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The World from Above

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I am not much of a drone man myself, but well handeled you can make wunderful images with them. Like these.

The winners of this year’s aerial photography competition run by online site Dronestagram have been announced.

The winning pictures taken using drone cameras were selected from thousands of entries by the judges, including National Geographic Deputy Director Patrick Witty and Emanuela Ascoli, photo editor of National Geographic, France.

Todd Kennedy was on his honeymoon when he took this drone shot of Cable Beach, Western Australia. He said: “When we arrived in Broome, we booked a sunset camel tour which was a beautiful experience and a great opportunity to get a new addition to a series of shadow images I have been collecting since entering into drone photography.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36733401

Read about it in BBC.

😀 Pelle

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Svenskt Derby pü Jägersro den 16/7

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-och jag skall ställa ut.

Välkomna till Jägersro den 16/7! Till min mycket stora glädje skall jag ställa ut ett urval av mina galoppbilder under dagen. Det är särskilt roligt dĂĽ mitt intresse fĂśr sporten väcktes just där fĂśr precis ett ĂĽr sedan. Bilderna visas pĂĽ printar i storlek 70×100 cm.

Varmt välkomna!

-and I will be exhibiting.

Welcome to Jägersro the 16th of July. Jägersro is the race track for horse racing in MalmĂś. I am especially happy for this since my interest for the sport started just here one year ago.  I have made a selection from my horse racing images and they will be exhibited on prints in size 70×100 cm..

A warm welcome to you all!

https://www.svenskgalopp.se/artikel?cid=1.545865&defaultMenuId=true

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Once upon a time

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Take a look at these wunderful images in the article. Read the texts and you understand that this is no ordinary b/w prints that are tinted. Amazing work! I read this in The Guardian.

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Lauterbrunnen and the Staubbach waterfall, Switzerland. Circa 1900

Creating a photochrome involved taking detailed notes on the colours present in the photographed scene, and then hand-colouring the negative

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jul/04/photochromes-swiss-camera-museum-hans-jakob-schmid-in-pictures

Remember that photographers had to use b/w or color film years ago. Or just b/w if it was many years ago. Today it is easier with everything built into a camera.

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The Rhine Falls, Switzerland. Circa 1890

The image on the negative meant that different amounts of light fell on different areas of the coating, which then hardened according to the amount of light to which it had been exposed

I choose this image especially with my dear friend Peter Schäublin in mind. He lives close by.

Finally: Now I have seen the question, again. Is photography art? In my opinion YES it could be, but not every photograph is. Far from!

😀 Pelle

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Fan Who?

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I just read that the photographer Fan Ho has passed away at the age of 85. I did n´t know about him but I like to share what I just learned with you. His work is fantastic! It is not difficult to understand that he was called the Bresson of the East. I first learned about him in an article in http://www.dpreview.com. The top link. The second link is to his homepage. Really colorful w/w images. It really shows that good photography has no age. It is timeless.

Please excuse my little joke in the headline, but I had never heard of him before.

Images Š Fan Ho

http://www.dpreview.com/news/6315115603/remembering-fan-ho-1937-2016/1

http://www.fanhophotography.com/index.html

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😊 Pelle

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Grand opening at Bro Park

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Last Sunday was the long awaited grand opening of Bro Park. The new race horse track in the Stockholm area. The weather was fine and so the spectators. Many dressed up for the occasion and the competition for the best dress, and hat of course. All as it should be on a day like this in this sport. After going through about 32 GB of images I have come up with this small selection. As always I am walking around in my own little world of details, color and speed. Just as the jockeys I am now looking forward to learning the new track. Different corners and where and when the light is best here, and there.

Note: The happiest winner was an American, Chantal, with her arms up in the sky. The Swedes just won without visual signs. But with a smile afterwards, of course.

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The dirt track wasn´t too dirty this day.

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Nonsens?

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Compared to the wonderful and important images I wrote about yesterday by Nick Brandt, these are just nonsense. But, they had to be made, I think. They are from Diani Beach, Mombasa and from last week. I am not so much for sunbathing so I rather keep to the shadows. Going on my own short walks exploring the surroundings. Looking up, but mostly down 😉

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Sad and/but beautiful

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After just returning home from 10 days in Kenya, these images are very sad to see. But they are also very beautiful. But of course it would be more beautiful if the animals could be seen in these places live. See and read more on BBC.

