Grey
Blah
Sick
It has been an awful night too, and I slept for a really long time and then I've been reading some. Think I will be reading some more during the day. I got two new books as a present from my lovely friend Hanna and I just started one. I've been meaning to read Murakami for like 2 years but like so many other things, it never happened.
21
The year as a 20year old has been interesting. A lot has happened during that year. I got my 50mm f/1.8 which has since then been glued to my camera. And I went to london wich was so amazing and I want to do it all again. I've been drinking more kinds of bear than.. I don't know, haha! And it's been a hell of a year emotionally. But I've grown into a more mature, less naiv of a person.
And now I'm 21. It sounds really grown up. Woah. I mean 20 was a bit cooler than 18, but one still felt young. But 21. Time to embrace the life as an adult? ... Naaah ;D
Nabaztag
She can do a lot. Tell me what time it is, wake me up [with a song or messege], act as a radio, give weather-rapports, tell me what happens on my facebook, news, notify me when I have an email and much much more. She has her own personality as well and says her own things, wiggles her ears and stuff. And my friends can send messeges to her/me that she'll read ^^
Here's a very poorly made video of some things she does:
My morning
Got up at like 08.30 and since then I've been drinking coffé and I drew a little as well.
Overall very content with this, especially the lips. Although I see now that I should've had some more shadow to the left, for perspective's sake. Ah well. I wanted to go for a more realistic style, the eyes where a pain but the right one got pretty ok but to make the other one the same is not easy. Think the left one is a bit bigger. And also the right one looked better first, but I pulled my hand over it a few times while I did the hair so I got smudged out and I had to re-do it a little ._."
Ah well I am overall content, especially considering the fact that I do not draw very often.
The Black Cat
Did not play WoW. Took some coffé, read The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and re-edited an old pic instead.
Basic update?
I will go up early tomorrow, train a little. Clean. And read about photography/prices/rights and then email the people I worked for about how much I want to be payed. Need to contact my uncle too, se if I can invoice through his company. My mum and I are also gonna go shopping tomorrow, food etc. Gonna have a little "party" on wednesday since it's my birthday then :) And I'm going to make some nice sallad, have bread etc.
I should also photo more grey, and play with my new lens some more. A lot to do, will see just how much I'll have time for tomorrow.
Now I'll play some more WoW though :D
What are everyone else up to?
xoxo
New camerabag
It's so georgeus and for only 110kr plus shipping fee - It's mine, just won it on a online auction! :D
The Computer
Best of all is that I have WoW again, so played til' pretty late this night and thus I'm rather tired today hah.
But soon me, Lucas and his mom is going in to town to grab some lunch, my mum is going to join too. Will be nice.
Need to get Lucas out of bed though.. he's even more tired than me. hah
WOOOHOOOO!
Quote I find very fitting at the time
Happy Valentines Day
A day that is waay to commercial and materialistic for me. I don't like the idea of giving people things on a specific day to show that I like them. I'd rather do something nice/cosy instead. And I really don't think this day is just for all the couples out there, it's a day when you should let friends, parents, well everyone that means something to you, that you like them.
Me and Lucas are going to the movies. We're gonna se Wolfman, maybe not the most romantic movie but we don't care, we're just gonna have a good time.
I wish all of you out there, especially those near to me, a very nice day and I want you all to know how much you mean to me <3
Bloglovin'
Pixie
Nikon D80 + Sigma 24mm f/2.8
My new lens
How it is :3
Yeah, that's how it is. And I am happy and full of joy. Everything feels great :)
I shall play WoW on Lucas [that's his name] computer now [since mine is broken :/] while he drives his father and family to the airport.
xoxo
Flickr-faves no.3
6. Untitled, 7. 104/365: Flattened, 8. Untitled, 9. grapefruit
Crybaby
Greetings
"Dear diary".. haha :P Anywho. It's a photoblog. So lots of photo, talk about what I do with my friends, how much coffé I drink and all the games I play.
Enjoy your stay!
