Moström's blog ^pro

The last week has been very busy, not leaving much time to do anything but trying to keep ahead of all the stuff I should be doing. Next 7days is probably going to be the same thing ... sigh

I looks like I didn't manage to keep my intention of being a regular visitor at Ipernity. It seem like my life this winter has become quite chaotic ... we'll see if I succeed better the next few weeks.

I haven't been very active at ipernity this autumn, there are a number of different reasons for this but hopefully I'm able to start uploading stuff again and to look at other peoples work. This is btw on of my favorite wishes for ipernity: make it easier to see what document people have uploaded.

mostrom.eu/en/2008/11/23/losing-my-vision

Thanks to all for your comments, and sorry that I haven't been able to comment on photos for a while. Real life (= work) has been "interferring" with my free time for a while so I haven't had much time to do what I want in my spare time. Fortunally this seem change in a few days ...

OK, now all traveling is done for this year. Now it's just at matter of completing a few things before I can start posting photos from the summer.

I haven't been very active lately since I've been on vacation, but hopefull I'll soon be back to my "normal" routine

Finally back home again, no traveling for a few weeks !!! 

For a few days I've been busy in real life ... you know vacation started and all the small projects at home has to be fixed. And tomorrow it's time for a trip ...

Well, here is how popular I became today when I came too close to a nest

Being the target 1

Here are two pictures I posted to my blog. It's almost exactly 6 months between these photos. The first one is taken January 1st, 2008 around 00:27, the second is the same scene but taken July 1st, 2008 around 00:07 (I was to tired to wait another 20 minutes)

January 1st, 2008 00:27

July 1st, 2008 00:07

There is a difference in lighing conditions between summer and winter

back home but I'm trying to finish all work before vaccation ...

 or actually working ... got my new lens, happy again

It's time for another trip, once again to the Uppsala area - it's kind of funny it took a fairly long time before I visited Uppsala the first time but now I seem to visit the area 2-4 times a year.

 I dropped my camera last week, a quick check showed that there was something wrong with the lens... I checked with my camera shop  (a good shop with people who knows what they are talking about) and they declared the lens dead - "no use repairing it" - deeep sigh, it was my main lens

So I had to figure out what to do .... replace it (18-135mm), buy 16-85 VR (with the goal of buying a 70-300mm later) or buy a 18-200 VR. All the alternatives are fairly expensive. I talked to my insurance company and they said "Sure, you have to pay a part of it but we will replace it" !!! I really like this company, no discussions, no problem ... if you live in Sweden I can highly recommend Länsförsäkringar.

Anyway, it's now 1.5 week later and everything seem have a very happy ending, it will cost me some money (money that I don't really want to spend on my camera) but I'll end up with a better "setup" than before the accident.

If you're interested in birds I recommend that you take a look at Alan Norsworthy photos, he has just posted three very nice "portraits"

Didn't get as many chances to use my camera as I had hoped for ... and when I did get the chance I didn't manage to get that many pictures that were OK  

Hope to get nice shots ... if I get the time to use my camera

I've spent quite some time trying to translate ipernity into Swedish and it's an interesting experience. I've translated stuff from English to Swedish and vice versa, I'm not in any way trying to say that I'm a real translator but I've translated interviews, papers etc.

However, translating something like ipernity is different. When I translate a paper I can put the text I'm translating into context, I can see what is written both before and after the actual text I'm translating. This makes it possible to "re-word" the text so it looks OK in the other language. In other words I'm not doing a "word-for-word" translation. But when I translate ipernity I only see snippets of text without context which makes it fairly difficult to find the correct "tone" and choice of words + I need to make sure that the text doesn't look too "nerdy" but it can't be too "non-geeky" either.

It's going to be interesting to see the result, I suspect that I need to take a second pass over the pages and make sure things doesn't look too strange.