One of the night time photographs I took on my travels to Malaysia last month.
A four minute exposure of a dead tree on the shore of southern Sri Lanka.
On a rainy day flowers may look at their best.... See if you can spot the ant...
It's that time of year again. Pink blossom in our street, nice and artsy.
It's that time of year again.
I thought I'd do an artsy picture of one of the blossoms in our street, which is lined with pink at the moment.
A jetty in Norway waiting for summer.
This is a long exposure taken somewhere outside the city of Tromsø, Norway.
In the state our home, the world, planet earth, is in at the moment, it is a mesmerizing experience to stand outside in the dark on a snow covered field above the arctic circle and gaze up at the powerful show of northern lights. It seems as if the world is on fire without making a sound. The aurora borealis as I saw it in Tromsø, Norway.
The question is: is this tree being washed away or washed ashore?
On the island of Gili Meno, Indonesia, there is a short stretch of beach where a dozen or so trees seem to be clinging on to life not being able to choose between land or sea. Taking a long exposure results in milky sea and blurred movement of the leaves and branches.
I am not usually one for posting my pictures of sunsets. Cliché, cliché. Exceptions confirm the rule, so here is a sunset over the Gili islands, Indonesia. The Gili islands are a group of tiny islands (you can walk around them over the beach in about 1,5 hours.) just off the west coast of the island of Lombok, Indonesia. Two of the Gili islands have developed into a regular Ibiza party-island counterpart. The island stuck in the middle, Gili Meno, from which I took this picture, is still relatively quiet and peaceful.
A view on jungle vegatation on the island of Bali.
From here It is another good hour walking up to the peak of the Rinjani volcano on Lombok, Indonesia. These hikers didn't make it to the top in time for the sunrise. Neither did I. But at a respectable height of almost 3.700m, I think I got a cool sunrise from quite where I was.
The Rinjani volcano is a touristic highlight on the Indonesian island of Lombok. At least 200 people in many small guided groups were climbing to the top when we were there. Only a small percentage make it to the top in time for sunrise. You leave basecamp at 2.600m at 2.30am to go to the summit at 3.726m. Sunrise is at about 6 am. It is a very strenuous and frustrating climb because of the steepness of the last 1.100m and the amount of loose gravel on the path.
But the views are breathtaking. Check out the photo below looking the other direction and notice the massive shadow the volcano makes on the clouds behind it....
In the distance on this second photo you can clearly see Bali and, if you look closer, the three small Gili islands.
Imagine yourself a solitary mangrove tree a few feet from the shore line, a slowly incoming tide, a clear nightsky with thousands of stars and a building site behind you with a security light aimed straight at your tree. This was the setting for this picture I took somewhere on the northern coast of Bali.
The tree for me symbolizes the struggle that nature has against the encroaching species called humans. Even here on Bali. The fact that only half of the tree has leaves is quite ominous... I imagine that this part of the coast was previously an extensive mangrove forest. Now all is cleared, the beaches and the coral reefs a little further away are used by tourists and the land directly next to the beach is being steadily filled by extensive hotels.
The building site behind me, admittedly convenient for this picture, is a next slice of the cake that is being cut off from the original cake called nature.
A long exposure.
This tree is perhaps one of the 'highlights' of my travels over Bali last month. It is a sad remnant of a mangrove-forest on the northern shores of the island. The beach seemed to be cleared for tourism, as just next to this spot holiday bungalows were being built. I spent a few hours here to take some long exposure pictures of it. This is one from a series I shot in broad daylight. Tomorrow I will post a picture I took at midnight when the tide was out.
Venice, Italy, like you've never seen before, I suppose.
One of the advantages of getting up before dawn in Venice; getting wonderful pictures breathing peace and tranquility out in the lagoon surrounding the city. The other advantage is the sublime soft light of dawn. This is another image in a series of abstracts I made during an intensive four days photography-trip to Venice, Italy.
This image is, as are my previous posts, of fishing nets resting on a construction of poles standing in the middle of the lagoon that surrounds Venice. A perfect subject for a long exposure.
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Venice like you've never seen before, I suppose.
A second image in a series of abstracts I made during an intensive four days photography-trip to Venice, Italy. An amazing, amazing city with loads of (obvious) photo-opportunities, but also loads of unconventional ways of depicting this ancient city and its surroundings.
This image is, as was my previous post, of fishing nets resting on a construction of poles standing in the middle of the lagoon that surrounds Venice. Perfect subject for a long exposure.
Check out the detail below.
See my previous "Harsh coast"-posts.
One of the places to visit on my journey through Morocco was the coastal town of El Essaouira with its wonderful medina and ancient Portuguese fort. Just outside the walls of the medina the waves of the Atlantic bash at the most wonderful rock-formations. The waves were quite fierce at this point but going outside the defensive walls on the rocks for some long exposure shots was absolutely worth the risk.
This is a 30 second exposure using an 10-stop ND filter. (For those not 'in the know': this filter blocks a lot of light making long exposures in the daytime possible.)
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One of the pictures I took last week on the rocks outside the citywalls of El Essaouira in Morocco. (See my previous post.)
This is a 30 second exposure using an 10-stop ND filter. (For those not 'in the know': this filter blocks a lot of light making long exposures in the daytime possible.)
This picture, as many of my other pictures, is available in print. If you are interested, you may send me a message
I am just back from travelling through Marrocco for a week. One of the places to visit was the coastal town of El Essaouira with its wonderful medina and ancient Portuguese fort. Just outside the walls of the medina the waves of the Atlantic bash at the most wonderful rock-formations. The waves were quite fierce at this point but going outside the defensive walls on the rocks for some long exposure shots was absolutely worth the risk.
This is one of the results.
I managed to keep myself and my gear dry, although at one point I had only just left a spot where seconds later a massive wave hit the rocks......