I had another look at the round-leaved wintergreens I had dismissed as un-photographable yesterday. With some generous gardening – and by that I mean weeding – I was able to get a clean background so I guess you could call this destructive photography rather than creative, I feel kinda bad for doing that. I have…

Last year I discovered one-flowered wintergreens (Moneses uniflora) and round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) too late to shoot them, so I was determined to get them this year. Only problem was, I wasn’t seeing either of them in the locations where I found them last year, but after exploring the forests around me, I found them…

Finally, an overcast day with little wind! I had a list of eight flowers I should theoretically be able to shoot today, and when I finished my shooting, I had nine. Only four of them from my list, though! Amazing things happen… I wanted to shoot early marsh orchids and was happy to find them…

If I thought that yesterday was windy, then today was hopeless. All I could do was to scout, so I was all the more happier when I discovered some long-lost flowers nearby. I was actually looking for the round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) and found one (count them, o-n-e) where they were plentiful last year. At…

Midsummer’s Eve is traditionally a half day off here in Sweden, but at some workplaces you get the whole day free. My workplace is one of them. Looking at the weather forecast, it was going to be the usual midsummer weather – rain. Only problem was that it was not raining in the afternoon like…

Somehow I’ve managed to avoid seeing any cranberry flowers until two years ago. Since then, I’ve somehow managed to avoid shooting them, but I was really hoping to correct that mistake this summer. It figures that when you’re looking for them, they’re nowhere to be found… So I stopped looking, and suddenly found a whole…

My goal (wish) for this summer was that I could find two new species of orchid. This region is favourable to many orchid species and we even have some rarities, although naturally not even close to the extent that is found on Gotland (big island off the south-east coast of Sweden). But, I’ll happily settle…

Or as the Swedes would say it, Humleblomster och en humla. I was just setting up the rig when this bumblebee showed up. Knowing that it will not wait for me to finish setting up things, I fired the shutter and hoped that I got the exposure, sharpness and composition. Exposure, yes. Sharpness – good…

When I was aching for the 300mm lens, it was not only for the smooth backgrounds but also for the smooth foregrounds. An experienced photographer can quickly pick the subjects and backgrounds. I can pick them, slowly. But then you have this thing about foreground, and now suddenly you have three things to worry about:…