I think I just solved the telephoto problem I’ve had with my Sony system. Sony’s cameras are far ahead of their lens selection and there’s two things that I’ve missed, a large aperture extreme wideangle for night photo, and a long telephoto. When Zeiss announced the Batis 2.8/18 a couple of weeks ago, it filled the wideangle…
I thought yesterday was great. Well, today was better! This post-season season is new to me and honestly, it’s well worth the long and cold winter! Which, by the way, didn’t feel very long, and wasn’t very cold either. Apart from those few weeks in January when my car broke. But let’s not dwell on that… I…
The season officially ends this weekend. The tourists will go home and finding parking space in front of ICA will be easy again. And the mountains, they will be all ours! We had some more snow yesterday and when the sun came out today, it revealed gloriously white mountains all around. It really is a stunning…
We have a lot of roe deer around here, more than I ever saw in Föne. I’ve seen them regularly walk past the house and amazingly, they are not as shy here as they were in Föne. A few times I’ve come surprisingly close while walking or cycling on the driveway and the animals just look…
I frikkin’ h a t e skate skiing. I’m trying hard to pretend I don’t, I keep talking about these small improvements, but when it comes down to it, please put me out of my misery and shoot me if you ever see me stand on skate skis again. I got up before sunrise today…
Fabulous weekend! It is sunny today and it will be sunny tomorrow and in between there’s a cold night which creates a crust on the snow. I’ve never really tried crust skiing before so I wasn’t quite sure where to go, so I chose a compromise. I drove to Fjällnäs, where I could ski on the prepared…
This is the kind of day we should have had during the Easter (no, I still can’t let that go). Warm sunshine and blue sky, just inviting me to ski up to the mountain. Going uphill in the afternoon sun left no doubts about the season – it was warm, very warm. I took off…
I’ve noticed that my mood and photographic opportunities are directly related. When a long time passes without any good photo sessions, I start to get depressed. Then a day comes that I get no less than two reasons to exercise the camera and suddenly I’m as happy as ever! It was overcast yesterday but late…
It’s the last day of the Easter break, thank god! I can’t take this any more. Grey skies, wind, warm temperatures, this is the worst Easter since… ehrm… well, it hasn’t been a good Easter. We’re supposed to have sunshine! So today I gave up. I had planned to go skiing but I just simply…
Last week I swore that I wouldn’t do any more skate skiing unless it’s on the crusty snow on the early mornings of late April after a cold night. Today it was a few degrees above crusty, with a bit of rain in the air, and I went skate skiing. My hybrids don’t glide and…