Rune E. Kolvik

Den siste uken har jeg prøvd å være mer aktiv på bildenettstedet flickr.com. Flinkere på å følge med på bilder andre legger ut, og diskusjoner i grupper. De jeg legger merke til er mest interresant er en gruppe for mamiya kameraer, og en gruppe for mellomformat fotografi. Jeg har lagt til begge disse på RSS leseren min, og får da full oversikt over alt innhold som legges ut der.

Da jeg kom hjem fra jobb i dag la jeg merke til at mellomformatgruppa hadde 278 nye bilder lagt ut siden jeg la meg i går kveld. Da jeg satt meg i godstolen med en kopp te og skulle se gjennom denne mengden med bilder, la jeg merke til at jeg scrolla meget raskt gjennom lista. Jeg vil anta at hvert bilde fikk ikke mer enn ett sekund på å fange min oppmerksomhet. Dette har jeg kommet frem til er en trend på de aller fleste bildesiter. Hvert bilde farer forbi, og kun de bildene som er tett opp imot den type bilde jeg liker godt blir betraktet særlig lenger enn det.

Hovedårsaken til denne hastigheten er jeg overbevist om er på grunn av den store mengden. Vi blir rett og slett presentert med så mange bilder daglig, også de av oss som ikke oppsøker det spesifikt,  at vi ikke har mulighet til å vie bildene den oppmerksomhet de kanskje fortjener. Og så er det jo også naturlig at i den store mengden med bilder er det veldig mye intetsigende og rett og slett dårlig fotografi.

Iblandt de 278 bildene var det 4-5 som fikk meg til å stoppe for å ta en nærmere titt. Lignende er jo situasjonen for meg. Om jeg legger noen bilder i disse gruppene, så sitter det ett hav av mennesker, som meg, å skummer igjennom materialet. Det stiller virkelig krav til bildene om man vil bli sett i det store havet.

-r

First ever, originally uploaded by Rune Kolvik.

This is the first ever photograph I can remember that I have made that is not just a snapshot. I think it was in 1993 when I was 13 years old. My father and I was on a fishing trip. I was tired of fishing without getting any on my lure, so I borrowed my fathers camera and played around a bit. I photographed a lot of flowers and was very fascinated by the background going out of focus.  I saw this little puddle and I wanted it to be a bit out of focus and hoped it would look like an aerial photo of a big lake. When I got the picture from the lab I was very pleased with the result. A while back I was on the phone with my father talking about that my apprenticeship is over. He asked if I remembered this photograph. He told me he still had the negative in his album, so I asked him to send me the negative so I could scan it.

My interest in photography I think I can thank him for. My entire life I can remember him buying me compact cameras and letting me use his system camera.
Thank you, dad.

A fading view, originally uploaded by Rune Kolvik.

In a year this view will be blocked by a new building. I have been living here at Kattem for 25 years. And i just can’t remember ever looking this way and noticing the houses of Lundåsen over the roofs of Kattem before yesterday.

hehe. I knew this would happen. But I guess I had a little bit of hope that I could pull it off. I posted an image the two first days. The third day I had no access to my computer, and I haven’t done anything about it since. I have been photographing, but not with the ~365 in mind. So without further ado I hereby shut down the project and publish photos whenever I feel like doing it.  (smileyface)

The big thing these days on every flickr stream is the 365 shooters. The project is a hard simple one. To take a photograph and post it every day a full year. Sounds simple right? But imagine being creative and take 365 photographs of different objects/subjects. I kinda promised myself i wouldn’t do the 365 thing, but the last couple of days i have been considering doing it anyway. Or rather my own version.

~365
thilde365 is where i will try to take a photograph every day for a full year. If I don’t succeed however. I won’t take it to hard. I might just get to number 280. Or i might not take a photo 3 days in a row. We’ll see how it goes. I also might post the image here and write a few words about the image. The home of the project however will be my new flickr pro account. I kinda also promised myself i wouldn’t create a flickr account. Not only have i created an account. i am enjoying it, and i purchased a pro account. I guess i am in a period where i go against myself.