It’s snowing here in Denmark. It’s like the winter have started early! Morten and I went to Kullen in this fine weather to check out the early season ice conditions. We had a grand day with ‘full-on’ conditions in the snow. I made a short Slide show/Video! Enjoy!

Early season ice on Kullen (Photo: Morten B. Johansen)

Anders climbing aid on Kullen (Photo: Morten B. Johansen)

In September I participated in the Orco Trad Climbing Meet. Maurizio Oviglia has put together a nice slideshow with pictures from the meet. It brings back good memories from a fantastic meet.

Orco Trad Meeting 2010 from Orco Valley on Vimeo.

Let me put one thing straight: I am an amateur photographer! In other words it’s a hobby. I have a ‘real’ job as an IT Architect that pays  my mortgage and extravagant climbing holidays. While climbing and travelling I shoot photos and write articles. Some gets published here and others  get published in specialist climbing magazines.

But how do I rank against the pro sports photographers? Probably not very well, but I decided to put my skills behind the shutter to a test. On Sunday I went  to Lyngby Stadion to watch the Super-League game between Lyngby Boldklub and Sønderjyske. I bought a ticket and did not come with any photo accreditation, The  security wanted to see my camera bag, but otherwise had no objection in me taking a Nikon D3100 equipped with a cheapo Nikkor 55-200mm lens to the spectator stands. This was my first time ever shooting pictures inside a football stadium.

I found a place not far from the corner and started to shoot (hand-held off course)! The Pros where sitting next to the field with their huge lenses:

The game got on and I shot some pictures, but after 10 minutes the crucial moment came. Lyngby was on the attack and got a shot at the Sønderjyske goal. It was illegally blocked with hands on the goal line by Sønderjyske #3 Michael Stryger. He was shown the red card by the referee and Lyngby was awarded a penalty kick. Lyngbys Kim Aabech scored on the kick and Lyngby went on to win the game by 1-0.

Let us see my pictures of the situation:

#3 puts his hand on the ball

The Lyngby player has seen the foul and puts his arms in the air

The line-ref has seen it and puts is flag in the air.

Lets have a look at the pros pictures, that I found on http://fodboldbilleder.dk – this site is run by Per Kærbye. A well respected sports photographer. He only got one shoot of this crucial game situation! – You can see it here

His other pictures from the game can be seen at http://fodboldbilleder.dk (Click the TAB Lyngby – Sønderjyske)

My full set can bee seen on flickr photoset where you see the full format pictures and study the EXIF data – or in this slideshow:

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I am going to let the pictures speak for them self and not pass any judgements on photo quality, but I am quite satisfied with my own performance.

As promised in a previous post, I would tell you about my 35mm film experiments. I have had good fun shooting old-school film with the Nikon F80. I think the pictures have turned out  quite well and that they really have that smooth film look (off course they do, it’s film!) The pictures in the set have been shoot with Fuji Superia 200/ 400 and a Fuji  Sensia 200 colour slide film . Check my Flickr photo stream for details!

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I have recently acquired a used analogue  Nikon F80 SLR camera. It is equipped with a Nikkor 28-80mm,1:3,3-5,6 and a Kodak skylight filter. The whole kit was bought at a price of 50$ and is almost unused. I will be using this setup to document next weekends climbing trip to Göteborg, Sweden. We will see if I can remember how to handle a ‘real’ camera. I will post the result here, and write a few lines about the experience in shooting ‘Real Raw’ 35mm film

The chosen weapon shot at ISO1000 with my new Canon S95