{"id":4590,"date":"2025-09-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:36:30","slug":"sunday-quiet-oslo-travel-log-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/sunday-quiet-oslo-travel-log-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday quiet (Oslo Travel Log #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s Sunday. It’s still rainy in Oslo. It really feels like I travelled from summer to November in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which way?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I need to go out an take some photos instead of staying in the hotel room. I get showered a few times, but that’s Oslo for you. I’ll walk generally in the direction of Aker Brygge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not always easy to make square frames not too static. I like to include round shapes to lead the eye and contrast with the frame format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stone benches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The mix of languages is amusing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brasserie Blanche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I saw the black curtain behind the glass door, I decided to be in this photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretending to use a TLR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a technical photo: I was trying to build layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Layers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Is there a message here? I still struggle to move things in the centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broken Oslo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I decide to cut through the park to walk under the trees. I should be drier there. Central composition with vertical symmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tree with bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Triangular composition with symmetry. Also trees: where is there not to like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3 trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s really a struggle to have a slow camera and trying to catch people in the middle of what they do. When I switch on the Sony RX100II, I need to put it at mu hip, move the screen up, extend the lens to 44mm, frame, take the photo. That takes about the same amount of time I’d need with an actual TLR. You forget how fast and convenient modern cameras are until you use 70 year old technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellow jacket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

People have been trained not to be in other people’s photos. Mostly because they don’t want anyone they don’t know in their shots themselves. But I want people in the right place. 9 times out of 10, they try to move away. That woman was going to cross the gutter and she would have been part of the symmetry. But she saw me and walked around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The row of bollards was a good tool to frame people down the road, keeping the far background to create layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bollard frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These two women, obviously together, were taking photos each pointing to one side, then swapping. They made me think of Charlie’s Angels. The frame is not quite symmetrical, but close enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie’s Angels photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That fountain made a great background to take photos of people walking in front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fountain with a woman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fountain with a man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know who the statue is. Holberg I think. A local hero probably. What attracted me was the 3 woman echoing the 3 statues in front of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Statue pow wow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Statue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Aker Brygge is the Nobel Peace Prize building. That’s where it is delivered. A lot of people take a photo of that building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nobel peace prize building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When the rain starts getting too heavy, I stop for a rest and something bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coffee and treat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Taking square photos, I can’t always resist to trying to compose them like I do 3:2 wide angle shots. But it’s really hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trying to achieve symmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Symmetry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Perspective, depth, and repeating pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Benches on the harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Symmetry achieved. Central composition. Slightly askew, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Symmetry achieved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This building is a masterpiece of 30s brutalism. Also, Oslo uniform in the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brutalist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We have umbrella down! We have umbrella down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Umbrella on the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m asking you: why? Anyway, another attempt at creating layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tourists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You could think that the statues are on a pier but also suspended from the cables. But the cables are in the background holding a bell. I wanted to find a way to see the statues and the bell, but it was impossible. Even from the back since then the statues would face away from the camera. So I settled for the symmetry of the posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suspended statues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I don’t normally do abstract photography. It’s too far from how my mind works. But the droplets attracted me and when I was close I saw the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lines and patterns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by Vivian Maier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vivian Maier with a beard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Is BikBok the Norwegian TikTok?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TikTok?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I could take the subway back, but I’ll walk. I have that cinnamon bun from this morning to process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m not feeling as tired as this scooter, but I’ve been working for the last 6 hours now, so I’m starting to slow down. Aren’t these textures great?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tired scooter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I liked the name of this building: Domus Bibliotheca. I tried to make a symmetrical frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Domus Bibliotheca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I found the apparent contradiction in the bicycles and arrows amusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which way?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back at the hotel. I liked the distortion of the aluminium walls of the lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

See you another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Photography #Oslo #Tourist #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s Sunday. It’s still rainy in Oslo. It really feels like I travelled from summer to November in a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}