ISSUE # 06 * SEPTEMBER 2013
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NORTHERN LANDSCAPE
HAVING COFFEE WITH MARGARET HYDE THIS IS (HI)STORY! TALKS ABOUT FEATURED WORK
NORTHERN WINDS: The Arctic race in the XXI century
TILT SHIFT PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL THE BIG CHALLENGE
COVER
Mt McKinley and Reflection Lake, Denali N. P., Alaska USA by Margaret Hyde 101 viewings on 1 September, 2013.
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FROM THE EDITOR Hello everyone!
For those who usually read this part, you already know that by now we are going through some changes. These changes are not going to be sudden. Instead they will be progressive. First the rules of the participation will change, and then we will also have a brand new web site! These changes start now and will occur until Christmas without any specific predicted date. So, heads up for what~s coming, because I might have some more surprises ahead for you! This project is an ever growing thing, so we will need always your precious feedback! Use and abuse of our e-mail, facebook, twitter or Redbubble pages in order to give us that precious feedback! You can send your opinions about whatever at any time, and I promise you that I will have my eyes and ears open! But most important of all, this is a magazine from photographers to photographers! Therefore we need your contributions in order to keep on evolving. They can be in form of magnificent shots that are submitted to us or in form of stories! We need above all (thanks heaven we have so many wonderful shots!!) your local stories!
Editor Chief
João Figueiredo
Test readers João Figueiredo
Graphic Artist João Figueiredo
Tutorials by João Figueiredo
Web site www.northernlandscape.org
E-mail contact info@northernlandscape.org
Featured artist Margaret Hyde
Many people bear in mind that you need to have a “bombastic” story or very complex/long story. You don’t! The only thing we need is a story! Two or three shots and some paragraphs are just the enough for a great article! They can be about a local celebrity, an event, a story, history, something you wish to debate, whatever really! I’ll be waiting for your feedback! Your host João Figueiredo
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INDEX 02 About the cover 03 From the editor & technical data 06 Northern winds - Artists’ Bill of Rights Campaign 12 August features 86 The BIG Challenge ~ August 88 Featured artist - Margaret Hyde 94 Having coffee with Margaret Hyde + his Featured works 102 NLM photo tutorial #6 - Tilt Shift 110 This is (hi)story! ~ Vidösternsimmet: Do you dare? 118 Northern Landscape: Some facts 123 Back cover artist 124 Back cover 4 • Northern Landscape Magazine
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Artists’ Bill of Rights Campaign If you are one of those who get mad everythime the word “copyright” comes up in a text or conversation because you feel like you are being “assaulted” by big companies, then you should definately read about Artists’ Bill of Rights Campaign in this article. Yes, there is something we - artists - can do and yes, there are people out there who care and do something! If you feel appreciated, give them strenght, do support them and join their cause!
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on Schaefer was the one behind the keyboard unveiling the secrets behind the Artists’ Bill of Rights Campaign. Have you ever heard of it? Perhaps it is time to do so if you care about your work!
who does what with their intellectual property, particularly online. Intellectual property, in internet usage, is anything someone uniquely creates, whether it be music, writing, photographs, representations of watercolors, etc.
For two months ago I was searching for a # How did this project started? good candidate for an interview at for our Northern Winds section when I came across In 1997 a young graphic artist friend asked the website artists-bill-of-rights.org/. Just me if it was a good idea to enter a conthe name sounded interesting. I investigated test sponsored by one of the very large right away and quickly found out that Artists’ stock agencies. The contest meant to show Bill of Rights is a very important actor in how very overworked graphic artists could this changing world of the XXI century, at become, and offered the winner free back least in what matters us – artists – and our rubs for a week or apartment/office cleanrights. Many times I hear people complaining ing services. However, the fine print in the about how bad social terms and conditions networking and inter- ...the terms and condi- stated that all entries net is to their business tions stated that all entries belonged to the stock as artists. 99% of those agency and could be belonged to the stock times I also hear them used by them in any complaining that we – agency and could be used way they wished, “in artists – are completely by them in any way they perpetuity, throughout alone in this “crusade” the universe, and in any wished, “in perpetuity, against the big corpoknown media now or in rations and piracy/pin- throughout the universe, the future”. After reading schemes. and in any known media ing a few more contest terms and conditions, it now or in the future”. After I took contact with soon became evident Artists’ Bill of Rights as reading a few more con- that such language was soon as I could and Mr. test terms and conditions, it becoming “boiler plate” Don Schaefer – show- soon became evident that (standard). I discussed ing how nice guy he with a feisty Scot such language was becom- this is – didn’t even hesiin our Pro-Imaging.org tate in answering to my ing “boiler plate”... group and he took up questions without even the cause and formed asking for anything in return. Just because the very effective Artists’ Bill of Rights and of that you deserve credit! As a Campaign together, along with Pro-Imaging.org’s help, Director, it was very impressive that he man- we forged ahead. aged to have the will and time to give us such a great batch of answers for our inter- # Could you tell our readers what specific view. Don, thanks so much for having us and actions do you do on the field? You can give answering to our interview! some real examples... # Could you make a presentation of Artists Bill of Rights? What is it, what have you been doing? Artists-Bill-of-Rights.org is both a campaign and a resource for everyone to become upto-date with why they should care about
We engage in advocacy efforts wherever artists’ rights seem to be abridged, or are in danger of being abridged. Pro-Imaging. org sent me to Washington, D.C., in 2008 to assist with advocating the defeat of the 2008 Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act (US), a proposed bill that would have made
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hundreds of thousands of “orphan works” available for commercial exploitation. Just this year we advocated with Stop43.org to push back against Clause 79 the UK’s Orphan Works and Extended Collective Licensing Bill, very similar in effect to the 2008 Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act (US) mentioned above. Very recently we campaigned to warn the public of a unfair competition promoted by big names in the fashion and publishing industry. We communicated directly with Pinterest when they launched to alert them to the dangers to everyone’s rights by their revenue model. That resulted in some changes but there is more that needs be done. And this is just a few examples of our work. # You may be familiar to the Instagram act that has been passed in the UK for some time ago. What are in your eyes the consequences of such a law?
