Enchanté

Notre Dame

2012-01-30T12:41:00.000+01:00

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust-

Paris, je t'aime !

2012-01-24T17:52:00.000+01:00

Tu vois, je t'aime comme ça

The beginning of love ...

2012-01-16T23:48:00.001+01:00

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,

and not to twist them to fit our own image.

Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Christmas

2011-12-18T16:13:00.000+01:00

A merry Christmas to everybody

Grandchild

2011-11-26T15:14:00.004+01:00

The first time that you hold them,
Nestled in your arms so sweet;
They somehow steal your heart away,
And make your life complete.

As if God saved the best for last,
Then sent it from Heaven above;
This tiny babe on angel's wings,
Your first Grandchild to love.

Chestnut tree

2011-11-02T13:48:00.000+01:00

Every chestnut tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground

Lie to me darling

2011-10-25T15:40:00.000+02:00

She wants to believe that you have come to stay
She wants to believe that you are what you pretend to be
She is listening to you, you are warm and confident
She is listening to you and wants to believe all she hears

But she believes that what has the power to bring us together
also reasonably has the power to bring us apart
She believes that everything built eventually also will be demolished
Still she holds you so gently everytime you are there

Maria Mena in consert

2011-10-24T21:54:00.001+02:00

My favorite artist

with the most beautiful lyrics

I am your stubborn hypocritical lover
Guarded by thorns of my past
You have been wounded, bled out
Anger gushing
And none of us thought it would last

The winds of your ego
The waves of my tears
Made the most perfect almighty storm
That we've seen this year
But experience gathered
We've learned from our past
So don't worry darling
This too shall pass

-Maria Mena-

Waiting for the miracle...

2011-10-21T13:50:00.003+02:00

Baby, I've been waiting,
I've been waiting night and day.
I didn't see the time,
I waited half my life away.
There were lots of invitations

but I was waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come

I dreamed about you, baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah but some of you was light.
The sands of time were falling
from your fingers and your thumb,
and you were waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come

Ah baby, let's get married,
we've been alone too long.
Let's be alone together.
Let's see if we're that strong.

Autumn in Bergen

2011-10-16T23:28:00.001+02:00

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

The ocean and me

2011-10-10T13:40:00.000+02:00

It’s the ocean and me

We’re the ones to be

I always fall asleep

Beside the sea

And we’ve got a certain way

How it wakes me every day

I never know though

With what kind of wave

And you know about oceans

How brutally it can rush

Drown you, or calmly caress you

With a gentle touch

Past

2011-10-06T21:11:00.001+02:00

One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone;

and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come.

Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering

Shade

2011-10-04T00:15:00.001+02:00

I would feel the sunlight

But I could burn from everywhere

Now you must make me a shadow

I will shine for you in there

Painted by the sun

2011-09-29T23:00:00.000+02:00

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun

Any regrets?

2011-09-20T13:19:00.000+02:00

Now that you see who I am,
are you pleased with your catch?
Is there any regret?
Or is life just perfect?

And now that you found out my weakspot
Has it made you sure?
Or do you want more?
Of lifes expectation

Imagination

2011-09-19T22:30:00.001+02:00

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

- Leonardo da Vinci -

Footsteps

2011-09-15T22:11:00.000+02:00

Footsteps walking with me
Footsteps I cannot see
But every move I make
And every step I take
I know they're there with me
They walk with me all the way
Beside me day by day
Through good and bad
Through happy and sad
Those footsteps won't go away

Eggs

2011-09-09T00:34:00.001+02:00

A photographer is like a fish, he lays thousands of eggs

hoping that one will grow to maturity.

I wanna trust you...

2011-08-30T13:23:00.000+02:00

I wanna trust you but I don't know if I do,

so I'm just gonna try.

I'm gonna try and trust you because I believe

that we can be extraordinary together

rather than ordinary apart.

Memory

2011-08-22T18:19:00.000+02:00

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

Nature

2011-08-11T13:10:00.003+02:00

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty;

but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Summer feelings

2011-08-05T01:32:00.001+02:00

White Castle

2011-08-03T13:14:00.002+02:00

One and a half years ago I was at Lysøen.

I photographed the beautiful castle of Ole Bull.

