I bought a new camera yesterday, a Canon Digital IXUS 60, and again I walk around with a third eye, always looking for details.
Photographing has taught me to look at the work in a new way. I see the details now, not only walking hurriedly past.
Every day, on my way to and from work I pass the Nidaros Cathedral. A wonderful building which my forefathers started to build 1000 years ago, and which workmen (and today also women) are still working on. And with my camera in my hands today I saw details I have never registered before. Details everywhere on this grand building, details artists have planned and made to praise God, and to show their belief to coming generations. Gargyles, saints, flowers and intricate patterns.
When I am in Venice I always read Donna Leon's books about Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna sees the details of Venice and in one of her books she let the Commissario walk around in the city with his eye out for always new details. Well, she soes this in all her books, but in this specific book Brunetti make reflections ab
out what he sees, looks out for more details and promise himself a grass of prosecco or another drink everey time he sees new details in his beloved city.
I am also looking out for new details on my walks in MY beloved city. 
Not for glasses of prosecco, but for the pure joy of always discovering more of Trondheim, it's cathedral, it's wooden houses, it's river and the old river houses, it's many old trees, it's statues, it's markets and corners, and of course it's people.
