Snow and sun in the park
With all the darkness and cloudy, shadowless weather we’ve had since before Christmas it was a rare treat to wake up on a Saturday morning and see an almost cloudless sky outside and some actual, genuine sunshine outside. I felt a little bit of a photographic urge inside for the first time in a while, so I grabbed my severely underused shoulder bag with cameras in it and my photo partner (a.k.a. Dad) and drove out to a regular photographic location, the Alnarp Agricultural University and its park.
2025 - looking back at a year (part II)
I started this retrospective look at my photography of 2025 in my last blogpost where I covered the first half of the year, so it made perfect sense to cover the second half in this post (as if I didn’t plan it that way in the first place…). :-) The second half of the year was actually less photography filled than the first half, mostly due to illness in the family that kept interfering. Fortunately that is not as much of an issue now, so hopefully 2026 will end up being MUCH better, both healthwise as well as when it comes to photography!
2025 - looking back at a year
So far photography for me in the year 2026 has been very slow. The low winter sun seems to be gone before I am able to get out there to capture stuff in it, so I am biding my time until the daylight hours last a little bit longer. In the meantime I think I can benefit from going back and think about some of the images I took during 2025. Often I tend to just transfer my photos from the camera to the hard drive, select and edit my keepers and then it is onto whatever is next to photograph, so a bit of a reflection on what is in my saved folders can’t hurt!
Get closer, find more colors!
One of the basic “rules” in photography that I’ve heard over and over in the 25 years or so since I started to explore photography with more than a casual holiday shooter’s interest is to “Get Closer, Get Better Pictures!” While a good zoom lens is a good thing to have, there’s not really any substitute for using your feet to “zoom”.
Season Closer by the Sea
One of the nicer traditions in my photo club here in southernmost Sweden is that we close out the spring season with a gathering outdoors where we cook hot dogs and have a beer or two (non-alcoholic options available too of course). We are usually out by the ocean since it’s right there for us, and this year’s gathering was no exception.We were blessed with pretty nice weather and the hot dogs were great, as was the company! One of the possible themes for the evening’s photography was “structures and surfaces” so some of the photos in this post were inspired by this theme.
Park Life
There’s been a bit of an unintentional hiatus due to medical issues in my immediate family (most of which are thankfully on the mend now). I’ve not done a whole lot of photography lately; somehow the snapping of pictures isn’t all that important when such things happen…however, saying that I have done at least a few snapshots that I want to share in this post.
Cold by the coast
When the sun shines on a cold winter morning (the thermometer was at -6 C or 21 F) it feels just right to pack oneself and the constant photo partner (a.k.a. Dad) into the car and head down to the coast at Falsterbo. There’s just something special about seeing that horizon line that makes me feel more harmonious inside!
Taking my camera for a walk again...
Once again I found myself in my usual little woodland area, not too far from my home, namely Skryllegården, just outside Lund, Sweden. I had gone there more for the fresh air and a bit of a leg stretch along the 3 kilometer jogging/walking path, but it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t bring my camera! So pictures were of course taken…and they are now shared on this blog.
Colors in the Park
For those who are used to seeing my often high-contrasty black and white street photography this blogpost might be a bit out of the ordinary, but I too sometimes crave colors! When the skies were clear, the winds low and there was a hint of warm late summer warmth in the air I decided to drive over to the park and gardens at Alnarp Agricultural University outside Malmö, Sweden. There I could see that there were still plenty of colors to be seen, and I was able to capture some of that in these images. There is an abundance of different flower and plant varieties, and I am not able to identify a single one. That is okay with me though; they’re pretty to look at and that is enough for me! Pretty is good!
Early fall at the mansion
It’s been quite some times since my last uploaded post to this blog, mostly since I’ve been “buried” behind a screen with an ongoing book project and some other things lately. My photographic output has been quite low, and not really worth making a full blog post about. Now though I do have a bunch of pictures that together are worth uploading.
It was a lovely Sunday and the sun was shining from a nearly flawless blue sky with warm enough weather to leave the house with no jacket on. I figured I could do with a bit of a photographic as well as physical exercise so on the way to the Svaneholm mansion I grabbed my constant photo buddy (a.k.a. Dad) and off we went.