Kick-boxing...

Today i photographed for more than an hour at Frescatihallen for the staff magazine of Stockholm University.
That was part of the sport photos we needed and it included spinning and boxing (we had already photographed other sport activities both in the area of SU and LHS the previous week).
Those who trained plus their instructors where so very kind to permit me being there and i got many nice pictures.
This photo though really stuck in my mind and i have been coming back to it all the time.
I just looove the way she is looking! She is so focused and "gives it all" while training! I really love this picture!
ps: it is possible to download the magazine in pdf format from the University's homepage. These photos though are going to be published at the next issue that comes out of the press in a few weeks.

Pia and Nils.

Pia and Nils got married in the end of February, in Vaxholm.

It was a really warm wedding, with a couple that did not stop shining together with  their closest relatives and friends. We were really lucky to have a wonderful sun although it was still cold and icy - it was one of the very first sunny days after many so  many grey months.

A really nice welcome for the new wed couple by the city they have just moved in! 

Our blog is "reborn"!

From today our blog will look a little different! :-)
Different colours, different design and, the most important, larger photos!

The best of all is that all the previous contributions will also still be available. They are though many hundred of them and it's such a job to change all of them with larger ones.
just remember to click on the older ones and you will see them also much larger!

Longing for the summer ...

The weather is finally starting being a little better! The cold is not any more worse than ... just a couple degrees minus (!) and for most of the day is plus! Middle of March and the Spring is slowly coming!

It's that weather that makes me think of the beautiful summertime in Sweden (and even more in Greece)!

Last August i was contacted by Isabella for taking some photos of her.

She wanted some photos in nature, with the sense of water and forest, as long as it was relatively still warm. She wanted the pictures mainly for herself and her man, but also eventually for her portfolio, since she is working part time  as a model.

We met late a Sunday evening, at Margretelun, in Åkersberga. With her was also Sintra (her little dog that modeled with her in some of the photos) and Andreas (her man who's help by holding the reflector was really appreciated), although no one of them shows on the pictures above and below. We photographed until the sun was under the horizon.

Isabella is a very happy and beautiful, full of energy young lady. Visit her blog "ännu en dag" ("one more day") to see more of her mode pictures plus to "get to know" her a little.

"Darwin is back home!"

2009 is the year that Charles Darwin "becomes" 200 years old and Darwinism 150 years old.

It's this year that Stockholm University is celebrating also for finding and bringing back to its library Darwins bok "The descent of Man and selection in relation to sex".

The book is from the first published edition, has Darwins autograph in it and had been stolen and away from the university's library for many decades.

Until it was seen as an item for sale in an auktion's list and recognised by the university's stamp...

Right now the book has come back "home" and it is secure in "the holly room" where just a few have access, a great number of other very rare books are also collected and eveything is preserved under controlled conditions of light, temperature and humidity. 

To see the photos larger click on them.

To read more and see a film about the book click here.

Our sweet Gabriel!

"Skånsta Ryttare" riding club

Last Saturday we visited the local riding club in Åkersberga, to have a look there and ask about riding lessons for the children and the activities there.

That was the first time i saw horses being used as drag power by somebody who is skiing! :-) 

Well, it was rather smart and judging from the smile on the face of the young skier, it must have been lots of fun too!