The Reading of a Book

“The Quiet Reading-A-Book-Ness Of Reading A Book” Click image to view on Flickr • • • Or: "How I found legitimate use for AI in my creative process". This is a photo that I took of a fellow passenger on my commute a handful years ago (2019), and it's one that I'm quite pleased with....

A.I. – Made by the Machine

The Brain Tree, where the A.I. lives.A neural network of neurons branching,and digital magic happening.(Click image to zoom) I uttered random words and pushed a button The image formed as if by the rolling of a die Artificial Algorithmic Effortless Soulless Synthetic Made by the machine like cheap plastic. I am personally sceptical of calling...

Butterfly of Doom

We give this image our likes and hearts out of sheer fascination with the wonders of the Universe, but within that thing of beauty, that spectacle of light and colour, may well drift the scattered remains, the pulverised ruins, the vaporised memories of civilisations, great and small, who once lived and cherished life, who gathered...

Venus and Mars and a little more

Planets Venus and Mars above the western horizon at 23:00 (11pm) on May 1st (2023), along with some of the brighter stars against the dark blue velvet sky. It doesn't get fully dark here at this time of year (I'm at 60° north), so usually only the brightest ones shine through (and in the middle...

First Toad of Spring

First toad of spring. No bigger than the tip of my thumb, yet majestic and magnificent, the embodiment of confidence and authority, perturbed by nothing, sovereign ruler of the square inch on which he sits. We nearly missed him — or rather, we nearly trod on him — sitting right in the middle of our...

Movie idea

Now hear me out, because I've really, really thought this through! Anyone who has discussed the "Harry Potter" and the "Lord of the Rings" movies know how annoying it can be that a lot of people tend to get the actors portraying Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins mixed up, right? So picture this… Daniel Radcliffe...

Detail

Sometimes in life you simply have to focus on just that one detail, even if that makes everything else a blur. And sometimes you simply have to focus on just that one detail, precisely in order to turn everything else into a blur. The real challenge lies in finding the extremely thin line between those...

Handrail

The handrail station portion of the railway station. Hunting geometry and perspective on the platform at track two. I'm experimenting with automatic ISO to get more freedom to play around with shutter speed and aperture. This of course means that I get far higher ISO values than I'd usually be comfortable with, yet so far...

Suddenly Deer

Surprise meeting with a family of roe deer at the local cemetery. These two youngsters, and a grownup (probably the mom) just around the corner. And here's we, my wife and I, and our dog who's seen deer, like, never, and I've got totally the wrong lens for the occasion. Fortunately the wee woof was...

Deadly numbers

Someone (not a Norwegian) told me (a Norwegian) that mass shootings are far worse in Norway than in the States. They backed their claim with the statistics linked below[1], where Norway outranks USA by a factor of 21 (1.888 against 0.089 dead per million people, respectively). So, any claim that Norway is a safer country...

A book in the hand…

When everything goes digital, I think that it is books and vinyl records that I will miss the most. How do we make things last, make our knowledge and our works of fiction more durable than ourselves? The more advanced the technology we use for information storage, the more difficult for future generations of researchers...

“DON’T TAKE PICTURES OF ME!”

I'm not taking pictures of you. (I was trying to frame a shot, and then she came at me, shouting, from what for lack of a better term I shall call left field, although it was from the right.) “I said don't take pictures of me!” I'm not. I wasn't aiming at you at all....

Lens to lens

June 11, 2004 Here the photographer was photographing the photographing photographer's photographing mother photographing the photographing photographer. It's a bit like when you set up two mirrors facing each other; you get an infinite series of reflections, bouncing back and forth at the speed of something really fast. The only true difference is grammar. Well,...

Falling – but with style

Flying with Microsoft Flight Simulator, even for just a handful of hours, has taught me an immense lot about all the things and even more things that I didn't know about flying planes (and, presumably, such as but not limited to, helicopters, hot air balloons, autogyros, zeppelins, early 21st century hover-converted DeLoreans, UFOs and actual...

Pixel-precise crop in Lightroom

You may have noticed that if you want to crop your photo to a specific pixel size, Lightroom doesn't really let you do that, or at least it doesn't make it easy. And if like me you've asked around, you've likely had people tell you all the reasons why you shouldn't do that, or even...

Jab the Second

Update: Had myself a booster on January 3rd, and we went for Moderna this time. As before, no noticeable signs of side effects, so after the mandatory 20 minute wait after the needle thing, I left the premises just as wobbly-legged and dazed and not even remotely dead or dying as usual. Sorted! Got my...

One of those small things

I sometimes get excited about the smallest things, and quite frankly there are few things smaller to get excited about than a tiny black dot drifting across a small orange circle. I've been excited about this particular tiny black dot drifting across that particular small orange circle twice. The first time was seventeen years ago...

Will I get it?

“People who haven't been sick all year are willing to get sick from a shot to feel protected from something that hasn't made them sick all year??”Seen on antivaxxer poster.(Image excluded so as to not trigger filters.) But will I get the shot? You're damn right I will! However I am well aware that my...

The Bridge of Girls fame

Åsgårdstrand, Norway. There once were three girls on that pier. Three girls, and they called the pier a bridge, and a guy called Edvard came and painted them, and they called the painting “The Girls on the Bridge”. You may have heard about them. They had packed up and left by the time I got...

The Pip Has Left The Nest

After almost two weeks with us, and at an estimated age of three, we found we couldn't keep the little great tit indoors anymore.

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Resident Tweet

As the most recent instalment in the ongoing series “Look What The Cat Dragged In”, this is a different bird from that which I posted earlier (on Instagram, with video on YouTube). Whereas we did manage to find the home of the previous one (and we hope very much that it's doing well), this one...

Black Lives Matter – Oslo

There was a Black Lives Matter protest at the Parliament building --- Stortinget --- in Oslo on June 5th, this Friday last, which I rather unexpectedly found myself participating in. Having come into town for errands, I had no clue beforehand that anything was going on, and got caught up in the crowd on my...

Iridescent Veil

Radiant fantasies, colours of magic, wickerworks of wind and water vapour and whatnot, and you have yourself a sky full of wonder.

Windows ‘could not connect to all network drives’

Innocent, but annoying, and should be easier to fix than it is. Important: Please read the disclaimer section at the end before you attempt to do any of the things described in this article. The problem Every time I start my computer, I get the annoying error message "Windows could not connect to all network...

Between blue and gold

That hour, when the evening light of the approaching sunset fills the sky, and the world is floating in a lake of shadow. Headed for the place between the blue and gold, where the road goes on forever, into a brief but endless moment as it slowly fades to grey. A friend recently lost her...