Jacqueline Takes Pictures

Newborn

2011-02-15T15:17:00.000-08:00

I was lucky enough to meet and photography one of our world's newest additions. She (name to be announced) is 10 days old here and was already full of zest. She didn't sleep during the whole shoot and even tried holding her head up now and then. Congratulations Rikke and Glenn on your beautiful baby girl!

Sognsvann

2011-02-13T11:43:00.000-08:00

Today was a beautiful day to be living in Oslo. The family spent the afternoon at Sognsvann, a lake on the outskirts of the city. We city folk need a little fresh air once and a while too. :)

I like Birds.

2009-10-22T16:22:00.000-07:00

I realized that over the last six months or so I have about 25 things I should/could have blogged, but didn't due to the simple fact that I am l-a-z-y I didn't. I then feel like I get too far behind and the photos become no longer relavent. But they I thought, well that's just silly. So here we go with one from the summer.

Håvard, Armas and I spent 4 days at Lake of the Woods after our wedding this summer. Here's part one, the birds.

Loons

Seagull baby

This pictures is a lot further away than I would have liked, but this was the view from our cabin. Everyone morning there were a bunch of bald eagles gathered here. Makes me want one of the super huge long lenses that costs one trillion dollars. It would have been worth it to see a close up look of these eagles faces.

Congratulations Dad and Lori!

2009-09-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

My father and his fiance married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony on Saturday September 19th in Winnipeg. They celebrated together with their children, grandchildren, family and close friends. More pics to come . . .

Mmmm

2009-09-13T10:08:00.000-07:00

Look what I made today!

Lise's Baby Shower

2009-09-04T14:33:00.001-07:00

Lise had a baby shower last weekend. Thanks to Nina and Kristina for the preparations. It was a surprise, and boy was she surprised. All in all a very koselig day.

Prague part I

2009-08-27T14:53:00.001-07:00

Prague is an amazing city. I recommend it to anyone. It makes for a perfect long weekend trip. Håvard and I were there this past weekend, sans SLR camera. I forgot to charge my battery before we left so we were armed with only our point and shoot. This allowed us photographers the freedom to be just tourists. It was great.

Prague is all art and architecture. This is the place for anyone who enjoys the great structures. I was left with the impression that the Czech were, and to a point still are, fixed in tradtional, detailed beauty. I've never seen architecture like it. Even the modern buildings were peculiar. Cramped yet spacious. Wide-open long hallways, grand entrances, high ceilings. One feels the Russian influence softened by old Bohemian beauty. The city is drenched with intricate detail and without my camera I was able to just look and enjoy.

There is an enormous emphasis on art. I've never seen such talented street merchants. Galleries are everywhere, and full of people. There are photo shops, paint stores, and book stores gallore. While in Prague, one just becomes injected with a general heightened sence for the arts.

The city reeks of pork. Pork and fryers. The people aren't too friendly. I didn't get the feeling they were doing it on purpose, more so that thats just the way they are. The staff at our hotel were although quite friendly. Friendly without smiling. They are also efficient and curtious. The housekeeping lady said "Sorry" about 15 times after coming in our room to clean while we were still there there at 11am. (We slept well.) And on our way to back to the airport our hotel's chauffeur didn't bat an eye while driving 160 km/hr in an 80km zone.

All in all it was a lovely trip. Here's some pictures.

Mmm. One of Prauges highlights.

Look away all my vegan friends. Layered meats on a bed of pickled cabbage and dumblings. It was actually very good and I almost ate the whole thing. Note Håvards modest portion behind my tower of meat.

View from our balcony. National Museum at the top of the street.

The Dancing House. Look it up on google for much better pictures. An architectural colaboration between a Czech and a Canadian architect.

Fun statues and modest police door. This picture doesn't show it well, but this door was so tiny. One would have to duck considerable to come in. (They also eat a lot of duck in Prague).

Lots of these in Prague.

Lots of people in Prague.

By night.

Hot and sweaty us.

