Morning walk at Boddinstrasse, Berlin

Last weekend I was at a conference in Berlin. You know, company stuff, peptalk, corporate bullshit. As I am an early bird I went for a morning walk after breakfast around the hotel block. Trying to get my own sense of Berlin.

Even the childrens playground have a wall.

Oaxen

There's a big quarry at an island in the archipelago outside Södertälje. The island is called Oaxen and is actually populated with about one hundred inhabitants. The only physical connection to the rest of the world is a small wiredriven ferry every hour.

The islands fresh water supply is the great pond in the middle of the new quarry

 New quarry

 The entrance to the new quarry from the ferry goes through a tunnel

Limestone silos at the factory

 An old freighter in the old port

"Number 1" limestone furnace

The old quarry behind the furnace

The wedding

My oldest son finally got married to his girlfriend and their children. That is the new modern order of doing things. Get together, make children and move to a big house. Then you can decide about getting married. Try before you buy, sort of.
Although my son is a meteorologist (weatherman) they challenged the gods by having the ceremony in the old churh ruin without a roof. Only stone walls. Ok, they had a plan B. The church with a roof nearby was booked just in case. Standard procedure in that parish, I was told.
Their wedding photographer didn't show up so every relative with a camera joined forces to document the event of their lives. I brought my 4x5 field camera as planned to take a few plates.

Here is one of my shots

And my wife shot me shooting them

And, of course, all with a camera shot pictures of me stealing the show with my curtain photography.

Lazy days

It's hot and I'm just laying here staring at the sun in the ceiling.

Getting away

I'm on vacation. That is, I'm not going anywhere. Just resting from work. Doing what I like. Seizing the day. I really like to be unplanned, without schedule and imprisoned by a lot of "must-do-before-you-die"-things. Last Saturday I went to see classic cars. The only "planning" was to gently inform my wife I'd be away for a day, fill up the car and select what cameras to bring. Everything done on Friday night.

For some reason there was a lot of caravans at the show. Was it a message to me to really get away?

Lazy days ahead

Stockholm abandoned

Midsummer Day morning I went into Stockholm city to see how it is when people are out of here celebrating Midsummer. It was empty, a deserted city. A spooky feeling to walk there in the places that usually are so crowded.

Invisible light

Ok, I'm back. With pictures of the invisible. Last Sunday I was out taking pictures with a filter that blocks out all visible light. But still I got something on my film. Magic and spooky.

Is this a parallel universe?

Crippled

My old man went 80 and I went home to celebrate. Almost everyone came and it was swell. I managed to move around a little in my hometown and found a new loco at the railyard. But without wheels.

Crippled loco - not even a wheelchair!

Winter break soon over

Winter is low season for my photography. I just can't make something good out of it. Last weekend I shot some pictures anyway as a warm-up for Spring. Here is one.

Photography indoors is boring.

Pre Christmas

One thing I dislike with Christmas is that it lasts too long. Here in Sweden we have Christmas from mid November until mid January. I would rather celebrate like the french. For a couple of days. Last Sunday I celebrated with my sons and my grandchildren. For the rare occasion when we were all together in the same place at the same time it was practical to make our Christmas apart from traditions. I don't mind. And of course the kids didn't mind to have their gifts in advance. Here are some pictures.

And I shot some family pictures. Even the dog wanted to be in it.

Grandma acted clown for the smiles.

Still life

I'm not a still life photographer but when the analogue photo club had a meeting just for it  I decided to join anyway and take some shots of my fellow photographers shooting still life. There was a lot of talking and less of photography in my opinion but we had a great time, as we usually have.

Time flies

It's already at the end of November. Autumn passed so swiftly I almost didn't notice. Trees were yellow, of course, and soon thereafter they were naked. Like the bear they go to sleep over the Winter and is back in Spring. I wish I could do the same but I'm left to survive yet another ice age.
Well what happened since last posting? My Summer was almost 100% analogue regarding photography and surprisingly I felt very good about it! Lo' here are my Summer memories...

We went to Gotland, the large island of the Baltic sea

 Ferry chimney

 Flatiron café

 Strand Hotel

Baltic Sea

 Wife at rest at Fårö Old port

Viewpoint

Fishermens camp at Helgumannen

Fishing boats

Petrified ship (joke of course)

Windswept forrest at the coastline

 Cherry garden café

 Climber

 Funny cage

Chip houses in Visby port

Closer to home on the islands of Mälaren

Flea market and a rural café at Rosenhill on Ekerö island

 Sånga windmill on Färingsö island

Yet another cherry garden at Svartsjö at Färingsö island

And of course I walked the streets of Stockholm capturing the city life.

 Split frame

 Heavy heaven

 Walking the dogs?

Postal service

A cup of coffee

I met some people I used to know

Well, that's about it. Time flies...