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On saturday I´m up for my second wedding as a photographer. Amir and Silje, some beautiful friends of mine are getting married in Oslo, Norway. I really look forward to it. Not only to be a part of the wedding, but also to get a new opportunity to shoot in a wedding. 

Last time I took pictures in a wedding was a year ago and I had great fun and the result become quite nice.

Last year I borrowed a Nikon d3s which is an amazing camera. This time I will use my Canon 7D together with a Canon 5D Mark II that I have borrowed from a friend. I really look forward to have two cameras to switch between. It makes it so much easier to get both the details and overview without using time to change lenses.

The plan is to use a Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8, a Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 and a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8. I will also bring a flash and reflectors for the outdoor shots of the couple and family. The rest of the plan is just to have fun and relax :-)

I guess there will be a post after the weekend with some shots and experiences.

If your interested, some of the shots from my first wedding is posted at my portfolio.

The old Lier Mental Hospital was abandoned in 1986 and still is. We arrived at 04:00 in the morning, and hoped that we would avoid meeting the local kids who sometimes uses this place to drink, look for ghosts and scare each other.

We had some peaceful but also scary hours inside the abandoned building, all alone, or at least we liked to believe that we were alone. The rumor says that the staff at Lier Mental Hospital tested new medicines, lobotomy, electroshocks and drugs like LSD on the patients.

During the years 1941 to 1981 it is estimated that more than 3000 people were lobotomized in Norway, many of theme right here in this building.

See the series “Abounded” on my portfolio

The last seven months has been quite an adventure. An amazing journey around the world filled with exciting adventures, beautiful scenery, great people, and first and foremost a much-needed break from everyday life back home in Norway.

As a passionate hobby photographer, the journey has also been a fantastic opportunity to develop my photographic skills even further. More than 40,000 exposures has been taken during the trip. Most of them just average, but some of them doesn´t look too bad.

During the fall I hope to get the shots organized, rated and processed. It´s a huge job but I´m still optimistic after my first selection round. I will probably post some more about this project along the way, both my experiences in using Lightroom as a workflow tool and some tips & tricks based on my experience from the trip. My dream is to be able to realize a photo project in 2012. I guess we´ll just have to see what happens :-)

ADIDAP, or “All Day I Dream About Photography” is a blog/ community started up in 2006. Today ADIDAP community counts more than 7.000photography lovers.

In a post published the 18th of July 2011 “45 pictures your ticket to the Norwegian dream” they have use two of my shots from Norway. The first is shot in Stryn, the home town to the clothing company “Moods of Norway”, the second one is shot at Beitostølen in Jotunheimen. 

Norwegian National Romanticism

Misty sunrise

See all the beautiful pictures at ADIDAP.com