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Wandering in the city

Posted on 06/09/2014

Wanted to post another set of pictures long time ago but never get to do it. I guess it’s because I went back to my hometown during the summer and was mostly enjoying the life where mum took care of everything : P Uhhh, this kind of comfy life is too precious, only get to have very few weeks of it every year. So I turned my productivity down to 0 for the whole summer…

And now I’m back.

I wrote ”Summer has passed, even though it’s only August. Copenhagen is windy everyday, windy AND rainy. Feels like late autumn already. Hope there are few more warm days to come.” When I drafted this post the first time, but surprise! The weather has been really generous since it entered September, it has been like summer the whole time, 22 degrees today, it’s almost tropical for this northern country. This is making my life slightly better from the thesis stress.

I never say no to taking a stroll in the city. I’ve lived in Copenhagen for quite a few years now, but there are still lots of places to be discovered.

Took some pictures before the summer vacation, when I went for a walk with Anwan, she’s quite photogenic.

Anyway, these pics were taken in several different places in Copenhagen, the Lakes (Søerne), Sydhavnen area and Island Brygge.

Enjoy the last bit of summer!

 

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Corrupted picture files

Posted on 25/06/2014

I just experienced the first and worst incidence since I started taking photos. My SD card was somehow corrupted in my own trustworthy laptop before I can even copy and save them on the computer or my external hard drive…

The worst part is, it was supposed to be used for a friend’s art work. When I first realized the photo was gone, I couldn’t believe it and tried everything to make them show up again, I tried to put the SD card back to the camera, tried to put the card back in my Mac again but the only thing there was just a weird file that can’t be opened, and it was named with some weird symbols.

I panicked, believe it or not I rarely do that! I tried all the methods to repair the memory card, but nothing… eventually I decided to pay about 300 kr. to buy this StellarPhoenix repairing software, and it worked, I got around 120 pictures back… until I found out they were mostly thumbnail files… my mood was like on a roller coaster.

Anyway, I got about 15 undamaged pictures back, which are of course not the best ones.

Learned the lesson, will always copy and save all the pictures before I touch any of the files on the SD card… But this will always happen, it can’t be completely avoided I guess. Then I do recommend this StellarPhoenix repairing software, this company has a series of software for different problems, personally I only recommend the one called ‘StellarPhoenix Photo Recovery’ tho, as it has actually recovered some pictures, and many other free or cheaper memory card repairing software did not even recover anything. The JPEG repairing software from this company, however, did not repair any pictures to a usable condition.

Enough about the depressing SD card incident for now. I took some picture with my iPhone recently and really like them, wanna share them here : )

The other day I was having a ‘feeling guilty from eating too much sweets’ walk, I saw this by the water between Christianhavn and Amager:



And yes, the World Cup. It made Island Brygge extra cozy, as Danish people say, hyggeligt : ) I went there for a few times when the sun was generous, and the dusk in that area, is simply amazing, but with the default camera on iphone, I didn’t get to adjust ISO, so much noise on the sky.

But I always loved the dusk, it’s my favorite time of the day. And the dusk of Danish summer surprises me, every time.

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A quite surprising discovery

Posted on 06/06/2014

As a person that can get distracted by so many things so easily, I am always looking for comfortable places to study, no, really. I don’t know why but I can’t really do that at home, and school is always packed, so I prefer some nice and quite but not too quite cafés.

One day, when I was ‘struggling’ at home again, Yue called and told me she’s been studying at a new campus of her school, KEA, which is near Empire Bio in Nørrebro, and it has quite nice environment. It’s always fun to explore new places, especially when your friends recommend them to you, so I went there to have a look.

It turned out to be quite a little surprise : D

Really like the design and small details in the little café, cute place to study or do some group work.

 

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New earrings

Posted on 04/06/2014

Well, to be precise these are not the newest, but they are my current favorite.

Big earrings and small studs really make huge difference on many people. I have been looking for something small but not as small as studs, for a long time, and I was sooooo happy when I found these from & Other Stories, of course, Stories again ; )

 

Another casual working day. Guess I should smile a bit more.

 

Top: & Other Stories

Necklace: & Other Stories

Ankle boots: & Other Stories

Oh well, crazy fan indeed. Really like their designs.

 

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