magical photo

the magical thing about photography is that you never know what you're going to get. as i contorted myself amongst the stinging nettles to try to catch the right ray of light during the golden hour, i didn't imagine this photograph. but due to the magic of very shallow depth of field (thanks to the 50mm fixed lens, at 1.4 aperture) and the perfect (read: low) light, this was my result. and i think it's magical, even if i do say so myself. and even more, i love that despite it being a digital photo, it has a film-like quality. and it's straight out of my camera, no processing at all, aside from a slight crop on the left. it's a photo you could fall into and get lost.

saturday headache

no real post today, due a splitting headache and riding lessons and parties and stuff. i think i got the headache trying to read the manual for my camera. it's in norwegian. to me, norwegian is more or less intelligible, but like badly-spelled danish. it made my head hurt. now i found one in english online. whew. must go get coffee.

this is the beginning of a lovely relationship

do we look cute together or what? (and if it's "or what,"  don't wanna hear it!) 

scenes from a day

what follows are scenes from my day. i got up at 5:45 a.m. and headed for oslo. see if you can tell when i started using the new nikon D300 that came with my new job. i'll admit, it's pretty good work if you can get it...

shots on the metro

love the double-exposure feel caused by lights in the tunnel and the reflection

you KNOW i had to go there

venti latte

i want!

love!

glossy magazines

norli bookstore

i leave you with the shocking fact that 530 container vessels are laid up around the world. that means taken out of use and "parked" in a fjord or bay or anchorage somewhere. that's a serious lotta vessels and even more containers!  this GEC is scary stuff.

more tomorrow evening when i get home.

ASIDE:  to be honest, i'm not sure you can tell from these particular pictures when i switched cameras...but the location should give it away. i was sneaking a lot of the D300 pix, so i wasn't always looking through the viewfinder or holding still. the proof will show eventually tho'. and the camera feels AMAZING in my hands.