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Since I have some spare vacation, I am going  to take a trip to Berlin. I’ll be there from August 2 to August 7, 2007. I hope to do some shooting, of course, but the weather in Europe has been terrible all summer, and Berlin doesn’t look too good at the moment either. I’ve got a good deal with a Danish travel agency. Berlin from Copenhagen is a 7 hour (bus) drive, and to me the less expensive way to go there.

I’ve already made deals with 2 major museums, that will allow me to shoot at their premises. In fact, one museum, will let me in on their weekly day closed, so I will have the whole area to myself. Both museums are now familiar with our project for next year, and their reading of the blog seems to have come down very well.

Yes, of course, I will check out some hotels, as well.

 Anything that you want me to look into, within reason, I’ll be happy to do it. Let me know as soon as possible.

BTW, could you recommend a good film for shooting architecture? The 2 museums are, apart from their obvious historical interest, also famous for their trail blazing architecture, and I’ll see if I can get the Hologon working for me. These are the museums: Jewish Museum Berlin and Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

I have approached other museums as well, but they have not answered my mails yet. I defenitely expext to visit Helmut Newton’s site., since that is only some hundred meters from where I stay in the former West Berlin. Apart from that, I expect 5 days of walking Berlin with a couple of cameras – a G and a D .

If I get a chance, I’ll blog you from Berlin. Those posts will be tagged: Blogger’s Blog.

Best wishes

Knut

Knut Skjærven: Blog Gallery (TESTING)

These are the first images loaded to the blog.  

I am testing how this will work and how I can “tag” images to quickly find them again. I am also testing how much space these images takes on the server. It seems to be some 4% of total free server capacity. And that should, in fact, be ok.

Please, let me know it this is an ok way to display personal galleries – on the blog. Let me know what you think . And how this works.

Click images for larger view.

Many thanks.

         

Copyright 2000 – 2007: Knut Skjærven. All images have originally been posted to The Contax G Pages.

From Participant Presentation: Knut Skjærven

Knut Skjærven Says:
June 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm e

Hi, I am Knut.

Born in Bergen, Norway, but moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to complete my education. And got stuck.

I have had an interest in photography as long as I can remember, and bought my first G in 1998. Before that, I had Nikon gear. I have been a user on The Contax G Pages from the very start.

I have worked with different aspects of communication all of my professional life. Among other things, I have done content analysis of images for marketing and historical purposes. I have written two books related to the area (planning a third one) , and many, many articles for journals and newspapers. Unfortunately all of them in Danish, or in Norwegian. You’ll find some of them in the blogroll under “G User Ressources”. Pretty old stuff, but still very valid .
When the chance is given, I still do free-lance stuff for newspapers. Both as a writer and as photographer. I really enjoy that.

Yes, (I knew you would ask) I have initiated many conferences and summits in the past, but never one lasting 4 days (more like 4 hours) . However, with much larger groups of participants (and lots of people to do all the “hard” work) .

I live in Copenhagen, Denmark. I have 4 kids. All, of them (well almost) grown up. I live with Kirsten.

I work for a larger (used to be Danish) telecommunication company doing business development, strategies and sales.

Best wishes
Knut