Well, there is not much we can do now that the bill is law. However, one of our allies, Pro-Imaging.org member Paul Ellis, is on the committee representing artists in how this bill will be enacted. We believe the basic idea at this point is to make the publishers happy while doing as little damage to artists’ interests as possible. We will have more to say on this as details become evident. # There have been rumors saying that the US are going to vote a similar Instagram act. There has been a lot of speculation that there is some kind of agenda behind this where the big IT companies are making pressure on the governments to be able to use legaly all images they want to and achieve even bigger profits (a bit like Pintrest but wider and bigger). Do you share the same line of thought?
Photographers need to contact their legislators and made friends in that office. Open the channels of communication and educate. I discovered in the US that legislators do not know the photographers’ business models, and they know very little, if anything, about copyright.
The ERRA was a legislative attempt to open up works whose authors were not known to commercial use. Parliament did consult with artists but ignored their suggestions, quite pointedly in some cases. ERRA was designed to stimulate commerce (questionably) but such an initiative was based on unproven, nonexistent registry models that would have ultimately burdened the content creators with the responsibility for lost revenue and rights. It will likely be a free-for-all for anyone to publish images without concern for moral rights or copyright because the penalty in the unlikely event one is caught would be a market rate fee for the particular use discovered. # Is the Artists Bill of Rights doing something about this act? If yes, what?
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Yes, there is always pressure on Congress by both the IT companies, the recording industry, Hollywood, and the large stock houses to do something with Orphan Works. They aren’t always on the same page, as ACTA/PIPA showed. That work has been put on hold largely because of the sequester and similar budget debates. It will surface at some point, and the US Copyright Office has been advising Congress on how they hope to bring copyright into the digital age but have not come up with specific examples of dealing with the orphan works problem. # What can a photographer do to fight against this ongoing rights grabbing? Photographers need to contact their legislators and made friends in that office. Open the channels of communication and educate. I discovered in the US that legislators do not know the photographers’ business models, and they know very little, if anything,
about copyright. It is up to the photographer to educate their legislator. Also, keep in touch with our News page for notice of actions and support needed regarding rights grabbing. Photographers can also peruse our Rights On and Rights Off lists of contests. And we offer sample letters you can write to questionable contests to request they alter their terms to be more fair to entrants. We can not monitor all contests, and our lists can never be complete, that’s why we welcome your participation! # What is your opinion about the social networks in what matters artists that create profiles and share their work?
causes like Stop43.org, the Embedded Metadata Manifesto and the IPTC, among others. Stay informed, also, on what the US Copyright Office is up to. Contact them through your ambassador, if you live outside the US. # Considering all this, what is going to happen to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works from 1886? The Berne Convention will pretty much stay as it is. Many countries are involved in Berne and it is very difficult to get all parties to agree to changes. The real treaties to watch are trade agreements, like TRIPS. Thanks Don! Truly appreciated for your time and knowledge!
Just beware that you lose control of anything you post on social networks. They might be “free’, but you and your data are the product. Just beware that you lose Through you, social networks prosper and thrive, control of anything you with enormous profits. post on social networks. Use at your own risk. They might be “free’, but
This being said I guess that most of you will share my feeling of “so nice that after all we are not alone in this fight” and “yes, someone is doing something!”. As # What is the most effec- you and your data are the you could read, there tive way to protect our product. Through you, are numerous things one work as artists? social networks prosper can do to protect against grabbing on-line. and thrive, with enormous rights There is really nothing Which strategy is the you can do, but you can profits. Use at your own best? I cannot answer to increase your chances for risk. that nor can anyone. It is redress if you watermark you as a photographer everything, host your images from your own who must decide, accordingly to your busiserver, discover which social media (if you ness strategy what suits you better! Most use them) strip your metadata (of course, important of all is, never give up and always always manage your image metadata), and make an effort to be heard! One can not consider using image protection services be enough to change a whole system, but like the PLUS registry. Additionally, you can perhaps there are many of us who wait for Google “protecting your images online” to someone to take the initiative, and then find other ideas and venues for display. together we are stronger and have to be heard! # How can an artist support your(our) cause? A case most of us know well is the change We have an enormous workload and a very Redbubble’s users forced to happen some small staff. Donations help greatly. Active time ago when they decided everyone participation in educating legislators and should have the “pin it” button to share their contest promoters goes a long way to help. work on Pintrest with no choice. After may And suggestions on where we can improve protests and not a long time afterwords, are most welcome. You can also support Redbubble made that button optional. For
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those who might think that this was just a small local vistory because Redbubble is not strong enough to fight against it’s users like Google or iStockphoto for instance, let me remind you that they had a revenue of US$3.32 million last year and started from 0 in a market filled with established companies! - so, not like Facebook and others. Remember: “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”...
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ometimes, after I have featured some works I get some funny reactions from some of you members. I don’t mean this in a sarcastic way, it really is funny! I explain: many people (not allways the same) react as if finally it had been made justice for that photo and add some funny words about past experiences with the same shot in other groups. Allow me to add a “LOL”.
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that this is not “the other groups”. When I am selecting works that will be featured I have in consideration many factors. Among them are NOT:
1) The phtographer: Who is he/she? 2) How “neat” in the traditional way the photo is: I don’t care how many sunshines and blue skies you have n the photo, that won’t make it automaticaly a great shot! 3) How many comments you leave in the other’s profiles or in the group’s forums- no comments
4) And others...
