Chasing dreams

Puerto del Carmen, Canary Islands (Spain), February 2010; Trondheim, Norway, January 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Looking for clues

A couple of weeks before the vernal equinox. Bodø, Norway, March 2010. (Digital diptychs: © Lise Utne).

Looking for clues

Bodø, Norway, March 2010. (Digital diptychs: © Lise Utne).

Chasing dreams

Bodø, Norway, March 2010; Puerto del Carmen, Canary Islands (Spain), February 2010. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Last year's snow (and white frost)

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Chasing dreams

Frame-makers' display window, Trondheim, Norway. January 2010; January 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

(Just) past nine o'clock on a dark and frosty morning

Trondheim, Norway, 20th January 2010. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

King of the Castle

Trondheim, Norway. January 2010; September 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

'twas the season

(Both photos: © Lise Utne 2009/2010.)

There are traditionally two alternative dates marking the end of Christmas in this country: the 13th Day of Christmas and the 13th of January. But there is also a saying that Christmas isn't over until Easter. So there.

O Tannenbaum

There are traditionally two dates marking the end of Christmas in this country: the 13th Day of Christmas and the 13th of January. But there is also a saying that Christmas isn't over until Easter. So there.

(Both photos: © Lise Utne 2009/2010.)

Rainbow Song

Trondheim, Norway, 2009. (Digital diptych: © Lise Utne).

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

From visits to the National Norwegian Aviation Museum and Salten Museum in Bodø, Norway, July 2009. (Digital diptychs: © Lise Utne).

That Was The Season That Was Too

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (Digital diptychs: © Lise Utne).
(Top image: Shopfront window display; detail of advertising poster. Bottom image: shopfront window displays).

That Was The Season That Was

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (Digital diptychs: © Lise Utne).

Winter Wonderland

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (All photos: © Lise Utne).

'Tis the season

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (All photos: © Lise Utne).

O Tannenbaum

Trondheim, Norway, November and December 2009. (All photos © Lise Utne).

Looking for clues

Money changing hands, 'tis the refrain of this and all seasons.

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009. (Photo & © Lise Utne).

Looking for clues

Trondheim, Norway, December 2009 (both photos: © Lise Utne)

Waving, not Drowning

Trondheim, Norway, 10th December 2009. (Photo: © Lise Utne)

Fitting into the Picture (Oh Man!)

All photos: Trondheim, Norway, 2009 (© Lise Utne)

I found these advertising posters at bus stops in Trondheim, Norway. The reflective surfaces protecting them provided the opportunity to quite literally -- and more or less subtly -- fit myself into the picture.

Fitting into the Picture

Trondheim 2007 (© Lise Utne)

Trondheim 2009 (© Lise Utne)

Trondheim 2009 (© Lise Utne)

Advertising posters are invitations. Invitations to spend money, of course, in most cases. But on one level they are also invitations to identify with the message they convey about the world and our place in it.


(These are part of an ongoing series.)

Hello; goodbye

Trondheim, Norway, late May 2009 (photos: © Lise Utne).

Spring and summer came and went, the way spring and summer always come and go. Always the same, and different every time. Skateboards and motorbikes are rare sights in November. But spring is only a few months away.