This weekend we had a snowstorm in Sweden, so I needed some poor photographers weather protection. So with a plastic bag and a rubber band wrapped around the lens I challenged the weather gods and took a photowalk with blowing winds and snow up to my waiste. The lens used was Yashica ML 50mm/2.

A walk with a manual lens on the hill. On the other side, a bit firther down, is the village where I live. It’s a beautiful place, but I must admit I’m getting tired of snow and long for spring flowers.

Another picture on the theme “warm and cold”. Shot last sunday (7 feb 2010) in Suttarboda on the hills above my home in Sweden. Not sure about the lens, but it must have been Asahi S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8 or Yashica ML 35mm/2.8. I love them both and the picture came out the way I wanted it.

Watching a swedish sundown:

This winter dusk will make the warm and cold part 2 in my series. The deep bue was partly accomplished by linear polarizer (the once we’re often told don’t work well on DSLRs).

Shot with Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 on Canon EOS 350D.

I’m thinking I’ll make a series out of this theme, the warm and the cold. I got lot’s of the glowing sun in the heavy snowlandscape. I like the symbolism in this, when things feels blue and cold you can probably fins a piece of golden light somewhere ;)

I think this was shot with Yashica 35mm/2.8, however I’m not certain. I almost got stuck there, with a leg dissapeared completely in the snow.

I think it’s an interesting experiment to point your lens to the sun. Shows if these old things have this possibility. Ad did some experimenting at my last photowalk since I forgot some filters I had planned to use. It’s is winter and very cold here in Sweden. Lots, lots of snow. Sometime up to my waistline. But it was worth it. If not for the pictures for the experience. Here is a picture shot with Yashica MC Zoom 35-70 (if I remember correct) into the sun.

Show me your “into the sun”-picture!

Some winter berries with Super-Takumar 85mm/1.8. I feel a little bit like they look at the moment. Wish it could be summer soon, with more daylight and possibility to exercise in nature. It would be great with some more energy.

The art of winter photography is really hard. Big contrasts for the camera, snow and ice and shadows. Most of the days I work for the few hours we have daylight. If I’m lucky, I’ll get time to shoot some pictures at lunchbreak or in the weekend.

Shot with Yashica MC Zoom 35-70/3.5-4.5, review here.

I have been making pictures for upcoming reviews for some time. It is a couple of my favorite lenses which I actually haven’t written about yet – the Yashica ML 35mm/2.8 and the Asahi Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9. One wide and one short tele (well, normal and tele if you count the “crop-factor” on my digital Canon camera – making the canvas larger).

A taste of the Yashica 35mm… quite nice for both bokeh and sharp images.

I have started to publish wallpapers shot with manual lenses on our swedish development site, http://designbilder.se/desktop. The first one out is a pictures from the lake the other day, a tree with fog. If you have suggestion for backgrounds let me know :)

Don’t forget to check out the wallpapers here on Retrocamera, with cameras and lenses.