This picture has always meant a lot to me without knowing why.

Is it fate?

Because by beautiful Lysøen lives a beautiful person

who suddenly came into my life

and turned it around

Stormy weather

2011-08-02T01:54:00.001+02:00

even in stormy weather the days are beautiful with you

Red Sunset

2011-07-28T12:14:00.000+02:00

The color of love is red

Rainbow

2011-07-12T22:10:00.000+02:00

Life is like a rainbow.

You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear

I Love...

2011-07-09T00:23:00.001+02:00

I love everything about lighthouses

their daymark, their coastal locations

the style of tower, the keepers dwelling

the way they endure the powers of nature.

Most of all, I love their light, bright,

seen from far sight

a sense of “safety” no matter how dark the night.

Memories

2011-07-04T13:22:00.002+02:00

I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there,

memories good and bad will bring tears,

and words can never replace feelings.

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My friend

2011-06-30T22:23:00.002+02:00

To have such a good friend who share your passion
for photography is a gift

My cloud

2011-06-29T16:19:00.001+02:00

Out here on the ledge

I finally picked out my cloud

It's the one over there surrounded by all that air

I'm so glad we had this moment here alone

My camera

2011-06-26T11:41:00.000+02:00

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong.

It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

- Susan Meiselas-

The sea

2011-06-22T20:18:00.004+02:00

Follow the river and you will find the sea

Alnes lighthouse

2011-06-21T20:58:00.003+02:00

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person

Lunar Eclipse

2011-06-16T19:00:00.001+02:00

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Above the clouds

2011-06-15T02:33:00.002+02:00

They say above the clouds the sky is always blue

But it may be hard to believe if you don’t see it

And they say that after the rain the sun will shine again

But it don`t help those who already been wet of the rain

Cause when friends disappear, or love ends

you’ll see everything with different eyes

And by experience you always get better to see

The difference between truths and lies

Everything may be broken and our heart can break into thousand pieces;

But if you tell me you’re my friend, well perhaps you are...

They say there’s always something good in everything that happens

And it’s faith that often give us strength

But we know so little about ourselves, and how we will react

When fear and loneliness rules

Talking to the moon

2011-06-10T16:37:00.001+02:00

I am

Talking to the Moon

Trying to get to You

In hopes you're on

the other side

Talking to me too

Or am I a fool

who sits alone

Talking to the moon

I know you're somewhere out there

Somewhere far away

Sunset

2011-05-31T19:55:00.002+02:00

Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky

HDR

2011-05-27T13:26:00.002+02:00

Norway in a Nutshell

You're my hero

2011-05-25T21:48:00.001+02:00

Hope is always on your side

There''ll be days when it is harder to find,

You'll reach that mountain top some how

You may have to walk for miles

Cross the desert

Swim rivers wide

No matter who you are

You're my hero

When you feel like giving up

Just look how far you've come

'Cause when you take that first step

You know you've already won

You are so close you can almost

Hold it in your hands

Still waiting...

2011-05-24T17:06:00.002+02:00

Forgive, sounds good

Forget, I'm not sure I could

They say time heals everything

But I'm still waiting

I'm through with doubt

There's nothing left for me to figure out

I've paid a price

And I'll keep paying

Spring fever

2011-05-23T09:29:00.002+02:00

“It's spring fever....

You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

-Mark Twain-

Try again

2011-05-22T19:33:00.002+02:00

What I was isn't what I am

I'd change back but I don't know if I can

Still I'll try, try again,

I die every night, every time

But I was made the way I am

I'm not a stone; I'm just a woman

Lay down your arms and I will lay down mine

Rip back the time that we've been wasting

God I wish you could see me now

You'd pick me up and you'd sort me out

This prayer

2011-05-19T16:48:00.003+02:00

The night we met blended in with the bustle of the city

Passed between dreams and reality and disappeared like an illusion

Because the moon that day was too far and my memory was vague with your blurred figure

We looked up together at the moon

that looked close enough to touch, didn't we?

