It’s beautiful in other worlds. But coming home and seeing this off your balcony makes up for a lot of things that you can’t see here.
D800, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
D800, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
The biker must be filthy rich… 😉
D800, ISO400, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 14-24mm
It’s the “unpredictable” time here in the Philippines. The weather is unpredictable, it may change from sun into storm in under half an hour.
Today the weather’s been restless pretty much the whole time. Sun when we got into the water. Rain and heavy wind when we came up an hour later. The trip back to shore was rough, and we were already thinking that the second dive may not go. But then it changed again and we went out for the second dive, only to come up an hour later in high waves which made getting back on the vessel quite challenging. The rest of the day the wind has picked up, and the sea’s been rough. High waves, ominous clouds over the horizon, we might be in for a treat during the night.
The clouds in the sky made for a very dramatic picture and the waves rolling in on the beach added to that. I decided to go out with the camera to shoot some pictures.
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
And then it did get rougher. Not completely out of the blue, but still quite sudden.
D800, ISO800, 1/500 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 14-24mm
And then I had to run back to dry the camera. It’s supposed to be … water repellent… Although salt water isn’t the best thing to be bathed in as a camera. I dried and cleaned it as good as I could. For now it’s still working. Hopefully it continues to.
It was one of those evenings again…
I just can’t seem to escape them here… 😉
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 50mm
Last night there was a thunder storm.
It wasn’t really a storm, at least not near to where I live. There was no rain, just some wind and only occasionally did I hear some rumbling in the sky.
But I had a great view over the bay where the lightning came down every so often.
D800, ISO100, 30 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm
Three images put together in Photoshop (CS6, and no, I have no intention on going Cloud).
… said he again in the evening.
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 50mm.
3 images stitched in Photoshop.
Let’s see how often I manage to get up early enough to capture this…
… said he in the evening…
I won’t say any more… Other than that in a few weeks from now I will be looking at this from the hammock on the balcony (if I wake up early enough, that is 😀 ).
D800, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/2, Nikkor 50mm.
3 images stitched in Photoshop.
It’s a season everyone is looking forward to. Especially when you live in a country like Finland, where you’re digging your Life through 5-6 months of snow every year. And that’s Southern Finland (let’s not start about going up north).
And yeah… Finally, after many, many months it really does look like spring’s on its way (save for the snow that’s coming down as I write this).
Spring always comes with surprises. The worst part of the snow melting is all the dog poop that is surfacing and accompanying it the foul smell of it. I could go all into detail and describe to you the gooey… but no, I won’t.
A little colorful flower, which has had the power to withstand the weight of the snow that’s been piled up for way too long, and is now breaking the surface of the snow like the hand of a zombie trying to get out of the soil.
Cars that have disappeared under piles of snow with the winter ongoing, and the snow plows shoving all the snow off the street to the side.
And yeah… It can thus happen, that that big pile of snow looks exactly like… well… a big pile of snow. And a snow plow doesn’t really feel the difference when it piles up more snow, and maybe pushes it a bit further off the street and a bit further toward the pavement.
And yeah… If you happen to be the owner of such a car, and you don’t use your car during winter, then it could just happen that your car actually DOES disappear under said pile of snow.
And yeah… If the snow then melts, and your car happened to have been disguised as a pile of snow, you might just be in for a nasty surprise when the snow melts and your car peeks it’s battered head out of the snow…
Demolished mini van
Demolished mini van
This was absolutely breath-taking. Even if it’s very simple to explain what you see, sometimes it’s hard to actually believe what you see.
And it’s remarkable how the weather influences your perception. We drove by this inlet several times and only once was it like this. When there was even the slightest breeze, and the water would start moving, the dream scenario disappeared instantly.
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm. 6 images stitched in Photoshop.
D800, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
Seeing the Northern Lights isn’t a given. With the unpredictability of the weather up there there’s as much chance of seeing the Lights as there isn’t.
And considering the fact that the Lights are only visible in the evenings and/or at night, it leaves about 12 hours of daylight time to shoot other things. And besides being insanely expensive, Norway is also an insanely beautiful country. At least up in the north where we were.
Sunsets and sunrises, a part of every photographer’s portfolio wherever he/she goes (I’m privileged that I got to see the Lights in the first place, but it would be sooooo cool to catch the them at sunset…)
D800, ISO100, 1/30 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/22, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO800, 8 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 14-24mm
I’ve decided to stick in the cold for a bit.
Last year we went to Norway to shoot the Northern Lights. It almost turned out in one big expensive disappointing trip.
This year we went again, and it turned out in one big great expensive trip (3 Peppe Pizzas for 108,00€: chaCHING!!!!). But the photos we got were absolutely breath-taking. And no need to Photoshop anything into another picture. All these are genuine and -save for some color adjustments here and there (foreground mostly, not the Lights)- unedited.
I’ll not bore you with any superfluous words. Judge for yourself.
D800, ISO800, 15 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO800, 30 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO800, 30 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
D800, ISO800, 79 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm, and a little torch to illuminate the barn to the right for about 15 secs
D800, ISO800, 30 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 14-24mm
Prints are available from here:
My Norway Gallery on Photoshelter (link opens in a new window).