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A life for you?

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Are you like me? Living a city life with TV, radio, internet, smartphone etc. Look at this! This is about another life, in another part of the world. Close to nature, very close.

A life for me? No! I admire Slava, but no. Thank you. Just looking at the beautiful photographs is fine.

Slava Korotki is a meteorologist who lives in Khodovarikha, northern Russia, on an Arctic outpost that’s an hour away by helicopter from the nearest town. Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva grew up in the Arctic, and happened upon Slava living in the past. She spent three weeks shooting him as he worked, rowed his homemade boat and built matchstick houses in an Arctic timewarp

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/26/evgenia-arbugaeva-weather-man-the-most-cut-off-man-on-earth-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/26/slava-of-the-arctic-worlds-most-extreme-weatherman-evgenia-arbugaeva-photographs

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Lost and found

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The Swedish photographer Håkan Ludwigson spent time in Australia in the 1980´s covering cowboys. But: Håkan Ludwigson’s images showcase the brutal beauty of Australia’s cattlemen and women. Shot in the 1980s and initially unappreciated for being too graphic, they form an uncompromising study of outback life and the individuals who pursue it.

Too graphic? Are you kidding? Isn´t that what makes images strong and interesting. However after all these years they are finally being presented in a book. Balls and bulldust / Steidl Books.

First a link to the article ( in The Guardian ) and then a link to the publisher with more great images. The square format is the Hasselblad Trade Mark. Håkan masters it and mentiones that because he was using middle format it was not the same as 35mm. He worked slower. Sometimes he also used flash  and that slowed the process even more. The result is amazing and I am happy that these great images finally can get the audience they deserve.

I am wondering.  Because he is from a country very far away from Australia, how does that effect his eyes and senses to this strange and different world? Are they more sensitive perhaps than if he was Australian? Perhaps…

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/04/balls-and-bulldust-the-raw-1980s-photos-of-cattle-stations-that-time-almost-forgot

https://steidl.de/Books/Balls-and-Bulldust-1420273438.html

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Best of the rejected

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I can only laugh. The other day I gave my own images a second chance. Now I find these images that are rejected from a juried art show, but good enough to get a second chance. In another exhibition.

This is something I often wonder about exhibitions. How does the other images look like, the ones not chosen. Would i like them more? On the other hand it is a different thing altogether to see an exhibition that makes you upset or angry. It gets you going and sometimes that is much more creative. I think. In so many competitions, second best is often best.

Portrait Salon describes itself as a salon des refuses – an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show. Founded by Carole Evans and James O Jenkins in 2011 it aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organized annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), in London.

This portrait of Frank Carter is by London-based Phil Sharp.

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34710461

http://www.portraitsalon.co.uk/

I found this in BBC, of course.

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Experience

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Experience is a good thing. It tells me, and also the thermometer, that it is getting colder and we will soon have winter. After all I am living in northern Europe. Not much of a surprise. It is the same every year. I can also look at some of my images from the past and realize that it will soon look like this again. Any day soon. The country in winter clothing.

Dress warm! But perhaps you live in another climate?

There used to be boats chained with these chains. In summertime.

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Again and again and now again

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I went to the track today again. I am having trouble staying away. I meet so many talented and nice photographers every time, and I learn so much that I never knew before. Or even thought about. It is exciting, never the same. But it is getting colder. For horses, jockeys and the audience. This morning it was 0 degrees and there were frost also in the city. Brrrr! I wonder how the jockeys keep warm during the races? Some were not even using gloves. I have heard that this is also a winter sport. Brrr, again! The jockeys are so short and small but oh SO strong. You see them more standing than sitting during a race, and often almost without rest they change clothes/colors and horse and they are off again. Supermen AND women!

If I remember right the next race is an evening race. Colder and darker, much darker. It will be all lights around the track. A real challange for photographers at maximum ISO. Today I have also recorded sound. Hope to use it with some images soon.

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More great urban photography

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Once again I find amazing photography on the BBC newspage. This time”Urban photographer of the year”.

Enjoy!

The portrait by Oscar Rialubin from the Philippines is called Xyclops.

Martin Samworth, chief executive of CBRE said: “The competition constantly provides us with new perspectives on working environments within cities. This year was no exception and Rialubin’s intimate portrait of a watch repairman gives insight into a universal trade. Urban life is constantly changing and the beauty of the competition is that it has captured this every year through the winning images.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34548394

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Not nobody

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Perhaps you have seen this photographer before? The webb is huge. If you have not I´d like to introduce him to you. Jim Radcliffe. He calls himself a nobody with a camera, but that is all too modest. I think. He has many cameras, but most of us have. What we do with them is the important thing. And that comes from your eyes and your imagination. This text is taken from his homepage:

I have no specific photographic interest.  I photograph any and everything.  I am always looking for something to photograph, from a macro to a seascape to a starscape.  I love color. I love black & white.  I have used a DSLR, a rangefinder and mirrorless cameras.  I shoot for my own enjoyment and share my photography here because photography is meant to be shared. What good is any photograph unless others have the opportunity to see it?

Jim has a personal style. Colorful even if it is in b/w. Visit his page through this link. A very talented person with a style that I like. I like to share his fine images with you. Because sharing is what it is all about, as Jim says. Jim covers a great width of subjects. What ever comes in front of his camera, he manages to do something very good with.

http://www.boxedlight.com/

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Our share of dyslexia

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This is something totally different from what I have written about here on my blog earlier.

Our son ( sun 😊 ) has dyslexia. A teacher noted that he had some problems reading and writing and he made tests for it. This was many years ago now. The tests confirmed that he had dyslexia. Good, the challenge was confirmed. He got all the different data programs the school had to help him, but he never liked to use them. He struggled on but he just wanted to be like the others that didn´t have dyslexia. It was possible for him to have more time for his examinations, and to go to a special room and sit together with others with the same challenge. That he used. As much as possible we try to help. Sometimes we read and record texts that he has to work on so he can listen instead of reading. I remember that he has never had any trouble making himself understood and he has always been the wordbook in his classes. Always good at words and their meanings. Good to express himself and to argue. I came to think of all this when I found this article by Benjamin Zephaniah.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/02/young-dyslexic-children-creative

My wife and I have never considered this a problem. We have always called it a challenge, and a challenge it is. But as it is so well written in the article there are ways to come around it and people with dyslexia always come up with solutions. Now our son studies in another country but there are ways to help through the internet. A friend of ours remembered that at the time their daughter studied abroad it did cost a fortune to make a phone call. Now it doesn´t and we are very happy about that.

He will not be a architect, but I am sure that he will find his way in life.

Writing this I had my own difficulties of finding the words, spelling right and pull it all together.

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