Here's probably one of the most innovative and clever shop signs I've seen. This is a picture I took when cycling home the other day on Rivington Street

I've now uploaded the photos from my latest holiday i Fuzhou, China.

Most of the photos are of kung fu training and that's because I didn't want to distance myself from the holiday too much by constantly being the the photographer. When we went training I lent the camera to our translator who at times got bored whilst we were just training and she loved to snap.

Basically, Chris and I had the great opportunity to learn the first form of Calling Crane by Master Ruan Dong and the first form of Dog Style by Master Hu Chen Wu both resident in Fuzhou in the Fujian province in the south-east of China.

I've now uploaded a selection of photos from the Miami Vice party we had on Saturday.

For those who got the invite but didn't come: look what you missed! We even had a live performance gig in the house which was cool. Thank you those of you who did it.

The theme was Miami Vice and like those parties where people dress like the opposite sex, there was actually more options for the guys than the girls. I went for the mint-green t-shirt with extra padded shoulders in a grey jacket with rolled up sleeves.

Clearly from watching these stats about cameras used on Flickr Canon and Sony Ericsson rule. Canon is totally dominating the usage of Point & Shoot cameras which doesn't surprise me. Even if I'm a Nikon user I still recommend the Canons for Point & Shoot if people ask me.

By far, the most popular SLR is the Canon EOS Rebel XT as you can see. It doesn't surprise me that much. It is a great camera. I had sort of hoped that my camera, the Nikon D70, would be more popular but perhaps it doesn't really matter.

Another interesting observation is how cool pictures people take with the Sony Ericsson cameras. It's amazing what can be done if you're a bit artistic. Most of those pictures are much better than mine taken with my much more expensive D70. Pictures taken with the Sony Ericsson 750i and the Sony Ericsson K800i

Yesterday it was Madonna's birthday. To celebrate her 48th birthday she put on a concert somewhere in London and after the concert throw a little party at the Lounge Lover. The Lounge Lover is a uptown cocktail bar tucked away on a little side street off club row where I live.

It was a lot of commotion. Staff of the bar swept the floor outside and put up barricades. Some paparazzis came already at half eight but the first celebrity didn't arrive until half nine. That was Gwyneth Paltrow

More and more celebrities came. One of the early arrivers was Kevin Spacy but he came in and walked past us so fast that I never had a chance to take a picture of him.

There were a lot of people that the paparazzis seemed to recognize that I didn't. In those cases I just took some wild pictures in hope that someone can explain who that was later. (for example, Lawrence Dalaglio who my flatmate had to explain to me who he was. Sorry Lawrence, I don't watch much television)

Last night was without a doubt an experience. I haven't seen that many nice Mercedes lined up since I was in Monaco a couple of years ago. Pet Shop Boys was the only people arriving in a limo and Jason Statham arrived in a regular black cab.

Now, let us see the pictures

Only very rarely do you get to see photos of the northern light phenomena but here on this site you get loads (all from the same location though). On the site they don't call it northern light but The Geomagnetic Storm Resulting From the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) produced by an X1-flare near sunspot 696.

Whatever they call it, in lack of being fortunate to see one with my own eyes, these photos will have to suffice.

I've now finally uploaded all my photos from the trip to China.

From 1,000 huge jpegs (at 1.6Gb) down to 300 resized ones (at 43Mb) it took quite a long time to rotate, chose, colour modify and title. To do it I had to use digikam which is the best photo album organiser program available on Linux. Even though it's the best I've found so far it still sucks. It's frustrating when you have lots to do but it's free and works better than nothing and I haven't donated any money to it.

As you might have noticed I have had to reduce the image quality quite a bit especially of the thumbnails. Sorry about this but I see thumbnails as navigation, not the real content. If you want higher resolution images I might be able to get you the original JPG if you ask kindly for it.

This amazing hacker builds a camera (with its own custom built shutter) setup to photograph flying insects in his garden. I notice that he's got a Nikon camera with a 200mm lens and double flashlights.

To be honest I didn't read all of the text but by taking a step back and being just impressed with his willpower you get more impressed with his effort rather than the photos he produces. Yes, the sample photos are truely amazing.

I wonder if this has ever been done before? Taking pictures of sitting insects is one thing, but insects in flight I for one have never seen before.

Keep up the good work Frans!

Someone added a test issue on the Demo issuetracker with an amazing file attachment.

I have no idea where it comes from and the person who uploaded it might have left an email address that doesn't work. I've tried emailing this person in hope of more info.

Imagine that some rich person has this as interior design in their house. (the person must be rich if he/she can afford a piece of art to consume so much space in the house)

I've now uploaded my photos from the FWC competition in Sutton (south-west of London). This time I didn't take the time to do any editing or naming of the files. I did quickly write titles for all photos but if you have any objections to these, please let me know.

