Monday evenings...

What are they for if I may ask? Just for nothing but sitting on my balcony writing something stupid in my blog while drinking some cheap red wine after eating a hamburger from my barbeque and watching the candle light burn down.

I’m not sure if this is the real life but anyway this is what I’m doing now and I don’t think it’s bad at all. Well I might accept some company but private is not always the worst thing in the world. At least not when it is me that don’t have the company.

There is jus one problem. I think it is starting to rain on my neck... and even also in to my glass of red wine. And that drinkt didn't need that!

and....

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But... why on Earth did it have to start raining now when I was having such a great time. Well have to go inside!

My Self Portrait Project (SPP)

Yesterday evening I was sure something would fall down to my head!

desperate

This was actually done while I was doing some self portraits yesterday evening. But I’m trying to make one self portrait per day now.

2005-08-08
nothing but the head

You can see the rest of them in my Flickr Self Portrait Project (SPP) set.

The old fashioned icelandic wollen sweater in fashion again!

It is so strange. The new fashion for girls and women in iceland is this old fashioned sweater made of icelandic wool. Well it is a little bit redisigned but it is still the old ancient sweater that was considered the most off fashion perhaps one or two years ago.

And this is only female fashion. I'm supposed to wear fleece or something made of plastic if I'm outside in the cold. At least those redisigned sweaters are not for men!



Those photos are of normal icelandic girls watching gaypride yesterday. I think there where hundreds or thousands of icelandic girls andyoung women wearing this old traditional sweater. And it is a pity I think those beautiful sweaters seem to be designed just in some women style. At least only women seem to wear them.

A man doesn't usually wear a sweater like this only if he is doing some rough job outside, fishing, going horse riding or hiking some mountains. And mos commonly he doesn't wear clothes like this in those activities either because he would most likeley wear some fleece made of plastic!

white or black...

hiking

I’m back from a short hiking trip in my strange country. It was a great hiking tour around a lake called Langisjór (The Long Sea). The tour is around 50 km and we were 2 and a half day hiking.


Walking shadows on The Long Sea

some of my photos from last week - not so good?

Last week I was trying to take some photos to put in a challenge on DPC where the subject was “long exposure”. I did not submit any photos to the challenge since I wasn’t too sure about them. But here are some of them and the last one is just crazy funny I think!

First there were the fast flying ducks on the pool in Reykjavík:

Then I went to Hvalfjörður, a fjord close to Reykjavik and there were some birds. I liked the colors in this one and perhaps I should have submitted this one to the challenge.

But I didn’t get so many comments or favs on it from other users on Flickr so I thought it wasn’t so good at all.

But the funny shot is from last night - totally different and still so funny. The crazy man with a hat in his bed. And yes, it’s me!

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just happy now

My picture won!!!

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yes ... just lazy

This is a raven flying down. Not to my head but he was flying down. That crazy bird saying krúnk krúnk.

Last couple of weeks I was on summer holyday. It was great. The first week I was walking in the Hornstrandir area in the north west part (Westfjord) of Iceland. Beautiful place as you can see.

This picture is from the first evening there and the only evening we had some raining! As you can guess it was not raining very heavily.

The second day we had very heavy storm but the rest of the time we had just great weather. As you can see:


And, yes, I went with my sister and her boyfriend



In the end of the tour we stayed for couple of days in Reykjafjordur but Kristján (Ragnhildur’s boyfriend and Ragnhildur is the sister) is from that place. Well his grandparents lived there.


This picture is taken inside a house close to the beach there and some fishing stuff inside.


But anyway… I have been busy enjoying the fine weather here in Iceland the last couple of weeks and not so much time for my blog. I have also been on a photography journey and have some not so bad photos I think. On that DPC thing I think I will have some congress now and even a ribbon in the texture challenge. Not so bad.

But since I don't have all the time for my blog you can see something happening on my fotopages:

Fotolog
Flickr

Lazy blogger or not?

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hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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No I'm just strange ....

My new running shoes

I think they are great!

Asics Gel Kayano

Expencieve though I must say!

Me and my folk in my country

The weekend was in the country. In the south part of Iceland I and my family have a land to raise a forest and there we have a little cabin. Well it is very little and you could perhaps use the word tiny for it. Last autumn we decided to make a new window for the hut and last weekend was the time to put it in place. My brother did most of the window, designing it and everything.

The designer, carpender and engineer: My brother Gunni

My mother taking care of everything!


My father had some things to do as usual.

In the evening we had a kind of a birthday party since my father's birthday was last Friday. All of a sudden we had some rain and soon after that there came the most marvellous rainbow I have seen for years!


The great rainbow over the mountain Búrfell

In the old sagas the rainbow was the bridge to the land of gods where Walhalla was supposed to be. As you can see in my face I’m very much afraid there will come some trolls and take us and eat… or even worse, change us to snakes or anything terrible.


The coward in the country!

Since it was getting cold we led the stove outside. Well we didn’t have much heat from it but it looked nice to have it and we felt a little bit warmer. I wrote in my diary:

"It is rather chilly and I’m more or less freezing and you can tell from my handwriting. We had that very bad weather forecast for tomorrow and it is now almost two o’clock after midnight. Gúnni [my rother] is brushing his tooth. My hands are cold and U2 is playing in the radio. Then I will go to sleep… I will blog this!"

There was a fire in the stove

The weather didn’t turn as badly as the weather forecast had predicted. There was some heavy wind around 8 o’clock in the morning but just for half an hour or so. I and my brother went home before noon but our parents stayed a little bit longer. Around noon the rain started and they went also back home.

When I came home I became extremely tired and went to bed in all my clothes. Not as I’m used to sleep! ;-)…. I woke up about 9 o’clock in the evening and stayed awake until 3 o’clock in the night when I finally went to sleep. Not in any clothes this time. Slept until next day and was too late to work. It was a good weekend.