I went out one evening while it was snowing to capture the snow before it melted away (which it did the day after). One of the things I photographed was the city's Christmas tree on the main town square. I took several photos with different exposure, and I ended up liking the over exposed ones the best. Especially when I cut the pictures to take out buildings and parts of the tree. The alterations made the tree turn into something a little more surreal.

And here is a photo on the whole tree, in case anybody was interested in seeing it.

(Snow covered ice.)

There is no guarantee that a winter in Halmstad will be white. So it is not often that someone can take photos like these around Halmstad.

I snapped these photos on a afternoon when I was by a frozen lake and had a barbecue with a few friends and some other nice people I never meet before.

I like it when the ground is covered in snow, so I'm glad that we have had at least few nice days with snow this winter.

Notice the small new moon up in the corner.

While in Hemsedal, I caught a few snowboarders while they were doing jumps in the snowboard park. The weather wasn't optimal (to cloudy) but a few decent photos were shoot.

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I have been playing around with my Lego bricks again and this is the result.

I'm planing on doing more of these dioramas during my time off this Christmas season. I have a few ideas in my head.

This year I decided to do a little more professional looking Christmas card than the earlier ones. So instead of cutting and pasting all the cards by myself, I created a picture that I could send off to a printing shop. I had a hard time figuring out what motive I wanted on my Christmas card this year, but did finally decide on drawing myself riding on a (Christmas) giraffe. Thought it would be fun to do a nontraditional Christmas card for once. I created the picture by first drawing a sketch on paper and then scanning it into my computer. Once on the computer I drew new sharper lines over the faint pencil ones and added all the colors.

The finished result. "Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Henrik"

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Today I found out that an old friend of mine has died. I will miss him and I cry every time I think about that I won't see him again. I haven't seen him for a long time, not since he moved away from Halmstad to Oslo. But I have had recent contact with him. I sent him a Christmas card and I said I wanted to come and visit him this coming summer. He said I was welcomed. Sadly, the bastard decided to end his life before I got a chance to see him again.

Goodbye my friend.

An old photo from spring 2006.

(Also I would like to mention that the coming (merry) blog posts between today and 26/12 were written and posted prior to this blog post. In case you were wondering.)

This is a tunnel in Halmstad that looks quite ordinary during the day.

But during the night, it has a constellation of blue lights glowing from one of its walls.

I never noticed the tunnel had holes in the wall during the day. I would just pass it by quickly on my bicycle. So when I then one dark evening went through the tunnel, I was really surprised to see the blue lights. Since then I have wondered if the lights always were there or if they were added later. I don't think the light pattern fits the mosaic on the wall, so that makes me think they were added later by somebody else. Somebody that wanted to make their own mark on the wall, a sort of light graffiti if you will. But the major flaw in that idea would be how did they put in the electric cables in place without destroying the whole wall?

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When the trip to Thailand was decided, I thought, why not take a little trip to that famous temple in Cambodia. I never know when I will be on that side of the globe again. So I check things out and it turns out that Angkor Wat is only an hour's flight from Bangkok. Making it easy for me to make a short trip to the city Siem Reap and see a few things around it, including Angkor Wat. I had a guide with me at all times, but I don't remember much of what he said about Angkor Wat. I will have to refer you to Wikipedia for more information.

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This is a Coca Cola bottle that I finally after some trial and error found a nice way to light. I tried lighting it from the sides but it looked terrible. I wasn't until I held the bottle in my hand and had a light behind it, that I found out that back lit is the way to go.

I choose to photograph a Coca Cola bottle simply because I like that they have their own special shape. I like how the Coca Cola logo is included in the shape of the bottle. Not just added on with a label.

For this Christmas I shaped my saffron buns into butterflies. I came up with the design myself, but the production was a team effort by me and my girlfriend. And yes, the result is as delicious as it looks.

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This year's I choose to do gingerbread cookies shaped and decorated as snowboards. A design that was very easy to cut out and decorate for me and my girlfriend. The final results was much appreciated by both my snowboarding friends and non-snowboarding friends.

This year I used store bought icing instead of home made to decorate with. It made decorating a whole lot easier.

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