It’s only Thursday, but that’s nearly the end of the week for me.
It’s my last day in the office today as I’m traveling home tomorrow. Not my last day of work, I have meetings scheduled for my stops at the airport and train station, but I’ll be on the go.
Norwegians are weird sometimes. I discovered that today. It looks like a lot of people change shoes when they get to the office. So they have street shoes and office shoes. It’s like being in the kindergarten.
On my way to work this morning I watched that guy worrying he might lose a few fingers. He was cutting a piece of metal with an angle grinder by precariously balancing it on the edge of what I guess used to be a plant pot area but is now a mini pond.
Of course I’m still obsessed with people crossing the road. Sometimes the setup reminds me of the Abbey Road photo of course. You can easily imagine the cigarette in that guy’s hand.
The difficulty is to find an angle that works. I liked these two women crossing the road in opposite directions at once, but I don’t like the angle. The difficulty pretending to use a film camera is that you can’t check what you took and you can’t take many photos. So you gamble and sometimes it doesn’t pay off.
I preferred this one by far. Not only the light was better and it’s exactly in the right place to light up the crossing and nothing else. I like that view because the woman stands out and the buildings on each side provide depth.
I tried again the same idea, but missed. If the two people in the background could have been in their current position and the woman closer to me about a metre back, it would have been what I had in mind.
Same place, better success. The cyclist does it for me. With him, the man crossing the road behind him, and some people further back, it creates layers, each with some people in them.
I tried one last time at the same street corner. I wanted the man to be framed by the shop door. It’s nearly there, but a tiny bit too early. With a DSLR, I would have taken a bunch of frames and got what I wanted (I always DLSRs in burst mode just in case). Ideally I wanted that shop door framed by the street signs on each side as well.
I’m pretty sure Ireland is responsible for most of the world’s alcoholism problems.
I took one last photo on my way. This one is more centred. I liked that the light, reflected off a building, was crossing the lines of the pedestrian crossing.
Finally, tonight I ate out (big spender!). The place had converted an old over into a glass storage area. I liked the tones that created and the reflections of the light in the glasses.
I found the mascot hanging from the beer tap amusing. But also creepy because it looked like it was hanged. I framed the beer logos because it looked like they were the massive ears of the bear.
See you another day.
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