My Photography Journey
I got an early start into photography, dipping my toes as my father handed me a compact film camera to take holiday photos from the age of 6 in the late 1980s. While that didn’t make me a photographer, it probably did plant a little seed. My interest reawakened during my time as a student when a simple 5 MPixel compact camera I bought in 2002 gave way to the Canon EOS 350D in late 2006, opening up a whole different world of possibilities.
I honed my craft to the point where going full frame was inevitable, and so came the point to choose a path at the Photokina 2008: Canon, Nikon, or Sony? Loving landscape photography, I made the bold choice to go with Sony’s flagship full-frame model, the mighty A900 with 24 MPixels, along with the expensive Zeiss 16-35 f/2.8 and 85mm f/1.4, both lenses serving me well all the way up to 2025.
The vast vistas of the Scottish Highlands in 2012.
Geared-up and ready to go, I had plenty of motivation and absolutely no excuse to suck anymore. Countless hours were spent shooting, editing, fine-tuning compositions, and recalibrating my photographic eye. I would ride my bike with the camera on my back to bring home landscape shots and panoramas, do lots of portrait shoots with friends, as well as work with macros and stills.
More of the hobby turned professional after 2010, as I did many paid portrait shoots, developed and ran my own little composition and camera handling photo course, did shoot a few weddings of friends and family, and even worked as a freelance photographer for half a year after my PhD was completed. Further down the line, while living in New Zealand, I joined a film crew covering car races for television to do video and photo work on several occasions, and even produced a product TV advert for a friend’s product by myself that aired on national television.
In Mount Aspiring National Park, on the New Zealand South Island in 2014.
Becoming a father in 2019 and a second time in 2023, alongside being very busy with my main line of work and renovations of our new home in Sweden, photography was put on the backburner for a while. That changed in late 2024 when I picked up my gear again to venture out and capture the landscapes and landmarks around our new home. The first goal in making it part of my freelance business: Taking part in the local art exhibition with my renditions of local landscapes at day and night.
The church a few hundred meters from home on a cold fall evening in 2024.