Nick in Norway

Book!

Nick Today — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:37:24 +0000

So I haven’t really updated this with all the awesome adventures from the summer or anything after Bergen, however, I did made a blurb book out of the Holga photos I took while in Norway

Check it out:

Norway In Plastic

By Nicholas Counts

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Bergen!

Nick Today — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:03:32 +0000

As promised, I had the chance to look through the photos from Bergen. Here are some of my favorites. It was a great trip. A really lovely city and very cozy.

^a nice view from a park bench where we sadly didn’t get to have sushi.

^we snuck into a little playground and this building had a sweet mural.

^it also had a cool rope-climb-y thing

^the houses looked so cozy!

^this cool thing from the science museum showed what it would look like if maria and i had a kid

^and we saw the Norwegian Bill Murray on the train up the mountain.

^supposedly it rains 300 days a year in Bergen, but mostly it rained at night.

What a fun trip. It makes me want to go traveling more and seeing more. I’m hungry for adventure!

Heyo!

Nick Today — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:11:53 +0000

I haven’t updated in forever ever, I know. But anyway, here is a little video from a walk around Drammen back in March. It’s about time this snow starts melting. It’s Spring!

On another note, Maria and I just got back from Bergen, a city on the west coast of Norway, so hopefully I’ll be putting up some pictures from the trip soon. Just have to get them off the camera.

Icicles

Nick Today — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:21:11 +0000

a new day, a new year, a new semester. good times. norway has some pretty sweet icicles! here are some of my favorites

I feel like i haven’t updated in forever

Nick Today — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:50:36 +0000

I’m pretty excited for christmas coming up, but i think it’ll be really strange being in another place, with another family. I shoullllllld be finding out on Tuesday whether i can stay here another semester or not. I sure hope i can.

I’ve been shooting a lot of film lately and so I want to post a few shots up here from the Smena 8m camera i bought while i was here.

^a strange double exposure.

^celebrating a job well done.

^just chillin’

Oh and I realized i haven’t linked to the video i made for my project soooo….

Yay!

Nick Today — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:21:15 +0000

I am finished with my class work for this semester! This was the longest week/weekend of my life, but now i’m free! So i’m going to Oslo tomorrow with Peter to look for a job maybe and take some pictures.

I wish i had some black and white film, but I’ll just have to make due with pretending using some digital pics. I’m going to bring holga and the smena tomorrow so we’ll see what happens.

London

Nick Today — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:20 +0000

I went to london last weekend and for some reason i was dumb and didn’t update the blog.

Here are a few pictures that were kinda cool from the trip.

^spent most of saturday in Brighton. it was a nice city.

^our hostel had 4 paintings. 3 of them were exactly the same.

^went to the natural history museum.

^met some cool people and rode a lot of trains.

^had drinks out of cups made from ice.

^had to see the Big Ben.

^and the bridge that’s apparently not London Bridge…

well there was a lot more but these are just some highlights. I need to do more euro-exploration soon!

but now, i have to do lots and lots of homework. really. right now.

Nick Today — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:22:28 +0000

got some holgas developed and thanks to the lovely double exposures (or quad exposures) the photo technician thought he messed up the film and didn’t charge me for the prints.

see if you can find all 4 Peters (or maybe 5) and both Linns.

Holga Me in Norway

Nick Today — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:43:10 +0000

So i got my first roll of holga film developed here!!! i love them. I wanted to post a few here… maybe i’ll post some more on flickr later.

I love how the holga manages to make everything look like old memories. I find it so pleasant.

The Fall of Autumn

Nick Today — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:51:54 +0000

So i think it’s a little ironic that the last post was about autumn and the next day it snows like crazy. It doesn’t feel much like fall anymore. Anyway, of course i had to take a few snowy pictures, but i don’t think i got anything amazing. i’ll have to try again later. Something tells me i’ll have plenty of chances to take snow pictures in norway.

I woke up yesterday morning, opened the curtain and this is what i saw. Woah! How did that happen???

I love how quaint these little colorful houses look with snow all on their roofs.

And there were some ducks enjoying the snow too. i didn’t really get any good shots of them before they saw me and flew but i wanted to include them in here.

Well, the first snow was really fun. Hopefully i don’t get sick of snow before december rolls around. Now all i need is a fireplace in my tiny apartment.