Oslo airport – a disgrace for Norway and for Scandinavia.
Thought for the day…” You may delay, but time will not” (Benjamin Franklin)
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” (Martin Luther King).
Because of work, I have to travel a lot, and recently had the misfortune (and misfortune is the word) to travel through Oslo airport (code OSL) again. It is an absolute disgrace for Norway and for Scandinavia. Not only is it far too small for the numbers of passengers now using it, but the facilities there are hopeless. The management there have seen fit to remove most of the chairs, which means that many waiting passengers must sit on the floor (and remember that this is in Norway, which is supposed to be a civilised country). They have found space to display dumb sculptures (such as the famous bent penis sculpture) but claim to have insufficient space for seats. And despite their claims of a lack of space for seats, they have been able to greatly enlarge the size of the tax free shop. So whilst passengers may end up sitting on the floor, the airport does not care. If you have come off a long flight, then do not bother to look for somewhere to get a shower. There is nowhere.
And this is the 21st century. Most travellers now carry mobile phones, tablets etc. all of which need charging. But try finding sockets in Oslo airport. And if you have a long wait for a flight, then do not count on finding much to do at the airport….things like TVs to watch or any other facilities that good airports (such as Singapore) provide for waiting passengers. So, while you are sitting on the floor waiting for your flight with nothing to do, then remember that you are paying to use the airport. Things are so unpleasant at Oslo OSL airport that I am now considering going across the border to Sweden in future to avoid the unpleasant experience that Oslo airport OSL is.
A photo of a couple, seen in Bergen, Norway. Not sure which country they were from, but not Norwegian.
and another portrait photo…from the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku
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In the streets, in black & white.
Thought for the day….”The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire”.
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines”.
It is pleasant to read a good news story from New Zealand. The newspapers there are reporting on yet another helicopter crash (there are a lot of crashes in NZ) near Queenstown on the South Island. The helicopter, with 6 people onboard, crashed on landing. The passengers escaped with minor injuries, but Australian Mitchell Green proposed to his girlfriend immediately after exiting the wreckage. The happy ending is that she accepted. Not your usual marriage proposal !!! Wonder what they will do for the wedding ceremony……
Great fun to go back through the photo collection and edit old photos….here are a couple of photos, originally taken in colour, converted to black & white. Good lighting and being in the right place at the right time helped to make these photos.
and another…
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Black & White or colour….which is best ?????
Thought for the day…” Broken pencils are pointless” “Jokes about German sausages are the wurst”
Lots of fun to go back through the photo collections and re-edit the photos….and also get rid of a lot of earlier attempts. Two versions of the same photo today, from the Spanish island of Menorca. All photos from the Fuji X series….with the standard 18-55mm kit lens. See which you like the best. Same photo but one is converted to B & W. My vote goes to the black & white version….
and another photo from the archives….the lake at Geilo, Norway in early autumn…
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Buying decisions….to buy or not to buy, that is the question
Thought for the day…”A goal without a plan is just a wish”
“Success with a negative attitude is called Luck. Success with a positive attitude is called Achievement”.
To buy, or not to buy. That is the question. Having recently upgraded the camera to the newer Fuji X-T10 (great camera, and highly recommended), the finger is now poised over the ‘BUY’ button. This time it is the new Fuji XF 100-400mm lens. All the reviews have been great, and the people that have posted their comments praise the lens, so it is undoubtedly a wonderful lens. I gave the lens a try in the camera shop, and it felt very good, and the extra zoom would be very welcome BUT here is the problem….the lens costs about 3 times as much as the camera did, and with the teleconverter, will cost around 2000 euros. So the finger is hesitating on the ‘BUY’ button. Quality always costs more, and the Fuji products are great, but the thought of almost 2000 euros on a lens is difficult to accept. To buy, or not to buy, that is the question…..
A couple of photos from the north of Norway, taken with the standard 18-55mm Fuji lens on the X-T10. The first photo is from the small town of Vardo, at the top of Norway.
and another photo from north Norway…Hammerfest
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Fuji X camera system thoughts
Thought for the day….”The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more”
“Talent does what it can, genius does what it must”
Having had many cameras over the years, including Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Canon and Panasonic, I am now in the happy position of having a camera that does what I want, and a camera that produces pictures of the quality that I want. Looking back over the earlier attempts at photography, I can see just how much cameras and lenses have improved. I am now in the happy position of NOT wanting to upgrade the camera. The current camera, the Fuji X-T10 makes taking photos FUN. It ‘only’ has 16mp, but the quality of those 16mp is enough for me. I still read reviews of newer cameras in the magazines and online (www.dpreview.com is an excellent website), but is is now just for interest. I have no desire to upgrade at the moment, and can now concentrate on actually taking photos and enjoying the fun of producing a good photo. I am not interested in buying a camera that can take 20 pictures a second, nor do I feel a need for a 50mp sensor. Another advantage of the Fuji X system is that the jpeg photos straight out of the camera are so good. I have now stopped taking RAW files just because the jpegs are so good. This means that I no longer have to spend hours processing RAW files on the computer. I know that some people really enjoy this, but for me, less time on the computer is good. I have read that Fuji cameras are made by photographers who are also engineers, whereas brand X cameras are made by engineers full stop. This means that taking photos with the Fuji is instinctive, as well as being fun. True, the cameras may look old fashioned with their dials, but most people agree that the cameras are much better to use. And the most important thing, the X-T10 produces great photos !!
Today’s photo comes from Rafsundet in Norway, not far from the Lofoten Islands. As usual, the size of the photo has been greatly reduced for the internet. The quality of the full size image is great.
and another portrait photo, this time from Lake Malawi, Africa,
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