Little family

Time just passes so fast! Not long ago we sat starring on the midwifes computer screen adoring that tiny little man swimming around inside mettes flat sixpac. Its unbelievable, now a few months later our little fellow has grown big and strong, getting himself ready to breathe in the air and say hello to the world. 

Hey little friend - we can´t wait so see you and welcome you into our little family :-)

Pizza time lapse

Here´s how you cook a pizza in 36 seconds:
   

The time lapse was made by taking one pictures every 10 second while making the pizza. After taking 950 pictures, all the frames were put together to a short movie, playing 25 pictures pr. second

Equipment used:
Canon 7d on tripod, Tamron 17-50mm lens, 1/50 sek at F/8,0
Hanel Giga T Pro II set to trigger with 10 sek intervals,
Patience...it takes around 950 shots..
Software: Quicktime Pro

Here is how to do it (not the pizza):
1) Set up your camera on a tripod and set it in manual mode (its probably OK in auto if your not used to manual).

2) Get your exposure right exactly the same way as if you´d take a normal picture.

3) Set your trigger to fire with whatever time-intervals you wish (keep in mind that you need 24-30 shots for each second of movie).

4) Go ahead and do your cooking tricks...or whatever your´e doing :)

5) Open Quicktime Pro on your computer. Go to File, Open Image Sequence and locate your files. Select the first photo in your sequence, choose your frames pr second rate (I chose 25) and hit Open. Quicktime will assemble your files into one large movie.

6) You can now export it as a smaller format if you want.

Sipadan: the turtle capital

For those of you caught in the christmas-snowstorm, I´ve wrote a little tale about the diving in Sipadan: a warm, sunny place with white sandy beaches and blue water.

Check out the e-magazine "Habitat" from the Danish Zoological Society and indulge yourself in the living wonders above and below the surface of planet earth:

Download PDF: Habitat #6

To my english speaking friends - sorry - it´s all in danish... but I´ll  post a not so danish update of Sipadan on the blog soon.

Until then - MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you :-)  

Colourful East London

Last weekend Mette and I spend a few days in London. As I´ve never been to the east before, we took a long walk around this colourful and sparkling part of the city.
 

There´s so much street art to see here.. Whenever I went 20m down a little empty street to look at some obscure paintings, I found myself going further 10 meters down the road, twisting my neck around the next corner expecting a new hotchpotch of colours to be thrown into my face. 

The largest Indian population outside India itself, is found in London. More than half a million...even the street names are written in Hindi (thats at least what I think it is) in some areas of East London..how cool is that!! 

I wont´ even think of how the right winged "Danish Peoples Party" would react if a roadsign with a foreign language would dare to find its way into a danish street. We are so patriotic (say ignorant) that we haven´t even managed to set up english signs to guide our non-danish speaking tourists through the busiest train station of Denmark!! 

Anyway, maybe we´ll find our future generations more embracing than ours..enough politics, lets move on to something more important: 

   
..SHOPPING!! Sneak in through the small open doors along Brick Lane, follow the trails and soon you´ll find yourself standing in funky underground warehouses with all sorts of clothing and outfit.. The famous Spitelfields market is found just round the corner - this is where high street giant All Saints started out with its own little stall.

   
Walking through East London you´ll find yourself with a constant tingling feeling in your nose. Foodstands with all sorts of spices and tasty, colourful dishes will make your over-stimulated salivary glands go nuts. 

 

To top up the day we ran into this little festival in Shoreditch - a gathering of all sorts of rebuild campervans serving various food in a great atmosphere. Our last few pounds were well spend on a bowl of delicious curry. We missed out their apparently delicious burgers - but as Mette spotted "The Londoner"-blogger, we had the opportunity to get a virtual taste of them:

http://www.thelondoner.me/2012/12/eatmeup-burger-battle.html  

 

Zoo portraits continued

Well, not all the animals I came across look as sad as the ones in my previous post. Some of look rather silly...

...or hungry

 

...and even more hungry

 

...or just extremely cute as these red pandas

 

..but the dalmatian pelican is still gazing out into the cold autumn mist knowing that there is a better world just beyond the fence..

Zoo blues

A few weeks ago I went to the zoo to see if I could get some nice wildlife portraits (well not exactly "wild" - but still...). Here are a few of them. The rest will come soon...

Maybe its just me, but once in a while it looks as if the animals are gazing, or daydreaming about the endless savannah, fields of icebergs or wast forestlands.

This dalmatian pelican ("krøltoppet" pelikan in danish) eyeballed me so hard as if it was blaming me for depriving its freedom.

Anybody who has seen this polar bear in the Copenhagen zoo must have noticed how he just wanders back and forth, back and forth, back and foth, back and forth in his little man-made concrete confinement. If you went to see him 10 years ago he was doing exactly the same. Poor fellow, he´s probably gone insane - who would´nt? :-( 

This little guy below looks a bit sad to...almost as if he wishes that the piece of carrot he is about to take a bite of, is a fresh and juicy nut. Anyway, he didnt look sad to long..he was probably born in here and think this is the greatest place on earth! Free food all day and great free real estate as well!! :-)