Archive photos

I'm working on uploading a collection of scans from 19th and early 20th Century prints to Alamy. It's a very large collection so it will take a while to get it all ready but here is a little teaser, six photos of U.S. governmental buildings from a 1917 edition of The Mentor.

The original scans are four times the size of these samples.

Wagtail cutout

Just to show that I know how to make cutouts with a transparent background. ;)

White wagtail (Motacilla alba)

I don't really have the equipment to do high resolution closeup pictures of somethign as fast and small as a wagtail. That's my excuse at least.😉

But I do have some really nice pictures of them in an environment. They can be cut down to show jsut the bird and still be high enough resolution for web pages too but I suppsoe I better leave that to the user.

Here are three of them - if I've got this rigth, you can see the rest at http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/CED23ADB-0CE9-403F-A389-7F00A62EE168/linerle/3/0/0/1/Frank%20Nordberg.html

Just another day in Bodø

In case you were going to ask how's the weather.

(Picture taken 23. March 2006 with a Canon Ixus pocket camera.

I can't believe it, Alamy wants me!

I got cheeky and decided to start at the top. Despite what many people think, Alamy is not yet another microstock site. It's trying to be a distribution channel for professional photographers and the technical quality requirements are quite a bit higher. And they wanted me. 😊

The samples I sent them for evaluation are already for sale at http://www.alamy.com/contrib-browse.asp?cid={CED23ADB-0CE9-403F-A389-7F00A62EE168}&name=Frank+Nordberg. Three quite different photos:

The first one:

It dates back to 2006 and it was the third picture I ever took with my DSLR. My parents used to have a cottage by the southernmsot coast of Norway and it had this trellis with some stunningly beautiful roses. I'm going to post more images of them later.

The second photo is from 2008:

Roar og Frank were doing a two-nighter at a club in Lofoten and since the weather was spectacular, we had to have our dinner at the club's outdoors restaurant of course. Some other, less welcome guests had a similar idea... Seagulls may look gorgeous as they glide across the sky but really, with the glamour stipped off they're basically rats with feathers.

The third photo is a more recent one - from 2015:

I've taken a series of pictures of the absolutely fantastic wooden townhouses of Lillehammer and decided to include one of them in my introduction package to Alamy. More to come later.

Hello world!

I'm not a professional photographer, and I have a nephew who is, so I know the difference.

But I have a camera and I'm not afraid to use it. Sometimes I happen to make a fairly good shot. I've always wanted to share those pictures with others and with the internet I can. No, not on this blog. Sorry, I don't think there's enough room for it all here. But I can show you some scaled down samples and tell you where to get the big picture.

So stay tuned!