There’s one thing I keep saying to myself, but not always living it – which is that if you see a photographic opportunity, you’d better make the most of it because that opportunity won’t come back, ever again. There are so many variables in nature that the same place will never look exactly the same, sometimes the changes are barely noticeable but they are there nonetheless. Thus it was that when I was standing the shore of the Fågelsjö lake on what was a sunny and calm morning, it wasn’t quite as sunny and it wasn’t quite as calm as it was last Saturday when I had visited the place for the first time. So I quickly left and went for my plan B, which was to check out a new place a few km north from Fågelsjö.
I found a shallow lake with rocks in all sizes lining up the shores. The lake is dammed and I don’t know what it had looked like before the dams, and to be honest I don’t really care either because it only comes down to one thing – photogenic or not? And this place is indeed photogenic, many times over! Morning is just the perfect time to be there, but when a place is this good, it’s normally good in any light. So I was walking around, seeing opportunities everywhere and I discovered that it really is possible to have too much of a good thing. After a while I was so overwhelmed that I just simply gave up, knowing that I’ve only scratched the surface.
I sat down for a cup of coffee and as I was eating my cookie, I noticed an opportunity I couldn’t resist. The funny thing is that I didn’t even bother to stand up – I just traded the coffee cup for the camera and took the picture sitting down on the spot. Sometimes it’s that easy.