Yesterday I bicycled round lake Tysslingen and made this image of whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens on Canon EOS 350D. The swans here are an attraction for wildlifephotographers every year, and they were lined up at the fence with their big tele AF-lenses… all getting the same image I guess, of the same birds and with the same weird look on their faces when they looked upon my little Takumar ;)

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.

I might have the chance to go and see a lot of classic cars (and cameras) next week. It’s the fair in Örebro, Sweden, that occures twice a year. I always had trouble doing good images there because of light and the crowd. But I’ll take on the on the challenge once again ;)

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.

For me this is a typical piece of swedish nature shot with old Asahi-lenses (Super-Takumar 28mm/3.5 and S-M-C Takumar 55mm/1.8), and an extension-ring. Lingonberries, heather and mushroom. Late summer/early autumn. The Takumar lenses are so nice for closeups, good sharpness and good bokeh. Slim and light, which is really good when you crawl in the woods ;)

And you need to crawl to get good closups. It’s most often not fun looking at pictures taken with the ground as background.

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Water avens (Geum rivale) is a beautiful flower. Sadly I can’t remember which lens I used here, but I think the Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 is a very lightly candidate. It’s nice to digg through the archive sometimes, you find some wonderful pieces forgotten.

This time of year Sweden is a beautiful place (well it can be all year around of course). Near midsummers eve the landscape blooms and flowers of many kinds prosper. In july many people have vacation, but I will look for work and fight to survive for a couple of months I guess. I can still admire the beauty of nature.

The images was created with Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 on Canon EOS 350D.

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This is another picture from yesterday. The sunrise was making the forest on the other side glow. A bit harsh light for photography really, but I liked the contrast and the calm water. Like the prebvious this is also shot with the (Carl Zeiss) aus Jena S* 135mm/3.5 zebra on my Canon EOS 350D.

As i said, a lot of theses right now. I think it is a challenge to crawl on the ground and try to get a good angle with my hendheld EOS 350D, an extension/macroring and a manual lens. Great fun! ;)

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