Who doesn't love these rooftops?

An evening stroll.

I liked this fellow.

Possibly my favorite picture from the trip - a group of muslim youth perched upon a christian monument.

Benjamin 6 months.

2009-08-15T07:34:00.000-07:00

Well, after a lovely sommer vacation I'm finally back on the blog. Wedding pics will have to wait as we haven't gotten through them all yet. :) So I'll start with some pictures I just did of my co-worker's 6 months old son.

Lise part 2

2009-06-29T01:07:00.001-07:00

Lise part 1

2009-06-24T16:22:00.000-07:00

To say that Lise has served as a great muse for me over the years would be an understatement. Her patience and tolerance for my ideas made this one of my all time favorite photo shoots.

Off the Balcony 6

2009-06-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

Last night, 11:17pm the most AMAZING clounds rolled in. We looked out the window and let out a whopping, "Holy $#*%!!" I saved them quite big, so you have to click on them to view in their full glory. I always loved the prairie sunsets, and thought they had to be the best on earth, but they've met their match. Both so different. Both so beautiful.

Off the Balcony 5

2009-06-13T04:04:00.000-07:00

31.05.2009

2009-06-13T03:49:00.000-07:00

There are so many crappy products out in the world, that I like to gives kudos when a great one comes along. So two thumbs up for Sebastian Laminates Hair Masque. It's the most amazing hair product I've ever used in my life.

Off the Balcony 4

2009-06-08T12:57:00.000-07:00

Håvard 07.06.2009
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2009-06-06T03:20:00.000-07:00

Maren came to visit us at Fame this past week to job shadow the photographers for a few days. She was a joy to have and I hope we were able show her what wonderful jobs we have as portrait photographers. Here are some shots I did of her on her last day:

2009-06-05T07:41:00.000-07:00

I think I've been working too much. Some how this happened today.

Carrot in Coffee

Hair

2009-06-04T13:56:00.000-07:00

Working with gel requires great concentration. When you're 7 years old it is important that every hair is in place.

Off the Balcony 3

2009-06-01T09:29:00.000-07:00

We live in what one could call Oslo's "rougher" end of town. So rough in fact, kids pack heat on their Sunday bike rides. This little guy is always prepared, not letting his finger leave the trigger for anything.

Pow, Pow.

31.05.2009

Off the Balcony 2

2009-06-01T08:54:00.001-07:00

31.05.2009

Off the Balcony 1.

2009-05-30T16:44:00.000-07:00

25.05.2009

The Opera House

2009-05-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

Well, just so I didn't totally miss out on blogging the entire month of May, here's an entry. It's some snap shots I took at Oslo's new opera house. It's the new pride and joy of Norwegian architecture and as I quickly learned a mecca for the photographic eye. Stunning clean lines, and the white stones makes for some amazing light.

Rock.

2009-04-04T05:29:00.000-07:00

We had a 3 day workshop with photographer Bjørn Opsahl (http://bjornopsahl.com/) this past week through work where we photographers had the cameras turned on us. Thanks to a group of lovely stylists and creative photographers our group made these and many other wonderful photographs. Our assignment was to photograph a "group of 3" plus individual portraits with a continuous theme. Our theme was Emo/rock band.

9 days old.

2009-03-02T09:53:00.000-08:00

My friend and co-worker Pia just gave birth to a beautiful son, Benjamin. He is the sweetest thing ever. Here are some pictures from his 9-days old session. :)

What the?

2009-03-01T12:35:00.001-08:00

We were alerted to some noise outside our apartment last night. When we looked outside we saw an outdoor "fashion show" in full swing on the street below us. It was hosted by a hair salon, so I'm maybe guessing it was a hair show. And as quick as it started, it was over. I found this bizzare.

Vinterferie 3

2009-03-01T12:22:00.000-08:00

Armas lost his fifth tooth on Friday. Luckily the tooth fairy remembered to come, just in the nick of time. ;)

Vinterferie 2

2009-03-01T12:15:00.000-08:00

New skates.

