I want to be your medicine, I want to feed the sparrow in your heart

Midsummer

I live in a country that has not been to war for several hundred years. I think that is the reason why the national day is not really something that you celebrate that much here. If there is any day that we think of as Swedish, it's midsummer eve where we come together to eat traditional food, sing, drink snaps and dance around a flower-tree for ancient reason connected to fertility. I totally understand how strange it must look for foreigners. This year I celebrated midsummer at my cousins place in the countryside. It's very beautiful there and even if it was cold we could not help ourselves from getting into the pool. Thank you Ida and Andy for your great hospitality.

 

Land

How I wish to find land that has not been taken or trampled on, land where I can find peace and stand still.
The older I get the more impossible it seems to find, I'm starting to think that it does not exist and never will.

Golden

It's not often that I plan a hole photoshoot with the goal to get just one picture. In Sweden we celebrate the 1 of May with big bonfires all over the country. Camilla Jönsson, who is a great hair stylist and make-up artist came up with the crazy idea to have a photoshoot in front of a fire. I loved the idea and said yes right away. This was to take place in Lund where thousands of people come every year to celebrate this day. With so many people around the fire, many of them drunk, it turned out to be quite a tricky shoot. The model Marika (Sweden Models) was really courageous and how she managed to focus with so many people starring at her was very impressive. When drunk boys started to harass her we thought it be best to get out of there before something bad happened. I got like 15 frames but I knew that there would be one really good one and that would be enough. Since the light was magical that evening, like it was on fire, we also took some extra pictures that you can see here. To get some privacy we hid between some trees. Photographing in park with several thousand of people is an adventure, it's not something I'm planning on doing again, but it was totally worth it to get that one great picture.

Published in #Photography magazine

Some time ago I was contacted by a new British online photography magazine called #Photography magazine. Today I saw the result of my contribution and I really love it! I highly recommend you to have a look at it. There is so much talent and it's very inspiring. They picked two of my absolute favourite photos and I'm exited to see them in a magazine. Click on the link find the site... http://www.hashtagphotographymagazine.com/

M.A.G.I.C

It's just a matter of hours before I will become an aunt for the fourth time. My big brother and his girlfriend are right now at the hospital and there will most likely be a little one today or early tomorrow. It's their first one, my big sister already has 3 kids. We are all so exited but I feel sorry for my mother and father. They are in Greece this week and my mum managed to lock her iphone and dad didn't even bring his. My mum is usually the one how informs the rest of the family when something has happened but this time it will be different. I wonder if it's gonna be a boy or a girl...
I'm still sick so I won't upload any photos today but I will give you one of my favourite songs ever. It suits this day very well. I fell in love with this song by The sound of arrows 2009 and it has followed me ever since. How can you not with lyrics like this:
Yesterday, I had the longest ever dream, / That the world was endless with possibilities. /
/ It had me thinking, one should never forget / That there are wonders, we haven't seen yet. / Seize a chance, follow a dream. / Be yourself, don't plan and scheme. / For what we do, won't matter that much. / Puzzles and wonders, mysteries and such. / So calculate and analyse. / My head is spinning from all of those lies. / It had me fooled, a logical mess. / In a time of facts, figures and distress. / W.O.R.L.D, ITS FULL OFF M.A.G.I.C!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2hEaMpKQI&ob=av2n

(if you can't load the video just google M.A.G.I.C & The sound of arrows)

B-day

Exactly 28 years ago my beautiful mother gave birth to me in a town in the South of Sweden. Sadly I have come down with a fever this day and have spent it mostly sleeping and having strange dreams. I love living alone, the feeling of freedome it brings but a day like this it's not the best thing. I had to pick myself up and go to the supermarket. I must have looked very strange in line when I had to lean on the icecream box not to fall over. But I manage to get most of the things I needed. I don't really believe in garlic but I do in fruit so I bought tons of it. Back home I could only eat a little...But I try to look positive on it, it's better to be sick now and be well again for the weekend when I have two weddings. The bitchy things about having headaches and fever is that I can't really work. This is the first time during the day I really sit in front of the computer. I'm going crazy here...I need to feel like I at least did something productive today so I decided to upload some model pictures I took at the end of April. I hope you like!
Make-up and hair: Camilla Jönsson (http://www.camillajonsson.se/) Model: Linda, Sweden Models and assistant Karin Winblad.We were also was lucky to borrow some clothes from my friend and stylist Emilie Lantz.

Part 1

Part 2

Today

Today I ran out of luck...I knew it was just a matter of time before I did.

Party-portraits

There was not a cloud on the sky today and the air was filled with a wonderful scent of flowers. Even if it was windy it was very warm. I can feel that Summer is just around the corner and even if it will be a crazy one work wise I feel so at peace. My life has this last month been filled with so much joy. I have had many exciting photoshoots, developed as a photographer, I have met awesome people I had not seen in like forever, met new awesome people, been on adventures abroad, I have had my first real coffee ever, seen three sunrises before going to bed and I have rediscovered butterflies.... On top of this, last Saturday I met up with some of my favourite girls. We had great Italian food at a place here in town and after some of us went for drinks. As much as I like to plan photoshoots I also enjoy snapshots. While we where all sitting there together I took some portraits...I like to call them party-portraits. (thank you Ida for the one of me)

Little niece