landscape & nature

Pink pines

Playing around with my full spectrum converted camera and a 590nm filter. But I think I prefer original green color of the pines...

Warm my soul

I went out quite early to be ready when the sun began its rise above the horizon. Despite the cold, the color of the sky warmed my soul. I need more moments like this...

Nasty Mushroom

This one is not very healthy at the best of times, but I thought I'd make it even a bit more nasty.

Pink morning

This photo was taken with a 720nm filter on the lens. To allow enough light in, the exposure time is 58 seconds. The long exposure gave the water a rather smooth surface which I like.

Moody morning

I realize that the title "Moody morning" makes it sound as if I were in a bad mood. But that was not the case at all. My daughter and I were just visiting this beach to see if it would be a good place to enjoy the sunrise. The sky, however, looked quite moody...

Evening view

After a long car trip it felt good to stand outside on the porch for a while enjoying the sunset over a winter landscape.

Time for a winter bath

On my way home I passed this little frozen oasis. I almost considered taking a winter bath, but I hadn't brought my towel. Next time perhaps... :)

Sunset over the mountains

I have captured this view before, during summer. That time I was eaten alive by about two million mosquitoes. This time, however, I was alone on the mountain.

Winter road

This is a panorama I made with my iPhone 11 Pro, while balancing on top of a big pile of snow next to this winter road. I think the phone did a pretty good job of letting the colors shift from a pale yellow to a turquoise blue.

Alone in the afternoon light

I was out walking in the snow enjoying the afternoon light, when I saw this tree backlit by the sunset. It was freezing cold, but I took off my warm gloves to capture a photo anyway. (Well, this picture is actually made up out of three photos using HDR technique.)

Behind the mountain

The sunsets in Sälen are often quite nice. In winter, they also arrive quite early. I took this photo at about half past three in the afternoon and the sun was already down behind the mountain.

In the afternoon light

Perhaps it wasn't a very good idea to bring the camera on the ski tour. Well, it was a good idea if the plan was to go on a photo tour. My plan, however, was to go cross-country skiing and exercise a bit. This afternoon I think I got more photos than training though.

Some morning drama

As my wife drove me to the train station, we passed this field with a view of the morning sun under a dramatic cloudscape. Naturally we had to stop, so that I could run out on the field with my camera to capture some morning drama.

Infrared morning

I spent the first hours of the day looking out over the water. My plan was to capture the sunrise over the lake. I also wanted to experiment a bit so I brought my converted camera as well. This is one of the photos I took with it.

Crazy and colorful

I usually try not to get too crazy when editing my photos. I want the pictures to be (at least somewhat) realistic. That rule, however, goes out the window when I use my full-spectrum converted camera. Then I like it to be a little bit crazy and a lot colorful. Like this photo for example. It's shot in the early morning light after an hour or so of capturing the sunrise.

Evening walk

I titled this photo "Evening walk", but actually it's only afternoon. During winter in Sweden, the sun sets pretty early in the day. This day I was actually a bit nervous that it would go down too fast, so that I wouldn't find my way back. The snow was pretty deep and I wasn't really in the mood for wandering around in the snow in the dark.

End of a day in the snow

The snow was about 50-60cm deep and it was not very easy to make a path through it. Needless to say, we were quite tired after a day full of playing and having fun in the snow under a bright blue sky. The sunset was rather enjoyable too.

Weight of winter

The trees are sparse on the mountain. This one was one of the tallest close to the top, but it seemed to struggle a bit with the weight of winter. I almost felt a little sorry for it.

Pink between the tops

Due to climate changes, the trees are spreading higher and higher up on the mountain tops. It was difficult to find a clear view of the setting sun, but at least I saw some nice colors between the tops.

Winter tree in the sunset

The depth of the snow varied from 30-60 cm, it was cold and windy and not very pleasant at all. The view was rather nice though and I saw this winter tree watching the sun set behind the moutain tops. So it was a quite nice experience anyway.

Blue winter

Finally we got to see a real winter landscape. And the light... Oh, I really do like this blue light in the sky. I took this photo with my iPhone 11 Pro and I think the phone did a pretty good job.

Colorful Pines

After having been enjoying the blue and golden hour and watching the sun rise above the horizon, I turned around to capture this scene. The pines were lit by the early morning sun and got a bit extra colorful thanks to the 590nm filter on my full-spectrum converted Sony a6000.

Morning by the lake

A few hours after sunrise, but still before the bathers would arrive, I was alone on the beach. The lake looked so peaceful then, before the arriving chaos. Well, the 40 second exposure helped to smooth out the water a bit...

Morning sun and morning mist

It was early morning in the middle of July. The family was still sleeping in our cottage so I sneaked out with my camera for a morning photowalk. (One of my habits apparently.) I found this view in a currently unused sheep pasture. I liked how the sunbeams lit up the morning mist. (The ground was still very wet from the night dew, so after another hour or so I had to head back home to dry my shoes in the sun.)