Photos

Yesterday when I woke up the sun was shining from a blue sky so I decided to postpone the planned trip to the climbing gym and instead take a long walk with my Nikon D40 and Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 lens.

I’ve had the Sigma lens since midsummer last year and even though I’ve used it quite a bit I still find the framing to be difficult with such a wide angle lens. I guess it just takes a while to get used to, or maybe you need to be a better photographer to use it right, I don’t know.

Anyway, I got some decent photos and a lovely walk in the spring warm sun. The Sigma lens seems to give some artefacts when shooting straight into the sun. I guess I shouldn’t be doing that but it’s hard not to when I haven’t seen the sun for months!

Landmark

Untouched snow

Tracks

The photo I’m the most happy with I didn’t take with the Nikon though but with the Canon S90 using the macro mode. I think this will be my new desktop wallpaper after the Uppsala by night photo I’ve used for a while.

Standing on the windy freezing hill Camilla graciously let me take photos for a few minutes before she wanted us to start the walk back to our more pleasantly warm house.

Looks a bit like a lighthouse, don’t you think?

Bollinger – the champagne James Bond drinks, is what we will drink tonight. We will have to do with a Special Cuvée though, maybe we’ll try La Grande Année next year but it’s four times as expensive.

Running during winter time can be beautiful like today but an air temperature of -10 Celsius makes breathing rather painful. Usually the good feeling you get after the run outweighs the pain of actually running, but today was a bit too cold for that.

I found this cute guy in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.

Such an adorable little animal, don’t you think?