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2009-07-03



(Still) coming soon:

  • A lot of photos from the absolutely fantastic conference on Svalbard.
  • Photos and blog entry from Easter time spent with my father in Ålesund. Preview
  • Photos and blog entry from our cabin trip to Iglbu. Preview
  • More impressions from the absolutely fantastic summer weather that hit Trondheim end of April. Preview
  • Photos from new Under Dusken assignments. Preview
  • A video from a day at the fjord (provided I don't run into unexpected technical difficulties).

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Miniramp joys

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The last couple of days, Luka, Fabien, and I spent a lot of our spare time in Svartlamon, close to the harbor in Trondheim. The skate hall is closed for summer now, so the all brand new miniramp is a fantastic spot to work on one's skating abilites, hang out, and have the occasional BBQ.
Last time I took my camera gear with me and I got to try my new Elinchrom Skyports for the first time. Those small things are nothing but radio triggers, that now enable me to trigger my flash units remotely via radio transmission. Neat!
The fantastic thing about that, however, is that it is 100% reliable, unlike the optical triggering I have been using so far. There always had to be a clear line of sight between the camera and the flashes and the distance over which the flashes could be triggered was limited to about 10m to 20m, depending on ambient light levels. Not having to worry weather my flashes actually fire or not for a chance is a HUGE boost in usability. So now I can use artificial light as much as 100m away from the camera and through walls and the like! If I wish, that is :wink:

Summer

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Summer finally came to Trondheim! After a whole month with below average temperatures and a lot of clouds and rain, we are now having a bit of a "heat wave". For a whole week we have had nothing but sunshine and daily highs of 25°C to 28°C.
Needless to say, I was spending A LOT of time on the beach, the harbor, and at the magnificent brand new miniramp they built in Svartlamon (I finally managed to do a rock to fakie by the way - pictures will follow soon!). One of those warm summer days, we went to a small place called Sjøbadet which is somewhat a private open air bath in the harbor. Normally one has to pay to get in but in the evening hours it's fine. It's really not much more than a bigger wooden terrace with a jumping tower thingy. Anyway, was nice to relax there after some skating and the sea water is not half as bad for swimming as one might expect from a place as far north as Northern Alaska!
Check out the photos, hope they carry some of the nice summer atmosphere!


Speaking of photos: I got my new Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens and I like it! All above mentioned photos were taken with it.

Sneak Preview on New Zealand

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Howdy! I've been quite busy this month which is basically why it turned that quiet around here. I had to take an exam last week (went quite okay by the way) and therefore needed to study quite a bit on the fairly trivial topic of quantum field theory of non-equilibrium states :wink:
But recently I finally started to edit the massive amount of photo material we took home from our trip to Australia and New Zealand. It will take me a lot more time to be done with those photos, I feel like I don't want to rush things here really. But looking at those photos after a longer time of not thinking about them so much made me realize how fantastic this trip was and how lucky I am to have gone there with the best girl ever! I hope we can go back one day to take in some more of the absolutely stunning nature of New Zealand. If only it weren't so far away *sigh*
So anyhow, here is a sneak preview on what's to come, hope you enjoy it!








Our garden

...okay, it's nor really our garden. But, nonetheless, this is the view I got when I looked out of the windows today for a moment and it just made me feel all warm inside. Hope I can carry some of that spring evening warmth over to you with this shot :smile: