Testing the automatic image posting from Flickr to my BlogCFC blog

Friday was spent driving acrosss Norway from Oslo to Bergen in great weather and through some impressive scenery. We deliberately took a route that noone had taken before or not in so long that they didn't remember it anyway. We didn't stop much, so I didn't take many pictures during the day, but I Uploaded two to picasaweb, one from Aurland and one from Gudvangen.

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Actually, this is after the sun has set, but still. Mostly a test picture to show off my cameras lovely low noise. This picture was shot with ISO 500; notice the sweet, smooth gradient and soft colours :) http://www.fjetland.com/pictures/edited/2005/050122Sunset.jpg

Not much to say, really... just another sunset picture taken from my bedroom window this afternoon. The original had too much of the foreground buildings showing, so I tried darkening them away using Levels.

Following up on the delayed christmas pictures, I figured I'd fill in with some of the pictures I took on New Years Eve. This actually includes not only my first attempts to shoot fireworks with my D70 digital SLR, but actually my first serious attempt at shooting fireworks at all... it's with things like this that the advantage of digital cams really become evident, as there's a lot of trial and error, an you get instant feedback. I'm really pleased with some of these pics, many were taken with ISO values of over 1000, and yet there's surprisingly little noise. Anyway, I figured I'd start with my speciality, sunsets :D This is not any sunset, either... it's the last sunset of 2004, on New Years Eve. Anyway, off to the party, etc... 8 hours later, at midnight, the sky lights up with all sorts of fireworks - from the large, but simple to the more complex. However, my favourites were the pictures where I managed to capture the crowds in the light from the fireworks. It wasn't easy when only using handheld equipment and people moving about all the time, but I think I managed to capture some neat ones.