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Castle Mountain and Bow River, Banff NP~ ~Vickie Emms
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the road to egilsstaรฐir, iceland~ ~gary roberts
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Kukak Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA~ ~Margaret Hyde
Watergaw on Morlich ~ Ranald 16 • Northern Landscape Magazine
West Harris Sunset~ ~hebrideslight Lake Louise~ ~Vickie Emms
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red sky at night ~ Stuart Mcguire
Loch Awe ~ Roddy Atkinson 18 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Woodland Flowers~ ~Paul Richards
Touch the Sky~ ~Kasia-D
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Dreaming Tree, With Mist and Frost~ ~Jeanne McRight
Burkhan rock, Shaman’s rock, the Shamanka~ 20 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Remo Savisaar
Alaska Range, Denali National Park, Alaska USA, panorama~ ~Margaret Hyde Sgurr Nan Gillean. Sligachan. Isle of Skye. Scotland.~ ~photosecosse /barbara jones
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Chilkat Range Pan ~ Yukondick
Moraine Lake~ ~Vickie Emms
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Kathleen River~ ~Yukondick
first rays of day~ ~Stuart Mcguire
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Geese Fly South for Winter~ ~Peta Thames
Across the Sea~ ~Kasia-D 24 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Blanket over Great Gable~ ~Kat Simmons
At the Edge of the World~ ~Remo Savisaar
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Spring by The River Coupall~ ~Angie Latham
Bealach Na Ba ~ On The Way Down to Loch Kishorn~ ~artwhiz47
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The Crystal Clear Waters of Lac Boisvert~ ~Gerda Grice
Blea Tarn~ ~John Dunbar
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Psalm Of Summer~ ~sundawg7 Big Sky South Harris~ ~hebrideslight
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The Sky Above The Sky Below~ ~hebrideslight
Blue moment~ ~Veikko Suikkanen
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Sunset over Port Ellen Distillery~ ~Kasia-D
Crown and Jewels~ ~Roddy Atkinson 30 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Naramata Sunset I~ ~Matthew Tauzer
Tree and rape seed field~ ~Stephen Knowles
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Peyto Lake~ ~Vickie Emms
St. Elias Mountains - Yukon Territory~ ~Harry Snowden 32 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Berneray: Reflective Clouds~ ~Kasia-D
A bend in the Geirangerfjord - Norway~ ~Arie Koene
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Winter Panorama ~ mikebov Winter Etude~ ~sundawg7
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Bow Lake~ ~Vickie Emms
Loch Linnhe - Scotland~ ~Arie Koene
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Moraine Lake, Banff National Park~ ~Vickie Emms
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Helmcken Falls 1~ ~Charles Kosina
Cornish Coast.~ ~Paul Richards
Causeway View~ ~BlueShift Northern Landscape Magazine • 37
Approaching Storm, Lake Ontario~ ~Jeanne McRight
Sea Of Sunshine~ ~sundawg7
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Cornish Sunset~ ~Paul Richards
Spirit Island 3~ ~Charles Kosina
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Morning Has Broken~ ~VoluntaryRanger
Galta Mor - Shiant Islands~ ~hebrideslight
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Water on the way to the Geirangerfjord - Norway~ ~Arie Koene
Breathless Rydal ~ John Dunbar Northern Landscape Magazine • 41
Islay: Loch Indaal Sunrise~ ~Kasia-D Grasmere~ ~VoluntaryRanger
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Castle Mountain~ ~Charles Kosina
into the blue ~ Stuart Mcguire Northern Landscape Magazine • 43
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Snowing on the canal at Newbold~ ~Avril Harris
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Winter Sunset~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Gone Fishing~ ~Nigel Bangert
Fisherman cabin in the fjord of Bindal, Norway~ 48 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~mariusnn
Early Morning on the Thames~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Hay bales~ ~PhotosByHealy
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Red Kayak in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada~ ~Gerda Grice
Turbulent Delight~ ~sundawg7
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View on Geiranger - Norway~ ~Arie Koene
Port Charlotte Dawn~ ~Kasia-D
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Cottage by the Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada~ ~Jeanne McRight Ski Trail~ ~Charles Kosina
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Islay: Evening in Bowmore~ ~Kasia-D
Cuckmere Cottages, East Sussex~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Winter Farm~ ~Ludwig Wagner Across The Bay~ ~hebrideslight
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Sheep on the island Skye - Scotland~ ~Arie Koene
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Flight to Glasgow~ ~Ludwig Wagner
On the Edge of the Dark Hedges~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Summer At The Old Sheave Tower - Blair, Ontario~ ~jules572
Sognefjell (Norway) reflected~ ~Arie Koene
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Boat at Norse Mill~ ~lezvee Gamle Strynefjellsvegen - Norway~ ~Arie Koene
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Trollstigveien - Norway~ ~Arie Koene
Sweden by Rail~ ~vonb
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Sunflower Power~ ~Larry Trupp
Through the farmer’s gate~ ~Sue Knowles
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The river flows, it flows to the sea......~ ~Peter Ellison
Evening Light.~ ~Paul Richards
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Approaching Cullochy Lock.~ ~Mbland Changeable Weather~ ~John Dunbar
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Lizard Point, Cornwall~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Eilean Glas Lighthouse~ ~hebrideslight
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Kynance Cove, Cornwall~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Svinesund bridge between Sweden and Norway~ ~Arie Koene
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Silver City~ ~Yukondick
Summit Lake B.C.~ ~Yukondick
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Reflections In Rydal Water~ ~VoluntaryRanger
Islay Spirit~ ~Kasia-D
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Sleightholme Beck, from Gilmonby Moor, North Pennines, England~ ~Ian Alex Blease
Rydal Water~ ~VoluntaryRanger