Flickr-faves no.2
1. Untitled, 2. The Mirror, 3. Shutting Eyes, 4. pensarosa, 5. Hitch the Road Jack, 6. XXX, 7. Anya, 8. Untitled, 9. Untitled, 10. Untitled, 11. Untitled, 12. Untitled, 13. Good Evening Stockholm, 14. Waiting For The Day, 15. Untitled, 16. (111/365)
Flickr-faves no.1
1. Winter 2. by Bloddroppe 3. Emma 4. by Julia Eriksson 5. Erica G
6. by NuageDeNuit 7. by Lá caitlin 8. by Lá caitlin 9. by Bloddroppe 9. Age of Tribal Steam 10. by *Imogen 11. by thePhotoZoo 12. Imaginations... 13. Peachy 14. ruches toxiques 15. [A Clockwork Orange Inspired] 16. Damaged Sea... 17. Portmanteau 18. Keeping the time.. 19. Mr bunniie
Qalille playing
My Crib
Poignant [also known as "bitterish"]
drew a little this morning while drinking my sacred morning-coffé
Break My Fall
Drew it on paper with just a pen, then coloured it in Photoshop CS2 using my Wacom Tablet. Took like 1-2hours perhaps.
Tempted
"Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell"
"On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.
And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love."
That is what's written at the back of the book and thus what made me buy it [well first of all it was the way the book looks hehe]. It was a bit slow in the beginning and I wondered if it was going to get any good.
So basically it's about this former pornstar who get such severely burned that you cannot recognise him, and how a woman enters his life and says that they know each other, that they did it more than 700 years ago. It's no fantasy book, it takes place in modern life and the modern world and it's rather everyday-ish. This man is the main character and it's about his life, his thoughts about the world, people around him, feelings etc. He is very clever and it's interesting to follow what he thinks and how he arguments about things. Many of her stories about their past has a hidden meaning/ moral lesson to them which are interesting to follow. So anywho, you follow him and his life, her telling more stories and how things turn out when they get to know each other more and so on.
A very good, interesting and somewhat twisted book. Made me think alot. Read it!
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros for Wii is what we played and Hanna's place last night. Had some dip, coke candy and played a lot of Maria. It was a blast! Some bad words slipped our mouths as well.. ^^" But mostly we just laughed. Went home around 02.00 so we played for quite some time D:
Here's a little video of us playing:
(the speech is in swedish)
Canabalt
Stylechameleon does it again
Been wearing baggy jeans, big t-shirts and a colorful hoodie the past week. Sort of a skate/street-style. I borred the cute tee from Lucas, it matched my new hoodie :3 Anywho, it's both cosy and good looking!
Chameleon amongst clothes?
But I miss my more extreme, "alternative" style. To pop out from the crow, that people look at me. Attention whore? Why yes sir;) haha. Nah but I don't just mean a bunch of black. There is a way to be alternative in a fancy way, and I miss it. Of course there's pros and cons of everything. Grown ups often judge one just because you're "alternative" and you get accepted in a very narrow circle of people. If you go out to a pub, guys with a "normal" style does not look at you, just only other alternative peope -> they are not always that many.
Lately, I've started listening a lot too electro/hardstyle and thus, I'd like too have a bit of a cyberpunk/rave-style, look like that certain days.
And then sometimes I want long dreads, clothes in earty colors and be very bohemian. I wish I had a huge pile of money so that I could buy a lot of different clothes and accessories, and then combine what I like from the different styles and make my own style - but I don't. Hah!
Question is; Is this wrong? Am I not being "mysefl" because I change/want to change style. I would/do feel comfortable in all of them. And all of them is a little piece of me. There is a very feminine Rania, one alternative, one Cyber-Rania and one bohemian Rania inside of me. Sounds schizofrenic? A tad..
I do however, think that the border to cross for witch to "enter" schizofrenia is a thin one. I mean, you act very different depening on the fact if you are with your parents, friend, boyfriend, your work. Hide some sides of you and bring other sides out. But you are still you in every situation. So are you schizo then? You tell me.
Sitting here and listening to Infeceted Mushroom, Etnica and Hallucinogen while pondering these deep, weird and "very essential" things haha.
Believe it or not but that's me on every single picture ;)
(the first one is from 2007!)
Liksom nu för tiden ser jag oftast ut något sånt här klädmässigt.
Alltid kjol, leggings.. fast fortf. svart och alternativa inslag men.
