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Thank you 500px + my feelings about the bombing

Published July 24th, 2011

So Anton Antonov featured a whole bunch of my work in this blog:

http://500px.livejournal.com/1242875.html

Thank you so much for that and thanks to everyone who has commented, favorited and followed me. I appreciate it very much.

Now on the subject of the Oslo bombing and Utøya shooting.

I and all my loved ones are fine by the way.

Yes it has been a big tragedy for the norwegian people. We certainly didn't expect something like this to happen to us.

But now that it has, it has only strengthed our feelings for another and made us just care more.

I was at work when it happend. And for those of you wondering, I work in a local newspaper. Not as a photographer, but as a graphic designer.

And we had a photographer on the scene quite early before police had arrived and things got contained.

You could barely hear over the phone what our photographer said. All we heard were mumbelings, crying (from our photographer) and the sound of the shutter.

The norwegians are a quite cold people if yo ...

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I cleaned out my gallery

Published July 18th, 2011

Removed everything that was subpar in my opinion.

I'm struggeling to be honest. I'm having difficulty improving.

At times I feel I am even regressing.

So I need to find ways to rejuvinate my love for photography. Or specifically, the enthusiasm I have for photography.

I still shoot nearly every day, but theres less and less I end up keeping and more often than not I feel distraught and outright in a foul mood once I get home.

I will try to remedy this by going to a couple of fares this weekend, it does limit me that I am working this weekend though.

What are your ways to keep enthusiastic about photography?

Do you set yourself a daily challenge? And how do you stick to it?

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