Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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June started off with a bang, with high summer temperatures. The period came to an abrupt end with a few days of rain – and the odd snowflake! No kidding. The rest of the month was rather dull, weatherwise, with temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees and hardly any rain at all. And speaking of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There’s an interesting discussion over at NPN about ”fixing” your subject, i.e. manipulation before pressing the shutter (as opposed to manipulation in post-processing). If any manipulation needs to be done, I prefer to do mine before I take the picture. I just like the idea of getting it right in the camera. But the dilemma…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I’m proud to present my first photo exhibition this summer! My loosfoto.se site that is dedicated to this little village of ours has gained some momentum and I was asked if I’d be interested in exhibiting some of the photos in the local library. I thought that it would be a great opportunity to reach…
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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…