Evening...

Couldn't resist taking some shots last evening on my way home. HDR's tonemapped in Photomatix. Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm VR.

Another calm evening...

Had to go and take a few shots, processed these so far..

Nikon D7000 and Sigma 10-20mm/f4.5 - Tone mapped in Photomatix

Some Sun Set

Some fairly recent sun sets I'm posting after some processing.

This time I managed to be out on site in time before the sun managed to set behind the horizon!


This one came out a bit over the top with the colors but I decided to keep it like that nad the water looks a bit weird after merging the seven exposures...


Took the car out to a spot where I haven't been before to do HDR:s, Finnäset.


The calm weather allowed all the pollen stay on the water surface, but it looks pretty good anyway.


This was actually on the way out on to the peninsula had to try capture the light in the woods. Thankful for the non existent wind. =)


A final shot before the sun disappeared behind the mountains...


Captured a couple of Northern Pikes in their act, I could hear the splashing a long time before I managed to spot them, they didn't take much notice of me. :)

May sunset...

Nikon D7000 & Sigma 10-20mm. 8 exposures tone mapped in Photomatix

Last Evening...

Thought I'd catch some sunset shots on Tuesday evening but as usual I was out on spot a bit too late, blame it on the bike, was out riding and didn't want to get home since it was so nice!

View from Skuthamn over lake Väsman.

Deserted in central Ludvika.

Nikon d7000, Sigma 10-20mm and tone mapped in Photomatix.

Below the Surface

Just to post something. :) Sunset from last week. View over lake Väsman behind ABB.

Nikon D7000+Sigma 10-20mm

H20 on ice...

Yesterday started with a dull morning but toward the afternoon the skies cleared up, noticed some clouds over lake Väsman and decided to take a chance there would be a nice sunset.

I was lucky! :)

Took the car to "Hällarna" behind ABB and took a series of exposures with the boulder in frame:
Looking out on the ice I saw that a small pool of water had formed on top of the ice, since the water was so low I dared to go out a bit on the ice and take a close look and few shots:
View to to the other direction, nice cracks in the ice! :)

All shots tonemapped in Photomatix HDR and shot with Nikon D7000 + Nikon 10.5/f2.8 Fisheye.

Frankenesque...

This Tuesday I was invited, by a friend, to try capture some corona discharge in a high voltage station. Not as easy as it might sound, the corona is hard to locate with your bare eyes since it's mostly ultraviolet light, but after some trial and error, and once the eyes got used to the dark, it was possible to glimpse where the light was brightest.

One could hear the sound of discharge coming from all over the place but it's impossible to locate it by sound on distance. It was freezing cold and the exposure times varied from 30seconds to almost 5minutes.

Used the Samyang 85mm/f1.4, Nikkor AF-S 300mm/f4 and and some shots with the Nikkor 10.5mm/f2.8 Fisheye.

Made some tone-mapped HDR:s from the fisheye shots. Dr. Frankenstein kindly declined the offer to pose in the photos.

Just another ordinary Tuesday... ;)

Happy joy!

Made another first place in a dpreview photo challenge! http://www.dpreview.com/challenges

This time the theme was "Your Version of Paradise", almost 200 participants:

Nikon D90 and Nikon Nikkor 10.5mm/f2.8 Fisheye

It's a shot of Kaffeholmen I took last winter, made of several exposures and tone mapped in Photomatix. Made my evening! =)

Recent random photos...

Some tone mapped HDR:s I made recently, I hope they don't look too "over cooked", trying to keep them fairly neutral but it's so easy to go overboard with the settings in Photomatix. =)

View from Lekomberga view spot.

Almost same spot but down at the lake.
Skuthamn by evening.Playing with long time exposures and head lamp.

Back to häll...

Another shot from "Hällarna" behind ABB, from the same day earlier this week.

6 exposures tone mapped in Photomatix, Nikon D90 and Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Well bottom!

Yesterdays outing in the woods gave some taste for more forest rides. Since it was Friday and all I decided to go a longer ride.

It's a long time since I was to Källbotten (directly translated to "Well bottom") so that was the goal for today, thought about doing the short version since I felt a bit tired and I was out biking yesterday.

Another fine day, had tailwind but that felt good since most of the time I will go up hill.


Took the usual path to Biskopsnäset.


Slightly boring surface, good time to take some shots...


Made it to the narrow bridge over Gårlången. (lake 1)


Let the bike rest a while.


Standard view.

Zoomed in on the wires near the bridge.


Now i was glad for the tail wind, it will be down on the way home...


Lake 2. Djuptjärnen.


Decided to explore a new trail.


Turned out it went pretty much straight to the cabin where I have visited H&J.


It's situated at lake Öradtjärn (lake 3).


Some abstract forms.


Zoomed out.


And finally a panorama stitched from 7 photos. (I recommend the large version, just click on it.)


A self portrait. At lake Snaven (lake 4!)


Bike in tree filtered light.


Here I tested the floating abilities of gungfly, that's basically bryophyte and vegetation grown together, floating on the water, didn't find any English word for it but in German it's called "schwingrasen". My father told me that when he was a little kid in Finland they hacked of large chunks of it and used it as floats!

I went to the edge and felt the warm water, couldn't resist go skinny dipping, I hope no one saw me struggle getting back on shore again! I'm pretty sure that the scene that took place violated several articles in the Geneva convention! No photos of that! ;)


Think it had gone some 2h by now so I took a snickers break before I continued back home.


Nice view.


Had to try a panorama of that too...


The wild ducks kept flying back and forth over the waster surface.


Finally time to go down!


Had to exercise the focus trapping function in the Casio.




Still a pity about the cut down forest, it was way more cosy before.


Amazing how fast the trail is covered by grass now that the sun gets to it.


Had to stop and play with the ore separator, some strong magnets in there, video later!


Checked out the now partially demolished cistern.


Took the long route back home, it was so nice outside!


On my way home I realized I had to have some food, been ages since I had a Iskender kebab so that is what I got in the bag! =)


I must have been really hungry, the kebab vanished in no time, if I'd had more I would have eaten that too!

GPS-plot, slighlt over 3h for ~27km: