During my summer vacation I was at a café called "The view". It is placed on a horst called Hallandsåsen and overlooks a large part of Halland. It is about 100 meters above sea level, which is not that high, but because Halland is so flat, you can see quite far. I didn't think the view was any thing special, so I didn't get any super great photographs out of the visit. But I'm still glad I took the time to visit it because I wanted to see the place where I live in from high up.

This is a photo on Halmstad I shoot from a beach south of Halmstad. This shoot was done in the middle of the night and the exposure time was about 2 minutes. I want to go back to that beach another night. I believe I can make an even better photo if I try some more.

About two weeks ago, me and my girlfriend were invited by her parents to join them on a trip to Hallands väderö. It is a Nature reserve located on a island close to Sweden's west coast. Of course I saw this an opportunity to photograph some nature and I took a lot of photographs. I will, as usual, post my favorites in a series of blog posts.

In this post I'm including pictures on the landscapes and trees that can be found the island.

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After accidentally finding a tunnel that look nice in a long exposure photograph, I looked to see if other tunnels looked cool in long exposure photographs. I failed to find a tunnel that was as cool, but wanted to share my findings anyway. Here are two different tunnels I photographed. In the second one, the lights had been spray-painted red. Which is why they shine pink.

When I owned and used an APS camera I was still living with my parents and took a lot of photos in the forest around their house. To take these pictures I had turn off the flash (only setting I could change) and used my mothers tripod to stabilizes the camera. I was tempted to crop some of these pictures before posting them, but decided against it. I want to show of the pictures as they look like on paper when developed by a regular photo store.

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I recently dug up some old film cartridge and got them developed digitally. I thought it would be nice to have digital copies of my old photos. While looking through them I find a few that I thought it would be fun to post here. Not because they are the best pictures in the world, but because they are how picture look like when shot with a cheap APS camera. Many of the pictures have a lot of noise in them and the colors are pale (and the fact that it was my first camera and I was just starting to photograph does really add to quality either). The pictures were all shoot between 1999 and 2001.

I like this picture. The vignetting (darkness in the corners) is a sign of cheap camera for me, but I think it adds to the picture.

The pale colors reminds me of old post cards.

The valley Mayrhofen is settled in is called Zillertal. We got a few nice view of it while skiing on the surrounding mountains.

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As I said earlier, I took a lot of photos on the mountains in Mayrhofen.

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I spent a Saturday afternoon walking along the beach at Grötvik. It was during a beautiful day and the weather made it easy for me to take several nice photographs. These photos are probably going to be rare, because it's not every year in Halmstad that the beach is covered with snow during a sunny day. If it wasn't for the unusually cold winter this year, the snow would have melt away as soon as the sun came out.

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As promised here is a picture on a full moon. See how flat and boring it looks.

The picture has only been cut and not resized. The original picture was 3088 x 2056 pixels big.

I have been trying on several evenings to capture the moon on camera. My first thought was to capture the full moon on camera, but did realized that the full moon is the least interesting moon phase to photograph. A full moon looks completely flat, while partially lighten moons have surface structure around the "twilight area". Surface structure like craters and mountains. I find seeing them fascinating. (And to prove my point I will at a later date post a picture on a full moon.)

New moon

Half moon

Almost full moon

I do not have a telescope or an expensive telephoto for my camera. So these photos are only cut and not resized.