Upload a day week two 8 - 14 January

January 8th

This is a slide that I took on my way to Reykjavík, this is shot on the mountain road just before entering the capital. This was one of my first slide films and I had not shot much with my Olympus OM2 before. So when I think of it today I think the exposure is kind of good comparing to how little training I had had with this camera. Even it seems a bit dark in the bottom the film isn’t this dark but the color profile for the internet is just not batter than this.

January 9th

On day when I went out running I passed this place and I thought to my self that this would be a great place to photograph, I think the different color heat in this photo does a lot for the photo otherwise it would not have the same feeling to it. For me it is hard to describe what I think about this photo because I just don’t have any words that would describe it the way I feel. I just think it is so mystical.

January 10th

Close to the flat that I lived in last summer there was a night market, it was in a walking distance. We went there several times to buy some food. Most of the times we went to this vendor to buy some curry’s. I think it is so special to go out and buy a curry in a plastic bag. I guess that I’m just not used to that in Iceland. I usually bought Massaman because that’s my favorite curry, specially with chicken and rice.

January 11th

This photo was shot in late September and it was shot with my Olympus OM2 loaded with TX 400. I was in a sheep roundup with my uncle at a neighbors farm, we went there to help them out because that day we had not planed anything special. It was a lot of fun to be there with all these sheep’s, so much action. I started the day with my film camera but then unfortunately the battery was finished and for some reason I had forgotten to pack extras in my bag but I just started to shoot digital there after and some of the shot are in the farm collection in the sheep’s set.

January 12th

This photo was shot when I was just arriving to the paradise island Koh Larn close to Pattaya in Thailand. I saw this fishing boat just arriving home. I don’t have much to say about this photo but I just wanted to share it.

January 13-14th

I shot this while on a trip with my family, we had just gone to Laos because I had to renew my visa and when suddenly we saw a rocket fly up into the air. So of corse we wanted to go and check it out, my family already knew what was going on and I had a clue but it was something I had not seen before only heard of. There was a big group of farmers standing all around something made out of bamboo with blue rockets attached to it. I ran to it with my camera because this was something that I did not want to miss. There were mostly men standing there and looking up into the sky, they were betting on which rocket would go highest. This is a tradition in Thailand to shoot rockets at this time of year. It is a way for the farmers to remind the gods that they have already planted the rice and now they need rain. This has been done for hundreds of years and I was told that NASA used they same methods when they started shooting spacecrafts into space. I don’t know if it was because of these rockets but when we had just entered the car to go back home, it started raining.

Upload a day 1-7 January

Since on 1st of January I have been uploading a photo each day, most of them are photos from last year but since I have not been active enough to upload I thought I would try to upload more so this year I am going to upload a photo every day and try each week to upload at least one new. Even tough one day I would fail to upload an image I not going to stop, I guess I will just upload two the next day.

January 1st
The Year started with a photo of fireworks which was the following day stolen by a web page for MS organization in Norway. I know it is an organization for a really bad disease but still they should not post a photo without asking for permission, I would probably have allowed it if they had asked. So after this incident I started putting a brush over my photos with my web address on it. I really don’t like putting copyright notice over my photo because I usually put it in the metadata and in the description but now since I found out that some other photos have been stolen I am going to start putting my web address across the images.

January 2nd
This photo I took two years ago but I saw it while I was organizing some old photos. This was shot in the north of Thailand just after I had slept in a tent up on a mountain that was a part of one of the great national parks in Thailand. We were driving of the mountain when suddenly I saw this amazing landscape and mystic color so I asked if we could stop so I could take some photos. This is a view over a rice field and there is a small hut in the field where the workers rest on their breaks.

January 3rd
This photo was taken in my fiancées home town actually it is her grandmother preparing for the morning market the next day. I think she is really amazing because even though see does not need to do any work she still sells things at the market just so she has something to do. She likes to do it mostly because then she meets more people and has a purpose in life. She is a really interesting woman.

January 4th
This photo I took in July when I was leaving Bangkok to go back to Khon Kaen. We drove past this place and I thought to my self that it would have been nice to photograph them but I didn’t ask to stop the car, which I started to regret soon after but for some amazing my mother-in-law forgot something at her sisters house so we had to turn back and get is so when we were at this place I asked to be left outside because I wanted to take some photos and I started by photographing the field and then I moved closer to these women to photograph, then I moved closer to them holding my camera in one hand then I moved it closer to my face showing them that I wanted to take a photo and when they just smiled I knew it was ok to photograph them that photo you can see here but the photo below is the photo for this day.

January 5th
This photo was taken in May while I was still in Bangkok and I was walking to a market on my way to a mall and on my way I saw this vendor, preparing food on the street like so many others.

January 6th
This photo is taken while I was on a road trip with my girlfriend and we were driving from Húsavík on our way to the east part of Iceland. I was going quickly through some old photos. I saw this photo and I decided to post it only thing bad about it is the way the internet messes up the colors even thought the color profile is srgb.

January 7th
This photo was taken with an Olympus OM2 with Kodak TX 400 film using Zukkor 50mm f 1.8. I was in a sheep roundup while I was a worker on my uncle’s farm. We went to help other farmers that live close by. It was a lot of fun to go there and my uncle told me to take photos of everything because it is a lot of action there and a lot of fun as well. I uploaded my digital photos from this day last year and they are all in a set called Sheep’s in the collection Farming, Her is a link to the set. That day I shot both digital and film because when I went inside I needed to shoot much higher iso than my film was and also I wanted some color digital photos.

I will try to write something about all of the photos and the next seven days will come soon.

My first exhibition

Well, I have finally managed to scan the photos from my exhibition since last April. I just uploaded them to my flickr, they will go to the webpage soon.

The theme for this exhibition is the streets in March. I used only film in this project and I shot it with my Olympus OM2 with Ilford HP5 at iso 400. I wanted to show the coldness of March. I also enlarged the photos in an agfa enlarger on Ilford paper.

I have for a while wanted to try something like this, photographing the street by film and specially when its snowing. I just love the way the snow is on the photos, it makes them look a bit grainier  and more street.

I just want to make it clear that photoshop was not used in any of the photos and the frame around the photos is the film frame so they have not been cropped at all.