Hum.. jadu.
Steampunk
Check this out aswell, a guy turned a laptop into
steampunkstyle. Click here.
It's also a style in music.. or well it's har to play music in a victorian/future style but anywho. There is a very good band named Abney Park that dress in steampunk and call themselves it.
of course it's not only jewlelry, it's an entire style in clothing. It looks really cool but I can not afford to buy those type of clothes and I dunno if I would have the energy to dress like that. It'll have to do with jewelry for me... when I can afford it.
Anywho. I just love this style. Looks very good and it's so interesting!
Delicate
Nikon D80 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 + tripod & remote
Photo, Model & Edit: Me
Nightmares
Nikon D80 + Nikkor 50mmf/1.8 + Tripod and Remote
Model, photo & edit: Me
Anguish
Nikon D80 + Nikkor 50mmf/1.8 + Tripod and Remote
Model, photo & edit: Me
Cousins
Erik
Axel
Maja
~Evening kiss on the street~
Chiika
Sara
Skeleton key
I don't care
I try to make it through my life
In my way
There's you
I try to make it through these lies
That's all I do
I'm getting tired of this shit
I got no room when it's like this
(If you won't be there for me, You won't be there for me)
Emmie Roos
My Avatar: Result
My Avatar
Before and after
I Rock?
Magik
I was bored haha. And yes it is a real sword ;)
Another before and after
White
Used my wacom bamboo fun for the hair. Used makeup on my eyelashes, white mascara :3 had sugar on my lips and very white powder.
Before and After
Thought I'd show what my vampire pic looked like before and after I've edited it
If I was your Vampire...
Maja
My cousin :D
she sure is cute <3
Gina
Sanna
Whiskey
Chocolate coffé
Carpe noctum, in vino veritas
Capture the night, for the truth lies within the wine
(said by my dear friend David Alesö)
Yuletide Love
Yuletide should be a holiday/season of joy, and love.
I have experianced some of it. Met realtives and done lot's of fun stuff,
eaten nice food etc.
But I have also had to deal with too much shit during this season. Grown-ups fighting, discussing loudly, cheating on eachother, talking behind each others backs and god nows what.. I've had to listen to it all, during the entire december.
I hope most people out there has had a nice december month and lovely christmas-days and that the upcoming days and new years eve also will be joyful!
Don't forget to spread some smiles and love around you all, we all need it.
Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi
For the Love of Books
Hot Chocolate
Dancing On The Edge Of My Knife
Smile with crooked wings
Moving with the speed of screams
Give me the cup of kings
Filled to the brim with broken dreams
Empty your vessel over my dagger
Spit your sorrow in my cup
You struggle and stagger
You fall and cant get up
I quench my dreams in your life
You are my dream, my wife
Dancing on the edge of my knife
We will live forever in our afterlife
Text ©David Alesö [a dear friend of mine]
Photo ©Rania Rönntoft
Bottle Up!
Frangelico
More Elvisp
Elvisp
Tenshi
More Qalille
A snail
Qalille
Ice Ice Baby
When everything turns into ice
Neverending autumn
Picture time~~!
Can't come up with a good headline
More Autumn
Not always rain and darkness, some nice days and colors still exist :)
Autumn
Pics from Malmö
Some pics ^^,
Nightlife
Winter Wonderland
d.e.r.a.i.l.e.d
Photos by night
Graffiti
The world still turns when you're not around
HDR
Alice in Videoland - Live@Das Boot 02-06-10
They were insanely good live!
I tied the camera around my hand, headbanged and photographed.
I had not planned to use my Lensbaby 2.0 but that lens was on and well.. I had some alkohol in my blood so I did not care at the time. I took a lot of pictures and most were just blurry/out of focus but I got some good ones.
I like the above a lot. More from the consert can be found in my set with conserpics. Check it out.
Here are thumbnails of some more that I'm satisfied with:
1. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10, 2. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10, 3. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10, 4. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10, 5. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10, 6. Alice In Videoland @Das Boot 02-06-10
Apocalyptica
Consert - Veronica Maggio
Fireworks
Cousin Axel
Too bad focus is a bit off but it was so darn cold.
my hands were freezing and my camera got really cold and slow..
