Early mornings

Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Posted in History, Landscape, Nature, Norway, Photography, TravelTagged black and white, Drammen, early, fog, landscape, leica, monochrom, mornings, outdoors, q2m, weather3 Comments

I get up early most days, it’s one of the few advantages of being a boarder line insomniac. It meansI have plenty of time to cycle the 18 km’s to work before the local town is awake or have even thought about waking up.

I’m lucky in that at least nearly a half of my route takes me along the river path where there are lots of things I can record and the weather is never the same.

This Picture was taken at around 04.30 in the morning everything was totally quiet even the ducks were sleeping when I rolled to a stop by this old stone quay.

It was a foggy start that day so there was plenty of atmosphere I took this low shot which a mate said looked like the cover of some new Scandinavian Crime novel. Anyway just to show the difference I took a similar shot next day without fog and a different aperture setting.

Leave a comment and let me know which you like best.

Worldwide Pinhole Day Balls of Steel

Posted on May 13, 2014 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 120, 6X17, black and white, Drammen, kodak, Monochrome, Pinhole, T-Max, vermeerLeave a comment

Here is my last shot from Worldwide Pinhole day. This time I really got some “Lens flare”, if you can call a little hole a lens. As you can see the sun shone at an angle to the camera and there is some internal reflections going on. Gave a strange effect I wasn’t expecting.

Worldwide Pinhole Day:Ypsilon Bridge

Posted on May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 Posted in Landscape, Norway, Photography, TravelTagged 6X17, black and white, bridge, curvedplane, Drammen, kodak, norge, Pinhole, Tmax, v700, vermeer, wwphd, ypsilonLeave a comment

WWPHD was a wonderful sunny one. I was down to 6-7 second exposure for this shot. I must learn to tilt the camera up a bit as I cut the top of the bridge and have a little to much foreground. But it’s pinhole so you live and learn to put up with small framing mistakes.

Film: Kodak T-Max 120 roll film 100 ASA
Dev: Adox Adonal 1:100 stand developed for 60mins at 20˙C Inversions for the first minute and 3 at the half way point.
Scan: Epson V700 using Silverfast SW and a Betterscanning .com Holder with anti-newton glass

Worldwide Pinhole Day

Posted on April 28, 2014April 28, 2014 Posted in Landscape, Norway, PhotographyTagged 6X17, adox adonal, black and white, Drammen, Norway, Pinhole, stand develop, Tmax, vermeer, worldwide pinhole dayLeave a comment

Union Brygge Drammen.
Taken with my Vermeer 6X17 curved plane pinhole camera. Exposure was 30sec at f/300.
Film Kodak T-Max 100ASA
Stand developed for 60 mins in Adox adonal 1:100 at 20˚C.Inversions for the first minute and 3 at 30mins.
Scanned on an Epson V700

Ypsilon II

Posted on April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 Posted in UncategorizedTagged "Nikon 24-70 f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S", "Nikon D800", black and white, blackandwhite., bridge, Drammen, Monochrome, Norway, river, ypsilon3 Comments

Ypsilon II, a photo by Davidap2009 on Flickr.

I thought this upturned boat made a nice pointer to the bridge in the distance. It also adds some foreground interest and depth to the shot.

Ypsilon Bridge

Posted on March 31, 2013March 31, 2013 Posted in UncategorizedTagged "Nikon 24-70 f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S", "Nikon D800", black and white, bridge, Drammen, Monochrome, Norway, ypsilonLeave a comment

Ypsilon Bridge, a photo by Davidap2009 on Flickr.

The wonderful Ypsilon Bridge in Drammen my local town.

Walking The River

Posted on March 30, 2013March 30, 2013 Posted in PeopleTagged "Nikon 24-70 f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S", "Nikon D800", black and white, blackandwhite., Drammen, Monochrome, Norway, river, streetLeave a comment

Walking The River, a photo by Davidap2009 on Flickr.

I helps to remember your SD cards when going for a walk. This time I did just that.
This is a hip shot . I left the crazy angle in.I think it lends a little to the dynamic of the shot. I tried to straighten the image it just looked too ordinary.