Kategori: The Quiet Picture


  • The grey weather continues. Clouds are hanging low like a lid over the landscape.

  • No snow in sight, and the vegetation is looking sadder by the day.

  • Switched to another new lens, Sigma 70-200/2.8 OS. I had a particular subject in mind today, but when I got close to it, I saw some geese. Since I now had 200mm (x1.6) at my disposal, I took out the camera to see if I could make anything out of the geese but then I noticed these mallards…

  • Same beach, with sun. It was incredibly hard to create any contrast in the picture yesterday, I really had to process it hard in LR and the pattern still doesn’t come out. What a difference the sun makes.

  • Part of the new beach at Kyrksjön is available again as the waters are receding. Boring old sand… I already miss the bleak black beaches of Iceland!

  • I’ve got a new hobby – geocaching. I know I’m really late with it, but I never saw the point with it. I’m out and about thanks to my camera, I don’t need to look for the caches. But as I’ve said so many times, I am suffering from motivational problems so it occurred to…

  • Made a trip to Stockholm and brought home a bag full of goodies! This is officially the biggest overhaul of my photographic gear, ever. Even when I got my first SLR I only got two lenses for it, now I’ve changed almost everything. The thing is, I was never completely happy with the Canon 6D…

  • It’s been cold enough for the snow to stick around.

  • After the snowing, it’s now almost sunny. Clouds reflected over Kyrksjön, grass glowing golden in the afternoon sun.

  • It’s embarrassing to be caught out by the snow and ice. But I was determined not to change to winter tires too soon so I held out, despite the snowfall that was forecast. It looked like the snow would come and go like it did last Saturday and it wasn’t going to get cold in…