Valentina 3 months!

From Valentina 3 Months

We celebrated Valentina´s first three months in a beautiful park close to Isabel and Roberto´s place. Apart from the family, a lot of friends were present for the toast in champagne. We are experiencing a heatwave, with temperatures reaching 30 degrees, so the weather was great and the attendees laid casually on blankets on the grass. The little family had a hectic schedule as they travelled to Rhodos the next day, in the company of the grandmothers.

Midsommar in Uppland

From Midsommar2009

This year, I celebrated with Johannes, Clara, Hele, Sara and Nusse! We did a two-day tour of Uppland, sleeping in a hostel in Dannemora and on a small island at the coast. A very pleasant and enjoyable experience. Enjoy the pics!

Photos from trip to Denmark

DanmarkMay2009

To celebrate our choir conductor Gunnar´s 70th birthday we took a trip to Denmark. We were blessed with magnificent weather from the moment we stepped on the bus in Uppsala to the time of our return. The choir sang on two occasions; in the catholic church of Copenhagen and in mass in the Frederiksborg Palace. It was a nice escape for the weekend that delivered us many interesting things, among them the acquaintance with the Compenius organ (danish).

Photos from second visit to Serbia

From SerbiaMay2009

Martin, Dad and I had a great weekend in Belgrade, attending the wedding of Filippo and Zorana.

Friede auf Erden

This is from the concert we did in Falun some three weeks ago with UAK, one of Uppsala´s good choirs. Someone was kind enough to post their video of it on Youtube. I am in the back row, 6th from left, not visible from this angle. The music is by Arnold Schönberg, and quite difficult to sing (the work was actually dubbed "unsingable" when it first came out). It is rewarding at last, once you´ve made your way through it.

Who Let the Cows Out

A cow´s life... Pretty dull, right?
You´re wrong! In spring time they are let out to graze for the first time in many months and go euphoric.
Euphoria, once a year. More than most of us.

They chase each other around and engage in playful butting, such is their emotional revival. For us city dwellers, that are used to seeing cows as dots on a field it is an amusement, and we gather in the several hundreds on farms around the land.

Lina, Aron, Martin and me travelled in great comfort in their newly acquired car. Aron wasn´t very interested in the cows, but went through the roof when he found the farm´s tractor. These, and other service vehicles, lie close to his heart.

It was a rural experience that we shared with countless other people.

Lens Correction

Move your mouse over the image to see the lens correction in action.

Lens correction is a wonderful feature in Photoshop that can cancel the perspective caused by the tilting of your camera up-down or left-right. For instance, lines that converge towards the top can be made parallell, which generally looks much better. Lens correction can also diminish the effects of pincushion or barrel distorsion that become noticeable if shooting in wide-angle.

So, if you think the architecture on your pictures seems to be falling in on itself, remember this feature!

While this procedure will give you nice, straight lines, it will also crop your image somewhat. So whenever you are suspecting you might need to use it, don´t frame your subject too narrowly.

Aron turns 2

Aron 2 år

Aron threw a really nice party for his second birthday, and was lavished with new toys and books. Suddenly, everyone had babies! As if having decided collectively that the time of sweet, unresponsible living had passed.

A lovely day in company of family and friends.