February is already gone! After three months of darkness, the days are rapidly getting lighter (4 hours lighter than since 21 December, and ~5 minutes of extra light per day at this point). This edition of the round-up includes some winter shots from a lovely sunny and snowy week in February, a trip to Malmö (Sweden), and my first foray into night photography.
Before that, December and January felt warmer than last winter, so curious as to whether I was just imagining things, I fetched some temperature data from the DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) to test this. You can find the code to reproduce the figures here, and here are the two plots that I made:
From the dotted lines (mean across whole month), we can see that the average daily maximum temperatures were ~2-2.5 °C warmer this year compared to last.
The last touch of winter for the year?
We had a beautiful cold, snowy, and sunny week early in Feb, which made for some great conditions for getting outside with the camera. The flowers must have also been a bit confused, as after slowly creeping up, they were bucketed with snow:
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Malmö
One weekend, we popped over the Øresund strait via train to Malmö (Sweden) to get a different scandinavian experience. A brunch catch up with a friend in a cosy cafe, Til’s mandatory visit to Lush (there is no Lush in Denmark), a visit to the Form/Design centre, and dinner at a really nice restaurant - [Rau](https://www.raumalmo.se/). Sometimes it’s hard to force yourself out of your warm apartment in the winter, but it’s usually always worth it.
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Misty night -> cool light
I’ve been meaning to get out and do some night photography, but winter’s touch has deterred me from leaving my apartment in the evenings. One night, when getting back home, I noticed the heavy mist in the neighbourhood. The conditions were too good to not go out, and I ended up spending 90 minutes out with the camera (without gloves..).
Photography is all about light, of which there is not much of in the night. This means that you’ll typically have to rely on a tripod to compensate for the longer exposures that you’re taking. What I like about night photography is the deep contrast that you get from it. Add mist to that, and you get some really moody vibes. Anyway, these were my favourite from the night, and I hope you enjoy.
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Photo of the month
My favourite image of the month ended up being more of an abstract one. This was taken from my balcony with a 100 mm lens when it was snowing heavily. In terms of processing, I’ve made it a black and white for simplicity, and cropped it (also for simplicity and composition). The snow gives it a surreal feel, almost like its a drawing or painting (and adds almost a film grain-like texture).
Interesting things I’ve read/watched
Great article by NZGeo about recycling. A delusion? A distraction from more pressing issues? An important thing for our society? I particularly like the figure showing data from 1,000 survey participants on the top 3 actions they could personally make to help mitigate the climate crisis vs. the actual importance of those actions. Recycling was the 2nd most picked action that participants chose, when in reality, it ranked 59th on importance. This isn’t to say that recycling isn’t important (I’ll still be doing it), but that it pales in comparison to other actions you can make in your life.
Some argue that plastic recycling, however, is a complete fraud. There’s strong evidence that Big Oil and the plastic industry has been deceiving the public for decades about how recyclable plastic is. Ever notice how similar the resin identification codes on plastic products looks remarkably like a recycling symbol? The short of it is, it’s either a) not possible or b) not viable to recycle plastics. As far as I know, only one or two difference resin types can actually be recycled, and these can only be recycled less than a handful of times (this also creates microplastics, which may also not be good). The full report is here if you’re interested.
Some more great journalism by NZGeo about deep sea mining in the Cook Islands.
Cool article by ABC Australia about the Outback Way, thousands of kilometres of dirt road in the centre of Aus.
We don’t often stop to consider the street design of our cities, and I was amazed at the process and advantages of using ‘klinkers’ (bricks) over regular asphalt or concrete. There are also some really neat features of Dutch street design that you’ll learn about by watching.
Another great vid by Climate Town.
On the inevitability of the rich getting richer in our current society. Article by Cory Doctorow.
