As I’ve kindly been asked by Carl to publish some test shots with my new lens, here they come:

I got a new lens today. Finally something that covers the range of my kit lens and at a decent f-stop. The 2.8 aperture on the Tamron 17-50mm is just waiting for long and intense testing for some HD video and a lot of pictures.

This will definitely have a spot in my camera bag at all times

Until the 12th of August you should definitely visit Trapholt and attend their Kontroversielt! exhibition. It consists of 100 controversial photographies through time, background information is given in Danish, English and German.

The experience is shaking and everybody who even owns a camera in their phone or above should share it. Taking pictures as a provocative or journalistic matter and what impact it can have is presented radically there. Pictures of Abu ghraib, catastrophes and nude children gather in one room, I don’t recommend to visit it before having to present a project or holding a motivational speech.

I’m back in Denmark after a mixed quality flight and insanely wrong airline punctuality. San Francisco has treated me well and now I’m in the middle of my exam project.

Shortly after my arrival, my beloved and I helped these guys moving in together, which involved a lot of furniture, consumer electronics and a third floor without an elevator. Afterwards we went out for a beer with a view on the little lake in this town.

Right now my work/blog space is a little improvised and consists of a rooted and freshly unlocked smartphone and a laptop, but since I’ve worked under similar conditions for the past months, it should be fine.

An album, that I’ve dragged around for some weeks in San Francisco now is Born to Die by Lana Del Rey. First I was introduced to her by Ieva, but I didn’t really look beyond the song I liked (I better should have back then).

That I like female vocalists may not come as a surprise to any of you, but this one is a little different. The lyrics tell many stories and the mixture of this silk like sweet voice collides with the bloody truth of the words, leaving the audience with a cracked world, that quivers in its spin.

What musically sounds like easy listening, soft rhythms and samples is a masterpiece, which still is soothing after twentieth time.

Some of my favourite passages from this album:

Come and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words
This is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die

Born to Die

My old man is a tough man
But he got a soul as sweet as blood red jam
And he shows me, he knows me
Every inch of my tar black soul

Off to the Races

But he headed out on Sunday, said he’d come home Monday
I stayed up waitin’, anticipatin’ and pacin’ but he was
Chasing paper
“Caught up in the game” that was the last I heard

Blue Jeans

Carmen, Carmen
Staying up till morning
Only 17, but she walks the streets so mean
It’s alarming truly
How disarming you can be

Carmen