The three months ending the old year and beginning the new (November to January) are usually the slowest photography months for me, usually because the light is pretty much non-existent bar a few days when we have clear skies and (maybe) some snow covering the ground. Those days are good for photography, but otherwise…perhaps not so much. I usually put my camera away for much of this period since I find the lack of light so uninspiring. However, to combat these photographic doldrums and feelings of “why bother” I ventured into the center of Malmö to see if the ongoing Christmas market stalls and people there would inspire me.

After a long walk through the city I came home with 46 exposures on the memory card, which is pretty low for me for an outing like this, where I walked many miles in the two and a half hours I spent in the very gray and dim daylight. I didn’t think I had that many good ones, in fact I didn’t even bother to download them to the computer straight away like I usually do, I waited till the next day. When I did it turned out there were a few worth saving, there were a few that I wasn’t entirely unhappy with!

I guess my aversion to this dim and gray light we have right now may have clouded my perception a bit as to the quality of the pictures I took. When I was out there it felt more like I was on autopilot rather than being very creative, but it turns out that sometimes the autopilot can take an okay image here and there!