http://framedandshot.com Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:17:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://framedandshot.com/2010/08/06/framed-and-shot-is-on-the-move/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/08/06/framed-and-shot-is-on-the-move/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:04 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1804 Dear All, Framed and Shot is on the move – after several years living abroad we are on our way back to Norway. The moving process is hard work and time has neither allowed us to update our blog, nor visit all our favorite blogs and admire your photos! But we will be [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/08/06/framed-and-shot-is-on-the-move/feed/ 24 http://framedandshot.com/2010/07/11/spider-protection/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/07/11/spider-protection/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:58:05 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1577 We think this is a Running Crab Spider (Philodromus) There are more than 250 described species in this family. It is protecting the next generation – not as cute as the previous post, but then again: in the eyes (all eight of them) of their mother they are probably the most adorable there is……. Some fun [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/07/11/spider-protection/feed/ 38 http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/17/brave-new-world-here-we-come/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/17/brave-new-world-here-we-come/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:00:05 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1769 This little fellow who leads his sibling into the brave new world are among the cutest thing we can imagine! (And the book “Brave new world” was ranked number five by the Modern Library on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.) ]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/17/brave-new-world-here-we-come/feed/ 45 http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/08/st-louis-cemetery-new-orleans/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/08/st-louis-cemetery-new-orleans/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:12:13 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1745 An IR shoot of a nice old cemetery in New Orleans. Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, replaced the now vanished St. Peter Cemetery as the main burial ground in 1788 when New Orleans lost many citizens to an epidemic and a great fire, St. Louis Cemetery contains approximately of 700 tombs, tomb ruins and [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/06/08/st-louis-cemetery-new-orleans/feed/ 30 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/28/infrared-week-galveston/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/28/infrared-week-galveston/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 22:40:15 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1724 We have converted a Nikon D200 to near Infra Red Photography.  Please see this post for details: This shot is from Galveston, the entrance to the Flagship Hotel on the Beach. The effects of hurricane Ike are still, as you can see, clearly visible. ]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/28/infrared-week-galveston/feed/ 23 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/26/infrared-week-reflection-in-a-pond/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/26/infrared-week-reflection-in-a-pond/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 05:05:12 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1718 We have converted a Nikon D200 to near Infra Red Photography.  Please see this post for details: Infra Red photography is usually converted to Black & White. The  sensor captures a full colour image, but the colours have nothing to do with reality (as we perceive it) and will in default processing come out strongly red.  Colour [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/26/infrared-week-reflection-in-a-pond/feed/ 25 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/24/infrared-ir-week/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/24/infrared-ir-week/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 23:00:40 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1697 We have converted a Nikon D200 to Infra Red photography, and we are having fun using it. It is a new way to see the world. Places and objects seen in the NIR (Near Infra Red) is both very familiar and very strange. Sometimes even hard to recognize. Our senses tells us how to [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/24/infrared-ir-week/feed/ 19 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/20/norway-series-sensual-rock/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/20/norway-series-sensual-rock/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 01:00:27 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=736 OK – it might be because one of us is a geologist – but we find the rocks at the coast of Norway, described as “svaberg”,  very sensual. The hard rock have over time and with the movement of sand and water turned into soft folds, sleek rock – it is still “hard as [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/20/norway-series-sensual-rock/feed/ 22 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/15/norway-series-the-frugal-tree/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/15/norway-series-the-frugal-tree/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:54 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=731 In a way this is quite symbolic – a lonely, frugal tree has managed to grow, even though there is very little soil. Most of Norway is rock, and the pine has adapted quite well to the environment! Like Norwegians in all time – or at least in the time before the oil…. they [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/15/norway-series-the-frugal-tree/feed/ 25 http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/03/mall-shooting-series-in-through-the-out-door/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/03/mall-shooting-series-in-through-the-out-door/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 02:00:29 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=654 We were exploring a rundown mall some weeks ago, now it is all gone and the landscape is being transformed to a new shopping-heaven – but a few weeks ago it was the land of the lost. Some of the city’s homeless had found shelter and some had found a canvas for their