weird wall, amsterdam

took this in amsterdam about a month ago. i'm not sure what message the wall is trying to give, but it's still very lomogenic. i'm also happy with the red lightleaks. the photo was taken with the lubitel 166 on an expired kodak GPH100 film.

i am these days home in norway, but i'll be moving to ho chi minh city in vietnam the 8th of august. have no idea how it is there with photolabs etc, but i really hope i'll be able to get a hold of a good negative scanner and find a good lab for development so i can keep this blog going. i'm sure there'll be tons of lomogenic things to shoot there!

i've also been really into urban streetwear lately, so check out this shop

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awakenings festival 2010, amsterdam

it's been a little while since i uploaded anything, because a lot has been happening the past week. one of those things was the awakenings festival in the outskirts of amsterdam. awakenings is a massive techno and electronic music festival arranged every year in the end of june. this year the festival celebrated its 10 year anniversary with names like gui boratto, james holden, dave clarke, loco dice, richie hawtin, raresh, luciano, adam beyer and many may more. it was an amazing day with perfect weather, 40 000 beautiful people, and a bangin atmosphere.

here are some of the shots I took with my lomo diana during the day. they are all shot on fuji provia 100 film, and cross-processed. enjoy.

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studying in the library

i got really bored while studying for my last exam in the Openbare Bibliotheek in Amsterdam, so i started playing with my lubitel. took this picture of my friend hugo, who was studying for the same exam. i really love how the picture turned out, with the exposure and the focus. the lighting is semi-bright in the library, so i used f/5.6 and 1/30 shutter, and it was shot on ISO 100 film. thus, five stops up from "Sunny 16". i think the soft focus and light really represents the atmosphere when studying in that library.

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lomo paris wheels

there's something about the quadratic format of 120mm shots that makes round shapes look great in lomographic pictures. paris-wheels are therefore almost always lomogenic. here's two quite different shots of two quite different paris-wheels. one is a double-exposure picture of the massive one that used to be on dam square, while the second is of the joke of a paris-wheel, barely 4 metres high, at nieuwmarkt in amsterdam. the first is shot on an expired roll of Kodak E200 Positive film, while the second is on an expired Fuji RVP (don't know the ISO). colors and contrast came out quite different, and the vignette is a lot stronger in the second one. both are with lomo diana f+

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powerlines

just two quite random shots. the second picture is a pair of rollerskates thrown over some powerlines in amsterdam. saw them in kalverstraat (the main shopping street in amsterdam) and wondering about the story behind them hanging there.

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sensemaking? not with this photo

french florent is getting ready to celebrate the dutch queen for the first time. without knowing this photo is from queensday, it does not make much sense. took this the morning of queensday, after a pretty hard queensnight.

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modern architecture, amsterdam

shot this picture close to central station in amsterdam on queensday (one of the few sunny moments that day). haven't seen the sun since then, so really hope the spring returns soon!

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b/w architecture amsterdam

the dramatic feel of black/white shots can add a lot to photos of buildings and architecture in general. here are three photos, from different locations of amsterdam, where I think bw works great. the two first are from the area close to central station, from the bridge between the OB library and the NEMO museum, and of the nemo museum itself. the third is from a random canal in amsterdam (can't remember where). all photos are from an expired 120mm roll of ILFORD HP5 bw film (I think ISO 200, but not sure)

btw, the nemo museum is nothing to recommend if you're over 6 years old!

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queensday/koninginnedag, amsterdam

koninginnedag, the 30th of april every year, is the crazy celebration of the dutch queen's birthday. actually, it's the celebration of the previous queen, but for some reason the present queen officially celebrates her birthday on april 30. koninginnedag in amsterdam is the biggest streetparty in holland, and 700 000 come to the city every year. everyone is happy, hammered, and dressed in orange.

the weather wasn't great this year, with rain and clouds most of the day, so pretty poor light for photos. I was also disappointed when I realized one of the three rolls of film I shot that day was actually b/w. kinda ruins the whole orange-thing. anyways, I think these shots turned out great, and capture some of the amazing atmosphere in amsterdam!

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