In the hospital tunnels in my hometown of Aalborg

A week back i needed something to for for a grey and rainy November weekend, and as many times before i had a walking agreement with a good friend. Luck has it, that he is working for Region Nord, which is the public institution, that runs the Hospitals, in the northern part of Denmark where i live, and he offered to show me some of the long tunnels beneath the hospitals, many of which was build many years ago.

Before i got to the hospital, i managed a few street photos, in the grey day day with a very flat and boring light.

I arrived at the first hospital, where i meet up with my friend at the main entrance of the hospital, called Sygehus (Danish for hospital) Nord. Its an old hospital, that actually has been sold, but is still active, as the newly build hospital, is several years delayed. So we descend to the basement 🙂

Just noticing the cellphone not allowed, you can see its not a never cellphone ! :), but the hospital is way older than cellphones! As you will probably see by the later pictures. I dont know why, but i have always been impressed with the long hallways of hospitals, there is something fascinating and scary about them at the same time.

The first part we visited, was the locker rooms for the staff on a sideway to the long passages under ground, and it still reminds me of old pictures from the 70ties, but it has a nice vibe to it in someway.

The halls are full of old equipment, thats to old to use, and to new to throw out as it might be needed in a emergency if newer stuff breaks down, and probably also a lot of stuff, that already should have been thrown out, seems like all the old computer stuffs turns beige with age, or maybe that was just the color scheme of those days.

Next stop was under the old old blood donation bank, with all the scary red light coming up from the basement, quite an impressive old place, i had to use the wide angle on my phone for that shot, since my 23mm on my Fuji was simply not wide enough.

We finished at another hospital in town, which as the pictures shows, is of a little bit newer date, and the tunnels were insanely long. The pictures with all the clothes, is behind the scenes on a vending machine for where staff goes to get their clothes for the workday.

And thus our hospital journey ended, and we went to grab some food ! 🙂

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A grey november day in Aalborg

Today was nother gray november day, like most days in Denmark at this time of year, there is a reason that we really need our D-Vitamin ! 🙂 On the northern hemissphere ! Its also very hard to make good pictures in that light i think.

I was out for a short walk to see a local photo exhibition by a local photographer, who takes some great pictures in my hometown. You can find his website here

This is my catch on the way to the exhibition caught with my trusty old Fujifilm X-T4

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One more thing

This evenings last photo, walking past a coin laundry close to my house, which is a nice little time capsule, i came across this and could not resist a little street photo. The combination of her and the text on the wall was simply to good 🙂

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Evening walk through Aalborg

Finally weekend, and time for a small photo walk through the town, its november in Denmark, and the dark arrives early in scandinavia.

I like the early dark for pictures, but i dont like much for anything else 🙂 Night starting at like 16.00 Hours is sapping some mental energy !

The genre is street , and the camera is my little favourite Fujifilm X-100V, enjoy the pictures

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My first public Github script is posted for optimizing images on this blog :)

I had the issue of this blog, that it was created over many many years, with years of inactivity also, that many off the pictures were pretty large and not optimized for any web usage. Huge pictures of +15 megabyte takes a loong time to load on slower connections. There are at the current count 6750 pictures in a many different folders under the /upload folder in WordPress. So getting to them one by one would take for ever. But at the moment im taking an online Python course, which i very much recommend by the way ! 100 days of code

You can find it here.

So after some time on the course, it came to me that with the knowledge i have learned so far, and some searching on StackOverflow and Google i could couple something together myself with the help of the Python Pillow Library which has a lot of functions for manipulating images 🙂

So the pictures are now optimized, and you can find the script here https://github.com/anderskeis/PyCompress on my Github profile. Take a copy down of your /upload folder it Github and try on your own risk 🙂 Do a backup before, IT WILL OVERWRITE YOUR PICTURES! it should ignore anything it cannot optimize. And then re upload to your blog again. Works with any pictures folder, but only tested it on Linux, so good luck 🙂

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