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A Sunday in the rain

Like I wrote on sunday, we slept for a while and did some cleaning – but then we felt that even though it was Sunday, and also raining – just staying home was so boring, we wanted to do something! So we headed in to town and a cozy café.

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We headed to Espresso House and just relaxed. I enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate, photographed a little and sketched/doodled. Andreas read in a book he’d borrowed. Due to the rain, the air was crisp, not many people where out and about and it was rather calm and quiet there.

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It was still raining a lot when we left the café – but non of us minded that – on the contrary, we rather liked it. We decided to walk to a park/forest called Slottskogen which was totally the right decision! It being a sunday, and raining and all, there were practically no people there. Just the sounds and smells of rain, forest and nature. Amazing.

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A family of geese - Andreas has seen and photographed them before, when the kids were smaller (and four, instead of three…). They were really adorable, and came really really close! We stayed around, photographing them a while before heading off deeper in to the woods. We just strolled around in the rain, enjoying nature and animals, talking and photographing. Below are a few of many pictures I took. It was great to photograph so relaxed and undemanding for a change. Read more

Old, rusty and worn

There’s just something about us photographers, we find old, broken and worn things so beautiful and inspiring. We’re also hoarders – collecting all kinds of weird objects we can find/buy for the use of photo props, backdrops etc. Me and Andreas saw an old, rusty bike yesterday – and both of us just had to photograph it. Besides being worn by time and weather, it’s colors and the fact that it stood alone in the rain made it even more beautiful and photogenic.

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Monday Morning

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Taken and edited with my iPhone 4S.

I’ve had a slow, relaxed and cozy morning in bed. I got up a little after 07.00, made coffee and breakfast. I crawled back in to bed and enjoyed it all while reading the latest issue of the travel magazine Vagabond.

Right now I’m wearing a supercozy, knitted cardigan, while listening to First Aid Kit (new found love!) and editing pictures from my day out with Andreas yesterday. I’m considering making another cup of coffee. I will make a blog post about yesterday before I continue to work, I have pictures to edit and emails to send.

1Q84

Spending the morning hours, all through breakfast, and in the sun on the balcony – lost in another world, another year. The year 1Q84. Beautifully made up by japanese author Haruki Murakami. It does not feel made up at all though. I finally got the power to lay the book aside, realizing it is a book – and that this here – my place in front on the computer, writing these words, is reality. The world I’ve been in for the past hours is not, that feels strange and hard to grasp. He is such an excellent writer, I love his books, the people and places he writes about. It all feels so real, normal, ordinary – our reality is the one feeling strange after a while. His books leave a deep impression in body in mind, always, long after you’ve finished reading them. 1Q84 is a trilogy – and I’ve come quite a bit in to book 2, so I have a lot of pages left.

Now I need to realize that this is where I belong though, set that world and characters aside and do what must be done here, in my life and in this world, Wednesday, February 20:th in the year of 2013 – Sweden. I am not in Tokyo, year 1Q84 where there’s two moons in the sky.

Jasmine

A cosy, late october day and rather early in the morning, I met up with Martina and headed to Jasmine’s place. I want so start shooting fashion in a more cozy/lifestyle way (and I need practice) so that was what today’s shoot was going to be all about – which was hard both for me and Jasmine, since none of us are used to it. Also, I had to try out my new lens, the Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 – a lens I am so far, very pleased with.

Continue reading for some more pictures + some behind the scenes material -> Read more

Winter, tea and cosy times

A few weeks ago I did a cozy, christmas inspired still life which I photographed. Tea, candles, cinnamon and old books on a lovely blanket. I really enjoy shooting like this, working in my own pace, building/setting up a still life and then photographing it. I was a bit afraid of having the candles on the blanket though, but it all went well.


The books is a calendar and a writing journal from Paperblanks. The teapot is a grey cast iron one from Granit, and very similar to what Inara in the series Firefly use, which you can see here, and the mug is from Indiska. The blanket is handmade, a present from Rakel, a relative to Andreas.

I had my Nikon on a tripod, used my Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 and natural light from the window and the candles.