#55 Updated camera gear for sports

Football with the X-T2 and 55-200 zoom My kids are notourious sports freaks – I have written about this before. I find my self watching at least one game of football or floorball every weekend and of course I always bring my camera. It can be a challenge to be creative when you shoot sports. It…

#54 More photography – less photos

Stockholm – Leica M240 and Zeiss 35/2,8 The past few years of shooting with the Leica M system has left me thinking about how the number of pictures taken, is related to the ”fun factor”. The first half of my photography life was about analogue film cameras, the second was the digital age. I estimate…

#51 Why I want to go back, and why not

The Faroe Islands is a wonderful place – I loved it. Would I like to go back? Yes – and no. Let me explain… Fujifilm X-T2 and 18-55 zoom It is always a special feeling, as you visit a place for the first time. All the first impressions. Was it as you had imagined? Exploring…

#50 One Camera and one Lens?

What would a journey to a place like the Faroe Islands be like – from a photographic point of view – if I had brought only one camera with a 35mm lens? For the journey we made I had packed the following cameras and lenses; Fujifilm X-T2, 10-24 zoom, 18-55 zoom, 55-200 zoom, 50/2 prime…

#49 The Faroe Islands Part 5

Boats – Leica M240 and Zeiss 35/2,8 As you may have read in other posts on this page, I am a fan of certain kind of ships; icebreakers, tow boats and pilot boats. Now – after visiting the Faroes – I have to add fishing boats to that list. In the Faroes there are a…

#48 The Faroe Islands Part 4

In post #47 I wrote about the small villages at the end of the road. Now it is time for the slightly larger villages – or perhaps Towns is the proper word. Torshavn is the biggest town on the islands and also the capital. After you land at the airport on Vágar, it is a…

#46 The Faroe Islands Part 2

Sheep – Fujifilm X-T2 and 10-24 zoom The landscape of the Faroe Islands is incredible. In the end of August, when we visited the islands, the landscape is green. Really green. Every where you look there is a waterfall – and a sheep. Sheep everywhere you look. Unfortenatly the top of the hills were covered…

#45 The Faroe Islands Part 1

A typical landscape in the Faroes – Fujifilm X-T2 and 55-200 zoom For me, the Faroe Islands have always been a place far away in the Atlantic – not for me to visit. Not until I suddenly realized that it is only a two hour flight from Copenhagen. It was a Danish photographer – Mads…

#43 The Western Archipelago

Sweden is a country with a lot of coast and beautiful archipelagos. The pictures in this post are from the west coast, just outside Gothenburg – actually only 20 minutes by car and another 20 with a small ferry. The western archipelago is very different from the eastern. Here [in the west] it is a…

#40 Me, my camera and my bike Part 1

The most uncool bike rider shot, Fujifilm X-T2 and 18-55/2.8-4 Today I went for a cup of coffe in a nearby café with my bike and camera. The summer is back, after a couple of days of gray weather. Not that the rain is not needed – it really is. But the sun makes riding…

#39 Shooting sports again

Last week I visited the largest youth soccer tournament in the world; Gothia Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden. This year a total of 1686 teams from 75 countries took part in the games and played more than 4000 matches. The participants are between 11 and 18 years old. My son played in the class ”Boys 15”…

#36 The Backyard

The Greenhose at my wifes parents – Leica M240 and Zeiss 35/2 Sometimes it is easy to forget your own backyard, when you think about photography. At least for me. I often sit at home and think about all the places where I can go and take photos. But why is it always more fun…