A great time-lapse project from Stephane Hoareau/Timecode Lab showcasing the relationship between Montreal, its citizens, and winter.


Montreal By Winter from Timecode Lab on Vimeo.

Two weeks ago I did my third assignment for INMA as a photographer for the Gulltaggen event in Oslo Spektrum. Two exiting days with a lot of hard work, but also a great possibility to experience and listen to some interesting international speakers such as Harper Reed and Jim Messina from the OBAMA 2012 campaign.

Below are some of the shots from the event this year. Hope you like them!
Visit NaustvikPhotography.com for larger and more images from the Gulltaggen 2013 event.

Mikhael Paskalev

Øyvind «Vinni» Sauvik

Harper Reed (OBAMA 2012)

David Shing (AOL)

Jim Messina (OBAMA 2012)

Luke Williams (NYU)

Mike Walsh (Tomorrow)

Gulltaggen is the largest event in Norway and the Nordic countries within digital marketing, communication, innovation, leadership and creativity. It has by far become the best arena for sharing competence, knowledge and networking.

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. It was created in 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving thousands of undercover agents.

Tuesday, April 23 at 5:00 PM the MP3 Experiment took place at Egertorget in Oslo as a part of the Gulltaggen 2013 conference.

By manipulating still photos from the WWF archive Make Productions created these stunning slow motion shots. Fantastic work and effects! Love it!

WWF PARALLAX SEQUENCE from Make Productions on Vimeo.

Two years ago on this date (3rd of January) I was lucky to spend some relaxing and peacfull time on a long white sandy beach close to the small village Uroa at Zanzibar Island. I had a great time observing the local fishermen and kids fishing and playing at the beach.

These are some of the shots I took this date two years ago.

Tomorrow it´s time to load up the car and head to the mountains again. One of my yearly highlights with fantastic Norwegian winter landscape just outside the door and a lot of oportunities to get some nice shots if you manage to get up in the morning.

These are some of the shots I took last christmas holiday. I had some fantastic peacefull trips, almost all alone with the nature and my camera gear.

I have always been fascinated by water and reflections. These shots are from a "I don´t know what I´m doing, but it sounds like an idea" session I did tree years ago. The first photograph below made it all the way to #1 place on Flickr Explore the 5th of March 2009

Behind the scenes: I used my dinner table which has a dark surface, and sprayed water on top of it. Behind the table I placed a Oslo Wood lamp that gave a warm golden glow and nice reflections in the organic forms that was created from the water. The camera was placed on a tripod with a shutter speed from 2,5 sec up to 10 sec.

Back in Januar 2011 I visited Tanzania as a part of a journey "around the world". Tanzania is one of the best safari destinations you can choose in Africa. There's an incredible amount of wildlife in a wide variety of national parks and game reserves, some of which only receive a hand full of tourists every year.

I was lucky to spend 16 days on dusty roads trough Tanzania, from Dar Es Salaam in South East to the city Musoma in the North West of the country. During this trip I visited four national parks. Selous Game Reserve in the South, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorogoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park in the North.
Wildlife photography is great fun but quite a challenge. You need to be prepared for anything in seconds, and changing lenses is always a risk with all the dust. During this trip I used a Canon 7D switching between a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 and a Canon EF 70-200 f/4.0 lens. As a supplement I used a Nikon D3000 with a Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 lens.


These are some of the photographs I did as an assignment for Paka Adventures during this trip. The images is used at their webpage; pakaadventures.com and on different kinds of brochures, posters and books.


You can see a selection of the shots from the slideshow below or see all the photographs in this collection on Flickr.

Last weekend the cross country season started at Beitostølen with some of the best Norwegian and French cross country skiers at the start line. Petter Northug (170) won the 10 km skating opening race. A great possibility to take some action shots and also participate at my first live cross-country event.

It's been a lot of monochrome images on this blog lately. About time to change that! These shots was taken a couple of weeks ago at Beitostølen. What started as a cold and foggy morning turned into a beautiful warm winter morning.