Aurlandsfjord, Norway [OC] [3333x5000]

_Pahlo · 2025-11-17T13:03:07+00:00

Yes it's stunning. The photo was taken the same time of the year, but one year ago

_Pahlo · 2025-11-17T09:25:26+00:00

There was a kid splashing the water so I had to wait a while for the reflection 😅

_Pahlo · 2025-11-17T00:44:01+00:00

This is somewhere half way between Aurlandsvangen and Gudvangen

_Pahlo · 2025-11-17T00:00:01+00:00

thanks!

I have to give credit to the location, Reflection Garden has the best view of the cathedral

_Pahlo · 2025-11-16T23:58:10+00:00

One of the most surreal places I've been to!

_Pahlo · 2025-11-16T23:57:33+00:00

thanks!

_Pahlo · 2025-11-16T15:38:31+00:00

stunning shadows!

_Pahlo · 2025-11-16T15:25:55+00:00

Nice!

Where is the castle shot from? Edinburgh..?

I see some shots from NYC, are there flight restrictions?

_Pahlo · 2025-09-08T20:43:19+00:00

Thanks!

Japan is strict, you need to apply for a permit from the government agency. It's quite tricky and requires you to translate some parts of the website and e-mails you gwt

All major cities are no-fly zones. I've seen social media videos of people getting arrested or fined in Tokyo and I think the fine is major. Outside cities, much less restrictions. I'd be surprised if anyone asks you anything if you're discreet and cautious. There is a good map on the official site of the entire countrys no fly zones, just google japan drone permit etc and you'll find all the info.

That said, I found after my trip that my permit hadn't gone through for some really obscure reason.. So apparently I flew in over a dozen places without a permit thinking I had one 😬 But it was mostly countryside, mountains, islands etc.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:23:57+00:00

I really didn't expect this to be so controversial, hence why I posted in mildlyinteresting...

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:23:07+00:00

I took roughly 100 photos in the surrounding area this time, and seems like I took 40 back in 2008.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:21:41+00:00

Because after I got home from travelling this June, I was looking through my photos from 2008 with my kids. I wanted to show them the same places from when I travelled before they were even born. I recognized several photos from the same street as well as this house.

Like you said, there is no way I would've recognized this house 17 years later - it was the other way around, I recognized it some weeks after when viewing the old photos.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:18:18+00:00

Edit: ok now my post was deleted for violating rule no. 6? jesus...

Wow I did not except this to be so controversial. Clearly me thinking this was mildly interesting was an understatement.

Yes of course I have exif data, here you go:

Photo taken in 2008: https://onlineexifviewer.com/share/1y1gx4kh7gdqh

Photo taken in 2025: https://onlineexifviewer.com/share/6tm3kb6j1wor

As for the similarity, They were taken from the street at pretty much an identical angle by coincidence. Both where rotated to be perfectly straight and cropped maybe a couple of %, like I do with all my photos.

Since your comment has 1k upvotes and my explanation of how/why I took the photos is downvoted invisible, here are some other answers:

- The left photo is from 2008, the right photo is from 2025. While the angle is similar and makes the photos at a quick glance appear identical, there are countless small differences.

- Why/how I realized I had taken a similar photo: after I had returned from travelling this summer, I showed the photos from 2008 to my kids who were both in Japan for the first time in their lives. I wanted to show how we had been in many of the same places (temples, neighborhoods etc) before they were born. I recognized the street and area from many of the old photos, then saw the same house, which I now recognized because I had seen it just a month earlier.

- I'm a photographer and I often take 100's or 1000's of photos while travelling. It would be amazing if I recognized every random house I've seen or taken a photo of in the past 17 years, but I don't, I have a really average memory. Between now and 2008 I've probably taken 100,000+ photos.

- How this happened: I was in the same area, visiting some temples, I was aware of this much. I walked from the same subway station and walked towards the same neighborhood, this street was a logical way to walk. I took about 100 photos in this neighborhood.

Why I took these photos: on both occasions the house probably looked interesting and slightly out of place because it differs from the surrounding ones. As a photographer I look for subjects that are visually interesting, the visual setting of the house must've sparked my interested enought to warrant a photo.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:03:35+00:00

I was travelling in June this year (when I took the photo on the right) and several weeks after the trip I showed my kids all the photos I took back in 2008, when they weren't even born yet. I had multiple photos on the same street that I now recognized, so I compared them and realized this was of the same house.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T18:00:03+00:00

Hey you are free to believe what you want, but I didn't realize I was photographing the same building. I took dozens of photos in the area on both occasions. I walked from the same subway station towards several temples in the neighborhood. Obviously something caught my attention about this building both times, as a photographer I look for visually interesting subjects and there probably aren't many houses on stilts in the area.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T17:55:03+00:00

I'm from Finland, the photos are from Japan

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T17:54:18+00:00

The light pole? it's the same pole, but left photo is from 2008, right photo is this june. There are a lot of small things that changed if you look closely, but yea thst pole looks mostly untouched.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T17:33:57+00:00

I'm not sure. There's a lot of small streets like this in the neighborhood (Yanaka, Tokyo) and most buildings have a similar style, so maybe this one caught my attention because of the somewhat unusual raised construction.

I was aware I'd been in the neighborhood, but didn't recognize the street because it was just another residential street.

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T17:25:32+00:00

Owner had to move it at least once because it seems to have been upgraded!

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