It was so beautiful that I felt pain in my chest and was about to cry

I closed my eyes and sweared

"If this prayer come true, I need nothing, nothing else"

Everybody's changing

2011-05-18T22:02:00.002+02:00

You say you wander your own land

But when I think about it

I don't see how you can

You're aching, you're breaking

And I can see the pain in your eyes

Says everybody's changing

And I don't know why

So little time

Try to understand that I'm

Trying to make a move just to stay in the game

But everybody's changing

And I don't feel the same

My soul

2011-05-15T00:18:00.002+02:00

Some days, feels my soul has left my body

Feel I’m floating high above me

Like I’m looking down upon me

Start sinking, everytime I get to thinking

It’s easier to keep on moving

Never stop to let the truth in

Sometimes I feel like it’s all been done

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one

Sometimes I wanna change everything I’ve ever done

Too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

Words

2011-05-06T14:02:00.003+02:00

Some words are better left unspoken

My shadow

2011-05-04T21:09:00.001+02:00

Following my footsteps home

This time I'm walking alone

Trying hard to be someone

I don't even know

I feel like a shadow

Walking behind who you think I am

Just like my shadow

Wanting to see the sun again

The Water is Wide

2011-05-02T20:59:00.002+02:00

The water is wide I can not get over

And neither have I wings to fly

Give me a boat that will carry two

And both shall row my love and I

Content with silence

2011-04-28T00:32:00.000+02:00

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.

When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

-Ansel Adams-

HDR

2011-04-24T22:01:00.001+02:00

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told

-William Shakespeare-

Limitation.

2011-04-17T23:14:00.001+02:00

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.
Look with your understanding,
find out what you already know,
and you'll see the way to fly.

Both sides now

2011-04-15T02:15:00.002+02:00

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,

from up and down, and still somehow

it's cloud illusions I recall.

I really don't know clouds at all

I've looked at love from both sides now,

from give and take, and still somehow

it's love's illusions that I recall.

I really don't know love at all.

I've looked at life from both sides now,

from win and lose, and still somehow

it's life's illusions I recall.

I really don't know life at all.

Harsh mistress

2011-04-13T22:45:00.000+02:00

Close enough to touch

But careful if you try

Though she looks as warm as gold

The moon’s a harsh mistress

The moon can be so cold

-Jimmy Webb-

Bergen by night

2011-04-09T20:29:00.000+02:00

Explore

2011-04-06T23:37:00.000+02:00

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do

than by the ones you did do

So throw off the bowlines

Sail away from the safe harbor

Catch the trade winds in your sails

Explore

Dream

Discover

-Mark Twain-

Afterglow

2011-04-03T15:37:00.001+02:00

When I look back

I see the landscapes

That I have walked through

But it is different

All the great trees are gone

It seems there are

Remnants of them

But it is the afterglow

Inside of you

Of all those you met

Who meant something in your life

-Olav Rex-

Time

2011-04-02T00:00:00.001+02:00

Your priorities are where you spend your time

Grief

2011-03-25T14:14:00.000+01:00

This grief overwhelms me

It burns in my stomach

This loss is numbing me

It pierces my chest

I thought we'd be simple together

But i was sadly mistaken

Not stupid

2011-03-23T21:50:00.005+01:00

This is stupid, I'm not stupid

Don't talk to me like I'm stupid

I may be dumb

but I'm not stupid

I thought I saw your potential,

Guess that's what made me dumb.

-Rihanna-

Their last view together

2011-03-21T17:11:00.005+01:00

And they were holding each other tight

by this beautful view

He gently stroked her hair away from her face

and then he kissed her

This was their last kiss

by this beautiful view

The next day he poured her heart out

and left it on the floor

Green is the color of hope

2011-03-14T13:42:00.000+01:00

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To hope is to risk pain.

To try is to risk failure,

but risk must be taken because the greatest

hazard in life is to risk nothing

Hold my hand

2011-03-12T20:16:00.000+01:00

If you just hold my hand

I promise that I'll do all I can

Cause when it gets dark and when it gets cold

We can just hold each other till we see the sunlight

Things will get better if you just hold my hand

The door

2011-03-07T17:03:00.002+01:00

And if I told you about my dreams of you and me,

would you walk out the door

and leave me?

Dreams

2011-03-05T13:11:00.000+01:00

We all have our time machines.

Some take us back, they're called memories.

