Seems I'm in a lighthouse mood at the moment. Yesterday was a beautiful Sunday, so I took a trip to Ona lighthouse on the west coast of Norway. Absolutely stunning weather. I got to use the Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 up there by the lighthouse, absolutely killer for these types of shots.

I have never been to Ona, although I've wanted to go for many years, this time I just decided that now is the time. Don't regret it at all, I'm probably going again some time.

Ona is a really nice place, I would encourage anyone that can, to go there.

Images captured by D3 with AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED, and D700 with AF-S NIKKOR 14–24mm f/2.8G ED. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

In the last week of May 2009, I went for a short drive, a few hours from my home town. I plotted a course down to Ålesund and Giske, my goal was to visit the Alnes light house.

The weather was clody, so I really looked forward to get some images of the light house. I'm happy with the results.

Once I was in the area, I encountered some horrible driving conditions due to maintenance work on the three under water tunnels on the way to Giske, other than that it was a great way to spend a Sunday.

Here are some images from the trip. On the last shot I tried to mimic a night shot.

Images captured with a D3 and AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

Yes I know, it is really slow around here at the moment. It does not mean I've forgotten that I have a blog, but as usual I don't quite seem to get around to do all the things I want to when it comes to photography. I feel kinda empty, much like this picture, too much technical stuff at work, and it drains me. But hopfully I have some vacation coming up, so I'm pretty sure I'll shoot some pictures then.

Oh, my home town got a little visit from his Royal Highness King Harald the 5th of Norway, so there was alot of stuff happening during those hours, so I got to shoot some pictures at the local airport.

Images captured with a D3, AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED and AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme IV Ducati Edition compact flash card.

Here is something free for you guys. I've exported a 1920x1200 wallpaper of the image from this post.

Download the 1920x1200 file, leave a comment if you like. Enjoy!

As I've said before, I really like to go back to my old files and do a re-work on them with new software. This is the case with Adobe Lightroom 2.3 too.

So last night I did do just that on some old Nikon D70 NEF's that have only been processed using RawShooter many years ago. With Lightroom I have a lot more tools available, so I was able to make something interesting out of these old files.

One thing that hits me though, I have to tell you that, those D70 NEF's are fast to work with compared to my D3 and D700 NEF's, I kinda miss that speed, it's good for my work flow.

For these images I used gradients again, that is one of those incredible useful tool's that you can not live without after using them once. I was shurley hooked after first time use.

Hope you like them.

Images captured with a D70 and AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED, and AF NIKKOR 80-200mm f/2.8 D lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme III compact flash card.