11 images. If you ever do as I did, travel the coast of Norway with a motor vehicle, you better get used to ferries. And what better thing to do while waiting for the next ferry and escaping the impatience of your travelling companions, than to grab your camera and immortalize this great event. I've added the Larvik Line ferry in Frederikshavn port and the Pinshan ferry, the latter by my good friend Yan YaDing.
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15 images. Initiative, strength, reserve, speed, patience, experience, dexterity... all a man needs to do his work well in addition to co-operation, mutual respect and cordiality. It takes time to learn, still does not guarantee success.
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Norway: Small Towns and
"How-Can-Anyone-Live-There?"-Places. 
19 images. A substantial difference between Norway and Sweden are the policies of centralilizaton and decentralisation. Norway has tried the latter, trying to maintain a scattered population while the major cities were to remain comparatively small.
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Norway: Buildings and Landscapes 
15 images. In the old days we built our houses out of what was available in the vicinity, of clay, logs, straw, bamboo, stone. Buildings became an integral part of their surroundings. Not so anymore. Who knows where the brick and cement comes from that shape our homes. But even these materials are logical in relationship to the landscape of the city because they shape their own landscape.
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11 images. My favorite series. Remember, no one is posing for these snapshots. I love the boy with the rice bowl in the middle of the street.
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12 images. In the eastern track of the Valdres Valley stands a knob-shaped mountain called Rondemellen. Though she is a mere 100 meters taller than her nearest neighbour, she enjoys a curious fate, that of serving as a landmark for a hundred miles all around. I don't know why that is. Other mountains sink into the general landscape, Rondemellen does not. I have spent many a childhood summer at the foot of Rondemellen and her brother Skarvemellen. This is my tribute to them.
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France: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Cheese, 2006 
12 images. The once-a-week market at the French Catalonian town of Collioure. I've published one or two of these pix before, but not in this context.
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Photoshop - Worth the Trouble. 
7 samples. I don't like to interfere with my subject. It's up to me, the photographer, to anticipate that special moment of clarity, of interaction, the moment that best describes the character of the subject. Mostly that is wishful thinking. Mostly photography is like fishing, you hope that if you do everything right, that you'll capture something,
When you've landed your fish, it's still raw. Small refinements can make the picture tell the story you intend. That's what's what you do with Photoshop.
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14 images. Places of worship are everywhere you want them to be. Houses of God are merely a focus. Still, I count them among the most beautiful things made by man.
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10 images. Why are old things valuable? ... Fooled ya, most old things are just trash, broken, incapable of serving any function, they may even be dangerous. That's why we get rid of them, even pay good money to do so. But some cherish their out-dated objects, and appreciate the stories they have to tell. Valuable, probably not, if they weren't very valuable to start with, when they were new.
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The Wonderful World of Feet Only. 
10 images. Walking on your own two feet, for good or bad you are part of the environment with all your senses, a world of fumes, sounds and visual experiences, wind blowing in your face, temperatures making you regret you left your mittens at home. A photograph can only capture part of this, I am relying on our common experiences for the rest...
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France: Collioure, La Vie En Rose, 2006 
13 images. In Collioure there's absolutely nothing you have to do. The walks are short, the restaurants plentiful. Or go shopping for your lunch on the market and be your own chef. There's a huge castle, berreft of battle scars and a sinister looking fortress on hilltop. From Collioure you can travel by rail to Perpignan and Barcelona.
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France: A Parade, and a Few Observations, 2006 
Still, there are clues. The place: Arc de Triomphe, Paris. Date: Oct. 12, 2006. The Arc de Triomphe is where the unknown soldier is buried. The date is Columbus Day in the US, which I fear is irrelevant here.
The flags are all French with inscriptions, exempt one, the flag of the United Nations. United Nations' Day is Oct. 24, so they're not celebrating that worthy institution.
So, what are they celebrating? There are more clues. There is but one lady present, her dress makes her impossible not to notice. That's why we also notice the dark suited Asian men surrounding her.
On to the flag bearers. I notice two things about them. They are for the most part gray-haired, and, though they are uniformly dressed, hey are not actually wearing uniforms. Even those fellows in their magnificent capes are wearing ordinary suits underneath.
Finally, there is one ornamental sabre present, otherwise no weapons at all. So, what does it all signify?
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31 images. I'm no botanist, but I do recognize a Christmas tree when I see one. Where there are grazing animals there's not a lot of flowers. One needs a fenced in area to see clover and butter cups.
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40 images. These are all pre-digital photos with all the dust, scratches and loss of color that might be expected.
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Baltic States: Streets of Vilnius, Riga and Talinn, 2003-2004 
19 images. The capitals of the three Baltic states are a photographer's delight. This series contain a presentation of the famous Elisabetes iela in Riga.
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Great Britain: Streets of Ashford, May 2004 
7 images. Cloudy and wet, but delightfully English.
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Portugal: Streets of Lisboa, 1995 
12 images. ...and Estoril and Sintra.
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Germany: Streets of Rüdesheim, 2013 
11 images. Not by me, but by my wife, Jing Lan.
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For the perfect shot you need a bit of sun on a cloudy day in October. And a nice westerly breeze for Union Jack.
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14 images. A Point of Sale can be in a supermarked, in a department store, in a shopping mall...or on stretch of sidewalk. Which is most efficient, one might wonder. Authorities, concerned about sales tax and legalities, will prefer the former. As a photographer, I am fascinated by the latter, the single individual striving to make good. As a consumer I might have other priorities.
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22 images. All of these were shot on 35mm film with a Canon A1 camera.
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12 images. Norway is sometimes called «steinrøsa», which is to say a pile of rocks. A fitting description. The Oslofjord vicinity is especially interesting from a geological point of view.
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6 images.When wind blows on the water surface, energy is tranferrred. The water expands to accommodate the added energy. Ripples are created, rolling away from the point of impact. Mind you, only the energy ripples move horizontally. The water itself merely moves up and down.
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26 images. I like candid shots, and most of these are. I have used the landscape format to a great extent, maybe I didn't listen to my teacher, maybe i like to include more of the setting of the subject in the picture. Anyway, no regrets, let other people tend to the passport photography.
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17 images. Photographing birds is time consuming and frustratlng...
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Baltic States: Lithuvania 2003 
Baltic States: Estonia and Latvia 2003, 2005 
Norway: Vestlandet including the city of Bergen 
31 images. Vestlandet is Norway's fjord country. The word fjord is related to the English ford, a crossing over water. That's is why some lakes are also called fjords, for instance Ransfjorden.
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16 images. Li Zhuang on the Yangze is a town of forty thousand, 24 km from Yibin in SIchuan. When I was there, in January 2007, a section of the town was in process of being converted to some kind of tourist attraction. It looked promising. It was no museum, or should I say, it was a populated museum. I was charmed.
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USA: Manhattan Under Foreign Skies 
8 images. These are my wife's excellent photos from February 2013. I just played around with them.
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