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Lizard Coast, Cornwall~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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through the arch~ ~Stuart Mcguire
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Vancouver architecture~ ~Charles Kosina
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London by night~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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The Tide Went Out..~ ~VoluntaryRanger
The Shard, London~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Awake In The Dark~ ~Evelina Kremsdorf
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nyhavn, copenhagen, denmark~ ~gary roberts Portree Harbour [Scotlands Isle of Skye]~ ~Yukondick
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Farm Barn, Northern Ireland~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Islay: Port Charlotte Dawn~ ~Kasia-D
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THE DOCTOR.~ ~johnrace
Boatbuilder~ ~hebrideslight
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Huts near Gjendesheim, Norway~ ~CongressTart
towards nyhavn~ ~gary roberts
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The Wheel ~ Stuart Mcguire
Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland~ ~Jim Wilson 78 • Northern Landscape Magazine
At Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada~ ~Gerda Grice Lake Oyeren Ill~ ~Erik Brede
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Waiting on the boat ~ Stuart Mcguire
Rßgen: Thiessow Harbour at Night~ ~Kasia-D 80 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Butchart Gardens 1~ ~Charles Kosina
Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC~ ~Charles Kosina
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Fish ‘n Chips~ ~Nigel Bangert
White house in Geiranger - Norway~ • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Arie82Koene
Mill x2 on the Leeds - Liverpool Canal.~ ~Mbland
Laggan Locks.~ ~Mbland
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Leaderfoot viaduct ~ Ranald
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THE BIG CHALLE 86 • Northern Landscape Magazine
28 ENTRIES 75 VOTES 1 WINNER 5 DAYS FOR VOTING
ENGE ~ AUGUST Northern Landscape Magazine • 87
MT MCKINLEY AND REFLECTION LAKE, DENALI N. P., ALASKA USA MARGARET HYDE
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WINTER TREES I
11 VOTES
LUDWIG WAGNER
10 VOTES
The BIG top ten
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COTTAGES & THE SEVEN SISTERS
LADY IN THE RED DRESS
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WIGGYOFIPSWICH
DGSCOTLAND
9 VOTES
8 VOTES
COUNTRY LANE WITH VIEW OF STOODLEY PIKE
CORNISH COAST.
DAVID BARKER
PAUL RICHARDS
8 VOTES
7 VOTES
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FIRST SNOW ON TRAWSFYNYDD LAKE NORTH WALES UK ANNDIXON
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7 VOTES
GERRYMAC
6 VOTES
SPIRIT ISLAND 3
CHARLES KOSINA
FORTH RAIL BRIDGE, SCOTLAND
5 VOTES
JIM WILSON
5 VOTES
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Featured artist
argaret is not just another ausie that won our BIG Challenge! Margaret has achieved 3 milestones with this win:
1) She was the first woman ever to win a BIG Challenge! 2) For the first time we have a winning shot from Alaska/USA! 3) Last but not least, for the first time we have a winner with the same ammount of votes as last month’s BIG Challenge (11 votes)! It seems that Margaret is an achiever! I don’t know about you, but I am feelig very curious to have some coffe with her and listen to what she has to say to us! Ladies and Gentleman, from Queensland - Australia to the rest of the world: Margaret Hyde and all of her featured work at the Northern Landscape group!
# When did you join Redbubble? My daughter, Bronwen, encouraged me to join Redbubble which I did in June, 2009.
ALASKA RANGE, DENALI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA USA, PANORAMA
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INTERVIEW
# What can you tell us about yourself? I was born in Brisbane, Queensland. I left
home and moved to Melbourne when I was 19, relocated to Canberra then spent 18 months in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. After marrying Graeme and having 3 children the relocating started again with our moving to Queensland, Northern Territory, Victoria, back to Queensland and now our “possibly” last move to Tasmania. In the last twenty years we have also travelled extensively internationally.
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KUKAK BAY, KATMAI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA, USA
# How does photography fit in your life? And where do you want to get with it? my first introduction to photography was when I was given a Brownie Box camera for my 10th birthday. My reaction was to burst into tears and run into my bedroom – I had wanted a bride doll! However that camera was to start a love affair with photography.
All this travelling gave me plenty of subject matter for photography and in the early stages it was “happy snaps” progressing from prints to slide film and gradually getting more sophisticated cameras. Since joining Redbubble I have taken a lot more interest in composition, lighting and subject matter. A small selection of my “old “ work is on Redbubble but due to deterioration of both print and slide film over the years there are not many photos left in good condition. I had no formal training and am technically challenged with regard to how cameras work. Now I have more spare time I intend to make an effort to learn how to make the most of the camera I have at present.
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# What photographic gear do you have? My current camera is a Lumix G3 and I have an extra telephoto lens, 45 -200 mm.
# How does it feel to win our BIG CHALLENGE and have such a feature on our monthly magazine? I was delighted to win the Big Challenge and very appreciative of the people who voted for me. Having the photo featured on the magazine has been a big boost to my confidence and encourages me to continue to improve.
VIKING SHIP, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
# Tell us about the winning shot! The photograph of Mt McKinley and Reflection Lake was taken on a short stop on our way out of Denali National Park, Alaska. I used the IA setting on the camera (as I said earlier I am technically challenged) however I plan to take more control of the settings in the future.
# Describe us how would your perfect photo be! I don’t have any real concept of a perfect photo.
# Any other thoughts that you want to put out there? I have found that sometimes I have unintentionally offended someone by expressing an opinion even in joke form.
