First photo from 2024. The new year entered with a snowstorm from the north east. Not so much snow but cold, around -15°C down to -20°C for several days. Finally the weather was calm on Saturday and I got some pictures before my fingers and toes turned into icicles.
Hot socks and hot chocolate, ha de Gött!
See you around the bend, ha de Gött!
Can you photograph cold? Not cold things like ice and snow, but the actual cold. This is my attempt. I was driving around to scout for scenes to photograph and when I drove down a small icy road in the middle of the forest when this little valley opened. As the sun just made it over the tree tops, it created this inversion fog and the temperature dropped from -2°C to -15°C as I drove into it. Picture of cold, hmm. It was really cold to take the pictures anyway.
Keep your heart warm, ha de Gött!
It’s that time of year when you should close the books for the old year. This year I’ve picked one picture for each month instead of top ten. A bit unfair to some months that presented more photo opportunities than others. Anyway, here it is. Hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Happy Year End 2023, it was over with a click. Ha de Gött!
The new bridge over Göta Älv in Göteborg, Sweden is one of the things I’ve wanted to photograph for a long time but never got around to do. But yesterday all the pieces fell together. The light was good and to top it all, they opened the bridge to let a ship loaded with timber to pass. One of those hallelujah moments for a photographer.
The new Hisingsbron was inaugurated in 2021 to replace the old Götaälvbron from 1939 that was in poor condition. Götaälvbron in turn replaced the original Hisingsbron from 1874 that was in operation until 1968. The new bridge is lower to make it easier to ride your bike across. The downfall is that the sail free hight is lower and the ships passing underneath must run on a schedule to avoid openings during the rush hours.
Be like a bridge, open to all connections. Ha de Gött!
Today is the shortest day of the year. Sun raise at 09:06 and sets 15:21 here at 58°N, already tomorrow will be one minute longer. To my surprise it came with some light after a period with dark grey skies. To top it all, I had the afternoon off and there was 10 centimetres of snow.
Don’t tell my wife but, I climbed a mountain to get some nice photos of the windmill in the low standing and pale sunlight. Takes some time to get up but getting down is quite fast in the snow.
It is better to get down safely than gracefully, ha de Gött!
Finally the Covid restrictions been lifted and we are allowed to travel again. Feels good but not without conflicting emotions, because what excessive travel does to the climate. I’m trying to move to train travel rather than flying but for some strange reason it is much more difficult to book a ticket to Berlin by train than by airplane!
This year took me to Trollhättan, Göteborg and Halmstad in Sweden. To Cologne, Siegburg and Berlin in Germany. To Helsingör in Denmark. Some travel for holiday and some for work but the camera must always be in the luggage.
The traveller gets to read the whole book, the one who stays home only get to read the first page. Ha de Gött!
Wonder, if it sinks would it become a Beatles song? Ha de Gött!
The beholder
looking the same way
contemplating
eyewitness
seeing in different ways
processing
What we see is not what we get
if we get what we see
we see what we feel,
– – is right – –
Don’t be left, try to look the right way. Ha de Gött!
Get your socks on, ha de Gött!
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