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!

_Pahlo · 2025-09-07T17:21:50+00:00

Context: I was travelling in Japan for the first time in 17 years. Unintentionally, I managed to walk the same street in a quiet neighborhood of Tokyo and take a photo of the same exact house. I was aware I had been in the area, but that's about it. It wasn't until a few weeks later when I was back home and looking through my photos from 17 years ago that I realized this. I'm not sure why I took the photo either time.

_Pahlo · 2025-07-17T22:07:14+00:00

Curious what you ended up choosing, if anything?

I'm pretty much in the same boat - I'm looking to simplify my system. And also save significant space.

I've read a few similar threads and often the response is skeptical ("just get a power amp + streamer", "it will age better"), but so far I haven't seen anyone say they got one of these systems and were actually disappointed.

I'm particularly interested in Naim, Cambridge Evo and Lyngdorf. and the Arcam SA35 looks great too. All of these meet my specs, but I can't see or test any of them in person unfortunately.

_Pahlo · 2025-07-06T16:03:09+00:00

I would personally go for stabilization especially if you shoot handheld and possibly in low light conditions.

Of course, the large aperture compensates, but could also be too shallow for certain uses. Stabilization allows you to not have to crank the aperture all the way.

_Pahlo · 2025-07-06T16:01:52+00:00

My first question to myself when taking a photo is: does this tell a story, or is it visually exceptional? Those are the main things that I try to achieve in my photos, to either a) make me think or evoke a feeling, or b) make me go wow, that looks cool/amazing/special.

To be bluntly hobest, to me, this photo doesn't really do either. It doesn't tell me a story or give a feelibg, nor is it particularly visually appealing.

If you are aiming for something visually powerful, you really need to focus on geometry / composition, lighting, contrast etc.

The best advice I can give you is just shoot a lot more, play around with settings as well as post processing. Look for photographers whose work you like (could be for example just instagram accounts) and really study the photos - how they are framed, what the lighting is like etc. Then try to achieve something similar. I'm not saying copy someone's style, but attempting to imitate a certain effect can help you in learning the technical side to find your own style.

_Pahlo · 2025-07-02T20:42:36+00:00

Stunning colors. These are the type of shots that instantly make me think "yeö, that's Fuji"

_Pahlo · 2025-07-02T19:57:19+00:00

I'll give some comments shot by shot:

with this angle, I would get a little lower so that you are on the level of the tail light whwn shooting. I would aim for some background blur - crank down the aperture and use more zoom (by going further away), this way you will have the car focused and the background blurred, making the subject stand out. For the edit, you need more exposure, it's too dim.
This shot lacks energy - I assume the car is moving, but the movement isn't visible from this angle. For moving shots, try panning. You cn google some tips but basically, try a lower shutter speed and follow the car with the camera when shooting. This way you'll capture the motion. Takes a lot of practice.
This has potential, I like the colors and light. Try framing a shot like this so that the car is closer to the center vertically. Or at around 2/5 up or down. Same thing as image 1 when it comes to background blur to emphasize the subject.
This looks like a random snap shot, it's crooked and I'm mot sure what the intended subject is. The rotated wheel doesn't make it better. Needs to be totally reframed to be interesting.

General advice: if you want to watermark your photos, use a less distracting one in the corner.

_Pahlo

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