Category: Photography

  • Blueing

    A Norwegian fairy tale trope in every day life, the effect of atmospheric perspective on a landscape makes you long for the horizon. Known as “Sju blåner”, or “seven blues” in English, it is an old expression and a measure of infinite distance. Like other literary tropes – “once upon a time”, “a long, long…

  • Photography Twitter bot

    I’ve taken photos for years. First with film cameras and then the early 2000s digital cameras when they first started emerging. I was gifted my first “proper” camera on my 16th birthday – the 8MP Fujifilm S8000FD bridge camera – and over the next 5 years I snapped 120,000 images before upgrading to a Sony…

  • Rivers in trees

    I’ve always loved taking pictures of oblique angles, and with trees this often means just looking straight up. Fascinated by nature’s pattern of creating rivers of sky between tree canopies, for some reason I had never thought to look up why. “Crown Shyness” or the less poetic “canopy disengagement” has been studied in scientific literature…