Hi everyone,

This is taken today. It’s for an assignment for The mindful eye web site. The theme for the assignment is “In my backyard”. So this is an image from my backyard.

Let me know what you think.

Ciao.

Yesterday was a real photo day. I spent 1,5 hours after work shooting in Malmö down town. It was of course more or less completely dark so I was stuck with the 50 mm lens and f/ 1.8. It turned out to be a pretty good experience. the shots above are the ones I like the most.

I actually went down to the sea during my lunch break for some long exposure shooting but the weather was totally grey. I took a few shots but they are very uninteresting.

Well, anyway. Since my car broke down this morning I couldn’t get to work. No chance of commuting where I live!! I ended up recording a video, the second episode in the series that I call “the making of”. Unfortunately after finishing the video (25 minute long!!) I found out the sound was bad, really bad. Need to get myself a new mic so that I can rerecord it.

Have a good night.

Today I tried some still life shooting. Can’t say it was very easy. I also had to do it in a rush since I made the dishes first. Not very clever… Light faded.

Anyway, what do you think? Is it too dark? It’s also slightly warm toned. I’ve always loved dark, warm flower images. I don’t know why. Maybe because it’s just tones. Nothing else really.

I took a few close up’s with my Lensbaby today to. I’ll upload them to Flickr tomorrow. Must go to bed now.

I left the office at around 4:30. Tired. The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic. Anyway, I left the office and drove down to a place called Bunkeflostrand. It’s pretty close to the sea so I thought I’d try get some ocean views. But the weather was crap — at least if you ask me as a photographer. If you had asked the other people that were running or just taking a walk with the dog they would have said the weather was superb.

Clear blue sky. I had to stay in the shadows. A total lack of inspiration hit me as I parked the car. I thought what am I doing here? So, I went for a unusual lens, the Lensbaby. That lens always surprises and that suited me perfectly today. The session today turned out to be pretty good. A few close-ups of flowers and other stuff. Make sure you view the series here.

Thanks for stopping by.

Rufus is a 5 month old little boy. He got baptised last week. He wore this dress. It hung so beutifully at the get-together that I just had to take a picture.

One unusually cold day in southern Sweden.