The glimpses of sun have been rare lately…
Only occasionally do the clouds part for long enough
to remind us of the difference between light and shadow.
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Shadow Shot Sunday
Friday, 15 February 2013
Oldest Building – Hedared Stave Church
On our way to Nääs Castle last summer (see FMTSO posts Frozen in Time and Windows and Doors) , we also passed a candidate for the FMTSO theme “oldest building”. It is in fact the oldest surviving building of its kind in Sweden: Hedared Stave Church from 1506.
Landscape photo from the neighbourhood of Hedared.
Friday, 8 February 2013
Windows and Doors – Nääs Castle II
Another FTMSO topic that gives me a reason to show some more photos from a visit to Nääs Castle last summer.
In case you missed the previous post about Nääs, or wish to refresh your memory, you can find it here: Frozen in Time
Nääs Castle
One of the wings in front of the castle
Close-up of entrance to the wing, and an open window
The barn (now stables)
A kitchen window in the basement of the castle
House built for the director of Nääs Craft School in 1878.
▲ Lots and lots of windows in this building… ▼
I’ve been to crafts exhibitions here in the past. There was nothing going on in that room just now – BUT…
… there was an outdoors exhibition to do with building techniques and doors and windows…
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Ruby Tuesday: Blowing in the Wind
Looking out of my window, there was this red balloon hanging from a neighbour’s balcony… swaying in the wind. The answer to the question: What to post for Ruby Tuesday?
Friday, 1 February 2013
Me and My Cameras
My present camera companion: Casio Exilim EX-H30 (bought in May, 2011), here with a flexible “GorillaPod” attached.
For the portrait above I had to use my other digital one, a Nikon Coolpix 4600, bought in spring 2006:
The Coolpix has two advantages which may still sometimes make it useful:
1. It runs on common AA batteries.
2. It has an optical viewfinder.
However, the Exilim has a very good battery and can take LOTS of pictures before need of recharging. It has no optical viewfinder but it has a much better zoom. So I very rarely use the Coolpix now (except for tricky challenges like how to show you the back of the other one!).
I got my first camera when I was nine (back in 1964). It was an old one I ‘inherited’ from my dad, who also processed our black-and-white films himself back then.
My little brother with two playmates in 1965. Photo taken by me (at 10 years old) with my first camera; reproduced here with help of my present camera and a bit of digital editing, because the original is glued into an album with spiral spine which won’t lie flat on the scanner!
I don’t remember the name of that first camera or what happened to it. I never got very good at handling the manual settings. Through my teens and into my twenties, I had two or perhaps even three instamatics. At least one of them was a Kodak pocket one using the 110 format.
In 1983 before a journey to Germany I bought an Olympus XA2 with 3-zone autofocus, which allowed me to also take diapositives. That camera came to serve me well enough for 23 whole years until I bought my first digital one.
▲ Image of an XA2 from the Internet
A winter picture taken with the XA2 in 1984. Back then I was living in Karlstad north of Lake Vänern, and they were still floating timber down the river Klarälven.
Nowadays I live close to another river, Viskan.
Photo from December 2012.
Today (1 February 2013)
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