Mr. Bentzen is a Sales Director of Viju, a company that deals in video conferencing. He is also an eager surfer, cyclist, rollerblader and tons of other things. I joined him surfing on a beach on the west coast of Norway.
Assignment for Finansavisen.
IPO (International Prüfungsordnung) is the largest dog sport in the world. The Norwegian Championships were held late June this year. Assignment for Stavanger Aftenblad. The dogs compete in tracing, obedience and protection.
The weight is thrown over the ridge, and the dog has to fetch.
The audience.
Åse Marie Lura and her dog Jabina Pisca waits to recieve the judge’s verdict.
Funeral of Marianne Sandvik, a 16-year old girl from Stavanger who was killed in the Utøya massacre. Her father laid a rose on her coffin after giving a memorial speech in Stavanger Cathedral.
Comedian Per Inge Torkelsen, at his home.
Norways Premier League, match between Viking and Tromsø. Ended 2-1 to Viking, this is Tromsø’s goal in the second half.
Yesterday, people gathered all around Norway in torch lit marches to support the victims of the Oslo bombing and the Utøya attack. In Stavanger, police said between 75,000 and 100,000 people came together in the city center.
The parade of people encircled the entire city, and it was said that such a gathering of people have not been seen since Norway was liberated after World War II.
The shopping malls in and around Stavanger even closed at 5.30PM so that the employees would be able to take part in the march.
It was truly touching, and the sight and feeling of such a great number of people made me proud to be Norwegian.
I want to quote Norways Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and what he said during his speech at the event in Oslo:
“Evil can kill a human beeing, but it can never conquer an entire people”
Sindre and Sondre, who I followed for a week of training in Eldoret, Kenya, each won a gold medal in the European Athletics U23 (junior) Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Sindre won the 5000 meter race, and Sondre won the 10,000 meter race. Sindre still has one more race to qualify for the World Championships in Korea.
Their hard work and commitment is paying off!
Check out the story about them in my portfolio.
Gold medalist Sindre Buraas
Jens Glad Balchen, who I photographed for DN about a month ago, is halfway through America and is currently in El Dorado, Kansas.
You can follow his progress on RAAMs website.
I hope he’s having a good time and that everything is going well for him. The 3000 mile (4800 km) race is truly a tremendous challenge.
Did portraits of the CEOs of the local banks in Stavanger, for a story on the competition in the financial sector in the city.
From top left: Rune Kastmann from Nordea, Stig Brautaset from Fokus Bank, Jan Klingsheim from Sandnes Sparebank, Tore Medhus from SR-Bank, Lynn Sperb from Handelsbanken and Lorents Nord-Varhaug from DnB Nor.
PS: Gotta love that highspeed synced flash.
Glenn Isachsen and Jytte Secher really loves camping, and spends most of their time in their motor home.
Glenn has only spent one night at home so far this year.
Another of the typical 10-minute deals where you just have to make something work in the least amount of time possible. Like last time, exposing for the ambient, and blasting a speedlight at full from behind – worked out quite nicely in the end.
Germany is closing down its nuclear plants as a result of the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima plant – and because of this Statoil expect to sell more gas to Germany for power generation.
This is probably one of the most ordinary assignments I get – to take a picture on the fly while someone important is getting interviewed. It can be a pain in the ass, because the lighting usually sucks. So, I’ve started bringing two speedlight flashes (with radio triggers) to all of these assignments, just in case.
I expose for the ambient, and typically put the flash a stop over the ambient in situations like this.
This is the former head coach for the Norwegian national soccer team, Åge Hareide. He is now the coach for Viking.