Vinterferie Dag 1

2009-02-22T13:01:00.000-08:00

Armas has his winter break (Not only do Norwegian students get Xmas break, spring break, and summer break, but they also get a winter break. Something we don't have back in the homeland).

Day one started off with a trip to the corner store.

Then a walk by the river to see the ducks chillin' on the ice. Above photo taken by Armas.

Mallards are a jealous species.

Then a stop at the local produce shop. Normal grocery stores aren't open here on Sundays, but these places are.

Snow chaos in Oslo, and a good reason not to own a car when you live in the city.

Our "front yard."

Our "backyard."

And then it was back up to the fouth floor.

Flea market 2.

2009-02-15T04:14:00.000-08:00

While Håvard was away in Tallinn last week, I "girlied up" the bedroom a little with new purple flowered curtains and another lovely flea market find, candlestick. I was looking for an old fashion lamp to go on the bedside table, but when I came across this lovely candle holder I figured it would do. Håvard liked it, I think. Though I'm not convince he's totally down with the extra feminie curtains yet.

Dead Tulips.

2009-02-13T01:35:00.000-08:00

Proud.

2009-02-07T07:23:00.000-08:00

Flea Market Find

I found this amazing piece of furniture at the flea market today. It's going to be our new TV stand. The doors still work and everything. I love it and am proud to share that I even negotiated the price with the friendly merchant down to one I could afford and thought was reasonable. :)

The rest of the pics are to show the intense snow storm that I CARRIED IT, BY MYSELF, on foot, approximately 1 kilometer, home in. I was able to snap these few pictures with my cell phone before colapsing on the floor completely out of breath.

(NB: all readers from the midwest USA, I don't expect too much sympathy on the snow storm bit ... but you guys drive cars.)

2009-02-04T15:27:00.000-08:00

Armas 7 år.

Photo by: Håvard

Amboise, France 2006

2009-02-03T12:18:00.000-08:00

My camera has been kidnapped and taken to Tallin, Estonia. So here's something from the old unposted archive. :)

Håvard.

2009-02-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

Mmm mmm.

Maiken.

2009-01-30T08:39:00.000-08:00

Maiken and her beautiful golden locks came in to see me at Fame Fotografene. She also brought along her 2 beautiful girls.

random

2009-01-28T15:28:00.000-08:00

>Paris 2006

studio

2009-01-26T03:53:00.001-08:00

Little Aryan stopped by the studio last week for som 3.5 month pictures.

First time on skates.

2009-01-14T08:11:00.000-08:00

We took Armas to the skating rink in middle of downtown one saturday to try out ice skating for the first time. He did great, a total natural. He said he especially liked how the wind felt on his face when he got going really fast. The day ended with him saying, "This was the coolest thing I've ever done in my life." Although it came out more like, "Dette var det artigst jeg har noen gang vært med på."

Random pics from the holidays.

2009-01-14T08:01:00.000-08:00

Mixed Christmas meats.

The drive down from Trondheim to Oslo in a super big moving truck.

The best part about moving is boxes. Lots of boxes.

New Years Eve - running up the escalator the wrong way is super fun.

Happy New Year!

Sky

2009-01-08T07:09:00.000-08:00

The sky outside work today, just a few minutes before it got dark.

Christmas Break

2008-12-29T02:03:00.001-08:00

:)

2008-11-18T14:31:00.000-08:00

Yeah. This is what I get paid to do. :) This lucky fella started off his bachelor party with a trip to the studio. Lots-o-fun.

Belated

2008-11-12T14:11:00.000-08:00

Håvard and I carved some pumpkins this year. I took them to work to be a little seasonal. Halloween isn't super big here yet. (YET!). A five year old stood infront of them for about 30 seconds before turning to me and saying in a proud tone, with eyebrows raised, "These don't scare me."

I guess that means we have to up the bar for next year.

Fall in the Park

2008-11-11T11:10:00.000-08:00

More fall pictures from the statue park taken about 3 weeks ago.