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NYHAVN, DENMARK
ICEBERGS IN JOKULSARLON, ICELAND 98 • Northern Landscape Magazine
SKOGAFOSS NEAR SKOGAR, ICELAND
RURAL NORWAY
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MT MCKINLEY AND REFLECTION LAKE, DENALI N. P., ALASKA USA
THE WINNER OF OUR BIG CHALLENGE ~ AUGUST
WANT TO BE FEATURED? DON’T LOSE OUR NEXT BIG CHALLENGE!
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TILT SHIFT: PRODUCE FAKE MINIATURE SHOTS IN NO TIME! Tilt shif photography is so easy to do and so fun at the same time! Ever wondered ho to do it? Jump on, I will tell you everything you will need to now about it! You don’t even need an expensive camera, you can do this even with your mobile phone... If you are a pro though or are aspiring to become one and take this seriously, get your gear prepared and take your best shot. Then, get prepared to spend less than 5 minutes editing your shots and tranforming them into amazing Tilt Shift photographs!
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TUTORIAL #6
TO A FAKE MINUATURE SHOT AKA TILT SHIFT. LEARN ALL THE TRICKS RIGHT HERE... Northern Landscape Magazine • 103
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s said in the cover of this tut, Tilt Shift can be something really fun to do. But be careful, this method has some hacks! Let’s start with a small definition of Tilt Shift photography. When you see Tilt Shift photography, many of their authors claim that they used the Tilt Shift effect. This is a very common mistake! There is no such thing! Tilt Shift is a method, not an effect. There is no button that you press and the effect is applied. Furthermore, you need to know what you are doing when you are taking the photograph in order to make a perfect Tilt Shift! You can use the same method in any photo you like, but the results will not be the same, as simple as that. This method can be seen as some kind of “cheat” to fake the result of using tilt function of a Tilt+Shift lens which allows you to have selective focusing of a certain subject. So, basically you can produce “fake miniature photography” using two different methods: You can buy a Tilt+Shift lens or you can process it on Photoshop. To understand this issue in a bigger depth, please take a look at this amazing tutorial.
BEFORE YOU START: Please bare in mind that you will achieve better results if you take your photographs from above. You can also take them from other angles, like I do in this tutorial, but if you do that you will need to have very specific compositions and do a really good job when photographing, otherwise you can fail in the intent to fake miniatures. But you know what? There is nothing better then the method “try and learn”... As said before, you do not need to make this with an expensive camera, or even with a camera. You can also do it with your mobile phone!
IF YOU DON’T HAVE A CAMERA AND/ OR PREFER USING YOUR PHONE: It’s just fine! This is after all 2013! If you have
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a smart phone you can always download some app in order to achieve the same goal. There are literally dozens (if not hundreds) of them that you can download for iPhone, Android or Windows phone. Some for free and some not. If you spend at least 5 minutes searching, I am sure you won’t be having any troubles finding out some excellent app for free. I will not advise any app in particular because I don’t want to make free advertisement for anyone (yeah, it’s enough with Adobe...), but if you spend some 10-15 minutes making some research, or even looking at the rates of the apps, you will quickly find out which is better. Nothing more to teach over here, just download the app, point, shoot and process. Have fun! If you want to do this in a more advanced and “pro” level, then you should read the next steps...
MATERIAL YOU WILL NEED:
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Adobe Photoshop. I am not sure if you can use other programs, but you probably do. In this tutorial I will be using Photoshop CC.
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Some camera. It doesn’t even have to be a great DSLR, you can use this method even if you have a point and shoot camera, but of course: It might be slightly better with a DSLR due to the fact that you can shoot in RAW, make HDR before you apply this method, etc... That’s it!
GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY!
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After you have taken your shot open it on Adobe Photoshop (remember that for inexperienced users, this method works always best if you take your shot from a high
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Enter Quick Mask Mode by pressing Q on the keyboard, or select the Quick Mask icon as shown in the Tool Palette (image on the right). Quite small button, so it might be smart to just press the Q key.
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Now it is time to select the Gradient Tool. You can either press G on your keyboard or select the Gradient Tool icon with your mouse. Be sure taht you choose the Reflected Gradient option which is the fourth gradient option (see picture on the right).
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With the Gradient Tool selected draw a line (it can be vertical or horizontal, depending on the photo you have and on the desired effect. VERY IMPORTANT: The starting point will be the centre of the in-focus area, and the end point will be where the transition from in-focus to out-of-focus. You will see tha it is very hard to get this right at the first attempt! So be prepared to try as many times as needed in order to place the mask in the right area. Repeat this step as many times as you need, this is not a race, what matters is that you achieve your goal. In order to help you out, you can use reference point in the photo, like for instance, you can draw the line from the beginning of the door to the beginning of the road and so on. Depending on the photo you have and on the desired final result, your photo should look something like the image on the right.
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Let’s get out of the Quick Mask mode by pressing Q on the keyboard or by press ing the same icon on the Tool Palette as we did on step 2. The area to apply the focus effect to will have animated selection lines. Let’s now apply our blur effect! Select the “Filter” menu on Photoshop and select the sub-menu “Blur”. Once on the menu “Blur”, chose the option “Lens blur”. A new interface will now appear with many options like the one shown on the image on the right. Take special atention to the area highlighted with the yellow rectangle. That is what we will be talking about in detail.
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This is another tricky step where you will have to use the method “trial and error” until you get what you wish. In this particular case shown in the tutorial, I used the following settings (from the top to the bottom): “More accurate” on; No “Invert”; “Shape” is “Hexagon (6)”; “Radius” is 23; “Blade curvature” and “Rotation” are 0; “Brightness” is 11, “Threshold” is 255; “Noise” is also 0; and the “Distribution” is “Uniform”. All those parameters will change according to the photo you are using and with the desired effect. Therefore, you can only use mine as a reference! Play with those parameters until you feel comfortable with the achieved result! Press “Ok” when you get happy with your Lens Blur effect. Now you are back to your photo with the “running” selection lines. Press “Ctrl+D”/”Cmd+D” to make them disappear.
