So far 2024 has been a very low-volume year for me when it comes to photography. I guess I hit that mid-winter slump that usually strikes when the light is almost non-existent and the weather seems determined to be the worst it possibly can be. So I am okay with there being a lull now and then (I’ve written about it several times before in this blog so I won’t dwell on it in this post. That was why I decided to hop on a bus into the center of Malmö for a stroll down my usual “hunting ground” in the downtown area.
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The 365 Project Mark VI - Month Four
One third of the year is done and it feels we are still in the same holding pattern we’ve been in since March of 2020, waiting for the light in the tunnel. Thankfully the weather is getting better, the days are getting longer, there’s more green and other colors out there and allergies are kicking in (that last bit isn’t positive, but at least it’s an indication that spring is here…this year I’ll take that as an almost good thing!). Also, vaccines are being administered to more and more people…which is the most important thing!
Read MoreBring a camera!
There is a saying among photographers that’s been uttered so many times that it’s become a cliche, more than a cliche even: “The best camera is the one that you have with you”. That utterance is most definitely true…it is after all tricky to shoot anything if you don’t have a picture-taking device on your person…but it’s also such a cliche that I tend not to say it…not much anyway.
Read MoreChristmas Market time...again
During the month of December (just like in every other part of the world I am sure) there's a tradition for Christmas markets around these parts of southernmost Sweden. I've been to a number of them through the years, and this year I chose the one at Jakriborg, a faux-medieval housing area a short commuter train ride away from Lund. It has a definite North German feel to it with its narrow buildings with steep roofs, even though it was all built in the 1990s.
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Outside my window the snow is falling and the lawns below are slowly getting more and more covered in white, making for a very monotone landscape. The images in today's post (taken at the beginning of the month) are also quite monotone in nature, apart from some very bright color splashes here and there.
Read MoreAcross the water for modern architecture
There’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.
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