This afternoon I went for a walk with my one year old son. About 10 feet from our driveway, a Mallard couple was enjoying the meltwater from a late but approaching spring. Mallards are often almost tame in city environments and there was no problem watching them from a few feet away. Very fascinating, or so my son thought.     We live at the corner of a street and not to seldom a careless driver rounds the corner way to fast. I have...

This is a short review of the cons and pros of a sidekick vs a full gimbal tripod head. Our local dealer (Cyberphoto) carries a few different brands of gimbal heads and although most have similar design my choice fell on Benros GH-A and GH-2.   As you can see the size difference is big. The GH-2 dwarfs the GH-A sidekick in comparison weighing in at 1.467 kg compared to the sidekicks 0.496 kg. That is almost 1 kg difference. It makes the...

It’s not very fun feeling tired with a sore throat, but I guess I have my self to blame since I held an education at the local sewage plant friday despite feeling I was catching a cold. So what to shoot when you don’t feel like going outside? Lego! let me introduce the Clone turbo tank =)   /Sven being bored!

Yesterdays photo session continued with a late evening trip to shoot northern lights. The activity level was high and it was spectacular to watch.     /Sven

Today I went out to our summer house, mainly to check if everything was in order, and to fix one of the duck birdhouses.   I really began longing for summer the short while I was there. The forest where full of life, birds chattering and singing, row deers on the ice and a fox scurrying to shelter. Most of all, no city sounds.     Snow made focusing a bit difficult and thus requiring a smaller aperture. All photos in this blog...