Family Photographs

Tomorrow is the day. The day when a new member of our family is due to arrive and the day our family photographs will look a little different from the one below...

Kyrkås

Since I'm still working on the slideshow of the village I live in, I thought I would post a few random photographs that may or may not be part of it later.


"Green Summer"


"Dairy workers on their way home"


"Follow"


"Kyrkås New Church"

The News

I have been keeping a watchful eye on the news lately. It feels appropriate to be updated on what sort of world my wife and I are bringing another child into. According to most of the news items, our world is rather unstable, so why expose another human to it and why expose the world to another human?
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Because to me the world is still a beautiful place. It is the only place I know and the only place I want to live in. Each and every one of us can help keep it that way and as long as there are children there is hope right? An old cliché that I like very much.
Let's hope our children will know just a little better than ourselves.

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!