物・１００ (mono-100)

物 (mono) means “thing” in japanese.
I have already bought a few weird, beautiful, crazy, funny and cool things during my two moths here. My aim is to be able to show off a 100 things here.
Here I go:

A new friend

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon something called Poladroid. Now, as I have had time to evaluate this little program I must say; it is simply brilliant. I love it. Pretty much everything about it is wonderful. The look of it, the sound when you feed it a picture, how the shots are gradually processed and, of course, the final result. It sure is a very intersting way of post-processing pictures. If you don’t know what it is; check it out. Now!

Poladroid.net

Dof

Yesterday I tried something new. There are lots of pictures like these on Flickr, but none of them are mine. I thought; if everybody else is doing it, why can’t I?

So, without any focus whatsoever, this is what I was able to get on my first attempts. I also tried changing the colors and tones a little bit (or a lot)  just to see what came out of it.

 

Fun fun fun

My father had sugery to his knee about two and a half weeks ago. This thursday the wound was bleeding a little too much, so; friday morning he went to see a nurse at the medical center closest to his home. “It might be infected” they said, so me and him ended up spending the entire day in a waiting room at the ER, and later on in a small room with a bed and a chair at the same ER. He was not in pain and I was not in pain, he was bored and I was bored. In Sweden paying a visit to such a place is a whole lot about waiting. It took more than two hours before he got to see a doctor, and it did not even end well.

Later that night he was brought into surgery again to open up the wound and clean it to stop the infection from spreading further into his knee. A sI write this, late sunday evening, the doctors still do not know if they were able to halt the infection or not. Tomorrow I will visit him again, maybe then they will know…

 

As I sat in the chair in that small room at the ER I finally remembered that I had brought my camera. There was not a lot to take pictures of, but at least the ones I got communicate just what a great time we had…

 

Birds, flowers and a run down house

Spring is really on it’s way in Malmö. Today (17th) the weather was beautiful but very windy and my fingers were on the verge of freezing before I gave up on getting a nice shot of squabbling ducks and geese.

I took a ride on my fathers old rikety bike to shoot some flowers I saw the other day in the center of a round about and some of the ducks and geese in Pildammsparken. On my way there I stopped by a construction site where they are renovating an old house to get some pictures of it before it looks all new and boring. I arrived just as the workers had their lunch break and was let in by one of them, handed a helmet by one of the foremen and directed into the buildning. Sometimes a camera can get you into places where you would normally not be welcome. The house was very much in the middle of a renovation and there was not so very much to shoot. But I think I was able to get an old door on the upper floor pretty well.

In fact I am not all to happy about the birds and flowers either. The flowers turned out too bright on most occasions and even though I was able to get a few nice shots of the birds, there just would not squabble as I pointed my camera at them. I guess this was just not a very good photographing day… =)

 

Morning session

Spent the night at a friends house in the countryside. Woke up early. The sun did barely show itself today, and the morning in Kornheddinge was foggy and damp.

First shots taken inside the livingroom where I had been sleeping. I tried to shoot some wet flowers, but it did not work out well. I like spiderweb best. It is a bit hard to see it, but the picture as a whole has a dreamy, early morning feeling about it.

 

The birth of a blog

Today I decided to start blogging. After spending an entire day going through old pictures on my portable hard drive I realized there is no way I can explain my choises of pictures to appear on Flickr without sometimes being able to show off the ones hat did not make the cut. A shooting-stroll sometimes end in ten good pictures, and with my current policy of posting at most four pics a day on Flickr that might leave a few ones outside the stream. In case the never find their way in there later on, I might just as well display them here.

Enough is enough.

Erik