Bye-bye Gothenburg - for a little while

I did a short photo walk today through a couple of places in central Gothenburg, which I haven't visited since I came back. Tomorrow, I'm leaving for a quick trip back to San Diego, so I thought I should do a nostalgia photo walk before I leave.
This hot dog place is really classic, it's been there as long as I can remember and they have the best mashed potatoes anywhere. Of course, I had to try a hot dog with mashed potatoes and it was just like I remember it. Yummie! I also snapped a few photos of other places nearby. They are all within a couple of hundred meters so it was a really short photo walk, but very nice. Click here to view the comlete set of photos. My next blog post will be from San Diego.

Abstract on Sweden's National Day

June 6 is the Swedish national day, three years ago established as a national holiday. We never had a national day before. How wear is that, I guess the contry is too old to care about something like that.
I thought a couple of abstract yellow and blue photos would be nice to match the color os the Swedish flag. There is also some green in this photo set, click here to view it.

Photo Walks

An email from a friend in San Diego reminded me that I haven't posted in a while so I gathered a few photos from a couple of quick photo walks I've done over the last couple of weeks. I haven't done much shooting lately, only a few family events. I did those photo walks after work to capture the soft evening light.
Thanks for reminding me Delphine! I'll try to shape up and do more photo walks, even though I don't really have anyone to shoot with over here. I need to join a local photo club once the summer is over and they're getting active again. In a week I will return to San Diego for a few weeks, so I hope to get together with my Californian photo friends again. If you want to see the complete set from the photo walks click here.

Gunnebo Castle

I spent Sunday afternoon shooting at the local castle Gunnebo, even though the weather wasn't that good. The overcast gave me very soft light though. All shots in manual mode using both my Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 and my Nikon 70-300 VR f/4.5 on my Nikon D300. I was playing a lot with details of the castle.

For the complete set of photos click here.

Lake Gröen in different modes

One early morning on my way to the airport heading for a business trip, my current favorite lake Gröen was covered by a mysterious looking mist. Even though I was late for the flight I stopped to make a few quick shots. I shot in manual mode at ISO 200, 50 mm, 1/2000, f/2.8, with my Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 on my D300. I made it in time for my flight. :-)
Almost ten days later on my way home from the airport, returning from another business trip, the sun was almost setting so I stopped at the same lake. Having more time at hand then earlier I spent some time trying to find nice compositions of the green and blue colors, as well as color patterns in the trees. With the camera set to Vivid mode the colors exploded. I just love that mode when the right scene appears infront of me and this was one of those scenes. I used both my 17-50 mm and my 70-300 zooms, and at various ISOs. The light was changing rapidly so I had to adjust the ISO several times.
It's amaazing when you consider these two images being from the same scene, only at different times of the day. The light really makes a difference. For a slideshow of the complete photo set click here.

Stockholm City Hall

I took the opportunity to do a photo walk to the Stockholm City Hall from my nearby hotel, while being in the city on a business trip. Bringing my camera on business trips makes for a nice change to aircrafts, hotels and conference rooms. Even though it was only early May the weather was like a warm and sunny summer day. Most photos where shot using the Tamron 17-50 f/2.8. It's a great lens to capture the surrondning, but buildings of course get pretty distorted at low focal lengths. Long distance closeups where shot using the Nikon 70-300 f/4.5 VR. The VR really helps in the 300 mm range.
The photo above shows the inside of the City Hall pillars. I was "fighting" with another photographer, doing a model shot, to get a good angle of the pillars. To view the complete set of photos click here.

Stockholm by Night

I'm currently on business travel in Stockholm, Sweden, so I took the opportunity last night to do some night photography. The photos are taken between 9 and 10 pm so the days are really getting long now.
It's amazing how you can see people kayaing and fishing in the heart of the city, you can even eat the fish you catch. To view the complete photo set click here.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my wife Monica's Birthday!
Have a nice birthday Monica! I love you!
This is at our house in Sweden.

Gothenburg Harbour Sunset

On my way home the other day I saw the sun setting so I drove to a place where I know I would find water for my image foreground. The few minutes before and after sunset just makes for great shots. Don't miss that opportunity.
View all the photos from my sunset shoot by clicking here. As usual, feel free to comment in my blog below.

Walk around the Finnsjön lake

The other day I decided to explore the Swedish nature which I for obvious reasons haven't done in years and really never done as a photographer. Our hose here in Sweden is about 20 minutes walking distance from the beautiful lake Finnsjön where we use to go swimming. I've never really been around the lake so this was an excellent opportunity to do just that.
It's amazing how many different green colors there is in nature at this time of the year. In just a few weeks all those green colors turn darker and changes the landscape quite a bit. So, now is the time to do it. Enjoy the photos from my walk around the lake by clicking here and feel free to add comments in my blog below. If you want to turn on my Flickr photo comments click the "i" in the photo.