dark surroundings

 

Don't let the dark past leave a stain on your bright future.

baby sara

Beautiful Sara! Only three months old, and so curious and satisfied with her surroundings.

In the eyes of a child...there is joy, there is laughter... 

there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future...

                                                                      Air Supply

running man

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, 

if you can't walk then crawl, 

but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
 Martin Luther King Jr.

frosty family photos

pathless woods

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes.

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

into the darkness

I feel the darkness bite once more, 

as it steadily grows colder and sore, 

the wind calls out to the night to say,

let the ice dark shadows come out and play

baby emmeli

So little and so cute, three weeks old Emmeli

marbles of christmas magic

   Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,

 everything is softer and more beautiful.  

                                                                                          Norman Vincent Peale

happy holidays

 Today is the first sunday in advent and one of four Christmas candles are lit. Last sunday I had Benjamin and his friends Kristian og Sarah Sofie in the studio, and these delighted smiles is what Christmas is all about.

In the eyes of children we find the joy of Christmas. In their hearts we find its meaning.  Leland Thomas

beautiful white snow

Dogs are so predictable. You give them a treat, they’re happy. You leave the house without them, they’re utterly crushed. It’s one of the reasons they’re so lovable. This white cutie is the boxer Snow. White boxers are not different from any other boxers, and they have been around as long as the boxer itself. The reason why white boxers are less common today is there have unfortunately been efforts to remove the gene which causes white fur from the boxer blood line. Its a mad, mad world...

road to eternity

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. 

                                                                    Albert Einstein

happy halloween...

In darkest woods she wandered,
one moonless stormy night.
The tree limbs made she
reaching out through lightnings light.

the forest nymph

A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder 

That is the most I can boast to have seen, 

Then all is lost as the shadows enfold her, 

Forest glades making a screen of their green, 

Could I cast off all the cares of tomorrow

Could I forget all the fret of today 

Then, my heart free from the burdens 

I borrow, Nature’s chaste spirit her face would display.

                                                                       Ellis Parker Butler

here comes winter

 Sharp is the night, but starts with frost alive

Leap off the rim of earth across the dome. 

It is a night to make the heavens our home 

More than the nest whereto apace we strive. 

Lengths down our road each fir-tree seems a hive, 

In swarms outrushing from the golden comb. 

They waken waves of thoughts that burst to foam: 

The living throb in me, the dead revive. 

Yon mantle clothes us: there, past mortal breath, 

Life glistens on the river of the death. 

It folds us, flesh and dust; and have we knelt, 

Or never knelt, or eyed as kine the springs 

Of radiance, the radiance enrings: 

And this is the soul’s haven to have felt.

                   Winter Heavens by George Meredith

self portrait

In the absence of my "models" who all left me behind for the benefit of education, I had to settle with myself, a remote swich and my basement for this photoshoot. I wish I had used a reflector to redirect the light from the candle to lighten up the dark side of my face. But, you know, hinsight and all that.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces 

and record the qualities of nature and humanity which life or are latent in all things. 

                                                                                                                          Ansel Adams

blue beauty

innocence

A child can teach an adult three things:
to be happy for no reason,
to always be busy with something,
and to know how to demand with all her might that which she desires.

                                                                                            Paulo Coelho

the mist of mystery

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls... 

                                                                                                   Edgar Allan Poe

family portrait part 2

family portrait

flock of sheeps

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
                                                                      Elizabeth Kenny

peaceful

   What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment 

that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. 

                                                                                                 Karl Lagerfeld

theme: car

 What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

 Jack Kerouac

crazy cool

This is Lotte - my parents one year old shipperke. She was not easy to capture with
the camera lense due to her high energy level, but here is one that turned out okay.

dancer in red

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."

beneath a yellow sky

 

How can I forget the look in your eye? 

As you in pain ridden silence, 
watched the seraphim’s dance in a yellow sky. 

What can I say to ease the burdens you bare? 
And how can I truly convince you that I care? 
Yet, still in silence… you stare beneath a yellow sky so fair.

                                                   J. Allen Wilson

early morning

When everyone else returns to work after summer vacation, I do the opposite. The only plan for this years vacation is spending quality time with Benjamin. This morning we went looking for berries in the garden... nam-nam-not...

  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, 

he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, 

rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. 

                                                                                                                               Rachel Carson

baby blues

the look he gives me...

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. 

                                                                        Leo J. Burke

serenity of the mind

The last gasp of summer captured at lake Honningen,
in Trømborgfjella, with my cousin Julie Karima.

 

 Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. 

                                                         Buddha

beautiful like a painting

My mother is my sun.

 A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. 

                                            Samuel Taylor Coleridge

little sunshine

This is my beautiful scottish cousin Olivia Lily captured inside our old stable.
A stable -without a horse (!)- that I one day dream of making into a photo studio.

Children see magic because they look for it.

                                               Christopher Moore

Into the light

Charlotte is beautiful like the sunset.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 

                                                                                Martin Luther King, Jr.