July 22nd, 2008 Peter Korkala
The central parts of Kopparberg. The red house to the left is the police station.
I took this through my windscreen, but it’s rather good anyway. I love the strong colors and the contrast against the dark sky.
Tags: photo, kopparberg, rain, thunder
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July 19th, 2008 Peter Korkala
I took a country walk this afternoon, to get more practice with my new camera. These photos passed my “quality check”:
I love photos with unsharp background - “bokeh” (that’s a Japanese word, huh?)
Harebells. They are very common around here.
A butterfly of unknown species. This photo is cropped.
I’ve investigasted a bit more about the species of the butterfly, and it seems to be a Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issoria lathonia). In Swedish it’s called Storfläckig pärlemorfjäril.
Two beetles on a common daisy. This photo is a bit unsharp, so it really didn’t pass my quality check, but I’ll throw it in here anyway.
Tags: photo, flowers, bugs, bokeh
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July 18th, 2008 Peter Korkala
This is my first contribution to Sky Watch Friday:
The old Court House in Kopparberg (see more pictures of it here).
Update:
I took a photo of the rainbow a couple of minutes ago (actually it’s two rainbows), and since it’s Sky Watch Friday I have to put it here, of course:
Tags: photo, tingshuset, sky watch friday, rainbow
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July 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala
This photo is taken from Bastkärn, a tiny, tiny village less than 10 km from my home. The village in the valley is Silverhöjden, another tiny, tiny village here. At the horizon you can see mount Fjällberget, the highest mountain in this area (466 m). The border between my (Ljusnarsberg’s) municipality and the northern neighbor, Ludvika, is somewhere in the forest between Silverhöjden and Fjällberget. The road on the photo is called R50, and is the main road around here. During the winter the trucks are having big problems getting uphill here, at least when it’s snowing.
There are five wind power stations in the Fjällberget area, and they’re planning on building between 15-20 additional wind power stations there. I don’t mind though, I think they’re kind of beautiful to look at, and the energy generated is very environmentally friendly. I have some great (close up) photos in my archive from the construction of these wind power stations, I have to post them here some day.
Tags: photo, Sweden, wind power station, Bastkärn, Fjällberget
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July 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala
On my way to Grängesberg today I drived by Lake Hörken. It was raining very much at the moment, so I didn’t want to step out of the car. The picture is taken from inside the car (yes, I stopped at a safe place first).
Here’s a photo I took a couple of minutes ago (about 10:30pm), when I was walking one of our two dogs. It’s not perfect in any way, the sky is overexponated and the trees to the left are unsharp. But it will serve as a first photo taken in the dusk. I will have to practice more, and probably bring the tripod (but not when I’m walking the dog). And as you see the weather got better during the evening.
Tags: photo, Sweden, lake, Hörken, dusk
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July 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Todays weather at noon: hail, rain and +13 degrees C:
I hope it’ll be better soon, I want to go for a ride and take some photos - but I don’t want to bring my new camera out in this weather…
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July 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Malmtorget, central Kopparberg:
Malmtorget means Ore square in English, it sound’s really strange. :)
Kopparberg is in the middle of an old mining area called Bergslagen, hence the connection to Ore. We’re having many street names and such with connection to the mining industry.
Tags: photo, Sweden, Kopparberg
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July 16th, 2008 Peter Korkala
I tried an interesting technique with my new camera today: panning.
My old camera was too slow to manage this, but the EOS 450 is able to take 3.5 photos/sec and that’s really good. A lot of the photos were blurred all over, but some of them were pretty good (photos linked from my Swedish blog):
1/80, F11, ISO200, 25 mm
The same photo, but I cropped it down a bit:
Another one:
1/80, F7.1, ISO200, 51 mm
And the last one for today:
1/125, F7.1, ISO200, 42 mm.
I almost filled up my 2 GB card today - lucky me that I ordered a 8 GB SDHC yesterday! The files are very big, between 15-20 MB each (I’m saving them in RAW-format), and my 2 GB card can only hold around 120 photos. The new 8 GB card can hold between 550 and 600 RAW-photos, and with the 2 GB card as a backup in my (new!) photobag I think it’ll be enough - but you’ll never know…
I have a lot to learn about the camera, but it’s very fun! And I love the thought of getting additional lenses some day. I would love to have a 300 mm zoom lens, and a wide angle lens (maybe 10-15 mm). And then I would like to have a very light sensitive lens to take photos of the moon and the stars, but they’re very expensive.
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July 15th, 2008 Peter Korkala
OK, here’s a first test, taken with my new Canon EOS 450:
There is really a LOT to learn, but it’s very funny!
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July 11th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Yesterday we went out on a trip to Grängesberg, another small village about 25 km north of Kopparberg. Here are some photos of Cassel’s Donation in Grängesberg:
Tags: Sweden, photos, Grängesberg, Cassels
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July 10th, 2008 Peter Korkala
The church in Kopparberg was begun in 1635, more than 370 years ago. In February 2006 the church was voted as the most beautiful church in Sweden. The voting was held by a magazine called “Året Runt”. The church’s name isn’t “Kopparbergs kyrka” (kyrka is the swedish word for church) but Ljusnarsbergs Kyrka. Ljusnarsberg is the name of the municipality.
Tags: Kopparberg, Sweden, photo
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July 8th, 2008 Peter Korkala
The house with the clock tower (do you call that a clock tower even if it’s not that heigh?) is the old courthouse of Kopparberg. Kopparberg is the seat of Ljusnarsbergs municipality in which I live - but I live in a tiny, tiny village located 15 km north of Kopparberg. Today the tourist information bureau is located in the old courthouse.
The sky in this photo is very overexposured, but it have to do anyway. I took this photo earlier today when I was in town to make some grocery shopping. (Heres a link to the same photo, but with a better sky, thanks Photoshop.)
And by the way, please correct me if you find something wrong, or a strange expression, in my posts. One of my purposes with this blog is to get more experience in writing about all and everything in English, and I’ll be glad if you tell me when I type something wrong, (i.e. misspell a word or use the wrong grammar).
If you do that, you’ll help me improve my English writing. Thanks in advance!
Tags: Kopparberg, Sweden, photo, tingshuset
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July 7th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I woke up to a cold, rainy day. The thermometer tells me to not wear shorts today, +8 degrees C is not warm. The rain is pouring down. Welcome to an ordinary Swedish summer day.
This is a view from my kitchen window, looking towards the main road.
Tags: Swedish summer, photo
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July 4th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Here’s a photo I took last summer (May, 12th, 2007):
The lake is called Vasman, and this photo is taken just outside the town Ludvika, from an old mining fascility. The view from here was stunning!
This is about 35 km from my home. Here are a lot of lakes everywhere.
Tags: Ludvika, photo, Vasman, view, Sweden
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July 2nd, 2008 Peter Korkala
About one month ago I took this photo on my way home from work. I was working the evening shift, and I believe this photo was taken about 11:30pm. During summer the nights are not that dark here (it’s called White Nights), and further north - above the polar circle - the sun don’t set until sometime in August.
Tags: white nights, polar circle, sunset
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