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Another trip, made in April this year. “Children in Barcelona” was the starter, and now the Whole Trip to Barcelona is on line, as the main course. Four days, few quarters, many kilometers walked through the city. About sixty photos, here (over more than 360 made), less correlated each other than any trip. I . . . → Read More: Easter 2010 – Barcelona  Comments are closed  landscapes, link to Galleries, people, street, trip, urban  black and white, color, D700, humans, prime, Spain, street, trip A cloudy day, last September. My camera, a couple of macro lenses and the ring flash (Metz 15 MS-1). Or some lunches, it depends which side of the table you are sitting on…. Spiders are the characters in every shoot. A pair of solitary eaters:
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© 2009 andre_ And two fellows… that fight for a succulent fly: The last days before coming back to Danmark. A flat island, and almost completely devoid of trees: Öland. Because a lot of photos are needed to describe properly the various landscapes…. D700 at 200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f11, 1/1000sec, bias -1EV
D700 at 200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f8, 1/500sec, bias 2/3EV
D700 at 200ISO, 28mm f2.8 AF, f11, 1/500sec, bias -1/3EV The typical windmills (corrently about 250, on the over two thousands existent an hundred years ago):
D700 at 200ISO, 16mm f2.8 AF, f5.6, 1/100sec, bias 0EV “Otter was one of Rodmar’s three sons. When he fished for salmon, he took on the shape of an otter. On one such occasion, the Æsir Loki, Hörnir and Odin happened by on their way to Rodmar’s house where they planned to spend the night. The Æsir thought that an otter skin would be a suitable gift for Rodmar. So, Otter was killed by a stone Loki threw at him. Later that evening the three Æsir went to Rodmar and showed him their prey. Rodmar became angry, and demanded that the Æsir filled the otter skin with gold as penance for the crime. Loki went to the Anvara river and used his net to catch the rich dwarf Andvari, who had taken on the shape of a pike. The dwarf purchased his freedom with all his gold he owned, except for one gold ring. But the gold was not enough to fill the otter skin. One more piece of gold was needed. Andvari tried to hide his ring. When Loki ripped the ring from his hand, the dwarf spoke a curse over all who come in contact with the gold, especially the magic gold ring. Once Rodmar had received the gold, he did not want to share it with his other two sons, Fafnir and Regin. Fafnir became enraged and killed his father to get at the gold. Thereafter, Fafnir took the shape of a snake and brooded on top of the gold in his home, in a place called Gnitaheden. Regin, the other brother who was a smith, wanted his share of the patrimony and planned to seize the gold through trickery. He brought Sigurd, who had earlier become his foster son, into his plans. He forged a razor-sharp sword, named Gram, for Sigurd.
D700 at 200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f8, 1/160sec, bias 0EV Urged on by his foster father Reign, Sigurd dug a hole in the ground at Gnitaheden, where Fafnir (in the shape of a snake) used to slither his way to a lake to drink. When Fafnir passed the hole, Sigurd stabbed him through the heart with his sword, Gram. Fafnir died and Sigurd was given the name of Fafnesbane (the slayer of Fafnir).
D700 at 400ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f8, 1/125sec, bias 0EV After the deed, Regin asked Sigurd to roast the heart of Fafnir over an open fire. He wanted to eat the heart so that the soul of Fafnir would not die, because after all he was Regin’s brother. The birds warned Sigurd. Regin was planning to kill him, partly to revenge his brother Fafnir, partly to get the treasure for himself. The birds advised Sigurd to kill Regin. Then, Sigurd travelled to Fafnir’s home, where he found the disputed gold and many other precious objects. He loaded the treasure onto his horse Grani, a direct descendant of Odin’s horse Sleipnir. However, Grani refused to move from his stall before Sigurd himself mounted.”
This is the Sigurd Fafnesbane history, according to the Vöslunga saga. Note: The holiday is on line! In a trip in southern Sweden, one of the charatheristic sights is the Göta Kanal. We met a pair of the 58 locks, where we could admire the perfection of the engineering works, opposed to the complete inability of the tourists to manage it. Undoubtedly, the locks are a good subject for the photos… D700 at 200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f8, 1/640sec, bias -2/3EV
D700 at 200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f8, 1/800sec, bias -1 2/3EV A good location to shoot a portrait: Comments are closed landscapes, link to Galleries, trip color, D700, landscapes, prime, Sweden, trip Note: The photos in this post are replicated in the Trip’s Pages, in “Sweden Summer 2009” section Let’s start the summer holiday’s trip! Of course, not in this very moment… but this is the first gallery to describe the trip Francesca and I had last summer. One of the brightest summer’s nights. D700 at 3200ISO, 20mm f2.8 AF, f5.6, 1/60sec, bias -2/3EV To leave the dock around midnight… D700 at 3200ISO, 105mm f2 AF, f2.8, 1/125sec, bias 0EV Comments are closed landscapes, link to Galleries, natural, trip color, D700, Denmark, landscapes, prime, Sweden, trip |
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