Sunny day in town

I thought there was going to be Santa parade in town so managed to drag Aisya out for a couple of hours on the town. The weather wasn't to bad with a spell of sunshine just before midday. As it turned out there was only one Santa, and he was sitting in a shop taking in Christmas wishes for the little ones. Oh well ...

With the sun out for most of the afternoon and really with no cold wind to speak of it was a rather pleasant short jaunt in town, managed to capture a few pictures that I'm happy with. Definitely beats sitting at home watching youtube!

Solar Eclipse 20th March 2015

I missed it! The good clear weather forecasted a few days earlier turned out to be duds ... we in Stavanger were completely clouded over, I think it even rained on the day of the much awaited total eclipse of the sun.

Earlier plans to travel north to capture the event were cancelled because of the "fabulous" eclipse weather forecasted. It's kind of depressing to think the next time this is taking place is another 14 years away.

These images of the sun on sunny almost spring days were taken during the few days leading to the eclipse Friday, practice shots so to say for an event that was completely clouded over in the end!

Images were made using EOS100D+EF40/2.8+Leica APO 77 Telescope with a green, red filters as well as a dedicated sun filter for good measure. Warning: Looking directly at the sun with a telescope can blind you with some kind of safety measures!

Night Owls II

So, what do you do then on cloudy nights? You definitely won't dream of seeing the Milky Way or aurora on a choc a block cloudy nights in Stavanger ... then you turn to artificial lights of course. In Stavanger. cloudy nights are a matter of fact not exception, lucky for us nightowls there are some beautiful twinkling lights just around town when the night is dark, cloudy and wet (most nights are in autumn and winter).

Images and words by Nazeri Abghani, Nov 2014

Evening Lights

Received an email from a friend working at Region Stavanger, a company responsible with promoting tourism in the greater Stavanger area the other day. She was trying to find if I have a photo of a particular spot in the city. It turned out I didn't have any which fits the bill  ... I was waiting for snow for the right mood of the place and clearly snow wouldn't be coming for another couple of weeks.

So, I sent her a couple of potential images but not exactly what she wanted. Not eager to wait, she used one of it anyway as this month's cover image for Region Stavanger FB account.

6pm 31.10.13

7pm 31.10.13

While I was at it I thought, why wait for snow ... there could be some nice images in there somewhere to be made in these days of winter gloom and rain. These images were made a few evenings later when I was in town. These were  images that they wanted ... I still think it looks better if they were some snow.

11am 1.11.13

6pm 1.12.13

And on one of those evenings, I popped by with a tripod and shot similar scenes with the EOS100D and Tokina 11-16mm. The above were all taken with a Sony SLT33 and Sony 11-16mm handheld around 5pm.

10pm 3.12.13

10pm 3.12.13

11pm 3.12.13

I thought that was kind of fun. The colors are different from both (could be the WB or the glass itself). The Tokina flared worst/better not having  a lenshood ... I broke it at Lista after slipping on ice one dark night!

The golden colors in the earlier part of the evening is more pleasing somehow ... the night is purely lit by tungsten; the early evening was lit with a mixed of tungsten and what's left of the remains of the daylight. I think I prefer the later.

I should venture out more in twilight ... the time between light and dark ....