not much in the way of beaches here..
3 shot Panorama – D750 coupled with Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 @ 200mm
Aperture: f6.3 and Shutter Speed: 1/500s
ISO: 200
Out front: 2 peeps contemplating life…
Tag Archives: sweden
These little ragamuffins grow up way too fast
Cuteness on a rock 🙂 a 1000 year old rock at that..
Ale's Stones in southern sweden near Ystad
The endless fuzzy
So apparently, the thing at the end of the jetty is a place where you can go for a swim, kinda makes sense since the water seems like its knee deep for a long way out, not to mention the water is not that nice close to the shore – this particular scene reminds me of some scape conjured up by fantasy novel where you can punch on thru to the other side a rift or something, in any case it does fill me with some level of calm when looking at it 🙂
4 shot panorama, each shot in the landscape orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 4s
ISO: 100
out front: Lee Graduated Filter (0.6x)
Muted
Sometimes, life is better on mute 🙂
5 shot panorama in a place dictated by simple forces of nature, water, wind and the sun.
Downtown Lund
Just a little city or more correctly, a town-scape 🙂 at nearly midnight when there was just about no one around.
Lund is a really cool University town in southern Sweden, very progressive and full of interesting people and the occasional red squirrel (that's cool from our end since we do not have squirrels in Australia)
3 shot panorama image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 60mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: 6 seconds
ISO: 200
Out front: nothing and nobody, just a few lonely bikes 🙂
Singular
Wind Turbine
This was one the largest wind turbines I saw in Sweden, even from a distance you could tell it was a thumper, perched up in a wheat field, slowly turning.
Yep, and they be birds over there and they flew on past the turbine without getting turned into mince pigeon 😉
Tricky shot to take, its 4 shot panorama, but with the blades of the turbine moving and the birds there was a lot of manual blending to make sure the turbine still had 3 blades rather than 4 or 5 and that the birds did not get cloned all over the place 😉
Bjärred
Jetty fantastico
Our last night staying in southern Sweden we decided to head out and try and capture another swedish sunset. I can't be passing up a good jetty now and these did not disappoint, the beach, or what the Swedes call a beach was .. lets say interesting. Bjärred is only a 20 minute drive from where we were and with the ingenious idea of the swedes to actual make smart traffic lights (ie ones that sense your coming and turn green) we were there in no time. Plenty of jetties and cool boats which make cool photographic subjects and easy ones too.
After leaving the beach on the way back to the car we did spot a Hedgehog, pretty neat little creatures, with very little fear, we chased him into the bush to grab a few photos 🙂 another animal checked off the list.
3 shot panorama, each shot in the landscape orientation
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO: 100
out front: jLee Graduated Filter (0.6x)
Swedish Turbine
So, in Sweden they have a mix of energy production with the majority being hydro, kind helps when you have all that water handy 🙂 they also have a few nuclear plants one of which is pretty large, the other source, which i think is about 5% of their power, is wind turbine, in southern Sweden around Lund where we stayed the countryside was completely dotted with these turbines. I would have to recommend that certain Australian politicians (and ex pollies) not to visit here since they are so significantly offended by the sight of wind farms 😉
I quite liked the sight, these tall slow turning towers to me simply represent a low impact renewable energy source, it was really cool that all you could see is a tower and a slow turning prop, all the electrical cables are buried under ground. The noise is well.. almost non existent.
I do like my lone trees in a paddock or on a beach, so it was cool to spot this lone tower on a late night drive on the first night in Sweden. The sun had just gone down (11pm ish) and the pascals had come out.
3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 50mm Aperture: f7.1 and Shutter Speed: 1/2.5s
ISO: 250
out front: Lee 0.6 Graduated Filter
Eurovision
These are our euro-vision faces 😉
The only one you need to know about is the middle one, which was for Sweden!
don't ask why I was watching Eurovision?! i could not tear myself away 😉