Colour vs Black and White

I've finally become well enough to be able to sit up straight for more than ten minutes at a time (I'm up to half an hour! Whoop whoop!), so I've decided to dive into the old photo-folders from earlier this summer and see what I can make of them.. and since I have, until recently, been unable to calibrate my screen properly, I've been going for a lot of black and white experimentation. And it's been really neat. I like the extreme variations you can get from simply going monochrome vs colour. 

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But sometimes I can't really decide which I like better.. and that's where these photos come into it all.. I like them both, for different reasons. The colour version makes me think of elven forests and summer and all that good jazz.. magical mysteries. But the black and white one brings out chaotic forms, a gloomy look and more of a "twisted and turned in the moment of death" type of vibe.. and I like them both. And I think I also like the base-photo even better because the same image can show two entirely different worlds.. just with some minor editing. 

Imagination and Forests.

Sometimes you find things that immediately sends your mind on a journey through fairytale-like stories and worlds much more magical than this one. Roots can become monsters climbing out of the forest floor, with long and deformed hands, and a tentacled mouth reaching out to eat you! ;) 

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Good news everyone!

One of my photos will be at an exhibition in September!

"The exhibition consists of three modules / parts that are right next to each other. Your photo is thought to be "top picture" of all this, that is, it probably must be trimmed slightly to be more" panoramic " and it must be divided into three parts."

"the 2nd of Setpember is the international wetlands day that we mark, with activities and talks, and with the official opening of the new exhibition."

For anyone who is interested in seeing it, the exhibition it will be at:

Fetsund Lenser
Lundveien 3
1900 Fetsund
Norway

More information about the place:  http://fetsundlenser.no/besoksinformasjon.html

A motherload of motifs!

There's not going to be much philosophy going on in this post, since I've been pretty preoccupied lately. Just some nice photos for you to look at :) 

I had been feeling sick for a few days, but when Sondre and Magnus asked me to come along on a short trip out to where Magnus' family has a cabin, I couldn't refuse :) and I found a lot of nice things to photograph.. this tiny flower for instance. 

After a bit of climbing and rummaging around in bushes I found this old tree :) and standing knee deep in tick-infested underbrush was definitely worth it x)

Forcing a New View

After months of pneumonias and colds, and moving etc, I've finally started to feel a little better and I've even been out a couple of times with my camera. However, after I got a wide angle lens for xmas I've been thinking about how I usually only go around looking for the same kind of views and motifs whenever I go out. So with a couple of new lenses I decided to try to force myself to start looking for new things. By limiting myself to only one lens each time I go out, I have to force myself to look at the world from a new perspective. I've gotten so used to the macro-oriented style that it can feel a little uninspiring. So the first time I went out, I decided to only use my wide angle lens, and this was one of the results:

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There are more photos from that trip, but I haven't gotten around to editing them yet.

I liked the way this made me think and made me search for new views, so I did it again only this time with my telezoom. I was extremely lucky with the light too.. there was a very, very thin mist hanging over the entire landscape, and if not for the bright sunlight it would have been easy to miss.

These are some of the results:

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The last set of photos can also be viewed here: Google + Album: A New View :)

So in conclusion: experimentation is important, and above all else; fun.