February 5, 2011

a lack of colour




I wish the winter would go away soon. Everything is just cold, grey, boring and uninspiring. Right now I'm mostly sitting indoors, eating cookies and reading Murakami. (Three frames from the latest zenit-roll.)

29 comments :

  1. I love murakami, I wish spring light, lots of light...here in stockholm he weather isn't that good either. I miss the flowers. Wondeful photos as always.

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  2. fin stämning i den i mitten!

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  3. Oh yes I miss spring so much :( But I think the winter is not always uninspiring, when you walk outside in the night with all that dark, it can be beautiful too.

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  4. can we escape the cold?
    I'm in love with the first picture :)

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  5. you are doing the right thing, then.. murakami is what makes you understand the world at least a bit.

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  6. Just three more weeks now, and it will be spring on the calendar at least :)

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  7. Love your photos... but i also love winter!! Anyway, in Italy we have 18°C and sun right now... i'm on the terrace taking a sunbath... you could escape the cold here!

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  8. We're having similar grey days here too... I like to think of this time of year as a moment to save up inspiration, so that it will burst out when spring returns.

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  9. du är grym!
    helt klart en inspirationskälla.
    grymma bilder, grymt ljus. allt känns bara helt underbart. hur du lockar fram tankar med dina bilder är helt magiskt.

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  10. I have just borrowed a book by murakami, now it is in the waiting list. I really love your first picture, you have introduced and excelent mood. About the winter, I'm in the same situation, is cold and unispiring and I'm always sitting indoor because outside is nothing interesting to see or something like this.

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  11. tycker alltid hemskt mycket om dina brusiga fotografier. har en rulle film 800asa som jag aldrig vågar ladda kameran med, har du provat fota i det någon gång?

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  12. love Murakami! My first was "Norvegian Wood"... last night I couldn't sleep so I started a new one: "Kafka on the Shore"...

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  13. wonderfull pictures, i love them !!!!
    I like rhe winter in the pictures !! :-)

    love from germany

    youmedance.blogspot.com

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  14. yesterday i saw in a bookstore murakami's books and... in near future buy one. who is your favorite book?

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  15. great, i like this series! very cold and dramatic.. the first is my favorite!

    hugs :)

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  16. Your photos are very nice.
    "C'est très beau et émouvant" (i'm french"

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  17. although it does have a lack of colour, these photos are beautiful. It has a sense of people and loneliness....

    toppedoffwitharedhat.blogspot.com
    xoxo, A

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  18. I so understand how you feel Annette, lately I've been really tired of cold and greyness and all these things. I even think I might be a summer photographer haha because winter makes me hybernate and it's hard to find inspiration (compared to summer)..
    but your pictures are always wonderful :) x

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  19. jag verkligen dundergillar dina fotografier och blogg. wow

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  20. maike: that's true, maybe I should take some nighttime walks!

    jasmin: I so wish we could.

    maja: hopefully all the snow will be gone by then, at least :)

    marco: I love winter as well, but only when the snow is fresh and all the trees are covered in it - now everything is melting away to this brown and gooey slush that is nothing but ugly. 18°C is the perfect temperature in my mind, I wish I could go there!

    danielle: that is probably true :)

    mia: åh, tack! jag fotar nästan alltid med 800 (dessa är från en 800-rulle också), det funkar bra i så gott som alla situationer - på sommaren när det är ljust och soligt och på vintern när ljusförhållandena är lite sämre. så kör på säger jag! :) tänk på att vara lite noggrann med exponeringen bara - att överexponera en aning är ofta bra, har jag kommit underfund med.

    joanna: my favorite murakami would have to be norwegian wood. and kafka on the shore is a close second :)

    maria: I'm probably like that too, during the summertime I always feel inspired, and I guess the sunlight gives much energy :)

    tack så mycket för alla kommentarer!
    thank you so much for all the comments you've left here!

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  21. Hi Annette,

    I like the way you name your photos too, not to say about the photo.he he.

    Well here it was sunny, in prague(very rare in winter) however they say its going back to be grey by middle of this week. and I have ran out of murakami books :( Well there is a new one thats supposed to be translated to english by September. its called 1Q84 which was published in japan last year. too bad we got to wait longer!

    Cheers!

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  22. Your photos are always so enchanting.

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  23. saneesh: haha, thank you :) I still have quite a few murakami books left from my birthday, so I think I'm set for a while ahead. really looking forward to 1Q84 as well!

    silly susie & viria: thank you both!

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  24. Love those pictures... they are so gorgeous!!!

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  25. i love these photos!!
    great shoots!

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  26. that second photo is hauntingly beautiful and melancholy. i feel completely drawn to it.

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  27. Annete,eu realmente gosto do frio.É tão inspirador quanto o verão.Moro no litoral,porém acho os dias chuvosos e secos perfeitos para meus desenhos.

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