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We are almost there, but not just there yet! You may find necessary to increase the colour saturation of your photo, to improve the effect and give a better “miniature” feeling. If you re unsure about this step, try and find out, it might happend that you do not need at all to do this. Nevertheless I will show you how to do it! Just have in mind that model scenery is often brightly painted. Therefore it might be a good idea to enhance the saturation. So, in order to do that, press “CTRL+U”/”Cmd+U” on the keyboard or in alternative go to the “Image” menu, select “Adjustments” and then “Hue/Saturation”. In alternative to all that you can also use the shortcuts on the “Adjustments” panel, standing on your right side, as shown on the first image on the right side. Here you can play with the saturation of the image until you get a good result and the who is going to define what the word “good” means is you. In this example I used very little saturation because I had already edit the colors when I was processing the RAW file. You could also achieve the same result by editing the vibrance and saturation on the “Vibrance”
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panel. You can reach this panel the same way you did for the “Hue/Saturation” panel. See second and third images on the right side of the previous page.
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This is it! Repeat the steps you need in order to achieve the desired results. This shouldn’t be so complicated as it might sound, trust me, you can do all this in less than 10 minutes even for beginners! I hope you enjoy!!
CONCLUSION: As usual I try to wrtie down some conclusion. But as always, it is hard to come up with a concrete conclusion because each case is a case and there are no strict rules! This is just a tutorial to guide you through, you can always adjust what is written here to your own specific case! The only thing you can bear in mind is that when producing photos with the Tilt Shift method is probably best if you plan ahead due to perspective issues. Just remember that the top perspectives are always the best! People usually see model figures from above, and therefore it will help a lot if you have a composition that was shoot from the same angle. You can try with other shots with other angles, but the result will be somewhat harder to achieve. Good luck and enjoy! Here you can see some great examples of Tilt Shift photography!
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ast month, the winner of our BIG Challenge said he was waking up at “stupid o’clock” due to his photography hobby – I remember laughing when I read that! I never did that until August 10th this year. The alarm on my mobile phone goes on at 4:30 A.M. And the first thought I had was “What? Now I know what he meant by saying “stupid o’clock...”! Nevertheless, I got up and prepared myself to go to Osuden in Värnamo, Sweden. It was time for the event of the year, at least for the 54 participants in Sweden’s longest open water swimming competition! I arrive at about 5:15 A.M. and everything is calm by the parking lot. As I get out of the car and go towards the pedestrian bridge that crosses river Lagan I start to see some orange flags planted by the organization and an attractive fireplace as temperatures are not that high in that time of the day. I can also hear some music building up the atmosphere for what is coming next. Göran Nilsson and Adam Svensson, the founders and organizers of this competition are busy trying to figure out what is left to do while more and more people are coming to check in and get ready along with their friends and families.
Vidösternsimmet, it’s more than 21km! Because it sounds exciting and fun. Besides I swam the short stage (5km) last year and I though this year I would give it a try to swim the whole 21+Km. It’s an adventure! #21 Km ahead, how does it feel? It feels exciting and a bit scary (Malin laughs a bit). I’m going to fight for it and we will see how long will I come... #Have you trained a lot for this race? Hummm I have not worked out on a constant basis, I have practiced a bit but... it depends on what you compare with! #When did you wake up for the race? Today?! Oh, I was up the whole night (she laughs).
It might be just 54 participants, but they come from all over the world (from Bangladesh to USA) and they are about to swim between 21 and 23 km(21+Km) - that is almost 15 miles!! Or at least half of them. The other “half” will “only” swim 5km in the last stage, the so called “korta sträcka” which is Swedish for “short stage”. Some people might think that it’s crazy, but others prefer to say that it’s fun! And the truth is that when I was there with my camera, I felt an incredible vibration in the air and a strong will of jumping in the water as well! Perhaps next year... I was lucky enough to interview 2 participants for the whole 21+Km. Let’s read what they had on their minds just some minutes before they jump in the water! First we have Malin Josephson and her striking smile: #Why
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Thanks Malin, I have to say that you had a great good mood and courage for someone who was about to swim more than 21Km and did not sleep at all in the past night. That is the spirit! Malin crossed the finish line 11 hours and 28 minutes after she started. You can see Malin and her striking smile on the photo above in one of the checkpoints along
MAP OF THE RACE
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the lake Vidöstern. Photo from Vidösternsimmet’s facebook page. Next in line for my interviews was Jan Andresson. Jan manage to pull out an amazing 7th place with 7 hours and 30 minutes in the water. Jan was also in a good mood, though a bit more serious, perhaps because he was trying to focus for the adventure ahead. Can’t really blame him, can we? #Why did you decided to swim in Vidösternsimmet, it’s more than 21km! (He laughs) Humm I swam the 5Km last year, so now it’s time to swim the whole 21, as simple as that! #21 Km ahead, how does it feel? It’s going to feel “damn” good! No problem...
staff, like for instance a doctor on a boat constantly following every participant in real time and a man in a kayak with a GPS navigator to make sure no one will get lost or mysteriously disappears in the middle of a lake that has in some areas 40m deep waters and winds that can blow up to 20m/s. Luckily this year there was perfect weather: Sun was shining, almost no wind at all and a very nice temperature of 22 degrees Celsius on the water. Last year the start was delayed due to very thick fog, which can bring a lot of problems both to organization and participants. One of the participants from the last year was forced to give up after checking at a check point after the deadline: She got lost in the middle of the fog for too long.
