I cannot think of a better chance for undisturbed productivity than an 8h layover. Enough time for putting together a little new series of photos fresh from Norway. There is no processing in them except some brightness and contrast enhancement. The wet passenger window and my long exposure setting did the rest of the artistic work.You can see them all on the portfolio page.
Beautiful Tromsø
Steffi and I are hunting for aurora borealis up here in the north of Norway. Conditions seemed perfect when we started planning this trip a couple of weeks ago: lots of activity reported and clear skies almost all January and February. Now we get here at a time when the sky should be clearest and see nothing but overcast and lots and lots of rain. As unfortunate as it sounds, it's still a very charming place to visit. We still have a couple of days, so not all hopes for seeing the lights have been given up yet.
New Design and New Portfolio
Finally this website got a new design and another -more selective- portfolio structure. I'm a bit late with writing this post...by now you might have already noticed that everything looks a bit different on here. If not, welcome! Feel free to go on a little tour. I'll be posting a couple more projects to the portfolio soon.Two new picturesWhile putting together this new portfolio I dug out two pictures that I haven't showed on the blog before. To bring this back in balance I'm posting them now. Here they are. The first one is a landscape from Iceland that you can find in the series "HURRY UP WE ARE DREAMING!"The second one is a street photo from Havana. It found a home in the series "THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND."Wow, when I say "series" and call them by their titles...it does sound a little over important. Well, it's not. I just really enjoy creating. I get unsatisfied when I consume for too long without creating and contributing something. So here we go:
Those who wander are never lost
A sentence I read somewhere years ago and has been stuck in my mind ever since. It got stuck because it sounds so smart, bold and confident to me and at the same I just don't understand it.
Why? Because I often wander and when I do I'm constantly lost. And I love that. One could almost say that I wander for the sake for being lost. uhm...wait...I think I just got it.
Happy New Year from Portugal
Wishing you lots of sunshine, iced tea, or whatever it is you need for being happy!
The picture below I took at a spot named Cabo da Roca. And the picture of myself? Credit goes to Soul Season Lifestyle Photography.
Hurry up we are dreaming
Okay, here is a little story. It's stupid and has nothing to do with this photo and will probably destroy its mood, but I want to tell it anyway. Because I'm so annoyed about it. You don't need to read all that. It just feels good to shout it out.
So I recently moved to a new town, and because of that I thought I would socialize a bit by joining a local photography group on Facebook. Fine. People post all kinds of things, some interesting, some less. You know what it's like, everybody has their own things and concerns.
Yesterday a girl posted something telling everybody that she started a new local animal-photography group. Not my thing, but I thought it was legit and probably interesting to some.
Shortly later the group admin deleted the girl's post announcing that posts about other groups are frowned upon and that nobody needs yet another animal photography group. I found that pretty rude and wanted to know what the deal is. So I wrote an own post asking why this is a problem. After all I'm new to the group trying to figure out what's going on. What I got was a shitstorm by him and some of his buddies. Telling me in a military style that "if the admin says so then this is how it goes. PERIOD."
Moreover the all mighty admin kept telling me his sketchy sounding reasons and tried to make me understand that the girl accepted these reasons. As the girl suddenly showed up telling everybody that she in fact did not agree with that, the shittstorm-group asked their admin buddy to delete the discussion. You can really imagine it like a wild mob:
"Delete it!"
"Yeah! Delete it!"
So I suggested that he could delete the discussion, but should let the girl repeat her post about her animal photo group. The response was that if he as the admin starts to agree on deals, everybody will start thinking they can do what they want. ...yeah right!
Then the discussion I started got deleted before I could say something.
...now that I wrote all this down I feel better. Why does stuff like that annoy me so much? I don't know. I'm the calmest person (I'm pretty much like the picture below), but am really allergic to people who aggressively limit others in their freedom due to their own limited brain power. And I'm not saying I'm smarter than anybody, I just hate observing those things or be a victim of such. That must also be the reason why I get quite irritated when reading articles about certain political figures and institutions.
Anyway, feeling better now. Picture is from Scotland, by the way ;-)
