Pride on the streets
With about a month and a half of delay today I am sharing the photos I took at this year’s Pride Parade in Malmö, Sweden. As usual the parade was the conclusion of Pride week in town on a Saturday.
Lights in the woods
Thanks to the wonders of social media I came across information about an upcoming art installation in the nearby Skrylle woods, not too far from where I live, where a lighting designer called Micaela Pärsdotter Andersson, would put up a number of light installations at one of the foot paths in the woods in an art piece she called “Gömda världar, glömda världar” (Hidden worlds, forgotten worlds). The word play works better in Swedish since the the words for hidden and forgotten are very similar, but that’s what the title means.
Snow and sun in the park
With all the darkness and cloudy, shadowless weather we’ve had since before Christmas it was a rare treat to wake up on a Saturday morning and see an almost cloudless sky outside and some actual, genuine sunshine outside. I felt a little bit of a photographic urge inside for the first time in a while, so I grabbed my severely underused shoulder bag with cameras in it and my photo partner (a.k.a. Dad) and drove out to a regular photographic location, the Alnarp Agricultural University and its park.
2025 - looking back at a year (part II)
I started this retrospective look at my photography of 2025 in my last blogpost where I covered the first half of the year, so it made perfect sense to cover the second half in this post (as if I didn’t plan it that way in the first place…). :-) The second half of the year was actually less photography filled than the first half, mostly due to illness in the family that kept interfering. Fortunately that is not as much of an issue now, so hopefully 2026 will end up being MUCH better, both healthwise as well as when it comes to photography!
2025 - looking back at a year
So far photography for me in the year 2026 has been very slow. The low winter sun seems to be gone before I am able to get out there to capture stuff in it, so I am biding my time until the daylight hours last a little bit longer. In the meantime I think I can benefit from going back and think about some of the images I took during 2025. Often I tend to just transfer my photos from the camera to the hard drive, select and edit my keepers and then it is onto whatever is next to photograph, so a bit of a reflection on what is in my saved folders can’t hurt!
December streets of Lund
Just before the Christmas and New Year holidays I had some errands to do in Lund, so I strapped my shoulder bag with cameras onto myself and got on the bus into town. The weather was actually quite alright and I could get a nice backlit photo or two before the early winter sunset changed that and turned everything a much darker shade and less interesting light. Still it was nice to grab a few black and white, rather contrasty street photos again since it had been a while since I had done those.
Colors at the Coast
The amount of daylight in the far north of the world where I currently reside (a.k.a. southern Sweden) in the middle of November isn’t all that long-lasting, so it was nice to be able to capture the last glimpses of the sun as it slipped behind a cloud on the western horizon. The photos in this post were all taken during a brief and chilly outing to the little coastal community of Lomma, outside Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city.
More fall colors…
The weather in the south of Sweden this last week of October 2025 has been quite “moist” so when I saw there was a break in the rain I drove out to my usual wooded area near Skrylle where I enjoy strolling through the trees.
October in the city
There’s been a lull in my photography again this year, once again due to illness in the family, but that is okay. I would be a pretty shitty family member if I didn’t put the camera down and focus on what’s important after all! However I did have the opportunity to take a few photos when my photo club had a bit of a photo challenge around the Davidshall square in Malmö, Sweden on a pretty chilly October Saturday afternoon.
Curing a slump
For the last few weeks I haven’t really had the urge to photograph. That is nothing unfamiliar to me; I tend to have those slumps during the dark winter months and when the light of spring comes back in late February I pick up photography again. I don’t usually have the “urgh” hit me in September though, so that was a bit of a novelty.