Recent photos

(Canon GX-1 II)

Vincent Bal shadow art

Vincent Bal makes some fresh, clever, and often funny art by combining drawing with the shadows of everyday objects.

Although he (wisely) here uses a very simple style, it sometimes shows that he can really draw.

Why write in cafes

On request, here is a little piece I wrote about why many find it helpful to write in cafes and such places.

Start-of-winter-message from Eolake

Here in Northern Europe it is today the coldest day of the winter so far. The first day with frost on the ground in the day time. So what more fitting day for a warmth message...

I would like to thank *you*, my dear friend, for all the nice contacts and communications you give. Even the smallest one counts. We are all part of each other's connection to divinity.

I wish you a lovely December and holiday season, with nice surprises, pleasant personal growth, and good communications.

By Elena Lukina

For the cafe writer without a bag

I've just posted this on eReaderJoy.com about the new wave of portable keyboards.

Digital art paper sculptures

Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans and everybody else who feel in the mood.

Here is an excellent example of how Digital is revolutionising art and design. (And of course so many other things, but there's a whole library's worth of discussion of documenting there.)
It is laser-cut paper!

Automatic art again

Now Photoshop can give you a new sky with a click. I can't tell you how mixed my feelings are about all this automation. It's cool to see and use, but then... it's like, imagine a little thing you paste on your jaw, and immediately you are a perfect, wonderful singer! Well, when everybody is wonderful singers, is anybody really a wonderful singer? I don't know. It's deeply confusing.

Pics 4 Nov

(Many details. Click on pic for full size.)

(On Mac, command-click to get new window. On Windows it's shift-click or option-click.)

(Canon GX7 II, and iPhone 6S+)

Olympus EM-1 II test

The test are coming in now, and it's clear that the new Olympus flagship model E-M1 mark II is a very powerful camera indeed.
And the new PRO zoom 12-100mm, a dream all-round lens. Compact, super-pro quality (both physically and image-wise), and breaking new records in stabilization effectiveness. Up to 6.5 stops is claimed and it seems to bear out, amazing. And with that range you can use it for nigh everything (perhaps with the little 45mm 1.8 for blurred backgrounds.)

"Surviving In The Wild: Can Your Photo Gear Save Your Life?"

Love the Camera Store TV. Good reviews and good humor.
This is pretty funny. Can't believe he actually caught a fish and made fire from what was in his camera bag though!

new pics

(Click for big pic)

The last three are from Olympus Pen-F with Panasonic 14-140mm. The others are Canon GX7 II. 

A humble goal

My goal is to get back the energy to work as hard as I did when I was twenty. ... And then not do it.