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Today I had the most amazing photo walk in my Elfvik paradise. Even though I only took a couple of photos. The sun sparkles in the water inspried me to film instead of taking photos. This film will be up tomorrow. I am teasing a bit! 😉 Building up suspension. Building up expectations. So you are now at the edge of your seats and expect a masterpiece no less. Right?? 😉 But in all honesty it is just a bunch of clips of ”moving photos” so to speak. I like the addition movement gives to a scene that a still photograph can’t convey. I also like how the film media allows you to edit and add music to the scenes. An extra dimension. I took some lazy snapshots with the mobile phone when I just wanted a quick photo to document the walk. Taking out the camera and prepare it would take too […]
The long weekend is over. It came and went. Time is fascinating. It is seconds and minutes. 60 seconds per minute for 24 hours a day. Time is constant. But yet it feel so inconsistent. It can be very slow. And very fast. Five minutes is an eternity when you stand in the rain waiting for the bus at the bus stop and a lovely spring-like four-day long weekend can feel like two seconds. Easter Eve was spent with my grandmother. We had a lovely day feasting on cake and sweets. It was a beautiful early spring day. If this keeps up soon things will start to blossom and bring back colour to nature again. When I walked in Lidingö Centrum to buy our cake, I was like a drug addict craving the sunlight that flooded the square . Its bright light and warm soothing rays on my cheeks started an endorphine rush in […]
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FINALLY I get to upload my photos for this week in Jen’s and my photo Project. I didn’t quite get the results I had hoped. I was aiming for some low key lighting of my tulips but failed that – the result came out like just flat light doing nothing for the Beautiful tulips. Luckily tulips are pretty in themselves even in my bad lighting so I put the least failed photo up here. After I failed the tulips I started experimenting with the torch and writing instead. It is getting better but oh my god it’s difficult. To know what you actually write into thin air and then also writing it reversed so that it becomes right in camera. Gee – I have like no idea where my letters go and how I shape them – the letters A, E and H…. come on! This takes a LOT of practice before […]
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I will have to put up my photos later this evening. I can’t get it dark enough for my photos so I need to wait for sundown. Oh what a lovely problem to have! 😌 Spring light!
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Glad påsk! Jag unnade mig sovmorgon idag på min lediga dag och att uppdatera bloggen på samma dag som inlägget publiceras. Därför kom inget inlägg klockan åtta, utan nu. Vem mer än jag håller egentligen koll på tiden ändå? 🙂 Huvuddelen av dagen kommer jag att storstäda. Det är välbehövligt kan jag säga. Men jag ser faktiskt fram emot det konstigt nog. Jag hatar annars att städa. Haha. Men nu är det verkligen nödvändigt och då är det rensande både för hemmet och för själen att bli av med gammal skit och få helt rent. Vädret är lite halvtrist också så det är lika bra att utnyttja denna lediga dag till städning. Igår var det däremot jättefint väder och jag och en kollega flexade ut vid halv tre från jobbet och tog en fika för att fira påskledigheten. Det var härligt! Eftersom vädret var så underbart så tog jag en […]
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This would be the entry where I would normally put up this week’s photo project photos, but both Jen and I have been busy so we agreed to post them tomorrow instead. So tomorrow at 3 pm CET my photos will be up. Tomorrow is Good Friday and off work, so I am planning a shopping trip to Panduro to buy some cheap water paint. I have been looking at different water painting techniques on Pinterest and thought I would play around with them. I can’t draw or paint anything that resembles anything. But I can still play around with colours and techniques for my own entertainment and noone to see. I remember playing around with water colour techniques as a child in school or if it was preschool. For example how fun and cool it was to see how the paint just spread out and mixed in different patterns when you splashed paint […]
I start this entry by wishing you a Happy Easter since it is Maundy Thursday when you read this. 🙂 I am looking forward to a long weekend. Four wonderful days off. I will be taking a photo walk, and possibly planning to document my Saturday for the blog some way. Not that anything special is going on but for fun. I will visit my grandmother on Easter Eve so will spend the day with her. So maybe you will get to meet my grandmother. How about that? I haven’t decided what exactly we will do yet. If we just spend the day together at her place or if we go out for a car ride somewhere. All I know is that we will have a good day, granny and I. <3 She is the best mormor (maternal grandmother) in the world even when memory is failing her and things get confusing […]
Mina tankar går till alla oskyldiga hederliga vanliga människor som bara vill leva sina liv i fred, som helt ursinningslöst faller offer för terrorns ondska. Det sker nu överallt, även i vår världsdel. För många miljoner människor i världen är det som hände i Bryssel vardag. Jag tror att vi får ställa in oss på att det blir mer och mer vardag för oss också. Vi lever i en värld där ondskan och hatet tar över mer och mer. Jag vill hoppa av! Hatet och oron späds dessutom på genom makthungriga världsledare som gör allt de kan för att göra världen så ondskefull och instabil som möjligt. De och terroristerna vill att vi ska börja hata varandra för att vi ska ”rättfärdiga” deras onda handlingar. De vill söndra och härska. Jag önskar att alla vi vanliga hederliga människor runt om i världen orkar stå emot hatet. För det enda som kan motverka det är att vi, […]
Easter holiday is approaching. A four-day leave from work. Yay. I can’t wait, because I want to take my camera out again. It has been too long now. My archive of new photos is empty so I have no photos to show in the blog either. I have been so busy lately that I haven’t even been able to get out on photo walks. That will definitely happen this Easter. Keep your fingers crossed there will be some day with nicer photo weather over the holiday. I don’t know about you – but I often lose inspiration a bit this time of the year when it comes to taking pictures. Because now I am just waiting for spring when nature displays some colour again and that first sheer budding green that glows almost transparent in the sunlight. Little creeks running free again after the ice has broken. Hepaticas and anemones flooding […]
We are now through the spring equinox so now the light is definitely beating the darkness. On Sunday it’s daylight saving time finally. The light is officially BACK! Yay. But here in Stockhom the winter is still fighting spring. Snow is falling from the sky and it’s chilly. I love snow but now I have had enough of it. So these winter strikes are annoying, but deep inside I know – spring will prevail and conquer in the end. So that thought is what keeps me going now. It’s like a metaphor of life. If you just hang in there, never give up, never lose hope and the sight of a sunny horizon, good things will come. The bad strikes back, it always does because life is a constant mix of good and bad, but the good always wins if we let it win. The key is also to see the […]
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