Something shiny, something funny, something strange

Walking Oslo on a Saturday afternoon in January

There are people in this world who are good at sunrise photography.

I read their posts. They are up before the crack of dawn, and out in the world taking pictures while I’m not even considering thinking about perhaps just maybe soon pondering waking up. Nope. Not for a long while yet.

As such, winter in Oslo should be my time. Sunset is so late that even I sometimes am up by then. But either I’m in a hurry, or I’m on my sofa drinking coffee and going nowhere for at least three cups. Nope.

Even sunset can be hard, when it is at three o’clock. Way too often, if I’m not serving time in the office, I’m simply not ready to leave the house before it’s already dark. I have the speed and self-discipline of a self-indulgent sloth.

In other words, taking pictures in mid-winter is something that usually just happens to me by accident.

But this Saturday I was determined. I was going for a walk while there still was light. Helps that sunset wasn’t until almost four in the evening by now.

And I did it. I put my little friend, the OM System TG-7 in my pocket, and bravely fought the impulse to stay on the sofa.

Nothing fancy. No exploration. No adventures. Just a walk in streets very, very well familiar, looking for those little things that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Something fresh. Something different.

Some of the secret sauce that makes the whole something more than just the sum of its parts.

Something shiny. Something funny. Something strange.

And I had what I consider a productive day. Got lots of photos I really like. The usual motives: Stickers, graffiti, a puddle, a window reflection. Oddities. Objects slightly out of place.

Here are seventeen photos, posted in the order they were taken. Because I’m lazy. And I think it rather works.