The portfolio is ALIVE

After a brief discussion with a colleague about PHP I finally went to work on my portfolio. Since all the images where collected, I needed to figure out a way so that I could update my homepage without breaking a sweat each time (yes I'm that lazy when it comes to updating my portfolio).
The problem is that each time i uploaded a photo i had to edit the category-xml file. Which is totally boring and time consuming.

So i wrote a little serverside script that did all this for me. It even generates all the thumbnails. So that leaves more time to work on the important content, but if I know myself right I'll use that time to google myself.

Sachsenhausen

(click the title for a gallery)

Got back from Germany about two weeks ago, the trip was a bit funnier this time as it didn't require my family to deal with the practical aspects of my grandfather passing away. Since the trip was basically the same, the photo opportunities where less.

During our visits we came across one historical landmark that was quite unique for germany. The Sachsenhausen concentration camp mainly operated 1936-1950 (the last 5 years under russian control).

Since wikipedia already has an article about it I won't hassle with the details. More reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp/

STCC - Sunday

Last sunday "the Company" went for a little trip to Gälleråsen racetrack to check up on a driver we sponsored some months ago. I suspected the whole thing would turn out in one of those days you ought to have stayed in bed.
We caught the bus from Central Gävle about 7 AM. Some cooperative companies had offered to join as well, to cut bus-prices a bit.

I'm far from a bus person myself, but the whole trip actually turned out great. Our boss and some other boss had planned ahead and fixed catering and a movie. Great, something to do for 3 hours I thought to myself. The movie turned out to be "Driven" featuring the award winning Sylvester Stallone. After the gruesome experience I was pumped with American cliché steriods and jumping at the thought of smelling burnt rubber.

And to my personal amusement the whole race track reeked of it too.
Dissapointment struck when our driver had some automotive trouble and had to bail the race early. But his teammate lessened the blow by advancing some 7 placements and finishing 5th total.

Road trip to Germany

I'm home after a 1½ week long vacation in Germany. It all was quite fun at times, even though we had serious business. I had the opportunity to take a lot of photos over the course of the trip. My family owned a house in a small town called Schweina, Thüringen. That we sold during the course of the vacation. Neatly located in the beginning mountains of Bayern the whole town is intoxicated with an old pitoresque feeling. The architecture is simply stunningly retro, 30:s style.

This is the local post office in town. Intact since... cant remember actually. But its quite old. Put it in there so you can assess what I was talking about earlier in my post-journey ramblings. Nearby there was a bar you could order some banana-splits with alcohol inside. I decided to get drunk instead of divulging in the facts a local guide was more than happy to force on unwilling bypassers.

The whole town is enclosed in a mountain pass, some residential areas stretch the slopes but the city core resides on the bottom, creating a cauldron for the sun to cook. The temperature sometimes reached 39deg, C.
After about an afternoon of beeing totally baked in the sun I decided something radical had to be done. I took shelter in some old mining tunnels opened up for the public as a guided attraction, of course i brought the camera along. I figured the strap to have molten in on my sholder by this time.
I spent the rest of the trip trying to dodge the sun and doing fun stuff, like going on trips to nearby towns and getting wasted on cheap beer. Ended up with a half poor vacation and a sunburn from hell. Can't say it didn't have its moments though...
It's really nice to be home again, you just don't realize it until you've been gone for a while.

Miniature Gaming, Sunday

Slaanesh Biker
Was at a friends house and snapped some pictures of a WH40k game, nothing exiting exept getting loaded.

Botanicum

Strange jawa hut cacti.
Spent half a day at botanicum in Uppsala with my family. The trip was mildly fun because of bad weather. But i saw really weird cactuses and some fatally bad art.

Cityfight (riots sold separately)

Prepping the camera and looking kinda gay at the same time
Today the town square where my office is was totally swamped by TV-crew members putting things in place for the big "cityfight". I snapped some shots of the mayhem and wandered up to work like usual.
Couldn't stop to wonder where all the people would fit.

Late night barhopping

Nightshot of where i live
Took this shot a bit intoxicated after som barhopping. Managed to get a decent exposure even though there wasn't any light to reckon with.

Some more minigolfing

Minigolfing, friday

Minigolfing gone bad
We had some beers at our company and went out for some golfing in the park. Great weather. The picture shows Henrik, a co-worker that ran out of luck.

Captain Morgan @ istheshit.net

I'm totally into drinking cooled Captain Morgan with my meat. Probably more of a pirate than a pansy drinking rum.
I'm hoping for lots of 5 out of 5 votes :)

Grill for the win

There's really nothing like the smell of meat on the grill. It smells like... victory.
Some friends and me are going to grill for the second time around this weekend.
Opening the first can of beer soon.

Walked the walk, now to talk the talk...

Siemens Cordless 
Today i snapped some more shots. This cordless is the second RAW-shot I've ever developed. Not really there yet, but starting to get the hang of this new camera. Slowly raising the bar here. Soon there will be some kickass photography here :)