To an outsider, what we do with the "demo event" might appear strange but one day I hope to manage to explain it. My favorite photo is from the Brighton Hove Demo team.

Last week I finally had my graduation ceremony. It was very well organised and ran smoothly. We met, got our hats and robes, then the ceremony began shortly. All of us went up one by one to receive our diploma which surprisingly mentioned our grade.

Now I've uploaded two photos from the day. They can be found here

BBC have a great little website called BBS NEWS | In Pictures. Sometimes they have a theme on something, like today the Bush country theme.

I love these kind of photographic slideshows. No long texts to read and you get to watch the photos one by one. Then I also love this kind of journalism from within the USA. The kind of stuff I see, as a european, is often stuff from the front, i.e. new york, hollywood, washington, so this is greatly appreciated.

I'm a sucker for high speed photography even though I've never tried it myself. This site is some sort of showcase for a flashtimer that they sell.

Be sure also to check out the Wildlife Photography section

This morning I finally uploaded the rest of the photos from my Sweden holiday. These photos are from the Göta Kanal part. It was Henrik Hjalmarsson (aka. Hjalle), his brother Johan, Kalle Ekberg and myself. We travelled with the Hjalmarsson brother's parent's sailing boat along the canals due east from the middle of the country out on the east coast of Sweden. Then was sailed down along the country only stopping on little islands for having dinner and eating.

We ate loads of really good food. Hjalle is a chef by profession so he knew what he was doing when he was cooking. We also drank lots but never too much to get drunk. It was wonderful all together.

The last two days of the holiday I spent in Stockholm visiting old friends. Here are the photos from Stockholm

Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a book that everyone should read. Yes, this has been said about many books but still, I for one have recommended this book to several people already.

I read this book on my holiday to Sweden last week and it was many times hard to stop, but I think I'm still reading it today in my head. Not a day has gone by yet without thinking about this book and what I learned from it. It's difficult to explain without spoiling anything so I'll just leave it at that. Read what Ned Batchelder has to say about the book

As a non-native English person I found many of the terms difficult I must admit. Especially the boat-related terms, but when I read this book I actually had access to a English-Swedish dictionary for boating/sailing which was very convenient.

Thank you Melitta for recommending the book!

I've always been amazed by this sport since I saw First blood (aka. Rambo I). Does anybody know what this game is called? Doesn't matter all that much but the photos on this site are just amazing. Especially those that are dusty.

When I get kids one day I want a photo album like this

Just experimenting with my new digital camera and a pair of binoculars. Sadly I don't have a tripod for neither the camera or the binoculars, which would make the picture quality even better. It was not my binoculars but I'm sure they were a good pair.

All of these photos were taken from my balcony. On the first two photos the non-resized part of St Pauls cathedral was not resized.

Here's the plot. They print some instructions on a camera and give it to a stranger. The instructions says to take a few pictures and then pass the camera on to another stranger who will do the same. When the reel is out, you drop the camera in a mailbox and it will return to the original owner who develops the film.

The site only has one collection so far that they call Emily and the pictures aren't very fantastic but the concept is.

At the last reunion party for my old school, Grennaskolan, they put disposable cameras on the dinner tables asking people to take random pictures during the evening. Very results because on the tables there was not only cameras. There were glasses filled with stuff that makes people take pictures they might regret the day after.

My friends Anna Ask and boyfriend Johan Eldh went to a place where they style you completely and then a proffesional photographer takes your picture. Apparently it was rather expensive, but now that I see the results I must admit that I'm impressed.

If you want to contact them for any non-nude modelling, contact them through me. I take a 25% stake on their fees for referrals :)

This really is spectacular. The winner-photo is really breath taking. One can stare at it for a long time. The second most spectacular is also really impressive.

How come I haven't seen these until now. They're great. Much nicer than the usual photography winners of photos with crying bombed palestinian children, whom I care for whole heartedly but it's a bit sad.

Download the Powerpoint presentation file

Most photos are quite miserable yet striking. I like photos that you takes long time to take in. I.e. photos that makes you stop and stare at for a long time.

My favourites are these: daily life 3rd prize stories, portraits 1st prize stories and nature 3rd prize singles

Dan Heller has loads of great photos of European. I especially appreciated the Italy collection.

Some of my favourites are: Sunset on the Grand Canal, St. Peters Cathedral, Pantheon Interior, Purple and Scenic (4)

There is also a section on London

"The Vanishing: Altered Landscapes and Displaced Lives on the Yangtze River". A coming photofusion (photo exhibition I guess) here in London. I can't find if this exhibition has a webpage of information but I found out about it from BBCs News In Pictures page

I should go to see more things like this. Let's start with finding where it's held.

Truly remarkable footage of our neighbouring planet Mr. Mars.

"This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet."

Does anybody remember why the marsian atmosphere is harmful for us people?

I have now moved the fishing photos from last year onto this site. Enjoy!