invited guest: Skorj

I recently bought a book by the amazing japanese photographer Daido Moriyama and got very curious about japanese photography. My curiousity made me have a walk around the internet to see what I could find. Suddenly I found some breathtaking photos by a photographer named Skorj. I'm very delighted to be able to present them to you.
invited by: markus andersson

"Life is about the feelings we take from being. Photography is a combination of our memories and the tools we use. Finding the right tool to represent the memories is difficult sometimes. Sometimes the tool overrides the memory. I try and use my camera & film to represent the memories, the feelings, what I had from being there... Not the memories of the equipment, but the memories from me, the memories of a life in Japan.

The lonely windswept castle, the radio-tower dreams of modernity, the mists covering a mystical lake, the proud oba-san and motorman with his 1950s machine.

This work was taken with a 1975 Polaroid 195, and Type-665
negative film cleared in the field with mugi-cha.

More can be found at: www.filmwasters.com"

/Skorj.

pretty far from tiger woods

Anually in april the US Masters are played at Augusta National Golf Club.

At approximatly the same time the Marholmen minigolf course reopens after the winterbrake...

if the weather admits it.


10 swedish crowns for 18 holes.

Club, ball and scorecard with pen included.


and best of all, there are no dressingcode, so if you want to play in pyjamas that is totally OK.

photos: christofer grandin

invited guest: Susan Burnstine

Some months ago I discovered outafocus, a really good photoblog by Susan Burnstine, and was totally fascinated by her magical photographs. Now I am happy to have the possibility to introduce her photographs on The F Blog! Now I leave the word to Susan herself:

On waking dreams
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. (Carl Jung).

This series explores that fleeting moment between dreaming and waking - the blurred seconds in which imagination and reality collide.
I often recall images and am uncertain whether they came from something experienced in reality or dreams. Images symbolic of transitions and transformations of the spirit, be it human, animal or from the natural world, are of particular interest and significance to me.
With this series, I wanted to find a way to portray these types of dream-like visions, but entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing manipulations. To achieve this, I created twenty hand-made cameras and lenses that are frequently unpredictable. Learning to overcome their extensive limitations has required me to rely on instinct and intuition - the same tools key for attempting to interpret dreams.

Forest Through The Trees.
© Susan Burnstine.

This Side Of Heaven.
© Susan Burnstine.

Bridge To Nowhere.
© Susan Burnstine.

Into The Light.
© Susan Burnstine.

Blue's Nose.
© Susan Burnstine.

Glide.
© Susan Burnstine.

For more information, please visist Susan Burnstine's homepage and blog. Invited by Fredrik Skott

Photos are really just Heaps of Pixels

Take a look at this place, and click around for a while. Quite fun to explore

for a while. Are we only producing heaps of pixels, or what?

Author: Viet Tran, Linh
Title: Efficient Image Retrieval with Statistical Color Descriptors

Inbjudan

RÖTTER

Fotografier av Sanna Sjöswärd

Visas 3 dec 2006 - 21 jan 2007

Program

Temakväll: Rötter, Visning av utställningen och unga filmarna Hadis Abdollahi Moghaddam & Kimya Shams visar sin dokumentärfilm om livet som unga i dagens Iran.

När: Onsdag 10 januari, kl 18 - 20

Fotograf Sanna Sjöswärd berättar om utställningen och sin resa till Iran.

När: Lördag 20 januari

Guidade visningar av utställningen: Ons 17 jan kl 18, sön 21 jan kl 13

Värmlands museum

Sandgrundsudden i Karlstad

Tel: 054-143100

www.varmlandsmuseum.se

Pälsänglar (eng: fur angels)

Invited guest: Viktor Gårdsäter

Viktor sent me eight "lone stars". Great pictures from this young man
with a free mind and fresh eyes. I have met Viktor once in real life.
You will see him soon again at a gallery near you. I am sure of that.
Viktor has added some comments to all of the pictures.
Invited by ulf fågelhammar

My friends Linus and Farzad at Linus summer house

Looks like the little kid has to wait until the older
guys are finished.The picture is taken at
Björns Trädgård in Stockholm.





This is My Grandpa in his house.
His name is Erik and he is 86 years old







This picture is taken in Blackeberg, a suburb to Stockholm.
What does the shadow mean to you?






I have always been fascinated by contrasts.
Tiny old ladies in front of big symetric
building for example





This is a picture of some workers trying to

fix the grass at the Stockholm
Stadium.






This is Krister in front of his mum and dad
who mean a lot to him





I call this picture "In a paralel world"

all pictures ©Viktor Gårdsäter
find more pictures by Viktor here

Nickolas Muray

[Nickolas Muray], ca. 1920 / unidentified photographer.
1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 10 cm.
Nickolas Muray papers, 1911-1978.
Archives of American Art.

I received a nice email from Mimi Muray concerning the article "The man from Szeged" posted here on the blog. I like to share some of Mimi´s words with you: "I like the blog about my father a lot. I think it is educational and enthusiastic, and a nice way for people to become informed about my father's work.

Soon I hope there will be a biographical book about Nickolas Muray, the Man from Szeged, and it will have lots of information and photographs in it. For the time being, there is a book called "I will never forget you - Frida Kahlo to Nickolas Muray" by Salomon Grimberg.

It was published by Schirmer/Mosel in Germany, in English, German, and Spanish; and now it is available from Chronicle Books in San Francisco in English paperback. It gives some excellent biographical information, as well as marvelous photos of Kahlo."

-Mimi Muray-Levitt

for Luke Skywalker

Well

Today should have been the BIG day.

The day when the swedes colonized space.

Reaching further, higher and faster then any other swede ever had.

Flying high above in a tincan like major Tom.

Our own Luke Skywalker.

but what happend?

Fuglesang brought the swedish regnglopp weather to sunny florida.

and one cannot fly a rocket in that kind of weather.

Not in regnglopp.

One could hardly drive a bicycle.

With or without kevlar undies.

photos and nonsense by: christofer grandin

Invited guest: Gustav Gustafsson

It is funny how the way we look at the world is influenced by the way other people look at the world. I am not at all sure that I have an independent way of looking at the world. I mean, everything I see gets related to somehting I have already seen. Past images shape future images. Future images shape past images. In between we have the present. What does the present look like? I sure do not know. I only look with other people's eyes. Gustav Gustafsson is one of them.

Gustav writes:

My older brother made me take up photography. He gave me a crappy old camera in graduation present. I didn't have the nerve not to use it.

Now it has become an addiction. I get depressed if I can't be creative. In other words, I take pictures to maintain my health.

I welcome you to see more of the world through the eyes of Gustav Gustafsson.

Invited by Joakim Sebring.

Wipe Your Hands Before Dinner

A vegetarian's night dream.

Come on..

Invited guest: Nick Brandt

Ever since I was a kid I´ve been fascinated by the wildlife of the savanna.
I´ve never been there but Nick has and some day I will be there too and enjoy these magnificent animals.
In my opinion its not many people who manage to make art of wildlife photography, Nick is one of them who manage to do that and please enjoy the mythical world of Nick´s animals of the savanna wich sadly is a vanishing world if we don´t stop that. It´s close (no teleshots) its personal and you can enjoy more at Nick´s homepage http://www.nickbrandt.com/

Invited by Mikael Jansson.

© Nick Brandt

Autumn Movie Frames

Gruppo F inbox: Stiegbert Jernheim

Polska from Jeppo

© Stiegbert Jernheim