#What are your expectations? (he looks up and thinks for a second) First of all I want to cross the finish line before the deadline runs out, but I am hoping to do this in about 8h time... #You could be in bed by now, it is quite early... Yeah, I know (we both laugh)... #Why are you here then? It’s so early... (we both are still laughing) Yeah, it is early but I have been on holidays until now, this was really early time to wake up but it went well anyway... I am “fully charged”! Thanks Jan! And congrats for you accomplishing your objective of doing the race in less than 8 hours! Incredible! But let me explain you how does this works. Does one simply swim across a lake that is more than 21Km long? The competition is divided in some check points: Funtabo, Tånnö, E4:an Camping, Ekens Camping, and the finish line, of course. Each swimmer should pass through all these check points, check in with their electronic arm-brace, eat, drink and be checked by a doctor and a nurse – These last two are the ones who decide if you can swim to the next check point or not! On the water there is also some
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Some Polish swimmers had a quite well equiped and cheerful pack of supporters - photo from Vidösternsimmet’s facebook page
It’s man against nature. If you are looking for a challenge in your life, this is it, right here, right now! I have managed to get the two man behind all this for a short interview, after all, they are involved in many other projects and their time schedule is quite tight. Ladies
and gentleman, meet Adam Svensson and Göran Nilsson, both from Värnamo, Sweden: #So tell me, how did all of this began, what is the story behind this? Göran: I had an idea of working with different associations around the lake Vidöstern and the original idea is that we would be walking around the lake: 60Km. This would be used as an association with the couple Pär and Kerstin from Värnamo (one of the city’s symbols) who met in 1719 and got together in 1725, it was 6 year waiting, and therefore it would be 10Km for each year. But then nothing happened and then I met Adam and I told him about this idea. Adam answered: “Perhaps we could swim instead...”... Adam: Yeah, I have had this idea for many years now, that we could swim along the lake. So this was like a seed that came into earth. So it was great! #Do you have anything to tell our readers about something unexpected or funny that has happened during the race this year? Adam: It was a competitive year this year! The winner did this so fast, under the 6h barrier, we really didn’t think it was possible... #Was it a record? Adam: We can say that it is an improvement of about an hour from last year, from 6h and 45 minutes in the last year to 5 hours and 50 minutes in this year... So I think this was THE big thing this year... Göran: It was perfect this year! Great weather, almost no wind... #You are not organizing this with the intention of getting profits... Adam: All profit we get is immediately reinvested, at the same time that organizing such an event is not cheap, we spend a lot of time and resources during the whole year doing this, so we try to include that already in the budget... #Exactly, but based on that, how easy or difficult is it to build up this event year after year? Göran: Everyone is satisfied and glad, we demand so little from them (sponsors), so
Adam Svensson with his famous t-shirt with a text saying “Vadå Vansbro...!” mocking Sweden’s most participated and famous swimming race and that is only 3km. The sentence makes a subtile and funny comparison with Vidösternsimmet where the shortest stage one can swim is 5km. The sentence can be translated into something like “Vansbro what?” or “So what Vansbro?”
most of them are there in the next year. Or they pay a quite small amount of money or they provide us with a service that we need in order to make this project grow. Then we also have been using the “mouth-to-mouth” method where people tell each other about this and spread the message, it is not easy to buy publicity spots... Social media have also been playing an important role in this, they have also spread the message quite a lot... Adam: ...we work a lot with social media (mostly Facebook), we can reach a lot of people with a very small cost. Besides it is not just for the money, we do this because it is a lot of fun, that is what is pepping me, it is a lot of fun to do this! Göran: What is also my booster is that I have
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kids that swim and then via Vidösternsimmet we generate money to give back to the city’s swimming club so they can develop their association. We work a lot with other associations... #So I guess we can say that Vidösternsimmet has some social purpose here... Göran and Adam: Yes... Göran: So... we support other projects like Hela Människan or Glömda Barnen... But that is the principle here. We start at a small level and then we grow up then with a very broad base and at a stable pace... #I have heard before from Göran some stories about how this project started and people’s reactions. Some people thought you were crazy when they heard that you wanted to swim across the lake Vidöstern... (some laughs) Göran: In the first year, after we bought the web site domain we started to think “how many will dare to help us?” We needed to have a minimum people with us in order to be able to guarantee safety, you know... Anyway we got 9 participants in the starting line in the first year. All of them living in Sweden... But yes, many were telling us: “You can’t do this, this will never work!”... Adam: ...yes, we heard that some times from people around us! I had never swam that lake, I didn’t even know at all about the conditions, I haven’t even been on a boat on that lake, I knew nothing! The only thing I knew about was that people were telling me the whole time “This is not going to work, it’s not possible! You can’t swim there!” (Göran is laughing and Adam has a pleased smile on his face). Göran: We would show them... Adam: Then in the first year, on the race day there was a lot of wind. Wind was blowing like it never had before, it was the second most windy day in the whole year, 12 to 14 meters per second, so it was completely crazy! People didn’t even come to see the event, they thought that with such weather we wouldn’t swim, but we did! And we reached the finish line! Göran: Last year wasn’t so windy, 7 to 8 meters per second... but we had thick fog!
