Henrik

Since my son Henrik is born the day after his mother Lorienne's birthday, it's time to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! to him too!
My favourite little guy in the whole wide world!

Lorienne

Happy Birthday Lorienne! My best friend and soulmate, I love you forever.

Abandoned

There she stands in the forest. Old, alone and forgotten.
When the old man left this world there was no other caretaker. Everything is the way he left it. There is an empty bottle of wine on the table and glasses hazy with dust in the dining room cupboards. Pictures of people long dead hang on the walls. Leaves blow in from the broken entrance and into the old pantry where old rusty tins and cutlery lie scattered on the floor.
There are stories in the walls here and I get a sense of being watched while I am photographing. As I leave I can't help saying "Thank you for your time.."

In the Light of Irony

Isn't it funny how things happen? I have been thinking a lot about light lately. How it changes with the seasons and time of day. I even thought of posting a few photographs from our trip to South Africa just to illustrate how beautiful the late afternoon light can be there on a sunny day. That is what was on my mind when my mother phoned me and asked me to help put her new lamp together (all items of furniture come in neat little DIY kits in Sweden). She had bought it the same day because she didn't have enough light in her living room to be able to read in the evenings. I went over there after work and won't you believe it...Her dog was dressed up as a light too!

End of Summer

I just have to face it. The arrival of the end of summer. No more warm sunshine, no more swimming in freshwater lakes. The process of turning summer into winter has begun, the process called autumn.

Autumn is not as bad as it sounds though. The trees turn a beautiful colour, life and the pattern of things turn back to normal as we prepare for our long nordic winter. Mornings are often misty and later if the cold sunshine dries away the wet, it reveals the new changes to our surroundings which now seem to happen overnight. Warm light turns into cold light. Like changing our normal light bulbs at home into energy saving LED's.

Where did all the mosquitoes go?

Stina

As I mentioned before, I'm working on a photographic documentary of the village I live in. Last weekend I got the chance to intervue and photograph the oldest lady in Kyrkås. Her name is Stina Eriksson and she is 92 years old and lives on her own in a house on a farm. She was very talkative but unfortunately I don't understand the local dialect very well yet and I could only pick up the general idea of what she was telling us.
I went to her house in the company of an elderly couple living next door to us because Stina is suspicious of strangers. She was robbed not long ago when she opened her door to a man a woman who pushed her over and took her money from her. How someone can do something so cowardly to a sweet and frail old lady is beyond my understanding.

Back again

I did say this was not going to be a frequent occurence...There is so much happening in life right now and somehow so little to write. I think that by the time I get around to sitting in front of the computer the inspiration to write something has disappeared.
A photographer friend om mine from work is really good at this. He is using his blog as a marketing tool for his photography and I must say he does a great job. You can check it out on mfrisk.blogspot.com
It's in Swedish, but that won't stop anyone from enjoying his creative photography.
So what's happening in life? Well..life! We are about to have a daughter almost any day now! There is lots of preparation to be done not to mention how stressed out I have become over this whole thing. I hope our little son Henrik will adapt as well as we hope to having a little sister.
On top of this I have just sold my long time friend to someone in the south of Sweden. Don't worry, my friend is a motorbike which has been mine for the last 5 years. There were tears in both Lorienne and my eyes when the new owner rode off into the sunset with it...