2008-11-06T12:47:00.001-08:00

studio

- some friends were in for their annual family photo. They grow by one each year I've known them.

2008-11-04T14:24:00.000-08:00

Back in August, I took some of my favorite wedding pictures of all time. I haven't gotten around to posting them yet but here's one.

2008-10-31T14:14:00.000-07:00

My super fine beau now has a blog too: http://havardstorvestre.blogspot.com

He likes the Verdana font, where as I'm a fan of Arial.

2008-10-29T11:52:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the flowers.

2008-10-21T14:44:00.000-07:00

Fall day in the park.

Håvard and I spent Sunday in the park. Vigelandsparken. The best thing Oslo has to offer. We got to take advantage of the last beautiful day of the year. The weather was just perfect and all the fall colours were amazing. There are lots of pictures to come from this day, but until they are ready I thought I'd open with my favorite.

Shot of the day.

2008-10-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

Debate thought.

My favorite question from last nights presidential debate was, "Why would the country be better off if your running mate became president rather than your opponent's running mate?"

Face I made after hearing this question.

I love this question and applaud Obama for not beginning his response with, "Where do I start?" or "Seriously?" or just "Pass." He's such a gentleman. I would-a stuck it too her. His answer was nice and propper talking up his guy rather than talking down the other's. I guess that's what the good guy does. :)

2008-10-14T14:51:00.001-07:00

What does one do with two left shoes?

So Håvard and I were shopping one day and came across these cool shoes for a very cool price and bought them for his 7 year old son. We knew they were a year away from fitting but they price could not be beat so we got them anyway. When we gave them to him as a part of his birthday celebration he was so excited and insisted on wearing them at once even though they were way too big. He put them on an we immediately realized what had happened. We had purchased two left shoes. We groaned and brought it to his attention, to which he replied, "So, can I just wear them anyway?"

It was closing/going out of business sale, and the store was gone the following week.

2008-10-08T08:21:00.001-07:00

Co-workers.

We did group pics at work today.

Photos by a tripod and timer.

2008-10-07T15:56:00.000-07:00

It's been many months since out trip to Canada/USA and I have not posted a single picture. Horrible. So here's one of my favorites. (Actually I think it is my favorite). Anyway, I'll get around to the others later. :)

Downtown St.Paul, MN - view from hotel window.

2008-09-06T09:17:00.000-07:00

So I took some wedding pictures... earlier this summer, but just got around to finishing them. They are a fellow "inter-country" couple. She's from Norway, he's from the USA.

2008-08-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

I was diligently working away today when my co-workers sat this plate of loveliness on the desk I was working at. Friday treat. I was so moved that I had to take a picture. I love my job.

2008-08-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

And just when you thought no one was looking, you get caught on tape playing "air banjo" on a teddy bear. I was playing Dueling Banjos for Armas. He was doing the other part on his own teddy bear. I can't believe I'm putting this on the internet...

2008-08-01T10:37:00.001-07:00

Typical day at the office.

Me and my co-workers . . . it was a slow week.

2008-07-30T09:05:00.001-07:00

I was in a bachelorette party this past weekend for my friend Anette. We came to the studio to take some pictures. Here's a few:

Photos thanks to my coworker Ioannis. :)

2008-07-28T14:25:00.001-07:00

Snap shots from summer vacation.

Håvard bought himself a point-and-shoot camera and we love love love it. Oh the freedom to just pick up a camera and push a button with out thinking too much. I've been missing out all these years. :)

rollercoaster

Tourists in Vigelandsparken. :)

2008-06-23T04:23:00.000-07:00

More pics from last weekend.

Håvard's Family

Monica

Mila

Armas rocks the harmonica.

2008-06-18T09:09:00.000-07:00

Weekend with the "kids" :)

Spent the weekend with Håvard and Armas, and Armas' sister came for a visit too. We made pizza together and then Armas showed me jumping on the bed superman style.

Serious business.

Johanna was proud of her heart shaped pizza.

