We visited Winter Word Festival yesterday and today. It was very much fun to meet some of my fellow members of the Strömstad Photo Club. Judit likened us to a group of sharks, hunting in a pack 
Here are some of the photos I took…
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And oh yes, of course I bought some chocolate to bring home as a gift for Judit who was at home taking care of business This is the longest and snowiest winter I can remember. When I was a kid it felt like the winters were usually snowy, but none of them was snowy for as long as we’ve had now. As far as I remember we’ve had constant snow now since December, and it’s been very cold some times (-10C usually and -25C some times). It hasn’t snowed so many times, but since it’s been constantly cold the snow has stayed. This morning there was 20 cm of fresh snow, and quite windy, so the snow had gathered up in drifts, in some places as much as 40-50 cm, which makes shovelling really “fun” Now I wouldn’t mind if this snow went away and we got some spring, I’ve taken more winter-photos this year than all previous years combined
I’ve had three Semla this year, my 3rd being the one I had today, and I don’t think I’ll have any more now this year. There are a few seasonal specials that used to be sold only at certain times of the year, but now many of them are becoming standard products which can be bought all year round. Julmust (Christmas softdrink) can now be bought early in the fall, Påskmust (Easter softdrink, identical to Julmust) will be on sale in a few weeks I guess, and it’s not going to be long before there’s Sommarmust (summer softdrink), if somebody hasn’t already invented it… Am I turning into a cranky old bastard who will go around saying; “It was better before!”? Who knows, I guess time will tell I have a plan. My plan is to go through my old camera bags and find the flashes I have, but haven’t used for ages. Since I got my 50 mm lens many years ago I didn’t have to use the flash to get enough light, and I very much liked the natural light that lens can capture (although the lens is quite “soft”). Now however, since I started listening to Scott Bournes photo blog (photofocus) I realized many photographers like sticking a flash on the camera even though they have lenses that could provide short enough exposure times without the use of flash, so there must be something more to it than just the exposure times… I haven’t really experimented much with flash, bouncing it off walls, ceilings, using soft boxes etc, and I think it might help me understanding flash photography a bit better if I made some tests with it. I have two flashes (one old pentax, and one really old one that I got from my uncle when he decided to scrap his old camera) which both work, and are quite ok, but aren’t totally compatible with my camera, but they should work in manual mode, so I’ll try to figure out how to rig one of them on the camera, and use the other as a slave. I know it has the photo receptor and can be triggered as a slave. Maybe I’ll try setting up some sort of little studio place for it. More info to follow Yesterday we made a little day-trip to Gothenburg. We went to check out a open studio of one of Judit’s acquaintances, and maybe just spend a few hours relaxing in town. We decided to take the car instead of the train, since train would have meant we would have had to leave early in the morning, and leave from Gothenburg around 7. The price for train or car is roughly the same if it’s 2 people travelling. For anything more than 2 people the car is cheaper, even if you include parking in Gothenburg. We used the car GPS to find the closest parking near the studio, which turned out to be around 600-700 meters away (the GPS only has public parkings listed, which is usually where you have a chance of finding an open spot). It was a bit chilly in Gothenburg, -7 and a bit of wind, so it felt more like -15…
After the studio visit we went to another open studio (textile and weaving-work), and then to a gallery in the area (the area is called konstepedmin, a name derived from the fact that it used to be a treatment facility for epidemic victims in the 1800’s). That gallery also had some interesting, although disturbing art which wasn’t really my favourite type of art.
After we shopped DVD’s we went to Hälsosushi. Judit had Sushi and I had some very yummy beef and rice. Delicious fast food!
Oh, and we discovered that Judit can balance a parking receipt on her nose for 70 kilometers, without using her hand or any sort of tape or glue !  February 14th, 2010 | Tags: dvd, gothenburg, sci-fi, studio, sushi | Category: Mixed | Leave a comment |
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