Today I woke up to the news of a fire in Copenhagen. Straight after todays assignment and before a meeting, I went by to get a picture of it. The fire was luckily put out so the drama was over. There was a huge number of firetrucks due to the fires close proximity to the Queens palace.
Rain on my boots
Finally it looks like the winter is over, and the rain has come over Denmark. In my point of view this is where the new year starts, not in January. Its now new life emerges from the ground etc. My page also needed new life so welcome to the new theme.
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.
The TV are fixed on Gaza at all the wake hours of the day.
The reactions here on the recent escalations in Gaza is as anyone would expect rage and sorrow. Where ever you go there is a TV tuned into Al Jazeera. My local barber, that I usually go to when my beard gets to full who usually watches soaps, have also tuned in. At my aunts house the TV are fixed on Gaza at all the wake hours of the day. All the radio stations talk about Gaza, or Gazzah’ as they say here, the music stations resort to fund raising through jingles in every commercial break.
I myself have been watching a lot of Al Jazeera English. Being the only news channel on the spot it leaves no other options. The uncensored pictures they send out leaves little doubt in my mind that Israel once again have over engaged a weak community of civilians.
Gaza is one of the worlds most populated place on the earth. The high density of people will give any shell that is fired into the city a very little chance of not hitting civilians. So how is Israel going to go through the mission, removing Hamas while not killing civilians? That is purely up to Israel. If they engage, they must carry the responsibility as well. Leaflets dropped from planes tells the people of Gaza to flee from possible targets. So if a person living in Gaza reads a leaflet does that give the opposing army a carte blanche to bombard the area? The whole situation is a mess. And while the EU decides what to do, the pictures on Al Jazeera keeps rolling.
The picture above show a silent protest down town Damascus.
War in Gaza cancels new years eve, but not all of it…
For new years we went to a restaurant close to our house. As so many other places they had booked live music for the night. As soon as the war broke out in Gaza a wave of cancellations rolled over the Arab world. It’s nice to see how this part of the world, though how chaotic it can seam at times, can find pillars to stand together by.
The dinner did happen, but instead of the live music they held an auction in favor of the people in Gaza. One gentleman won a bid of 20.000 Syrian Pounds (about 300 Euros) on a water pipe.
The live music was canceled but that didn’t mean they couldn’t book a DJ for the night. At first I was in the notion that the restaurants had been a part of the decision to tone down the party activates throughout the whole region, but it seemed I was wrong. In some countries it had been decided at a governmental level but in Syria it was the community of musicians that was the decider. Not that it matters a whole lot, but I must say it fell apart when they just played loud music anyway.
In a time of war, business will be business. Above is a couple letting loose to an Arabic classic.