Some take us forward, they're called dreams

Mountain

2011-03-03T21:20:00.000+01:00

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top.

Then you will see how low it was...

Private emotion

2011-03-02T15:36:00.004+01:00

It’s a private emotion that fills me tonight

And a silence falls between us

As the shadows steal the light

And wherever you may find it

Wherever it may lead

Let your private emotion come to me

It runs both ways, open up your eyes

Can’t you see me here, how can you deny

Let your private emotion come to me

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Somebody like you

2011-02-19T23:33:00.002+01:00

And I'm letting go of all my yesterdays

I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made

Now theres just one thing I wanna do

I wanna feel the moonlight shining down on me and you

When you put your arms around me

I know theres nothing in this world I can't do

I wanna love somebody like you

I wanna love you

I swear

2011-02-16T10:43:00.001+01:00

Self hatred grows in me like cancer

I can’t locate its whereabouts but it's feasting on its host.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

You’re the only guaranteed loyalty

In this world,

Full of violent mothers

Starving daughters

Leaving lovers.

I swear to you

I’ll never trust again.

Light

2011-02-07T19:29:00.000+01:00

There are two ways of spreading light

to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-Edith Wharton-

Wonderland

2011-02-06T15:09:00.002+01:00

We all have our time machines.

Some take us back, they're called memories.

Some take us forward, they're called dreams

And this day was like a dream

A dream in wonderland

Bright moon

2011-02-02T23:50:00.003+01:00

Faith turns up when you don't really expect it.

Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed.

The castle, well, it may not be a castle.

And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now.

See once in a while, once in the bright moon,

people will surprise you ,

and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Daughters

2011-01-31T13:24:00.001+01:00

I know a girl

She puts the color inside of my world

And she's just like a maze

Where all of the walls all continually change

Fathers, be good to your daughters

Daughters will love like you do

Girls become lovers who turn into mothers

So mothers, be good to your daughters too

-John Mayer-

You move me

2011-01-30T10:03:00.002+01:00

This is how it seems to me

Life is only therapy

Real expensive

And no guarantee

You go laughing in the dark

Making light of it

And I follow with my heart

Laughing all the way

Cause you move me

Now I’m taking delight

In every little thing

How you move me

Shadows

2011-01-29T15:07:00.001+01:00

You left me shadows

Etched on the wall

You left me echoes

Footsteps in the hall

I feel like a shadow

Walking behind who you think I am

Just like my shadow

Unlovable

2011-01-25T22:41:00.002+01:00

Are my lips unkissable?

Are my eyes unlookable?

Is my skin untouchable?

Are my words unlistenable?

Are my hands untouchable?

Am I undesirable?

Am I unlovable?

You made me feel like my mother, she abandoned me

You made me feel like the act of love is empty

Am I so unlovable?

Is my heart unbreakable?

Do I remind you of a part of you that you despise?

-Darren Hayes-

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Not a commercial

2011-01-24T17:25:00.001+01:00

It`s just my passion for hdr and travelling

The curve of the moon

2011-01-22T13:53:00.001+01:00

I saw you in the curve of the moon

I looked into your

iceblue eyes

And I asked myself...

Is it really possible for a men

to be so perfectly, perfectly beautiful?

Suddenly

2011-01-19T15:50:00.000+01:00

Suddenly the world seems like a better place

Suddenly the days moves with a better grace

Suddenly the life doesn't seem such a waste

And maybe it`s because of you...

Surreal

2011-01-15T09:27:00.000+01:00

Chauffeur?

Is it possible to open the backdoor?

In speed, please?

Winter in HDR

2011-01-12T19:01:00.001+01:00

~ One kind word can warm three winter months. ~

When the time is right

2011-01-10T09:30:00.001+01:00

There will be one day when the time is right

When everything fall into perfect alignment

When you can`t help smiling
thinking about someone
someone special

Lying on soft green grass looking out on the ocean

The wind keeps blowing

There is nothing left to think about

You look at the sky and those clouds are moving slowly

Peacefully

Time flies

You don`t even notice the sun is setting

Those birds are going home

It`s getting darker

The moon is back

You start to wonder....

how many stars are in the milky way

The universe is a mystery

There will be a time when the time is right

What comes around goes around...