LG
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to thee, the amazing Leonard Gren.
Photos by Leo Gren
Photographers
I first read their names in a blog-post by Angelina Belle Bergenwall [a really good photographer!] and decided to check them out myself. And these are the ones I found that I really liked;
Lara Jade was the first one I liked. Her homepage is nice but took some time to navigate/had to much effects but then I found her flickr.
Photo by Lara Jade
Zena Holloway was the next one to catch my eye. My god what amazing underwater pictures! So magical! I do wonder if she does all the editing herself too, cause that is also amazing. Check out her homepage here.
Photo by Zena Holloway
Andreas Öhlund, a Swedish guy was next to be someone I like. I don't overall like his entire portfolio like I do with the other two, but he has some really nice shots. I also recognized some of his pictures, think I saw them in a magazine at a hairsalon, so that was fun. His homepage.
Photo by Andreas Öhlund
Well, always fun to find new photographers and inspiration. Hope you'll find some thanks to this post! Have any personal favourite photographer you'd like to tip me about? Go ahead! It would be very appreciated :)
Poladroid
Here are 3 pics I made - just to try it out:
Behind The Scenes
(what kind of a face am I making? haha!)
Behind the [white] Scenes
This is what it can look like at home when I'm really into it. I build a miniature "studio" in my window using books, white paper and a piece of glass.
No space - No time
There is just.. nothingness. No time and space. No hunger. Just the art becoming alive. I am not a person, my camera is not a camera and there are no settings such as shutterspeed or aparture to adjust. We are one being, a creature. Soaring around the "object" and just.. flowing as art is being born. It's really amazing when it happens. Maybe I sound crazy but I don't care, this is how it is and this is what happens.
(I think there is a word for this sort of state I enter.. but can't find it. Astral Projection is not right, that's too extreme.. but close enough? hm.. )
Afterwards however, I snap out of it. I usually start by checking the time and quite some has passed, and then I often realize that I am hungry. Haha! Takes a lot of energy to create ;)
But I love the feeling so darn much <3
Playing with Qalille
Gloomy BearのKurisumasu
The biggest of my Gloomy Bears* has a christmas hat, it being juletide now and all ;)
*japanese "toy" designad by Mori Chack (森チャック). I collect 'em :)
Restless
Love my new mittens and also Qalille [my friends cat]
Being myself
Bored and caffeine in my blood
Webcampic
Me Myself and I
I like it how you kiss me
Another beanie-shot
Best beanie ever!
This is how it is
Is there salvation even for me...?
3D - I see you
I saw AVATAR 3D, and the glasses are smoking hot haha! Crappy cam-pics ftw!
Split Personality
Braid
あいしてづ
This did not turn out the way I planned it
And Qalille [the cat] refused to stay still. She does not like being lifted hah.
Night of coffé
My hair is getting longer, I've started doing different braids and stuff :D Took a crappy cam-pic
Sunday Bloody Sunday [as always]
Also did a new edit of an old picture
Friday 13:th
Pic from last month, newly edited [darn I look bored haha]
Are you supersticious/do you have extra bad luck during this day?
A piece of Me
Simplicity
Autumn
Geisha
No way out from this dark place
Sunday bloody sunday [again]
Gothenburg
I think this day might actually suck
Tattoo
What are we fighting for? When it's not worth drying for..
Mainichi mainichi.. anata ni aitai
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace?
When shadows wish for light?
Feeling blue?
Black/White
How I just can't sleep unless I've had a drink or five
Loving my new Tee
Equipment
- Nikon D80
- AF-S Nikkor DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
- AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D
- Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG
- Lensbaby 2.0
- Manfrotto Modo 785B Tripod
- Reflecgtor 5in1 (60cm)
The reason why I choose Nikon is mostly because people I know have Nikon, so that I was I had the opportunity to try and get used to. Easy peasy! Then why D80? I wanted something more from the camera and more new than D40 and this was in a good class rate. It's not a pro-camera but not überbeginner either. I like it and it was a good choice.
My first lens after that (18-55 came along as a kitobjective) was Sigma 70-300mm I think. I don't think I would've bought it today, if I would've known more about it. I should've saved money and bought something better but I have used it alot, mostly outside shooting animals etc. Have been hunting birds with it A Lot.
