It wasn’t really fall just yet, but it wasn’t summer anymore. Perhaps you can tell by the light.
Another shot from my ‘back yard’, Amager Beach.You just might be able to make out Sweden across the water.
Amager Beach 6 – 2012
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Rubies and gold
18K gold, 164 rubies – handmade in India.
This two-for-one post celebrates two things – my camera and my bracelet. I wanted to show my bracelets to on-line friends at Pearl-Guide.com. I merely took the bracelet, hung it on the rosebush, pushed the release botton twice and it came out this beautiful. I don’t think it’s possible to go back from DSLR.
I bought the bracelet in India – in Chennai. Though the jewlery stores there are five stories high, I found this unique piece with 164 bezel set little rubies in an artisan shop, Amethyst – a combined caf and artisan store set in a lush, tropical garden.
If your sharp eye notice that some rubies appear to be missing, you are quite right. A few of them has fallen out.
Tivoli 12, 2012
Last picture from Tivoli this time around… Tivoli has their own music corp marching through the garden every day, playing their instruments. I wasn’t prepared but heard the music, raised my camera, and got just one single shot before the orchestra went up on the central stage.
And this is one of the things I loooove my DSLR camera. One shot, one chance, auto everything -and it comes out like this.
Tivoli 11, 2012
Did I mention that Tivoli is full of quirky details? Like two horses high up on a wall… I find this motive wonderfully surreal and I love the texture of the artifical rock face contrasted with the shiny horse heads.
Tivoli 10, 2012
This covered passage runs under the Tivoli Concert Hall. When my parents were young it housed one of the hottest jitterbug joints in town. Now it is home to a Wagamama and a café – none of them neither hot nor glamorous. But the ceiling is!
I can’t believe I’ve walked through that passage all my life and never noticed the mirrored ceiling until I looked at it through the lens. Maybe I’ve always been too busy eying the ice cream stands across from the café.
Tivoli 9, 2012
Fortunately two of the rides that afternoon in Tivoli were right next to a rollercoaster with a loop. I made it my mission to shoot a great picture of a rollercoaster. I kinda think I succeeded.
I did need to abide by the prime rule of showing patience, though. The ride only ran through once. Then I had to wait and wait until the next passage and the next single chance of a shot. This is the result of somewhere around the 10’th run. But I was waiting for the kids anyway.
Tivoli 8, 2012
It looks so tranquile but out on the lake it’s every man for himself! Thankfully the boats don’t go very fast, but while we were instructed to sail in circles when I was a kid, the kick today is to try to ram into the other boats
Tivoli 7, 2012
Tivoli has different themes. I love the graphics of the Chinatown and remember stuffing lamps like this in my suitcase on a trip to London as a teenager. They hung in my room for years.
Tivoli 6, 2012
Lights are a central part of Tivoli. The main impression is still that of colored lights with old fashion light bulps. I still recall the favorite from my childhood – an old tree by the fountain with huge twinkling lights.
Sidetracked
I’m sorry about my resent instability. My goal is to post one picture a day – and do it every day. This time my excuse is related to photos. I’ve spent all day yesterday working on my latest website, and I’m pretty darn proud that I shot all the pictures that I use for the design.
I decided to go with the theme of water. I also locked myself into using a black/white/red color scheme. Finally the water had to surround the island, I live on.
The pictures don’t look their best yet. I used the ‘kindergarten’ tools – color conversion on my Nikon and fine tuning with Picasa. In time they’ll get top notch Photoshop treatment. But if you want to see the result so far it’s here: http://www.karinott.dk (the content is in Danish so don’t expect to understand it :-))
Karins Fotos 