We hope that 2011 has been as good for you all, as it has been for us at the studio. This year has offered many new & interesting challenges and many new clients and friends. We look forward to work and cooperate with you again in 2012. Have a merry christmas and a happy new year!

The last week I have been playing around with the new Final Cut Pro X, and I have to say its growing on me. The new interface is so fast and intuitive. It will definitely speed up my workflow quite a bit! Looking through material to edit from is lightning fast and background rendering is almost unnoticed on a decent mac.
While playing around with FCP, I used some material I shot with with a small handheld dslr this summer, while at a shoot with my colleague Peter Ravnsborg. The result became a quick backstage video from the shoot.

Thursday the 17th of november this week, the book FRI og RIG (danish for Free & Rich) will be released for sale.

It’s a book about entrepreneurship, with insights from 12 successful danish entrepreneurs, aimed at those seeking inspiration for their own life.

I have been lucky enough to be a part of the production of the book and to meet & portray DJ Morten Breum, Jesper Buch, the founder of JustEat, Solveig Eike of Plasticfantastic, Jens Kristian Andersen of Eventdispense, Signe Møller of 100% To the Children, Christina Hembo from Christina Watches, Naja Munthe, cofounder of Muntheplussimonsen, Jesper Øhlenslæger who founded M2 Huse, Sofia Manning, artist Maria Rubinke and David Fellah from Designit.

See the portraits I did for the book here. The book can be bought here from the 17th.

While on a shoot at Raabjerg Mile in northern jutland, we spotted this mysterious creature in the distance.

The elusive northern jutland Sand Yeti from Morten Koldby on Vimeo.

A quick video grab from an outing with a good friend. It suffers from multiple technical flaws, since we hadn’t brought ND filters, a decent video head or any planning whatsoever. Just playing around

Spring 2011 from Morten Koldby on Vimeo.

Yesterday I saw this wonderful timelapse of the milkyway, shot from a spanish volcano, by Terje Sorgjerd from Norway. Even if you are not into timelapse or astro photography, it’s well worth your time watching it.

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

This week has completely overwhelmed me with the attention my animal portraits has gotten since monday morning. I was contacted via twitter by THEINSPIRATION.COM, who wanted to feature my pictures on their blog. After that, I have been featured on a number of photography and design blogs, in addition to receiving mails from all over the world about the project. A huge thank you goes out to Daniel at THEINSPIRATION.COM and my other twitter followers for making my work available for so many more than I would have ever reached on my own. In response to all the attention, I have put 4 additional shots up here. More will follow them this spring.

This weekend I am attending the spring congres for Junior Chambers International at Vingstedcentret, near the town of Vejle. Today the first part of the delegates assembly took place in one of the auditoriums and I had one of my cameras set up to make this short timelapse of the event.

Delegeret forsamling JCI FK2011 from Morten Koldby on Vimeo.

I love this video by my my australian colleague Keith Loutit. Check out his timelapse project Small worlds.
While this video is nothing new, it is a great example of how preparation, planning and thinking out of the box will beat big setups anyday. This video is made with a couple of wellplaced dslr’s with tilt/shift lenses and some very talented editing. The music score complements the images well too.

Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I first saw this a while ago on another blog. But I need to share this to those who haven’t seen it yet. You don’t need to be a surfer to dig this short film, just sit back and take it in. And remember to turn up the sound. There is a great monologue there too…

DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.