My first week of vacation, last week, was spent running a school that hosted 29 out of the 1,600+ soccer teams that came to Gothia Cup in Gothenburg. We live at the school for 8 days. Not much time for anything else other than making things work.

The week before, week 28, was characterized by pictures of my cats. I didn’t have enough of Snorre before he got killed and I wanted pictures of my cats. This is the mother. She was so upset about Snorre’s death that she puked. She frantically tried to groom him and clean him, just like she had always done.

For week 29 I chose a picture I took of Ewa in our kitchen, the first day we were home again after Gothia Cup.

I also came across a roll of film from a recent trip that had been misplaced. I developed it and found some pictures from Malawi.

http://dlridings.se/blog/2008/07/21/malawi/

Off to the US for 2 weeks now.

I drove down to Odense from Lindome in the evening rather than the morning, as I usually do. That put the sun in my face. I set the camera to center-weighted metering and added +0.7 EV to keep it from going over the top and was surprised how the lens held up.

Kept to myself for the most part. After work I took a long walk down to the center of Odense, passing Fotolsen on Albanigade on the way. He had a screw mount, collapsible Summicron tried it out on my IIIf that I had with me.

He also had a Sigma 30/1.4 in a Nikon mount so I tried it out too, using a D80 that I also had with me.

I didn’t buy the Summicron at the time and put an Elmar (50/3.5) back on the IIIf for the rest of my walk:

Downtown (Flakhaven):

I did buy the Summicron before I went back home to Sweden and tried it out on Ewa (f4.0):

and Rebecca (wide-open):

I’m not real sure why I keep doing this. I’ll be updating past weeks shortly. I haven’t quit, I’ve just not uploaded anything.

I don’t do it to prove anything. I do it because I have a need to do it. This week’s need was do subdue sorrow:

It doesn’t really get much easier, even as time goes by.

A walk in Göteborg:

I didn’t feel at home or at rest:

To sit alone with my thoughts was not an option:

Just walked around:

Met up with Ewa and we ate:

Ewa

Sussi

There’s some more in the shoebox, but not much:

Shoebox

All b/w with a Leica M3 and a 35mm or 90mm (Elmar).

Daniel

Walking to work in Odense, Denmark:

Back at home, Ewa is working on weekends to get papers marked and ready for the students’ final grades.

All were taken with a Leica IIIf and a 50/3.5 Elmar (with a shade). The last three were taken with the aperture wide-open.

Silas

There are some more in the Shoebox

Catching up, catching up …

This is a typical part of my life … waiting at train stations.

It’s been a while … Rebecca … in her pajamas

In a rut. I’ve had the equivalent of a writer’s block. I don’t know why.

I’ve been busy lately with several projects. A Blurb book, a book of photographs by photographers who use Rollei cameras, is one of them.

You can find the result here:

Rollei users

A collection of pho…

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Odense morning in the spring