Nick Brandt built lifesized panels depicting Africa’s great creatures and placed them in scenes where they used to roam. The resulting photographs serve as a potent reminder of what poaching and climate change put at stake. © Nick Brandt.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/apr/05/nick-brandt-inherit-the-dust-africa

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On a photographers mind

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Yes, this really is on my mind. How do you look upon yourself? During a recent all day portrait photography session I was reminded of this. Again. The picture you see of yourself in a mirror and the Image from a camera are NOT the same to us. Like when you hear a recording of your voice. It is not the way you hear it. What I am getting at is this. For some this image I, as a photographer, am trying to create is important, and for some not so much. Some see nothing but their faults and some does not care. They don´t see it that way. Interesting, don´t you think? Not that, absolutely NOT that, perhaps I can live with that, they say. Others go, your choice. It is OK with me, that´s how I look.

I have been photographing portraits for this agency for some time and I have arranged so that there is always time to talk to everyone that is to be photographed. We got time to re shoot, and re shoot again. We talk and agree upon images that are OK and that they agree upon to be used. How does the light fall upon them? What side is best? If there is such a thing? I always try to explain when this is complicated for a person what I see. Most often I don´t see it the way they do. But I do understand and respect them.  It has happened that they bring a friend to help choose an image, and that is great. A person who they trust and listen to. Great idea! For me this is an exciting and interesting job. We have a long list of persons to be photographed so we don´t have “all day” for a portrait, but talking and listening makes a great difference. As with everything else in life. We are using a small studio in the agency and we have to use a backdrop. White or black. That is not adding to personality. Persons are put in the center of attention as, perhaps, never before. The spotlight is on them and they stand in the very center. The camera notice everything. On the outside that is. Scary! The camera and image is powerful.

Nowadays we don´t go to the studio photographer for portraits as before. My family did this. One image of me was put in the shopping window of the studio, and we got a print for thanks. I still got it here in the studio with me. A bit faded. You can see it at the top.

I wish I could name the photographer of my portrait, but I am sorry I can´t. No information was added to the print, and unfortunately I don´t remember.

😊  Pelle

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Hi all bloggers and readers. I just received a message from WordPress that I have been blogging for a year. One year! That is a long time. A friend of mine suggested that I should start writing down my thoughts and I owe him many thanks. Thank you Martin Ö. I like blogging. Thinking and to reflect upon life and things.

So what happened? I have written about my own images and my all new interest in horse racing. Among other things. That I did not see coming. With this profession and interest it is easy to examine a new personal interest in images. I have been reading much more on the internet about photographers and their images. I did not expect that, but I like it and I like to recommend you to see and read about many of the talented photographers around. Old and young. Some well known, and others all new to me.

By the way, my personal favorites are Penn, Avedon, Watson, Mappelthorpe, Cartier-Bresson and Steichen. To name a few. All so called classics.

More personal: I am having difficulties in listening to guides at galleries or museums. The language they use and what they say sounds odd to me. If that could perhaps be the word. But OK, it is interesting listening to someone trying to explain a photographers/artists creative view and work. The explaining is also creative, but often it sounds like too much baloney to me.

I really love my profession, and I think you can see that.

Some statistics. I have managed to get  68 followers, made over 120 posts ( including this one ) and got over 500 likes. I like that! Some of you are giving me likes frequently and I am very happy for that. Thank you! I have had 4.950 views and the best ever was on November 13th 2015, 273. The internet is huge and the bloggers are many.

My first post was in Swedish, but after that I write in English. Good exercise and all my friends and colleagues in Sweden reads English. No problem.

What now? Do I have a  New Year promise? Not really, but I like to continue to challenge myself. With my blog, my thoughts and my photography.

Finally I like to share an image and new info with you. This image, photographed in New York in 1982 through the binoculars at observation deck, World Trade Center. It has been selected by Duncan Miller Gallery in Santa Monica, USA, to be included in their Your Daily Photograph. ( Photo made with a Minox 35GT, if you are interested. ) However not sold, yet…

http://eepurl.com/bFUw6f

ESB through binucular at WTC_72

Yes, I am happy! About that too.

I wish you all A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year! With blogging, taking pictures or whatever you like to do. Do it more!

😊  Pelle

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More water

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Seconds after looking at those wunderful waves, here is more water that I just discovered. Through another photographers lens and they look so different. But just as amazing. I think. See the slide show for more images.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/magazine/toshio-shibatas-mesmerizing-photographs-of-water.html?_r=0#

The Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is fascinated by water — in particular, the way it interacts with man-made structures. For the later half of his almost-40-year career in photography, he has explored this relationship in novel ways, hiding horizon lines and taking the perspective of the water itself with his camera, visually evoking its rushing sound.

Each of Shibata’s photographs depicts a different kind of human intervention in the natural movement of water, many of them the kind of mundane engineering projects we rarely think about. “To me,” Jacob Cartwright of Laurence Miller Gallery, which recently opened a show of Shibata’s work, said via email, “the essence of his work is taking ubiquitous yet frequently disregarded parts of our contemporary landscape and transforming them into something visually uncanny through formal invention.”