Malmöfestivalen 2022

Since 1985, there’s a festival in Malmö each August. It’s been cancelled the last 2 years, but this year things are back to normal. I took to the streets to shoot some festival people.

Stockholm March 2018

When I go somewhere for work, I try to get just an hour or two to shoot. These shots are from a quick trip to Stockholm. The building is the old airport, which is still operational. I try to take the train as much as possible, but this tim I flew home.

January in Malmö

January is dark in Sweden and most of the photos I shot this month are either dark or shot inside. The first photo below, I saw while on my way home. As I didn't have my camera with me, I went home to pick it up and went back out in the lousy weather to take the picture. I am happy that I did.

Sunday walk in Malmö

When I first started shooting more "seriously", I had a Nikon D80 that I shot with it until the shutter broke down. Then I had it fixed and I shot even more with it. In fact, I used it once or twice last summer. It was a great camera, but at high ISO, the pictures weren't fantastic. So in order to avoid the high ISO numbers, I always tried to shoot with as long a shutter speed as I could get away with. This led to many blurry pictures, but when I was lucky enough to get a sharp one, it wasn't so noisy.

Now I'm using the marvellous cameras in Fujis X series, that produce fantastic pictures even at high ISO numbers, but it wasn't until just a few days ago that I realized that I was still shooting with the slowest possible shutter speed and that I was still getting all these blurry pictures for no good reason. So today, I set the shutter speed to 1/250 and went on a walk to try to hammer in this new way of shooting. In fact, about half of these pictures I shot at 1/1000 while riding my bike.