Projections

Another view out of a train window. What I like here is how the cabin's interior is "projected" onto the lake.

Escalator up

I seem to have a tendency to repeat titles lately.

Diptych

My first ever diptych. And in case you were wondering: none of this was arranged or posed in any way.

Shot, by the way, neither with the new Holga nor with one of the Leicas. And the film wasn't Tri-X either...

Sofa

The home of an old man in Volda. What caught my eye was the picture of the angel next to the family photos. I think what's captured here and how it was done is somehow transporting this pretty new photo (October 21, 2009) back in time as if itself had been taken decades ago. (And we once again have a song title.)

The 35 RD (it kind of fits that this camera is even older than my M4-P) on XP2.

Out of the window

Geoff Dyer, in his highly recommendable book The Ongoing Moment, identifies certain subjects that tend to reappear, in one way or the other, throughout the history of photography. While he for example writes about doors, hats, and blind people, the look out of a window isn't mentioned. It definitely is a recurring theme, though, and I'd say there are even two significantly different categories of photos taken out of windows. One is about the search for structure, patterns, and beauty as in Sudek's pictures I already talked about, and one is about looking out into the world and trying to "frame" the feelings of the person behind the window. The most wonderful example of the second category I know is Robert Frank's view out of a hotel window in Butte, Montana.

This view out of a window in Volda, Norway - taken on October 21, 2009 with an Olympus 35 RD on XP2 - is, I think, also of the latter category - although far away from the immense power of Frank's photo. I'll leave it up to the viewer to figure out how I felt on that day.