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#According to what I know, there were some swimmers that got lost in the fog last year... Göran: Yes, but we had a man on a kayak with a GPS locator to locate every single participant and he was “chasing” them, bringing them to the right track... and the one who won the race last year used the technique of swimming always near the shore so he knew where he was... #What is there for the swimmers after the finish line? Adam: A hot tub! A big outdoors hot tub... Waffles! Food, music, a speaker (telling the audience about what is going on), massage... Göran: Massage was new this year! Adam: Medals... Göran: We also have the kids race and they are the most proud ones! They get a medal, eat for free, a T-Shirt, own Swimming cap, get to be in the hot tub... you can’t even speak to them afterwords due to proud they feel... #Is there a prize for the winner? Adam: Right now it’s just for the honor and praise, but that is something we are working on! Perhaps next year... Göran: We try to build up this race slowly but steady you know... #Anything else you want to add? Adam: In the organization staff there are 60 people – they are important to highlight! They are the ones who make this possible... Göran: ...to help up with doing the food at the check points, taking care of the medals, medical staff, and so on... Adam: And for the next year we are aiming to have 60 swimmers just for the 21+Km, triple doubling of this year’s race participants... Göran: I would also like to highlight that despite people told us that this would never work we had already swimmers from worlds longest swimming race in the world (Hudson River – a swimming race with 320Km!!)! So that they came from there to the little Sweden just to swim our Vidösternsimmet was very cool!... To finish this article I just thought I could provide you with some background about
Göran Nilsson standing by some of the buoys used in this year’s edition of the Vidösternsimmet. Photo from Vidösternsimmet’s facebook page.
the two man behind this event. Many people must believe by now that these two man have a long sport background, but the truth is that Göran Nilsson is the founder and developer of many projects, amongst them a local
magasin, a business fair or other social entrepreneurism projects and Adam Svensson owns a Yoga center and works as well as a coordinator for the turism department for the city of Värnamo.
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hen I say the word “Vikings” (as in the people and not the Ice Hockey team), what comes to your mind? A big, nasty and dirty warrior, blond headed with a horns on his helmet? On a longboat perhaps? Congratulations! You are now officially wrong. WROOONG!!! So wrong as the Chinese were about capitalism, as Bush was about the massive destruction weapons or as wrong as the people in the XIV century that though the world as flat. Happy? No? OK then, keep on reading! Please bear in mind that whenever we speak about Vikings we are speaking to a quite big amount of different European nations. The truth is that the word “Viking” is Old Norse for “overseas expedition”. Like the European powers did during the Age of the Discoveries, the “Vikings” also took with them their cultur-
al diaspora, spreading above all their technology and language. In truth, the “Vikings” was actually a Germanic cultural movement that lasted about 300 years, going from the VII century to the XI century. The nowadays world has a lot of “Viking” influence, for instance (and perhaps the biggest), the Germanic languages. Many people think that the word “Germanic” means “Germans” as in Germany, but the truth is that “Germanic” has more or less the same meaning as “Latin”. So, as Germanic languages we have: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Scots, Frisian, Dutch, German and... ENGLISH! Surprised? Don’t be! Accept and embrace your culture if you already did before! So, I guess we can conclude that Germanic is like Latin! We can talk about the Germanic Languages in another edition, for now, let’s focus a bit
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more in the “Vikings” thing. Like I said before, there is the myth that the Vikings had horns in their helmets. This is by far one of the most ridiculous myths in history. The fact is that archeologists have never found any horned helmets and there is no historical record of that neither. Besides, anyone who spends five minutes (or less) thinking about that will easily come to the conclusion that a horned helmet is just great for a target when on battle. Their enemies have now an easy target that they can hit with swords, spears, etc, plus a great handle to grab and drag them around the battle
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field. How convenient, huh? The horned helmets came during the 1800’s, when the poets and literature authors started to write the modern era romances and literature. As you can imagine, very little of those poets and writers have in consideration historical facts. Instead they just let their imagination take off as much as they need in order to achieve their goals. Speaking of which, they were also the ones who, long after the Vikings “death” created the image that Vikings were a people of fierce, ruthless and brave warriors when in truth, and once again according to historical
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records and evidence found in the field by archeologists, Vikings were actually a very peaceful people mostly dedicated to agriculture, cattle raising, handcraft and trade, being this last one the main cause for the overseas exploration and inland expansion, just like the Greeks did, just like the Romans did, or the Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, etc... Which brings us to the next myth: Vikings were engaged in overseas exploration only. If you look at the map provided here, you will see that in fact, the Viking peoples had a bigger expansion inland than overseas. They have reached as west as modern day Canada, as south as modern day Morocco and as south east as modern day Iraq! But, once again, inland expeditions (don’t confuse the word expedition with the word conquest!) are not so apealing as overseas conquers in a longboat when we are talking about selling a book, are they?
bathing every Saturday and combing their hair often. Icelanders were also known for using natural hot springs as baths. Even Ibn Rustah (a 10th-century Persian explorer and geographer) wrote on his chronicles many notes about their cleanliness in carrying clean clothes every time. As a heritage, the “Vikings” left many things as said before. The name “Thursday” (Thor’s day), their language which has influenced largely many modern European languages, their names (both for people and places), their architecture, their sailing skills, their food, their traditions, etc. There is so much we can talk about the “Vikings”, that unfortunately I am forced to leave it to another Northern Landscape Magazine edition...
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udwig Wagner took the second place with 9 votes in our BIG Challenge ~ August. His amazing entry “Winter Trees I” (that had already been featured in our group and achieved a top 10 in the BIG Challenge ~ April) gets to be the back cover of this issue with all the praise and glorey attached. Good job Ludwig! You can also se on the picture above the rest of the top 10 and the other great shots that gathered enough votes to be there. But, let’s get a little bit more into Ludwig Wagner’s world and peek on his profile page: “Ludwig’s multi-faceted life experience is reflected in his art. He produces work inspired by people, objects and places – past, present and imaginary. He was born in South Africa where he studied Art at the University of Pretoria. Ludwig worked for a few years as a teacher and then in the film industry, one of the passions of his life. He now lives in London and runs a creative agency focused on design and advertising.”.
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WINTER TREES I photographed of frozen trees just after sunset on a farm near Hillsborough in Northern Ireland by ludwig wagner Olympus E600 – 8 favouritings – 332 views 3rd May 2013
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