Stockholm, 12.12.13

Cavardiras

Last weekend I was in Switzerland. A good opportunity to do a lot of reading on the train, meet up with friends, and witness an impressive piece of land art high up on a glacier. Here is a contact sheet with some iPhone pics, processed in Snapseed. I've also had the 4x5' camera with me and I'm looking forward to seeing the processed negatives soon.

Team

Today we had team meeting. Some portrait shots with the iPhone. All processed with Snapseed. From left to right: Elli, Jo, Nele, Kim, myself (snapped by Elli), Kris.

Brittany

Back from a short trip through Normandy and Brittany. Lots of rain and wind and sea. I shot with the iPhone 5, and processed the pics on the road through Snapseed (converting them into B&W and adding a sniff of 'drama'). A great time saver! I'm having some trouble with the highlights but otherwise I'm fine with the overall look.

Shooting again

Hey, I'm finally back into shooting again ... with the iPhone 5 ... Bummer? It's surprisingly good and fun to work with. We'll see how this goes. Here are a few examples from the first week in operation. All images processed through Snapseed.

Image glut

Installation by Erik Kessels at Foam Amsterdam (original link here)

Making the image glut tangible ... Erik Kessels filled the rooms of Foam Amsterdam with the number of printed pictures that are uploaded on Flickr every 24 hours. That's more than one million photos. What does this mean? Should it give us photographers pause? Time to hang the Leica in the willows and do something else? Maybe we have to consider this: billions of words have been written and yet this does not keep poets and writers from carving out niches of sense in this endless sea of words. Here, as a beacon in this oceanic space of non-sense, is a beautiful poem, with photographic overtones, by an artist I only recently discovered (originally published here).

Monte Bianco

Here are some images taken over the summer in the Courmayeur area. It was actually the very first time I visited the Mont Blanc range. The Italian, southeastern side is a wonderful eldorado for mountain photographers. The cliffs rise 3000m high above the valley floors. It's very impressive.

The picture on the left is Mont Blanc de Courmayeur, 4765m, the highest summit on Italian soil. The mountain has its characteristic 'capuchon' announcing bad weather. On the right hand side we see the dark, precipitous profile of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, 3773m.

The picture in the middle is taken from the Vallone di Malatra, which branches of from the Italian Val Ferret. It's a wonderful, glacier-moulded valley that provides a splendid view on the chaotic east face of Grandes Jorasses, 4208m.

On the right we see the mysterious glacial expanses of the Testa del Rutor, 3486m. The photo is taken from the Colle d'Arp, 2570m, high above the enchanting Vallone di Youla, which descends towards the alpine village of La Thuile.

These are a few images of last summer's meager harvest. Very soon the weather would turn for the worst and this spell was to last for weeks. All pictures taken, as usual, with the 300mm lens on the Chamonix 4x5" on Fuji Acros 100, scanned on the Imacon 848 and duotoned in PhotoShop.