It’s been many years since I picked up my professional DSLR camera and tried to take some photos with it. But last week I got a few hours to myself, grabbed the camera and went to the local park.
I took a few photos that I was quite happy with, but I think my favorite has to be this photo of a pond skater, which I snapped leaping out of the water as it left a nice ripple effect behind it, on the surface of the pond.
If you zoom in on the original photo (not necessarily the compressed Internet-ready version), you can see all the detail in the ripples of water and also the tiny little back legs stretched out to project it into the air.
I’m pretty much convinced that no matter how hard humans try we can’t make anything as beautiful as the things we see in nature.
We made it. The year is 2020 and if you are reading this I’m going to presume you are one of the lucky ones who made it through Christmas and New Years celebrations in one piece.
This is the first blog post of the year, a mere 14 days in. With any luck, I’ll remember to post a little more regularly throughout the upcoming year. If you want to be at the cutting edge of these blog post updates, make sure you subscribe to the blog.
So, what’s happening?
I bought a new camera.
After noticing that I have a lot of expensive photography equipment that gets used twice a year, it was time for a spring clean. During Spring 2020, I will sell all the DSLR cameras and lenses that are collecting dust. In the meantime, I picked up a Sony Cybershot RX100 IV.
Since it’s a small compact camera, I don’t expect to be taking the professional-level nature and wildlife photography I was hoping to with the DSLR. Yet, the new camera is small enough to fit in my pocket and carry around with me most of the time. It’s great to whip from the pocket and sporadically snap what I see.
Like these two unedited examples:
And also the photo at the top of this post (of the two cats) is from the new Sony.
New logo for oslo.town
Maybe you read the blog post about oslo.town or maybe you didn’t. Either way, what you need to know is that I was using the Oslo Kommune logo for the site, but recently made a few tweaks so it looked similar, but different.
I have turned St. Hallvard, the patron saint of Oslo, considered a martyr because of his defence of an innocent thrall woman… into a mastodon elephant. Yep. Sorry about that.
Charitable efforts
I’m not here to blow my own trumpet, but I made an effort to sign up once more as a volunteer at the Norwegian Red Cross. At least once a week, I’ll be helping out at a homeless shelter in Oslo.
Ine owns horses. This means that every once in a while, I follow her to the stables. We take the horses and dogs on walks through the woods behind the stables and it’s nice to be out with the animals.
Here’s a selection of photos I snapped a during 2018 when I took my film camera with me to the stables.
