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As the old adage goes, we work to live and not live to work. Well, the jury is still out on that. Not my choice though, but I’m sure getting tired so please excuse me if I won’t be updating the blog for a while.
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Although it might not always seem like that, I’m actually quite shy. It seems like I’m always shy at the wrong place at the wrong time… but anyway, with regard to photography, the shyness rears its ugly head when I see something really nice in someone’s garden or even outside it. Say for example, I’m…
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One of my all time favourite songs is Tänään tahdon laulaa by Kaija Kärkinen & Ile Kallio. For those of you who don’t speak any Finnish, the literal translation is ”Today I want to sing”. Now, I can’t actually sing to save my life. I might occasionally hum quietly when the music is playing so…
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I am normally a very un-analytical person. Things just are the way they are, analysing them always makes me depressed because there’s so much I can’t change and I don’t need the headache. Put this in a small scale and I think I have figured out why I want to take the kind of photographs…
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On my first trip to New York, many years ago, I visited the NBC gift shop. I bought a Third Rock from the Sun t-shirt, I love the series. At the back of the shirt there is a small picture of our planet with the text ”Just visiting”. Somehow that phrase has stayed with me…
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Yesterday when I came from work, I found out that I have a new neighbour. Or sub-tenant. A garden spider had woven its web across my porch, I noticed the web just when my legs were already touching it. I was able to back out without breaking it, so I climbed in from the side,…
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The other day on my favourite photo critique forum a photographer posted an image which to me seemed like some improvements could be made. Someone else had the same thoughts as I did and beat me to it, but the photog was not happy – he had taken an image in the spirit of an…
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I moved to the countryside (well, a small village) last winter. It means more commuting, but I don’t really mind it – the road was one of my favourites already before I moved and I love watching the seasons change in the bogs and small forest lakes along the way. I’m having the time of…
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One of the most important lessons I learned in the early stages of my photography is that you should try remove distracting elements from your image. Just simply keep changing the composition to remove elements that do not contribute to your motif until all that remains is exactly what you want to show with the…
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Sometimes when the conditions aren’t right, you shouldn’t even try to take the photograph because you will only end up with something that doesn’t quite work. I’ve learned the lesson to not take the image to some degree, but there are always times I can’t resist the temptation – basically, take the image against my…