This woman is without doubt the most iconic of all museum objects. Ever. Period. We all know her from innumerable reproductions.
Maybe that’s why we feel such an urge to make our own, personal reproduction, when we get close to her in real life? I reproduce, therefore I exist….
I made my reproduction at the Louvre, Paris.
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During easter, I had the opportunity to stay a couple of days in Teignmouth with my familiy. Not knowing anything about the place in advance, we chose it since it was conviniently situated for exploring a bit of southern England. It turned out to be very nice. Very British – but in a charming and relaxed way. Highly recommended. Riviera Apartments is the place to stay.
Here are a few photos – more can be found on Flickr or in the album
I’m seriously tired of winter, cold weather and darkness. As a small reminder of what spring actually looks like, I found an old photo from the garden, and chose it as my PCwallpaper. It helped raising my spirit a bit. If you would like a daily greeting from better days to come, feel free to download the image in 1920×1200 pixels here.
One day at work, I stumbled upon an older Nikon film scanner that someone had given up getting to run under Windows 7. It was a Cool Scan IV ED, for which Nikon have not made drivers since 32-bit Vista. That was of course a challenge I could not ignore. A little googling revealed a few ninja tricks, and soon the scanner was running fine on a 64 bits Win7 system.
The cool scanner will turn a 34×36 slide or negative into a 12 MP file. After a few tests, I am quite impressed by the outcome in terms of dynamics, sharpness and color. The scanner also has some built-in dust- and scratch removing thing-a-magic - I don’t know quite how it works, but apparently it does. There are a number of ways to fine tune the result in the scanner software, which I still need to try out. The software, by the way, has an interface which looks at least 10 years old. It probably is - but it works.
On the negative side, mounted slides can only be scanned one at a time - and it takes its time. While running, the scanner sounds like a contraption made by Gyro Gearloose.
Anyway, for the moment I’m tempted to start from the beginning, and scan all my old slides. Shouldn’t take me more than a month or two……
Speakers Corner, London, 1978.
Scanning from colour-slide, adjusted and converted
to monochrome in Photoshop
In august 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Tampere, Finland, as a participant in the conference ”Reusing the industrial past”.
What I discovered was a very nice city, with an impressive industrial heritage, a number of interesting museums and beautiful surroundings.
More pictures from Tampere are to be seen in the Album or on Flickr
I guess everyone who comes to Paris already have their head filled with images of the city. At least anyone with an interest in photography, that is.
And when you get home and browse your photos, you come to think: are these really images of Paris? Or are they images of my own images of Paris?
Anyway, that’s the conditions of tourism: you travel both in order to experience something new and to be confirmed in what you already think you know. And of course Paris is lovely – n’est-ce pas?
Lovers, Rue de Fürstenberg, Paris
More photos from Paris kan be seen on Flickr
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