Photography
When you live in Skåne, Sweden like I do you're never really that far away from the ocean. I don't see it every day, but it is a nice feeling to know that it is only a short drive there to get the salty smell in your lungs and getting to see the vast expanse of water in front of you.
Read MoreThere’s a certain feeling of excitement when you shoot in a new place, and another when you go to a place you’ve been before. This weekend was a bit of both, since I’d only explored a part of the area the group of photographers from a local FB group heading out went to. I had a clue what to expect, but there was still quite a bit of new stuff to discover and explore.
We traveled across the Bridge (infamous for those who enjoy that crime show) to Örestad, a part of Copenhagen that’s slowly being built with lots of modern buildings and at least in some places innovative architecture. There’s an awful lot of glass, concrete and steel, and that’s not exactly my kind of thing, but I’d say it worked pretty well in several of the buildings. I’m no architecture expert in any way, but it was possible to see how the architects had intended the place to look.
Read MoreSunday was a day when I sort of restarted my photowalking after my long bout with the flu. There was a gathering of Instagram users who had agreed to walk the streets of Malmö, and I decided to join in. Not so much for the Instagram part, but just to do some photowalking again.
The weather was very nice so I decided to travel into the city an hour early so I could get some shooting done on my own first, because while photowalking is great with fellow photographers it’s not exactly the most rewarding photography wise, because a big group of photographers can’t exactly blend into the scenery. We do tend to stand out sometimes! So the vast majority of these photos I did before the actual walk with all the others, some twenty or thirty people walking around snapping away with their cell phones.
This has been a week of no photographic value whatsoever for yours truly. Not much value in any other way either for that matter. I’ve been down (and I definitely mean down as in out cold) with the flu, so I’ve not been thinking about much except about the effort of reaching for my glass of water or making the room stop spinning when the dizzy spells became too severe. Fortunately the worst is behind me, so I can actually type these words.
I am not going to do any boasting or claiming that my flu is any more impressive than any one else’s, so enough about that!
Since I want to share photographic stuff in this blog (rather than fever temp charts!) I’ll resort to a few shots from the "archives". These are from April 2014 and are all shot during walks in my neighborhood and hometown Staffanstorp. We haven't come this far in spring explosions of color yet, but hopefully we'll get there really soon!
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.
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