Now I've toned this down a little. I still have the red, but only for links and some icons. For the menu and modules I now use a simple gradient. This, I hope, will focus more on the content rather than the stuff around.

I still use browser specific code for the rounded corners. So for best performance and the most correct look, please use Firefox 3.+, Chrome or Safari.

Seems I'm in a lighthouse mood at the moment. Yesterday was a beautiful Sunday, so I took a trip to Ona lighthouse on the west coast of Norway. Absolutely stunning weather. I got to use the Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 up there by the lighthouse, absolutely killer for these types of shots.

I have never been to Ona, although I've wanted to go for many years, this time I just decided that now is the time. Don't regret it at all, I'm probably going again some time.

Ona is a really nice place, I would encourage anyone that can, to go there.

Images captured by D3 with AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED, and D700 with AF-S NIKKOR 14–24mm f/2.8G ED. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

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The weather was clody, so I really looked forward to get some images of the light house. I'm happy with the results.

Once I was in the area, I encountered some horrible driving conditions due to maintenance work on the three under water tunnels on the way to Giske, other than that it was a great way to spend a Sunday.

Here are some images from the trip. On the last shot I tried to mimic a night shot.

Images captured with a D3 and AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

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Oh, my home town got a little visit from his Royal Highness King Harald the 5th of Norway, so there was alot of stuff happening during those hours, so I got to shoot some pictures at the local airport.

Images captured with a D3, AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED and AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

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Download the 1920x1200 file, leave a comment if you like. Enjoy!

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As I've said before, I really like to go back to my old files and do a re-work on them with new software. This is the case with Adobe Lightroom 2.3 too.

So last night I did do just that on some old Nikon D70 NEF's that have only been processed using RawShooter many years ago. With Lightroom I have a lot more tools available, so I was able to make something interesting out of these old files.

One thing that hits me though, I have to tell you that, those D70 NEF's are fast to work with compared to my D3 and D700 NEF's, I kinda miss that speed, it's good for my work flow.

For these images I used gradients again, that is one of those incredible useful tool's that you can not live without after using them once. I was shurley hooked after first time use.

Hope you like them.

Images captured with a D70 and AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED, and AF NIKKOR 80-200mm f/2.8 D lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme III compact flash card.

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I remember it vividly, the fall that is, in 2004 when I first went digital I was all over the place with this poly-carbonate image capturing device, shooting pictures, JPEG's mostly, until, of course, I discovered the RAW file format, haven't looked back since.

So today, while cleaning up my image archive I found this oldie, it's an image I shot with my D70 back in 2004, I was lucky too, this was shot RAW, so I'm able to go back and revise it when ever there are advances made to imaging software technology.

Ran it through Adobe Lightroom 2.3, which has quite a few bells and whistles. I utilized gradients for this image to make it into what I wanted. I think it worked out quite well too.

Well, the D70 is history, I'm now using a Nikon D3 and D700 full-frame camera. It's not just software that's improving, digital SLR's has come a long way since the D70.

Image captured with a D70 and AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme III compact flash card.

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You see, the airport is not far from my office, so I'm quite used to hearing choppers and planes passing by, but I've not heard much of this sound before, maybe once or twice many years ago. But I started to recognise the sound.

And there it was, a big Orion from the Royal Norwegian Air Force glided in to something that looked like a landing. I shouted to my college what I was seeing, let's say you wouldn't ask him twice to get in the car. We grabbed our camera bags and ran really fast, well, fast for 40 year olds that is.

Rushed to the airport, but disappointment hit when we learned that there was no Orion there, they just did a fly-over, bummer!

While we where there we did shoot some pictures, nothing special, but I'll post some here. Processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3.

Images captured with a D3 and AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

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I've started to make some plans for the time ahead of us. Spring and summer is a beautiful time to go outside making pictures.

Take the shot above for example, a beautiful place called Dalsnibba in the Geiranger fjord in Norway. I'll be going back this year to try and shot some material for some high resolution panoramas. I'll post them here, probably going to Zoomify them as well. So stay tuned for that.

I'm currently building a workflow for my panorama shots. I'm not sure what software to use yet, but it looks like I'm opting for some packages that are available both on Windows and Linux. I've been testing some of them, so I'm starting to make up my mind about what software to get. I'll write about that in more detail in a later post.

The reason for this, is that I'm building a dual workflow right now, I like to be able to do my work on both platforms, I'm planning to go completely over to Linux this year. Don't get me wrong, Windows 7 looks to be a really good release, but I feel Linux is the way to go for the future.

Oh, and it looks like I'll be shooting some night-stuff some time this week, you know, star trails and such. Never done that, so that should be a new experience.

Image captured with a D200 and AF-S 12-24mm f4 lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV compact flash card.

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