciledegodoy.com/2014/12/04/photo101-rehab/ or some more sunny shots in Paula’s Thursday post: http://bopaula.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/thursdays-special-sunset/

Edit: Robyn has accepted the challenge. http://robynsfineart.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/bw-challenge-day-1-of-5/

Tønsberg Vinterlandskap

Tønsberg Winter Landscape

This is an old photo, shot back in 2009 with my Canon EOS 300D. It’s a small Norwegian village called Tønsberg.

The Oslo Opera in B&W

There’s not much to say about this post. The title says it all really. If you want to see more photos from the Oslo Opera, you can follow my tag: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/tag/oslo-opera/

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.

Cotton candy

Tracks in the snow

Cold wind

Full moon

Mr. Claus

This guy partied too hard and didn’t make it through the festive season.

Decorated streets

Check out these images/logos for the Weekly Photo Challenge 2013:

https://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/

Winter on the mountain and in the city

Two pictures from Norway. I believe they were both shot in 2006, but I’m not sure and it doesn’t really matter anyway.

Winter on the mountain (2006?)

Winter in the city (also 2006?)

The mountain photo is shot in Valdres, the city photo in Tønsberg.

The Home of the Giants: Jotunheimen

I’ve posted a lot of photos from Portugal lately and there’s still more to come, but to break up the posts a little bit and to keep some sort of variation in the blog: here’s some photos from Norway! Some of you might have seen my previous posts about the Stave Churches located in Valdres, or the post about the Ancient Grinding Mills? If you haven’t read them, you can find them all under the category Stave Churches.

Jotunheimen, Valdres.

Here’s another couple of photos from that same area that I felt like sharing. On the photos you can see the mountain range Jotunheimen as well as the mountains Grindafjellet and Syndin, while you catch up on your Norse Mythology.

Frozen Water by the Pier

Here’s a black & white photo that I shot last week down by the pier.

Amazing winter-colors (Weekly Photo Challenge)

I posted a winter photo from Oslo just a few days ago and today, as luck would have it, the theme for the Weekly Photo Challenge is “Winter”. Here are a couple of more winter photos that I shot the other day, except from the last one which is from winter 2009. I wanted to share with you how beautiful the sky can be during the winter.