Photographing bubbles

Yesterday I made my first attempt of shooting bubbles, made by bubble blower. Blowing bubbles is easy, but shooting at the same time was a little … trickier. Also it was harder than I thought to catch them and let them freeze. Lovely patterns appeared when it did though. 🙂 I also will try making really big bubbles (I mean REALLY big). Unfortunately today…

Malmö street art

Today I saw this masterpiece on the wall of a building that I pass by a lot. Someone has been busy the past few days, that is for sure! These pics are just from my Iphone but I want to get some photos with my Nikon aswell so I can see all the details in the painting. From these pics I can see that…

Who is Ansel Adams?

I’ve seen this name turn up so many times with some awesome photography quotes so now I decided to actually look up this Ansel Adams guy. He was born in San Francisco 1902 and is most famous for his photos of national parks.   He is also a writer and has written several books about photography. Photography Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927….

The big picture: Spring babies

  Just found this über cute selection at The big picture of 31 pics of animal babies. Such wonderful photos! Check them all out here (and don’t forget to read the story about the baby hippopotamus). Below are some of my favourites. Photo by Michael Dalder. Photo by Jochen Lübke. Photo by Maja Hitij. Photo by Chris Graythen. Photo by Jorge Guerrero. (Am I…

6 easy steps to better pictures

I often get the question from others how they can improve their photos and below are six things that can make your pics look better. 1. Straighten the horizon Oh. My. Every time I see a landscape picture on Facebook where the horizon is nothing but straight I really have to remove my fingers from the keyboard. After all, not everyone is interested in photography…

Face to face with a leopard seal

I just saw this YouTube clip about National Geographic Photographer Paul Nicklen and watching it is sure raised some questions: 1. How the **** could he come up with the idea “OH, look, a leopard seal, time to get in the water”?! (Glad he did though) 2. How do I become a National Geographic Photographer even if I don’t want to swim with very…