Finding lost treasure
While working on a very special project I have come across some pictures that just stood out and got me in the right mood. Once more they do a fine job and I just wanted to share one of them with you. This also means that the COP15 pictures will be held back, but priorities have taken over.
This one is from the fantastic city of Damascus. A place I’d like to call my second home.
No ISO 100?
I just spend the last hour trying to figure out why my camera was not able to go to ISO 100 or 6400.. I tried all that I could figure out, nothing helped. It came to a point where I was putting on other lenses to see if there was a malfunction in the hardware. I reset the camera and that did not help either.
The thing that worried me the most was that I yesterday shot pictures at ISO 100, this I can see in the meta data on the files, and when I came home I put the camera down on my table and did not use it further. Hmm…
After some figiding around I remembered that I just before putting the camera down was messing around in some sub menu. Found a “Highlight tone priority” control. I put it in enable thinking that you should always prioritize tones. The tone priority also rendered my flash unable to control the light that made me burn out all the images. Lucky enough I was doing a photo shoot with my cup of tea at the time.
The picture above is the test shot I ended up with after figuring it all out. I hope i’ll be ready with the COP15 pictures for my site in the next few weeks. Please all stand by for them they are worth the wait.
The new year has started
Looks like the new year came in the best possible way. This year I had the joy of spending it with some of the best people around me. We had the best party ever and some great food that I had the pleasure of preparing for them.
I’m looking forward to a great year that I’m sure will bring lots of new adventures to my life. My brother and his wife are looking forward to a family expansion and with my father illness that have come to and end, already there is a lot to start out with.
I’m looking forward to posting lots of beautiful pictures, getting better at what I love doing the most, and hopefully get on that road trip that was planned for 2009 but never happened.
Above is me on my couch looking at the first picture that I got printed, and just my luck it was a front page.
Act The Fuck Now
Happy Holidays to everybody. To all the people who I have worked with, to the people who enjoy my work, the visitors of my page and everyone else.
This picture was taken during the COP15. A German activist uses alternative eye catching methods to communicate his views outwards.
Post COP 15
The COP 15 is over and while all the politicians tries to promote the great job they did while in Copenhagen I will be doing the last editing and getting ready to bring you my pics form the 2 weeks of protests, meetings, talks and well more protests.
‘Copenhagen Outcome’
The Copenhagen Outcome is in place at this moment. World leaders have come to a non binding agreement. The last demonstration was held before and during the moment the deal was sealed.
I’ll be using next week to compile my cop 15 series and send the last pictures off to the folks I made deals with. The two pictures below is one from Øksnehallenwhere the NGO’s that could not enter the Bella Center held there last meetings. As the large screen in the back concludes the summit they are doing some concluding of there own. the other is form the last demonstration in front of the parliament. Free the climate prisoners was but one of the messages of the day.
Too many arrests
During the summit there have been some demonstrations going on as one could expect. The police here leaves nothing to chance, to they take as many as they can and holds them over night in the special “climate prison” as preemptive arrests. On the 12Th of December during the biggest demonstration yet, 1.000 people was arrested and held over night. only 4 ended being charged. A lot of criticism has been put on the police but a law here that got passed just before the COP15 summit gives the police the rights to hold anyone back that they feel can pose a threat. below is 5 pictures that show some of the demonstrators.
Don’t buy into there lies
Today was the first real street protest. The plan was to hit different of the polluting companies, shops and office buildings, but due to preventive arrests less then expected arrived and not nearly enough to complete the task. The danish police handled it well, and no real problems arose.
Tomorrow is going to be the big day, about 50.000 is going to attend and Never Trust A Cop, is saying on there website they will stay in the inner city and start the riots. I don’t know yet if ill be heading out to the Bella Center or stay inside the city.
Hopenhagen
On the main square of Copenhagen, Hopenhagen is happening.
Different small green houses have been set up, each with a theme. They are all gathered around a gigantic spinning globe. New CO2 friendly engines, CO2 calculators and a Norwegian shipping manufacturer who has made freighter ships that run on natural gas, is some of the things you can see here. Later today the Tesla electric car will be promoted too.
Hopenhagen have been criticised by some of the NGO’s at the climate forum due to the heavy advertisements and from companies like Siemens and Coca cola who them selves are responsible for a lot of polluting.
Climate Forum
The place where we have our camp is at the Climate Forum. Its an alternative summit for all the NGO’s, artists etc. who are not invited to the actual COP 15. It’s a people summit where all can come and go as they please.
The fundaments of Climate Forum are all the volunteers, from all over. The first picture is two of the volunteers that helped put out chairs, and rig the stage. Then there are two photographers who have done climate projects. Indians and rain forest. There wasn’t much to do today. Tomorrow there will be more to do. I have written one of the more militant activist movements, requesting an interview. Hope they write back.
