… but unfortunately, the photos here were taken yesterday and the day before, when the sun was not out.
Actually, the sun isn’t even out right now, but there are patches of blue sky and trees are actually throwing shadows, so there must be some light somewhere up there; there is HOPE.
Anyway, yesterday we spent the day recuperating after The World’s Most Expensive Drunken Experience. You see, when even the most basic oil platform worker earns £60,000 ($90,000) per year, things tend to be expensive. Like… £10 ($15) for a beer. £20 for a glass of wine. You don’t want to even know about cocktails. Fortunately, I’m a bit of a light-weight, but a hardened drinker would have no problem spending a few hundred pounds in just a few hours… crazy.
Incidentally, the food is generally worth the price, just. Earlier in the day I had a smoked salmon ‘sandwich’ for about £15. There was only one piece of bread, three slices of smoked salmon, and some other bits of garnish — but it was good, no doubt about it. Chinese food might cost £10 per dish, but at least you get rice with it for free.
So it’s expensive, but not unfairly so.
Still no fjords, then — that’s tomorrow, in theory, if the weather stays good (we have to travel for an hour or two) — but we’re going up a mountain later today.
Oh, I just realised, I didn’t actually tell you the getting-drunk story… how mean of me.
(Bryggen)
The last one is from the end of the drunken night! Around 4am. Hand-held in the near-dark! Still solid as a rock when drunk… wink.
sara strand
Mar 23, 2010
Drunky seb! Yay! I’d like to see pictures of THAT.
MentalSarcasm
Mar 23, 2010
It looks like British weather to me XD
Nice church picture, congratulations on the steady druken hands!
sebastian
Mar 23, 2010
It’s fairly British but… we’re nowhere near this wet. Brits THINK it rains a lot in Britland, but it’s NOTHING compared to somewhere like here, or the Faroe Islands.
I think there are some photos from university times, Sara, but I don’t know where they are — my friends have them I think
Foggy Dew
Mar 24, 2010
That third picture is amazing! Some great colors in there. Reminds me of a picture I took (that sadly didn’t come out nearly as well) of Portaferry on Strangford Lough in Down. Did you do anything in the first pic? Perhaps a very wide angle?
Can’t wait to see more.
sebastian
Mar 24, 2010
Ya, the first one is an example of what happens with the 10mm (16mm) lens in close quarters
I have a 50mm version of the same photo which looks ‘better’, but it isn’t as interesting. I think it works, with the distortion, just about…
The third photo is using the 50mm — great colour, as you noted! Strangford Lough in Down? That sounds very English
Emily Jane
Mar 25, 2010
Gorgeous shots. And it’s seems like it’s become even more expensive since the last time I was over… I want to come back but I don’t know how I’d afford to live! (Right now? I’m on $30k. PEA-NUTS.)
PS. Wandering aimlessly and taking photos after a night out sounds even more fun than the night out itself
Foggy Dew
Mar 26, 2010
Well, it’s not English, but it is British: Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.
andhari
Mar 27, 2010
I wanna see this drunk Seb, any chance he’ll make a video sometime soon?
Anyhoo, pretty pictures, as usual. Jakarta sky is like that these days. I wish it’s as cold. x)