Introduction I spent the first 25 years of my career earning my living as a chemist, with photography as an obsessional hobby and sporadic source of pocket money. But then in my late 40’s I decided to see if I could pay all my bills through photography. 10 years later I’m very happy that I […]
How hard can it be ?
Many people viewing the picture of Tant Skateboard pimping her ride might think “I could have taken that”. And they would be right – if the conditions had been just right the moment they passed, they could have snapped the same image as I did. But conditions weren’t right, and as a jobbing photographer you […]
On a mission from God
This summer (2014) there is an exhibition of local church artifacts at Uppsala Cathedral (himlenarhar.se), and my colleague Georg Lulich and I were lucky enough to be awarded the contract to take most of the photographs for the catalogue. This was a dream job that involved visiting 35 churches in the diocese and photographing the […]
The horse studio
A few years ago I came across a horse that was standing in a pool of light in front of a dark bush that was in shadow, and the high contrast led to an image of her eye that looked like it was taken in a studio. I really liked the result (as did Edviks […]
A day in the life
This is the story of the shoot of an advert for a new-business network that I’m in. A group of us in the network decided we could afford a full-page ad in the local paper if we all shared it, and so three of us set about making it happen. Zara happens to have been […]
Oman
Back from a trip to Oman that I won with a photo from last year’s holiday in Sri Lanka. The most photogenic area of Oman has to be the sand deserts that were a few hours north of our hotel in Salalah, but unfortunately we only had one night there, and with sunsets only lasting […]
Underwater photography
Professional underwater housings are extremely expensive and dedicated to a particular camera model, so I’ve been playing with cheaper alternatives at the local pool. First I tried a soft case for my DSLR, but found it very clumsy, and since scatter in the water wasted the quality from a big camera I moved over to […]
Location lighting
Studios don’t suit me very well – they are expensive to rent and need a lot of imagination to build an interesting scene out of four white walls. So I much prefer location shooting, but still want to have good lighting. Nikon have long had an excellent remote control system for their pocket flashes – […]
Exhibition at Gottsunda Library
During March I will be having some pictures on display at Gottsunda Biblioteket along with Eva Triumf and Saska Björck, who constitute Hovmästarna, a group dedicated to celebrating horses through painting, photography and poetry. The focus of the exhibition is the horses in Hågadalen, a valley near where I live, and through which I walk […]
Sri Lanka
Just back from 2 weeks in Sri Lanka. This is a brilliant place for photography – wonderful scenery, exotic birds and other animals, and friendly smiley people who are happy to be photographed. I left my full-format D700 at home, because the D300 is much more flexible, with its 18-200 VR do-anything lens that I […]
Pocket cameras
Here’s a picture taken with the tiny pocket camera that I always have with me : The weather was bad and I was just taking a quick walk on which I didn’t think it was worth lugging my usual 8kg of gear, when I heard sleigh bells through the forest and these guys came galloping […]
The Butterfly House
Today I took a trip to The Butterfly House in Stockholm with Johannes It was mostly for fun, but also a bit of training before my trip to Sri Lanka. Being the first day after the school holidays it was very quiet and not much of a problem to use a tripod. Flashguns are ‘discouraged’, […]
Exhibition at Georg Lulich gallery
is off to host his LA exhibition during November, so I get to take over his gallery for the month. Amongst other things I’ll be showing my canvas nature prints, some horse pictures, and I’ll also be selling A5 greetings cards with winter and Uppsala motifs. The opening is on Saturday 30th October, officially from […]
Fisheye lenses
I took this pic a few days ago, and it reminded me why I love my fisheye lens : I used to think that fisheye lenses were just for fun special effects, and weren’t useful often enough to buy one, but last year I found a cheap used 10.5mm nikkor in the US, and bought […]
Blog start
I’ve resisted the temptation to blog for a long time, but since a lot of my friends ask me the same questions about cameras, I thought it might be a good idea to think about the answers a bit more carefully and publish my thoughts. I hope someone finds something useful here. In case you […]