Then came the Lensbaby 2.0 after trying one that my friend has. It's a wonderful lens and can produce great pictures, but it takes practice and patience.
Then I bought Nikkor 50mm and that is what I always always use, I love it! It has a low aperture and right now I want to shoot portraits/people a lot and that lens is very well suited for it.
My friend got a new flash, so I bought her old. Have not used it much though but I got my reflector something during that time and that one I have used a lot more :)
I got my manfrotto tripod for christmas 2009.
Well, that's some basic info about what I use. But remember that no camera or equipment is magical. It's all in the photographer and these are just tools of help^^
Stumpled upon a nice quote said by unknown source
Quotebatch no.1
About Me
I'm also one hell of a bookworm - love to read, buy and own books. They're beautiful. Think I'm a bit of a coffé addict too.. It just tastes so good :3 Red wine and/or beer is also very nice. I love to sit down and just grab a bear, or make food together with friends, eat, have some wine and a good time. I l o v e cats and want one of my own one day, my mum is super-allergic T_T
During my spare time I read lots of books, listen to music [my last.fm] and hang with my friends and my bf. I'm also a big nerd [and proud of it!] so there's a lot of tv-gaming going on, I have four consoles. Or on my PSP. I also play WoW a lot.
As you've probably understood since this is a photoblog, I am a creative person [pisces duuh]. My camera is always with me and I photograph a lot, and when not, I think about photography. I see the world around me like through a lens. I photograph everything inbetween nature and animals to stillife and portaits. All genres and styles appeal to me right now, I want to try it all and I love it! I am like an empty cup that wants to taste everything and will never be full.
Occasionally [it's very rare] I draw a little. But all my energy is focused on photography.
I can really become one with my photography and forget about time and space, hunger and human needs. And that my friends - is the most amazing feeling ever!
I live in the southern parts of Sweden, but was orignally born way up north. I'm glad I live here now, I would never have met all amazing people, discovered styles, music or maybe even photography. And I would not have done and seen the things I have if I would have lived way up in that little shitty place hah. But the nature there sure is amazing! Sweden is in a lot of ways rather boring though, I want to travel a lot and see the world, different cultures and hear different languages.
I also collect Gloomy Bears -Designed by Mori Chack (森チャッ).
these are just a few, I own ten at the moment
And now some unessential [like the above has been essential?] info about me:
- I have 10 piercings and 2 tattoos
- Has phonefright
- Bites my nails
- Use smileys on msn waay too much
- I really really love food and eat like a man
- I always shower for at least an hour
Ah well, there you have some more or less nedless information about me haha. You can easily navigate my blog using the categories below my header and I link to my flickr and such in the menue.
I hope you'll like my blog, what I write and what I do. And if you read all this - kudos to you!
Blue
1. DSC_9622, 2. DSC_9410, 3. DSC_8719, 4. DSC_8700,
5. DSC_8690, 6. DSC_9419, 7. DSC_8491, 8. DSC_8678, 9. DSC_9556
White
1. DSC_5172223_2, 2. DSC_5081201, 3. DSC_5073199, 4. DSC_5005187,
5. DSC_5064196, 6. DSC_6230, 7. DSC_5931, 8. DSC_5020189, 9. DSC_5197225_2
Red
1. DSC_4777145, 2. DSC_455293, 3. DSC_2838_redigerad_1, 4. DSC_3133_redigerad_1,
5. DSC_3768_redigerad_1, 6. DSC_437257, 7. bloodymary, 8. DSC_3163_redigerad_1,
9. DSC_3115_redigerad_1
Purple
Color: Info
Each month I'll photograph a color. This is to push my boundaries and creativity a bit. It is so easy to just shoot "the same old usual pictures", go out and shoot some nice flowers, have the same style in every pic etc. Now I'm forced to look more, see everyday objects in a new way. "Think outside the box".
At the end of each month, I'll show my pictures and also choose or let others choose, the color for the next month.
I also urge other to do the same, because it's really fun, challenging and very useful for a photographer. If you actually do this, please send me a link with your pictures, I'd love to see them!
I have a collection of sets with my colors on flickr as well, just click here.