expression. [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/05/03/mall-shooting-series-in-through-the-out-door/feed/ 30 http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/26/houston-spring-time/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/26/houston-spring-time/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:25:11 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1596 It is spring time in Houston, we have already had the first day with temperatures passing 87 Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) It is time for flowers and all those wonderful little insects…. and the mosquitos! This hover-fly, however, is from last summer – and it is even a Norwegian one….. ]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/26/houston-spring-time/feed/ 35 http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/20/1549/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/20/1549/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:00:13 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1549 San Antonio has some wonderful places, when you are done with the Riverwalk, head for the missions! This is a small detail from San José, the largest of the missions. At its height, the community contained about 350 Indian neophytes, sustained by extensive fields and herds of livestock. It became known as the “Queen of [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/20/1549/feed/ 32 http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/07/cadillac-hdr/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/07/cadillac-hdr/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:00:31 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1639 We are quite proud that our Grain Silo have been chosen to be one of “20 amazingly beautiful hdr images”. And to celebrate it we present a new HDR today. This is from the famous Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Some want to believe that an eccentric Texas millionaire (and those do exist!) would [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/07/cadillac-hdr/feed/ 47 http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/01/la-boheme-iii/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/01/la-boheme-iii/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:16:03 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1631 Finally – The sad lovestory in La Boheme; Mimi and Rodolfo. Rodolfo meets Mimi and he instantly falls in love with the sweet girl who makes silk flowers. Mimi might be one of the most beloved heroine in any opera, and their romance has it all, sweetness and tragedy — Mimi is mortally [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/04/01/la-boheme-iii/feed/ 22 http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/29/la-boheme-ii/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/29/la-boheme-ii/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:05:30 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1625 Another shot from the Dress Rehearsal. This is from the first act when Benoît, the landlord, arrives to collect the rent from the four good friends, Marcello the painter (from last post!) Rodolfo the poet, Colline, the philosopher, and Schaunard, the musician. They have no money to pay him – but manages to flatter him [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/29/la-boheme-ii/feed/ 19 http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/25/la-boheme-i/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/25/la-boheme-i/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:00:12 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1598 Houston has some great hidden gems – and while many think of Houston and Opera as Houston Grand Opera, there is a far more charming and wonderful Opera in this town, Opera in the Heights . They preform in an old Church, the historic Lambert Hall, built in 1927 as the first permanent sanctuary for [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/25/la-boheme-i/feed/ 21 http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/19/mall-shooting-series-the-houses-of-god/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/19/mall-shooting-series-the-houses-of-god/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:25 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=652 This is the same Street Mall as the “shopaholic” – but this is God’s corner…. Here you get them all, the Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida ( Spanish for New Life Christian Center), the Grace Cathedral and The Mountain of fire and miracles ministry which is what they call a do-it-yourself ministry; for you who [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/19/mall-shooting-series-the-houses-of-god/feed/ 34 http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/13/mall-shooting-series-double-shots-for-real/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/13/mall-shooting-series-double-shots-for-real/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:34:13 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=824 Yes this is Texas, a small town called Schulenburg, where you can you buy a bottle of rum and a gun at the same store, you don’t even need to go out of your car to get the drink and shoot shopping done, they offer a convenient drive-thru to make it faster….. And just like [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/13/mall-shooting-series-double-shots-for-real/feed/ 34 http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/03/not-exactly-a-stairway-to-heaven/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/03/not-exactly-a-stairway-to-heaven/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:05:25 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1524 We suppose you all are old enough to remember “Stairway to Heaven”, the song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. This is not a stairway to heaven. It is just a short little stairway in Oslo, Norway, photographed in the night. Cold and lonely, but neither leading to heaven nor to hell. Just helping you [...]]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/03/03/not-exactly-a-stairway-to-heaven/feed/ 36 http://framedandshot.com/2010/02/28/snow-in-black-and-white/ http://framedandshot.com/2010/02/28/snow-in-black-and-white/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:05:35 +0000 framedandshot http://framedandshot.com/?p=1507 We have spent a week in Norway, back to visit the snow. This image is from the front of the Royal Palace in Oslo – We have enhanced the texture of the snow using Topaz Adjust. . ]]> http://framedandshot.com/2010/02/28/snow-in-black-and-white/feed/ 29