Lack of energy

I'm tired. The 12-hour day has become more of a rule than a rarity. Getting way less sleep than I need, eat junk food and when the weekends arrive I spend them with friends enjoying one beer two many instead of relaxing.

I miss Cape Town.

Visit Denmark

Not my most difficult shoot but a fun day. Can be seen as ads in most newspapers. Did a shoot for Samsung today that went very well.

Seeeeeeeeeeaguls

It seems that client is very happy with my portraits from abroad, so hopefully I'll get to travel some more in time. Yeah. They will be using 14 different portraits from the trip, and I'll post them all here once ready.

Lunch Birds

Fucking

I know, these are quite old now but still quite funny. And mondays need funny.

Week 15

Had a nice trip to Bergen thursday, shot the third portrait for the Det Nytter campaign, the fourth and last portrait I'll be doing tomorrow. Friday I shot 80(yes, that's eighty) real estate brokers. But amazingly enough we were finished before schedule, now it's only postproduction left. On wednesday I'll shoot some ads for Samsung and next tuesday I'll shoot some ads for If Insurance. That will end an extremely busy month, and hopefully I can finish my fashion portfolio and schedule some new meetings at magazines and ad agencies.

This is from my VisitDenmark shoot last week, will post the ads once they are ready.



FORZA STABÆK

New Car

I did something crazy today. I bought a car. It's a first for everything I guess. I'll most likely receive it the first week of May. It's nothing fancy thou, but for me a car is a car and I'm superstoked anyhow. It's a Citroen Berlingo in black.

I'm heading to Bergen tomorrow for a job. More flying, yeah. Did a shoot for Visit Denmark yesterday which was a funny day. Costumes and all.

This is it, only in black.

Back Home

So, I got back from my trip this weekend. And this week is also fully booked, shooting monday, tuesday, thursday and friday. Three different jobs, then most likely three shooting days next week as well. Good times I guess.
During todays shoot a film-crew from NRK followed us, so I will be on TV some time in May. Yeah.

Will make a Cape Town post one day, with the highlights from my trip. It was superb.

The Sun Sets In Africa

And now I'm heading downtown to enjoy some beers. If I don't blog the next couple of days it's probably because I'm stabbed, lying in a dumpster somewhere.

Sometimes Life Just Smiles At You

Today has been such a day. More pix will come, Cape Town kicks ass.

or the cocky version:

I make my living doing this, what do you do?

Globetrotter

Tonight I'm literally sleeping at the airport. Heading to Cape Town at 06.20 tomorrow morning. This is the view from my window.

Stockholm City

Been hangin out in Stockholm for two days now, shooting more portraits for the annual report I'm doing. Had some spare time as well checking the city out. I like it. Even though it snowed sideways for quite some time I got to see quite a bit.

Trondheim

Even though I have not blogged about him before I do as most of you know have a son in Trondheim, his name is Martin, he is 3,5 years old and is probably the coolest dude you have yet to meet. A die hard Kaptein Sabeltann fan and a talented photographer. He has inherited all my wit and charm :-) and then some so all you kindergarten chicks out there be aware.

Riga, Latvia

Some shots from my spare time in Riga, a surprisingly small city. At least the centre of it, considering 800.000 people live there. Tomorrow I'm heading to Stockholm and then to Cape Town a couple of days later.

Busy Week

This week has been quite busy with a couple of days shooting in and around Oslo, went to Riga to photograph a doctor and a trip to Trondheim. When not shooting or traveling I've basically been eating lamb and drinking beer with my good friends. I also spent some hours with Halvor a.k.a. Mr. Barsk while he was getting scarred for life.

Details Schmetails

Male Nudity

My friend Erik, studying medicine in Poland, crashed my couch after we enjoyed a tad too much alcohol friday night.

Weather-wise, this has been an amazing weekend. Spent both saturday and sunday hanging around st.hanshaugen, drinking coffee and enjoying the sun. Gotta love the spring baby.

Roadtrip

I had a lovely friday shooting some portraits up in Østre Toten. Then finished the day with a sweet chocolate-cake at Østre Toten's house of culture.

50 mm f/ 1.2

Bought some new equipment for my newly received work today. A new lens, a backpack, memorycard etc.

This is my assistent LK shot during lunch.

Oh, happy day

I got assigned to another job today, an annual report that sends me to Stockholm, Riga and South Africa, don't know what city yet and some photos in my own country. I'm leaving next week. And I'll be doing 4 portraits in different cities in Norway with another job. And I've also got a third job that will be done the first week in April. So the next 3-4 weeks is all packed and ready to go. That's cool.

Rain

Today I've done a lot of non-work related stuff. I started the day with a nice run, the slight rain made it even better, felt amazing afterwards. Then I went to the dentist to get my teeth fixed and now I've cleaned my apartment for more than 3 hours. It has never been this smooth here since I moved in. All my clothes have been washed and now it's time to make myself a splendid meal. It's raining hard outside and nothing feels better than to be inside a nice, warm apartment listening to the raindrops hitting the building.

Money, money, money

I tried to think of something cooler than having to pay 103.289,- nkr(13.000 euro) within one week but nope, nothing comes to mind.

As the sun hits the sky

I woke up this morning feeling a bit emotional and philosophical and once I saw the beautiful weather outside I knew I had to go outside.
My mind needed some cleaning up and I felt like pondering about the ups and downs in life, it felt easier to wonder why some things have to be so F****** difficult with the sun in my eyes and good music in my ears. I walked for a couple of hours and even though I didn't find the answers to everything in life it felt good. I came across some missionaries on my way and actually spent quite some time talking to them. Most of the time I am as you all know cynical, selfish and not a very pleasant fella, but since I was in my bigger than life mood today it was good to talk to some people that believe in something I have not yet started to believe in. They were really nice and I had to photograph them when we separated, me with a flyer helping me to reach God, them with the belief they had salvaged another doomed soul.
A bit disappointed about the fact that they couldn't guarantee success in life, work and love if I only started to pray but they were quite sure my life would be better and more meaningful if I did. Maybe I'll start.