Some nature photos...

[tomeklund]

Hi,

Not art...just visually frozen moments of time and all sorts of particles. Anyway, this is what i do. Not for work, but for life. These couple pictures are no way near my best shots or so, they are just couple recent and ok ones. Been pretty bad year photographically for me...

One shot of the latest bit bigger aurora...31st Aug / 1st Sep:

http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image004902.jpg

curtain of colorful rain from the summer

http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image004818.jpg

blazing sunset couple years ago

http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image001291.jpg

Elvis

http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image001349.jpg

[eyebyte_atWork]

Pretty cool photos - you have been exposed to some of natures most beautiful things.

I work in a cube - you can imagine my view.

[Leftfield]

I like them, were those all taken in Finland from the same general spot? Outside your house even? I like some of the few I took in Sweden as the best Nature shots, but they are nothing compared to yours.

[tomeklund]

They are from same general area...Why? If your question has something to do with the lake, it's pretty much because the areas of water give you more perspective than a wall trees. Which is bit too common at my neck of the woods..literally.

Yes, many parts of Sweden should be pretty similar as what it is here....pretty same kind of terrain, mostly the same animals, same plants, pretty similar climate and so on.....Although, Sweden has some true mountains, Finland doesn't.

[Leftfield]

I ask because the view from my friends parents house in Sweden was amazing, I wasn't sure if you had the pleasure of this view everyday or not.

To me it is peaceful to spend just as little as five minutes outside of the house if the view is that rewarding.

[seba]

hm, i don't have much nature, so here. a sunset:P

http://fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/340/f/6/sunset_under_the_clouds_by_sebastianp.jpg

[Mr Pink]

Love the Elvis lightning :)

[illusivemind]

Photography, is most definitely an art form. I really like these, got any more?

[tomeklund]

Photography, is most definitely an art form. I really like these, got any more?

Yes, certainly many photographs are art, but where does the limit go and what is the limit. I am pretty sure that many would not consider example of a regular snapshot taken by a lifeless traffic cam as art. Nor would many photographic artists consider a capture where his/her camera took a shot on it's own....Piece of art should be piece of art, even if there is no artist, but in real life....how much art has to do with the motivation and cause and purpose and existence of the artist who took the shot....or managed shots taken by others into something labeled as art.

When taking those shots my mere purpose is to document what i see and as unspoiled as conditions allow. I have no message, no agenda, no personal "philosophy" or view what i would be saying. My only goal is to see and get a decent balanced composition and shoot. Well, of course the praise is good :whistle: :D, but i still have no signature or personal message (that i would aware of) what i would be forcing into the pictures or via pictures.

Ok, here's couple more then.... 2nd of Sep

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora_tiedostot/aurora05/sep2/au020905_3.jpg

and another 10th of Sep

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/tom.eklund/aurora_tiedostot/aurora05/sep10/au100905_17.jpg

[PenguinHunter]

Wow, nice ones again. Art doesn't have to have a specific message I don't think. You're taking pictures of what you see and out of (presumably) many pictures you've chosen these select few to show us. The reason is that they have interesting spacial content. That is, the outlines and colours break up the "space" of the photograph in an interesting way. Or simply, they look good. At the end of the day, that is one of Art's goals.

[tomeklund]

Art doesn't have to have a specific message I don't think.

That could be true...or it might be not.


The reason is that they have interesting spacial content. That is, the outlines and colours break up the "space" of the photograph in an interesting way. Or simply, they look good. At the end of the day, that is one of Art's goals.

You know, the problem i see here is that everything, every single piece of the world and every single photograph that is taken are special and they can be seen like such too. What adjective you put there doesn't matter. Also every example traffic cam picture can be seen as art and they can be used as a part of the larger....art concept.
I may have left from wrong direction, but now i kind of see that the art is probably mostly in the eye of the beholder....maybe the photographs are just photographs and maybe the art happens no sooner than within the brain of the watcher. But what the hell is art? :whistle:

[PsiKik]

I love your pictures of the auroras

[PiccoloNamek]

That lightning shot rules. I've never been able to get a shot like that.

[illusivemind]

Yes, certainly many photographs are art, but where does the limit go and what is the limit. I am pretty sure that many would not consider example of a regular snapshot taken by a lifeless traffic cam as art. Nor would many photographic artists consider a capture where his/her camera took a shot on it's own....Piece of art should be piece of art, even if there is no artist, but in real life....how much art has to do with the motivation and cause and purpose and existence of the artist who took the shot....or managed shots taken by others into something labeled as art.

