Ingela Bohm's Blog, page 37

Village from above

I had to trudge through fucking Mordor to get this picture. The stoniest path you can imagine, with devious hollows to break your ankles and piles of dead branches where snakes could lurk. But in hindsight I guess it was worth it.

Snow mobile trail

That’s what this sign means: it marks an official snow mobile trail. But it’s summer. So that’s fun. I mean, that’s funny.

Headlights

A view to a… hill? :P

Me and a hill

It turned into a long walk…

The sun really was in a good mood today. Spangles a-plenty.

A path I’ve never walked! I really love my camera for taking me on these adventures.

Me and the lichen-covered forest floor.

More backlit dandelions – now with water!

Dandelions!

On the bus home yesterday, when I was counting backwards from 1000 to zero to stop thinking about my aching back, we passed this field of dandelions. I was momentarily distracted from my pain, and decided to come back and photograph them today.

So this morning I took my iPod with me – filled with sound files from my study participants – and listened to them while I took a stroll along the country roads and captured oodles of bright yellow gold.

And I learned something – or rather, something was confirmed that I’d already read in photography books and blogs: that direct noon sunlight can just blast the colours to oblivion. Many pictures ended up blown out, and that lovely yellow just looked white.

Okay. Lesson learned.

But I also love photographing backlit things, and the weather was fine for that.

A typical Swedish field of flowers: mostly yellow, with the odd white and purple.

A summer road

There’s nothing special about this picture, and that’s precisely the point. You won’t find anything more typically Swedish than this: a small road, winding through the green fields and the forests, with the occasional red timbered cottage and a few scattered yellow flowers. Peaceful to the point of boring. Right up my alley.

And yeah, seeing as it’s now June, I guess I’ll have to start tagging these pictures “summer” instead of “spring”…[image error]

Locations that inspire

Here’s a short video I made this morning, about a beautiful walk along the harbour where I dictated a few key scenes in All You Can Eat.

One step at a time

I’m having a hard time finding the motivation for the PhD right now. All I want to do is photograph stuff, but I can only lie in bed because of my lumbago. Travelling for four hours to work and back today was not what the doctor ordered.

But hey, instead I got to snazz up my blog (I can do that lying down!). At least I hope it’s an improvement…[image error] I wanted the new layout and the colours to reflect the feeling of calm that nature gives me. The camera really is a good friend in that it forces me outside my door to chase that elusive evening light.

Some days I stay outside for three hours, which is unheard of for me, but very good for my mental health. I tend to spend most of my time in my head, and I like it there, there are snacks, but too much of a good thing, you know? And looking for subjects to photograph makes me see the world as I want to see it – as a place of wonder and beauty, not always a problem to be solved.

So. Baby steps towards a better place.