Week 2: Architecture

The theme for this week is architecture. I expected it to come up sooner or later, but not this soon! Architecture photos are something I wasn't really interested in nor even consciously thought about. I can imagine though that I probably have taken pictures of buildings since the first time I ever held a camera in my hands. But I have never given any serious thinking to it.

Until now. The weather in Oslo was again, as expected, uncooperative, with intermittent bouts of rainfall and sunshine, making the lighting very very unpredictable. Not to mention the risk of getting my camera wet and ruining it. I only have a Pentax K-r, which isn't weather sealed. But I still love it for the pictures it takes and the creative options it allows me to do.

A two hour walk was all the weather allowed me to do on the afternoon of May 22. I immediately  went to the newly opened bridge at the Operakvartalet as I was already drawn to its pompous metal structures the first time I saw it. 

I decided to add a bit of motion blur in the picture so that the photo won't seem "dead" as some architecture photographs tend to be. I really didn't care for the metal  monstrosities at the back. But my photography instructor liked it, because every component of the picture tells a story as a whole, about the whole area being unfinished. He also liked the way I made the bridge ballast fall and disappear towards the middle.

A few of my classmates made good photographs as well, although I have to admit some of them aren't really putting that much of an effort in what they do. At least not as much as I do. But hey, that is me in a nutshell. I always put my heart into everything I do, especially when it is as rewarding and as enjoyable as taking photographs and expressing one's creativity.