On March 2 I took my Fujifilm XT-3 and a 35 mm lens with me to the monthly photographers’ get-together in Malmö, Sweden where we fill our bellies with various delicacies on offer at the Coffee Square restaurant (I strongly recommend it to anyone in the vicinity!) and then we do a little stroll together for an hour…and sometimes a bit longer. It’s a very nice way to see old friends and geek out about photography and whatever else we can come up with to talk about. And eat some good food…which I’ve already mentioned I suppose…moving on!

*The gang getting ready to go down our usual path for the photowalk*

The last month’s gathering took place on a VERY gray February Sunday morning, and it was very difficult to muster any sort of photographic enthusiasm during the walk. I think I came home with perhaps two or three photos on the film strip (I’ve yet to develop the roll so I don’t know if they were even worth keeping). I mentioned this to some of the others in the group and we were all very much in agreement that it was not the most encouraging conditions for photography that day. This Sunday though, the sun was shining and, while it was still very windy at times, you could feel the slight touch of warmth when you were in the sunlight! Instantly it felt so much nicer to be out and about in the city, camera in hand. It also made me take slightly more photos than last time, if only a handful more. It still counts though!

*It’s so nice to see some shadows when you try to photograph in the city!*

I chose to go black and white for this outing, mostly because I’ve been thinking a lot about getting going with my analog photography again and use up my far-too-big stash of film rolls in the fridge. I am not going to need any purchases of film for a loooooong time, at least not unless I start shooting analog much, much more often! So to start up my brain in analog, black and white mode, I switched the preset in my image styles of the camera to one of the contrasty black and white modes for the day.