When taking those shots my mere purpose is to document what i see and as unspoiled as conditions allow. I have no message, no agenda, no personal "philosophy" or view what i would be saying. My only goal is to see and get a decent balanced composition and shoot. Well, of course the praise is good :whistle: :D, but i still have no signature or personal message (that i would aware of) what i would be forcing into the pictures or via pictures.

Art is where art is found. It's arbitrary, you decide what's art. I put that traffic cam photo in the frame of a movie and suddenly it is art by association with the surrounding context.

But I'd say all art is about making choices. You choose what is in frame and what isn't. Trying to stay true to nature is an art form in of itself (see realism), if I go and take a picture with my disposal kodak camera, my shots aren't going to look 'real', so the image is actually manipulated to appear natural.

[Aqueous]

Man, amazing photos! In my opinion, art is something that makes you feel, or think. This art makes me feel, therefore it is art.

[tomeklund]

Aqueous: if you live on 2/3 northern parts of the Sweden, you would see pretty much the same auroras what i see here, partly at least. If i have decent aurora here and we have some nice stuff visible right above the western horizon, that stuff will be directly over central Sweden.
I agree, art is something that creates an reaction....Often a personal visual or literal expression of the world, which does not try explain the world and does all that in such way that it creates an reaction in others, but there are many kind of reactions.

[bamsemums]

We have a lot of auroras as well, just too bad it's cloudy (raining) most of the year. :(

Love your pictures of them. :)

[tomeklund]

That lightning shot rules. I've never been able to get a shot like that.

It's pretty easy, really. You just need to have frequent lightning and preferably during dark hours. Then just expose the scene as long as you get strong enough bolt to the picture and that's it. Then next frame. Of course one should be in relatively safe place when doing it.

[Aqueous]

I've never seen them. I live too far south unfortunately.

[tomeklund]

I live too far south unfortunately.

Well....not really. Mostly just too far indoors and/or in the city lights. The hard fact is that people do not look for auroras and so they almost never see them either. In southern Finland very possibly majority of the peoples have never seen northern lights, yet on some years they are visible well close to (or over) 50 nights per year. From which 1-7 nights may have stunning monstrous...insanely bright aurora right overhead and close to the southern horizon...
Anyway, in few years you will get your first aurora, unless you move really south. :thumbup:

[kuranes]

I like the "swirly" aurora best.

[Madrigal]

Absolutely spectacular!!!! And I see art in such a monochromatic way.... *sigh* Colors can be such a beautiful thing.

[int]

I like the aurora photos. Especially the 9/10 one.

They make me want to get out my camera. Inspiring.

Cool.

[attila_the_hunny]

I wish I lived in a place that was nature-ly photogenic.
All I can take pictures of is tall buildings, dancing subway midgets, and people picking various parts of their body.

[Tensore]

Well I don't have anything that good compared to those aurora pictures, which I might add are spectacular, but I do have some pictures from a large snow storm we received awhile back. And yes, that is my dog in a few of those pictures. :)

I'm not going to post them directly on the website because they're obnoxiously large (1600 x 1072), and I'm too lazy to re-size and re-upload :whistle:

Winter (http://image26.webshots.com/26/9/69/4/345096904jrKBSA_fs.jpg)

Winter 1 (http://image42.webshots.com/42/9/76/81/345097681fDTCef_fs.jpg)

Winter 2 (http://image40.webshots.com/40/0/24/5/345102405NQkHqI_fs.jpg)

Winter 3 (http://image38.webshots.com/39/9/80/46/345098046oQQFgw_fs.jpg)

Winter 4 (http://image12.webshots.com/13/0/10/64/345101064hkrafv_fs.jpg)

Winter 5 (http://image46.webshots.com/47/9/72/44/345097244XIPfVU_fs.jpg)

Winter 6 (http://image12.webshots.com/13/9/73/60/345097360cHmjPM_fs.jpg)

Winter 7 (http://image32.webshots.com/33/9/98/98/345099898EwjCYW_fs.jpg)

[melancholeric]

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[PsiKik]

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[Tensore]

Okay, sorry about that. These will work...

Winter (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture013.jpg)

Winter 1 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture180.jpg)

Winter 2 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture225.jpg)

Winter 3 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture035.jpg)

Winter 4 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture204.jpg)

Winter 5 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Tensore/Snow%20Day/Picture204.jpg)

I'll post more if you guys like these

[illusivemind]

Nice pictures Tensore,
The Dog POV one in particular