Blackeberg pictures in context

[drakkar]

Last tuesday evening I was able to visit Blackeberg again, teaming up with GoV.
I've always wanted to see how the place looks like in the dark, covered in snow!
I also brought a camera, taking a rerun of some of the pictures in ambient light.
So, here we go:

Once he walked through the front gate to the courtyard of his apartment complex he was safe.
None of his enemies lived here in the complex, an irregular circle of buildings positioned inside a larger circle formed by his street, Ibsengatan.

Wheeee!
He heard a whirring sound and something bumped into his feet. A dark red radio-controlled car was backing away from him. It turned and drove up the hill at high speed towards the front door of his building.
Behind the prickly bushes to the right of the front door was Tommy, a long antenna sticking out from his stomach

[Ash]

Excellent pictures again drakkar.
Curious... why would there be no parking on just Fridays? Can't figure that one out.

[PeteMork]

Excellent pictures again drakkar.
Curious... why would there be no parking on just Fridays? Can't figure that one out.

Snowplow perhaps?
Or streetcleaning in summer?

[Ash]

Garbage collection day or snowplow day most likely.
1/11 to 15/5 isn't really summer.
I've been to Stockholm twice, 1978 and 1980, and must have driven past Blackeberg by a few km. Very annoying I didn't visit, in hindsight.
Or is that foresight? As Eli hadn't even turned up there back then. But maybe I would have run into a teenage JAL.

[drakkar]

Excellent pictures again drakkar.
Curious... why would there be no parking on just Fridays? Can't figure that one out.

Snowplow perhaps?
Or streetcleaning in summer?

Thanks And yes, I think snow plowing is a good guess.

[drakkar]

A sandpit and a swing set consisting of three tyre-swings suspended from chains.

He liked this place at night. Hundred of lighted windows all around him at four sides, himself sitting in the dark.

(Eli's and Oskar's front doors in the background.)

[intrige]

I just love the lighting in these pictures, very beautiful! Like, orange, gray, dim light. But not too dark and siniser.. Love!!

[drakkar]

Thanks
The pictures are shot well after sunset - only in the first (Blackeberg Tunnelbana) the last of the daylight can be seen in the sky seen over the station dome. It was overcast, so some city light was refleted from the cloud cover, the rest being a mix of various types of street lights and light from the apartment windows. A mess, really. So I adjusted the colours until the snow looked as OK as possible. Some of the photos are shot in very low light (ISO 9000 or more), so I had to reduce the colour saturation to mask some of the noise.
The photos are shot with a Pentax K-5 using a Sigma 30 mm f/1.4, wide open, mostly shooting at 1/30 or 1/60s and ISO between 3200 and 9000.

[Nightrider]

Good stuff. Very atmospheric...very Lindquisty!

[drakkar]

"What's ... your name?"
"Eli."
"My name is Oskar. What did you say your name was? Eli?"
"Yes."
The girl seemed suddenly restless. Her gaze flitted around as if she were searching her memory for something she couldn't find.
"I'm ... going now."
Oskar nodded. The girl looked him straight in the eyes for a few seconds, then turned to go. She reached the top of the slide and hesitated. Then she sat down and slid to the bottom, started towards her front door.

She didn't go home, though, She walked through the archway that led to the street. Disappeared.