This week Anne presented us with a new theme for the weekly challenge: “Fairly Tale”. My first notion was to take my bag and disappear in the woods, where I was certain to find something fitting. But alas, the week was suddenly at an end and I had not taken any images fitting at all.

But a youth spent in the world of fantasy has left me some items I could use, such as this sword. I bought this when I was about 16 years of age. It cost me more than I earned each month on my paper route, but I felt it was a good deal back then. Not too sure nowadays, but it is still a cool sword. Even when kept hidden away. I don’t want my eldest running after her little brother with this… Not that I think she is able to wield it. It is quite heavy.

Nikon D80 with Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro at 105mm;ISO200;1/60 sec at f/11

This weeks theme for the X/52 project was “Abandoned places”. After visiting most of the places I could think of nearby I started to worry. Sure, I got some shots I’m satisfied with, but nothing more. So I tried to find another solution to the subject and ended up with this. This is a snail shell, long abandoned from its former owner. Maybe by force, to make its home an ornament within another home – ours.

I got a few requests for the previous image in color. Here it is.

With the theme “City Lights” in mind, this is probably a better candidate. But I still like the colourless version better.

With the words “City Lights” in mind, I went searching for a suitable subject. Oslo seemed fitting. My original plan was to make a panorama, but I had some massive camera shake in my middle image (probably because of a bus driving by). So this will have to do.

Other takes on this weeks theme:
Line Storlid : City Lights
Ståle Ertzgaard: Over en by
Jan Ivar Vik: I gågata
Geir Ertzgaard: Simply lit Up
Anne Ueland: Light On The Wall
Stein-Evert Pettersen: Lyspunkt

You can see them all on X/52.

Here is the colored version.

Third picture in the project X/52 – 3/52. I had many ideas for this project, but ended up spending the weekend at home with my son who was sick. Today, I managed to sneak out for an hour and take this image. The subject this week is movement, so light trails seemed fitting.

Other takes on this week’s subject:
Geir Ertzgaard: Being Moved
Ståle Ertzgaard: Sporvogn til besvær (A street car named trouble)
Anne Ueland: Yatzy
Jan Ivar Vik: I siste liten

The bolts of lightning strikes down on Oslo. I used the evening and early night standing on my porch until the heavy rain forced me to go inside. I was considering setting up my camera to continue shooting through the night, recording pictures on my computer, but the sheer amount of pictures I would have to go through in the morning made me think otherwise.

This one I was really pleased with.

The picture was taken in a dark room with a flashlight swirling around the bottle. Using slow shutter is fun to do, but requires a lot of patience getting the right shot.