2008-06-08T14:29:00.000-07:00

From the rooftop today.

We've been having a heat wave for about a week here in Norway. And I think there is a storm coming tonight... which will be nice to ease the heat. It made for a lovely view off the rooftop.

Click picture for full size.

2008-05-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

After digging around in my old harddrive I found some pictures of Anna and family. :) Can't believe how fast these kids grow. She was just a little thing when I was last summer. Anyway here they are, and yes if you click on them you can see them bigger.

Show off those 2 first teeth you! (i think this one is my favorite)

Couldn't decide between b&w or colour.

2008-04-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

Open Skies

I've recently recovered a long lost hard disk from my old computer and am having a lovely time going through old photos. I came across some of these that I don't think I've posted before...

Roof top - Oslo

Roof top - Oslo

Roof top - Oslo

Outside Kenora, On

Lake of the Woods, ON

Outside Crookston, MN

Lake of the Woods, ON

Outside Fargo, ND

Outside Crookston, ND

2008-04-21T16:47:00.000-07:00

Early Sunday Mornings

Spent the weekend with Håvard and his son. Kids wake up early, even on Sundays, I've learned. :) Luckily he's content with hanging out in the bed for a little until we've fully come around. And growing up with a photographer for a father he's, to my joy, never shy of a camera.

Pride & Joy

2008-04-17T13:05:00.000-07:00

Jacqueline takes on new career after low feedback on photo blog:

(front row, almost center)

2008-04-03T12:31:00.000-07:00

The Simpsons couch by Jacqueline & Co.

We had our yearly get together for FameFotografene (work). This year was in Copenhagen and it was super. All the studios each had to put together 5 minutes of entertainment that would be enjoyed on one of our evenings.

We made this: Keep in mind that all of these frames were taken with the cameras auto-timer, so someone had to run back and forth between each movement.... we'll didn't have a whole ton of time, but we had a whole lot of fun. :)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEAOuSIho4

2008-03-25T14:59:00.001-07:00

Easter break in the studio - part 2

Introducing Armas: 6.5 years old.

9 doesn't begin to cover the number of expressions he has.

He lost his first tooth during the easter break. That was cool.

This kid digs and I mean DIGS spiderman.

2008-03-24T15:42:00.000-07:00

Easter break in the studio - part 1

I spent this easter in Trondheim with the beau and his son. It was great to meet this amazing little person. :) Kids are undiscribably amazing.
And with us both being photographers, there was of course, a trip to the studio. Here's part one. The pictures of the three of us are thanks to the timer on the camera and Armas' super running back and forth to push the button skills. More pics of Armas (the son) alone coming in a seperate blog.

2008-03-02T05:03:00.001-08:00

Sunday on the rooftop

2008-03-01T12:18:00.000-08:00

Trondheim

2008-02-21T13:50:00.000-08:00

Not everyone enjoys having their picture taken.

2008-02-18T16:38:00.000-08:00

Today's inspiration was found amongst my mess. My messy, messy apartment.

Kitchen Counter

Old Food

Old Food II

Dirty Pipe

2008-02-17T09:55:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of the 2008 primaries, its Hand Towels - in primary colors.

...and more bathroom items.

2008-02-13T15:02:00.000-08:00

I know I'm supposed to be staying away from work-ish photos, but I'm breaking my rule on only the second day. But, it's puppies, who doesn't love puppies? All of these dogs belonged to one lady, a kenel owner. I'm no dog lover, but the little guy in the middle was to die for.

2008-02-12T14:05:00.000-08:00

So here I am. I've gotten lazy with my camera in recent years. I rarely pick it up outside from the daily grind, 9-5. So the thought behind this blog is to force-inspire myself. I hope to maintain something along the lines of a "photo a day" post, fueled by the fear of peer scrutiny, forcing me to pick up my camera and be creative, even if it is only to take a picture of my feet. :)

So I'll start off with something light. Something I did while on sick leave a couple weeks ago. The flower of all photogenic flowers - the tulip.