a flashy moment

The first studio flashes has arrived and we had fun putting them together.

Bleeding doesn't help

Bleeding doesn't help
by Martin Kristiansen

when you're eyes are gone

picked by crows

hollow eyes
staring in to the night

on a moonlit polar beach

cold as the sea

HappY

I'm happy with this. It will be my photo studio in very short time.





In the harbor at Andenes. Down by the light tower. It's in Hisnakul (abbreviation for History, nature and culture), an arts and culture center.

Couching!

finally a hobby for me. Couching. Serious couching.

Couching for hours. After dinner.

Light snoring. Coffee afterwards.
Preferably espresso - in a sleepy head.

- and so not job related.

Finally a hobby which is not job related. Not like photograph. Not like writing. Not like anything else.

Just lounge away my time in a sofa.
That's couching - a hobby for me.

Art over sports

Sent this photo of the jumping gym girls to Jpg Magazine. Thought it would get some votes.


And it got some votes.


Then I got this one back from developing. Carolina at the wheel throwing clay. I like the tones so I sent it too.




It got more votes - faster! than the gym girls.

Is it so that people prefer art over sports?

I always thought it was the other way around.

Grandpa's Cabin

Many years ago.



Now some one else's.

Much the same.

Color changed from yellow.

A veranda. The flag pole moved north.

Crapper still standing in the wood behind the cabin.

First ski trip

In six years.





Heart pounding.
Still refreshing.

Done with Women

Finally done with Women. Funny enough, thought not great literature.
I think some one I knew have read this book.
Bits and pieces fell in place.

I like reading Bukowski, but I think his novels are the weak part of his authorship. His short stories are great, and most of the poetry. During the Christmas holiday I also read his novel "Hollywood". A bit daft, but made me think of "The great rock'n roll swindle".

Also read "Come on in! New poems". Some wery well written poems. Some last famous words. And old mans self-knowledge, and some times the lack of self-knowledge. All those thing that make us human.

And I would like to say, with Bukowski's words:

I will never have
a house in the valley
with little stone men
on the lawn

Loaded

10012008059.jpg
Originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen

Finally got my Argus C-3 camera. Bought on ebay. Got it loaded with film today. Kodak T-max 400.

Now i only need some light - or some free time in the middle of the day. To take advantage of the little light there's in the dusk. Still some time before the sun returns.

Happy new year!

Car

Car
Originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen

Driving the blue

make it go away

Radio loud

Darkness safe

On the Savage road

Pat Savage has a preview of his latest film ready to watch: A Bikers Lifestyle... The Savage Roads "Arctic Viking Roads". You may see the video here.

Intervjuet med Pat finner du litt lenger ned på siden. Innlegget med tittelen "Kval, blues og raketter på Discovery-TV" ble laget da Pat kom av Andfjordferga sent i sommer.

De delene av filmen som er fra Andøya og Andenes ligger tre fjerdedeler ut i filmen. Hele filmen er på 23 minutter og viser turen på Harley ned fra Kirkenes, innom Macks ølbryggeri i Tromsø og videre ned til Harleytreffet i Ballangen.

Savage ser ut til å ha forelsket seg i Andøy, eller andværingene har forelsket seg i ham. Nå har han spilt flere ganger her ute, både på Teria og Havnehuset. I følge turnelista spiller han på Havnehuset igjen i slutten av januar.

Healthy breakfast

A breakfast should always be healthy

- to the soul

I have

black coffee
olives
cigars

in bed

tonight is Christmas Eve

Dead sea eagle

Dead sea eagle,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

Dead sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) on the shore. One, maybe two, bleeding wound. I think it might be a gunshot wound. It's a pitty such a nice bird. Think will deliver it to the sheriff over to Christmas, so they can have it examined.

It's mate flew above me several times while I were photographing. It ducked, as to see what I was doing.

At the Salvation Army

Community singing,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

I were at the Salvation Army this evening. They have been delivering boxes with food to people. 20 families in my municipality and 10 in the neighbor city.

One like to believe that know one in Norway need this kind of help. Usually the government give you support. Well enough to survive. Food, rent, clothes. The basic needs will be covered. It's not a life in luxury, but you'll survive.

The soldiers told me that help is most needed in families with a drug problem. Some drunkards also need help, but they were not so demanding as the drug addicts. Some unemployed immigrants also needed support, and a very few new-poor families.

This is Norway. This is how we are.

Liberty

LIberty,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

The liberty of having a really hot, red neck pre-christmas party. looks like some one at the air base gonna be really drunk tonight.

Our church

churc,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

Our church. My church? I was baptized there, but never confirmed. This strange rite de passage. This strange ritual to make you step in to the adult world. Well I've never grown up.

Letter of resignation

I quite my job today. Wrote a letter of resignation to my employer this Sunday evening.

It's time to start living again.

I'm gonna work as an independent photographer. It shall not be easy. But neither will it be boring.

Christmas tree

tree,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

In progress.

8 days
a week.

Never
enough time.

This is it.

9 days til Christmas Eve.

Guiding star

star,
originally uploaded by Martin Kristiansen.

My guiding star. My polar star.My north star. For other's it's just a Christmas star. For me it is hope. Like a treasure hidden up north. Now I have moved up north again. Still it represents hope to me.