2011-01-08T18:47:00.002+01:00

Karma it's not unfair.

It's not unexpected.

It just evens the score.

We reap what we sow.

What comes around goes around.

Sometimes

2011-01-07T13:57:00.006+01:00

These days I feel broke inside, but I won't admit
Sometimes I just want to hide, cause it's you I miss

There's nothing I wouldn't do

To see you and hold you close again

Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won't be "there"

I've hurt myself by loving you

Trust

2011-01-05T23:40:00.001+01:00

People ask me why it's so hard to trust people

and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise...

Serendipity

2011-01-03T12:33:00.002+01:00

We were just passers by...

Walking on the streets to nowhere

It could have lastet forever

We slippet away

Maybe we were never there

Serendipity

If only we stayed

If only we waited

Just for a couple more minutes

That day

Den siste kvelden i året

2011-01-02T05:22:00.001+01:00

Den siste kvelden i året,

men hun var ikke der hun egentlig ønsket å være.

Hun hadde flyktet bort fra alle minnene.

Minnene som egentlig skulle vært gode...

Hun tenkte tilbake på kvelden for et år siden...

Men nå satt hun her,

på en helt annen breddegrad

i sommerkjole

på en plass hvor solen alltid skinte

og hver eneste solnedgang var vakker.

Hun så utover havet

lurte på hvordan kvelden ville bli.

Snart skulle hun reise hjem igjen,

til sin kalde hjemplass.

Det hadde vært en befrielse å være her.

Hun kunne ønske hun slapp å reise hjem igjen...

Merry Christmas

2010-12-23T14:48:00.001+01:00

Christmas is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year

Slowly fade away

2010-12-20T15:13:00.002+01:00

And I watch with a breaking heart as you slowly fade away.

I find myself straining to remember everything about those moments,

everything about you.

But soon, always too soon,

your image vanishes and the fog rolls back to its far away place

and I am alone again

and I do not care what others think

as I bow my head and cry

Gjesteblogger hos Japan Photo

2010-12-17T17:42:00.002+01:00

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

What you have caught on film is captured forever...

it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

-Aaron Siskind-

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Notice me...

2010-12-15T21:28:00.002+01:00

Notice me, take my hand

Why are we strangers..

Everytime I try to fly, I fall

Without my wings, I feel so small

I guess I need you

And everytime I see you in my dreams

I see your face, it's haunting me

I guess I need you

At night I pray

That soon your face will fade away

All I want...

2010-12-15T11:45:00.001+01:00

for Christmas is

peace of mind

peace of heart

and peace of soul

Christmas

2010-12-13T23:53:00.001+01:00

Remember,
if Christmas isn't found in your heart,
you won't find it under a tree...

Silence

2010-12-09T22:46:00.000+01:00

I don't hear a sound

But my own voice

Silence

A Shattered Dream

2010-12-09T11:44:00.002+01:00

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...

It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now.

But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds,

and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons

-Richard Bach-

The true dream

2010-12-07T19:46:00.002+01:00

Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare.
We tell ourselves that reality is better.
We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all.
But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced
with a fresh dream we never considered.
We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful.
And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life
the true dream is being able to dream at all

Just words

2010-12-06T17:23:00.006+01:00

He had a word, too. Love, he called it.

But I had been used to words for a long time.

I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.
It was just a word

Magical winter wonderland

2010-12-05T20:40:00.003+01:00

Sometimes

when I lug around a camera

I can be lucky to be in the right place at the right time

Heading for the light

2010-12-05T12:53:00.001+01:00

I've wandered around with nothing more than time on my hands

I was lost in the night

And at times it was so blue and lonely

Been close to the edge, hanging by my fingernails

And I couldn't see the sign that warned me, I'm

Heading for the light

I didn't see that big black cloud hanging over me

And when the rain came down I was nearly drowned

My shoes are wearing out from walking down this same highway

Heading for the light

Frozen

2010-12-04T13:12:00.002+01:00

I can't feel my senses

I just feel the cold

All colours seem to fade away

The river's frozen once again

The cold shine behind

The frozen stream

Reminds me of your eyes

Ta aldri noen for gitt

2010-12-02T10:30:00.000+01:00

Ta aldri noen for gitt

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