Deep winter city

From the black and white winter project, part 1

In the late autumn of 2023, I got an urge to shoot black and white. I’m mostly a colour photographer, and colour itself is often a driving force in my photos. But once in a while I feel a need to shoot B&W, to strip away the allure of colour, and focus strictly on the quality of the motives.

I bought a very cheap Nikon Coolpix P7000, a point and shoot released back in 2010. And from the last week of November, until a few days into February of 2024, I shot exclusively on that camera. B&W jpegs only, all edited with more or less the same settings, striving for a slightly gritty and high contrast look.

And then … I stopped. The camera had its quirks. The internal battery was dead, and it was from before internal charging, so every time I charged the battery, I had to reset the clock. It was fun for a while. Then it wasn’t.

The camera is still around here somewhere. I am way better at buying cameras, than I am at selling them. But I have hardly used it since.

I shot a lot of photos on it, though. At least a couple of thousand. And I haven’t really figured out what to do with them since. But now the time has come.

Whitling them down to just my favourites, still left me with almost a hundred photos. So, some kind of thematic edit had to be applied. First out are these photos. Oslo in deep winter.

Because the winter of 23/24 was a very wintery one. A very, very white winter. All the more obvious looking back at these photos, as we hardly have had snow so far this year.

It will probably get here. January and February tend to be the most wintery months in Oslo. But so far, we only had a slightly whiteish Yule due to the frost in the grass.

Anyway. If a white city winter sounds like your kind of thing, then come along. I’ve got just the right thing for you.