Easter some years ago

I went skiing with my friends. It was a great tour around Easter. I don't remember what year it was but most likely it was year 1999.

We began the tour in a cold weather at temperature 10-15 degrees below zero. That picture is from day four in the tour when it was much warmer temperature, even above zero.

The day after it had began raining and the tour changed immediately to water skiing project!

I might write more about that tour but now I have to go out and buy some coffee - my mind is n danger

One of my pictures: The pigeon

The summer of 1987
I went to Czechoslovakia for one month as an IAESTE exchange student. At that time I was studying mechanical engineering at the University of Iceland and I spent a part of that summer working in a lorry factory Prague named Avia. It was a great time and I took a lot of photos on my old Olympus OM-1. Those days were no digital!

This photo here below are originally colour slides but I made it monotonic as it is in Photo Shop.

The pigeon, originally uploaded by eirasi.

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phone calls

I have felt rather tired today. That is perhaps just because some bastard called me at 5 am at least 5 times just to say vo-vo-vo in my ear. I said "Hello" , "Hver er þetta" , "Who is it?" , "Do you speak English?" , "Parles vous Francais?" , "Snakker du dansk" , "Sprechen shie Dauts?" [or how it is written] etc without any answer.

Strange people. I think it was someone not calling from Iceland. At least my phone didn't show the phone number but just showed a "phone call".

I just hope it wasn't the Santa Claus or even worse, someone I know in deep trouble.

It is so strange

I have been using my new scanner this evening. I came up to some old photos from high school or college (depends on how the school is defined but that was at age 20 and after that graduation one can go to a university. When I was graduating there was a plan of publishing a book with photos and some information about every student graduating. The book was never published but I took half of the photos and I have them all.

I don't know if I took this one and I don't remember the girl very much but I do remember that photo when I see it now. I think she has been very interseting person and I'm wondering what she is doing now. I don’t think she ever knew about me as anything but perhaps as a shy photography boy [or perhaps not so shy] and one of those nerds most reading calculus and physics all the time or one of those guys in the speakers group where I was partitioning those years. Perhaps she new about me and perhaps she can remember me. Who knows but I don't think she will read this.

Most of those people I have not met since I graduated but some of them I meet frequently. I moreover work with two of them and at least also a husband of one of the girls.

It was in spring 1987.

I'm sometimes wondering how my life would have been if I had a girl like her as a girlfriend on those days. Things might be very different.

To be or never have been that is perhaps the question... but where on Earth can I find the answer?

I went hiking yesterday

I went hiking yesterday, Fimmvorduhals see maps below. I went with 6 other guys 5 of them are among my co workers at skyrr and my brother was the sixth one. Five of those guys are going with me to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa next year so this was some kind of a exercise for that trip. There was snow most of the time so it was a little bit hard work walking those twenty something kilometres and there for really good exercise for the Africa trip.

We had to start early and I woke up 5 am and was out of town at 6 am. Began walking around 8 am and that is before dawn here in Iceland in December. The weather was really beautiful. The sky was close to clear and almost no wind. I'm not sure about the temperature but it was some degrees below zero.

So we began the walk under a clear star sky but with no moonlight since the moon is its 4 weeks periodically holyday those days. It became colder in higher altitudes and soon it felt really cold. The landscape was incredibly beautiful in the beginning of dawn. First it was blue and changed into yellow and later real daylight. But there was a real daylight just for an hour or so since the days don't last for a long time this part of year.

We had hard time walking through deep snow but it was worth it. Down in Basar in Thorsmor one of our friends from work were waiting for us and drove us back to civilization when we finally came there around 6 o'clock in the afternoon. It was total darkness then again and the stars were shining but we were to tired to notice.

I only had a film camera with me so I don't have any photos yet. But I think I will have some of them scanned.

The hiking rout is the dashed line from "Skogar" to "Basar" on the map and it is located in the south part of Iceland.


I hope this guy are not upset since I used his map.

Photos from the tour are here
(Photos by Indriði)

And see also my fotolog

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that horse

that horse, originally uploaded by eirasi.

Once upon a time
I had a horse
very little
red one

Long time since last blog here

Yes long time.

I have been ill and all. Was in bed for couple of days. But I'm becoming allright now.

I had planned to do some hiking this weekend but the weather forcast was bad so I dind't go anywhere.

Went out this evening to take some pictures. More to come perhaps but here is one:

I had a new lens to night

Lækjartorg - bus station at night, originally uploaded by eirasi.

I'm now a proud owner of an ultra zoom lens for my nikon D70 (that is Nikkor 12-24mm).I couldn't wait to take some pictures. Here is one.
Perhaps not any masterwork but at least a wide angle!

a little joke or perhaps not just a joke

A man goes into a lawyer's office and says, "I heard people have sued the tobacco companies for giving them lung cancer, and McDonald's for making them fat."

The lawyer says, "Yes, that's true."

The man says, "Well, I'm interested in suing too."

The lawyer says, "Okay, McDonald's or a tobacco company?"

The man says, "Neither. I'm suing Budweiser for all the ugly people I've slept with."

The road to nowhere

The road to nowhere, originally uploaded by eirasi.

I had to go to a meeting outside of Reykjavik today in a place called Heidmork. Well not entirely outside the city rather on the edge of it.

After the meeting I drove around the area and took a walk for some time. The lightning was really wonderful and I took several pictures and this one was among them. I hope someone is enjoying it.

And yes, this photo is supposed to be the photo of the week although there is a couple of weeks since the last one photo of week was posted here.