Photography
Sometimes feeling good is simple. A slow walk through a forest on the first warm-ish day of spring, basking in glorious sunlight is a very good way towards that. Getting a few pictures in the process is even better. And doing it together with your father who happens to be a photographic mentor is better still.
Read MoreThere are still fans of the 80s show "V" out there...
I went to the Sci-Fi World event in Malmö, Sweden this weekend with my 12 year old nephew, who is a “nerd-in-training” with a preference for Star Wars, the world of Tolkien and LEGO of all kinds. Of course I brought my camera with the hopes of capturing a few cosplayers there.
Read MoreCecilia from my photo club looking thrilled about the weather.
I’ve done a a bit of street photography since my last blog post, and all of that in the city of Malmö, Sweden. It’s one of my usual “hunting grounds”, so the streets are very familiar to me. So for me it is trying to catch people that is the more important thing, and in interesting situations at that. That’s not always possible, due to them being too far away (yes I know I can get closer) or being too quick to end up on the memory card.
Sometimes you can’t get the camera up to your eye fast enough to grab a shot when someone does something interesting...at least I can’t. My reflexes aren’t at ninja levels, so sometimes those picture opportunities slip through my fingers.
That’s perfectly fine though, and I’ve learned to not commiserate over or mope around about the images or people that got away. There’s always other images to take, more people to spot! It is much better to focus on the shots you actually did take! If you focus well enough (no pun intended) on them you’re bound to find at least a few keepers there!
Göran and Karin from my photo club have both found something interesting to capture.
It looks like this little dog is ready to take its humans home and out of the wind!
I'm slowly getting back to photography after my little break, and this was an impromptu photo outing to the little coastal town Lomma. My dad and I went out there to get a bit of fresh air as the sun was slowly setting after a very nice day of sunshine.
Read MoreThe first photowalk of the year for me was a rather windswept and chilly event, but it was also a lot of fun, and a nice way to ease myself back into photography after my hiatus.
I put up a post in a photography related Facebook group that I planned to do an impromptu photowalk in central Malmö on Saturday, and two other photographers from the group showed up and joined me as we slowly moved from the Triangeln train station through the city’s central parts to the Malmö Central station and back again.
Read MoreSkryllegården, Sweden, January 2009
January is now over and we’re into the shortest month of the year. This month my grand total of photos taken has been the lowest in years, and I am fine with that. I’ve written several blog posts now about how the obsession with shooting I used to have up until the fall of 2014 hasn’t returned. That is okay, because I am still very interested in photography as a subject...or topic. I definitely read books and magazines and watch videos online about photographers’ works and techniques, I’ve just not felt the urge to go out there and apply the skills or ideas presented in these various types of media.
Read MorePhotography is back on. Well...a little bit anyway. I've done one photo outing so far this year and it felt pretty good. I went to an old ”hunting ground” with my oft camera buddy...my father. We drove the Övedskloster mansion and garden for some photography in the all to rare sunshine. I've been there many times before, so it wasn't that feeling of ”oooh, I've got to photograph this thing I've never seen before”, it was more the joy of seeing something again that you've liked before. I told my dad that if we didn't get any shots worth saving that day it was okay too, just being outside in the sunshine felt good enough.
I took a few pictures, and share a few of those in this blog post. Hopefully I can make a weekly post (at least) this year. Every Sunday is not a bad goal to have. It should be an achievable deadline for just about anyone...including yours truly!
The teams line up for the referees' mandatory gear inspection .
Almost two months ago I had the privilege to shoot a Roller Derby game in Malmö, between Malmö Royal Roller Derby (in green) and the Royal Army from Stockholm (in black), as part of a four man group of photographers court side. I've been meaning to share some of the photos before, but just never got around to it...until now at the start of the new year.
Read MoreFor the last few weeks my grand total photos taken with my DSLR can be summed up with a very low number. In fact it can’t get any lower without going into negatives. That may sound rather ominous for someone into photography to not shoot photos, but it actually isn’t ominous or alarming at all. Quite the contrary in fact!
Read MoreI am currently on vacation in Austin, Texas and as my beloved host and I made our way home from brunch at IHOP (gotta get some of those pancakes when I am here!) she suggested we go to the Aquarium, and I thought that was a great idea. I hadn't exactly planned for a day of photography, so my DSLR was still in my backpack. My HTC One cell phone was what I'd have to use for photography that day. I was fine with that though, this vacation is NOT a photo vacation as much as it is a time of seeing loved ones.
Still I couldn't help myself snapping away a few as we walked through the displays and tanks with various fish, octopuses, sea urchins and a few creepies and crawlies. It actually felt good not to have that big camera with me...guess I am slowly turning into a "normal" person? Pity the thought!
My point to this post though, is that it is okay to use whatever camera you can have with you; it doesn't have to be a big full-frame DSLR, it can sometimes be a cell phone...or a point and shoot. It's even possible to do without photography entirely and experience it "live", as my beloved host so eloquently puts it. That could be my New Year's resolution for 2015, to experience things more and not necessarily shoot photos of everything.
