Live for the moment

Live for the moment. Dream tomorrow



Sweden, Baltic coast


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The art of being lost

In a world where roads, sign and people are everywhere I can't get lost.

For most of the year I live in a structured society and my little niche is well defined, I am just a small cog in a massive machine and there is very little wiggle room.

I never have to really think how to find a place even if I have never been there before. My car or my phone can talk to me and tell me where I am or how to get where I want.... there is never any guessing.

F.Zuiko 32mm f1.7  1/5000sec

Once I year I have the luxury to be off grid where I can exercise the opportunity of being lost.

I paddle out in my kayak away from houses and roads and I just wonder around, not really too concerned with where I will end up in the evening. After all, I have right with me what is needed for a least a few days, food and shelter are guaranteed.

Canon TV-16 50mm f1.4  1/320sec

I generally take the direction that looks prettiest to me and I wiggle my way through the islands trying to not go around in circles, but if I do that's fine too. I have given up on "destination anxiety" and I no longer set myself with a goal of so many miles per day. I rather spend some time on a particularly interesting island and explore its shore to spend some time photographing.

Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f3.5-5.6  1/100sec

I have no desire to find out and then go to "good campsites", the "must see spots" and I never plot a course beforehand and follow it. I much prefer to travel spontaneously to suit my mood and interest as the day goes by.

I don't carry a GPS as I don't want a machine to tell me how I am doing, how fast I am going and how far I have to go. What is the point of getting away from it all to then create yet another unnecessary constraint?

I have a basic map with me that helps me find a place that might have supplies for the next few days and I consult it when time comes.

And in between those necessary stops I feel free to think and I am present in the moment, absorb my surrounding and allow myself to be off-line, not answering to any calls or not slave to this screen.

Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f3.5-5.6  1/500sec

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Beach dream ride

The mesmerizing feeling of riding your horse on an empty beach at low tide; like in a dream.
Horse or horse-power; to each their own.


Steinheil Munchen Cintagon 100mm f3.5     @f5.6  1/1250sec

Coastal monochrome

The sweeping vista from a high sea cliff.


M.Zuiko 9-18mm  f11  1/60sec

At the water's edge.


M.Zuiko 9-18mm   f8  1/2000sec

Ball play

Never tired of chasing that ball.


M.Zuiko 40-150R  f11  1/90sec


M.Zuiko 40-150R  f6.7  1/750sec

Running free

Oh boy, the fun dogs have at the beach...


Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2.9 @f8  1/1000sec

Camp on Kestenskär

Heavy clouds loomed around in the afternoon making camp selection a bit more tricky that day: we needed flat ground but where water would not pool under our tent.
Finally a bit higher above the sea we settled for a place that was facing towards the sunset.


M.Zuiko 14-42EZ    f3.5   1/125sec



M.Zuiko 14-42EZ    f5  1/15sec

Late sunset in Åland

After a day of rough seas, pulling into this little natural harbor was a real relief.
I called it the Japanese Garden, where ponds and low vegetation is arranged in almost a made-made form. The small gentle waves were only a reminder of the big seas earlier in the day.


M.Zuiko 14-42EZ  f4.5  1/6sec (handheld)

The sun seemed to never set, just skirted to horizon, hiding behind the light clouds
We were tired and half asleep when the light outside the tent changed and started to glow.

Finally winning

After a day of loss finally the sun won over the clouds, just before sunset.


M.Zuiko 14-42mmEZ  f3.5  1/320sec

The polished granite

Initially by glacier, then by waves of winter storms, the granite polished to an almost sensual level of smoothness.


M.Zuiko 14-42mm EZ   f5.6  1/400sec

Pond on the granite coast

“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.” Ed Abbey


M.Zuiko 9-18mm  f4.5  1/160sec

Catamaran

She came, fast, across the bay, carried by the wind.
In the late afternoon sun, silently, landing on the beach at low tide.


M.Zuiko 14-42mmEZ  f7.1  1/4000sec

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Evening stillness

The moment between sunset and darkness when time seems to sit still.


M.Zuiko 17mm  f2.8  1/320sec

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Last rays

The unusual sight of several young men having a good time without the help of alcohol; social interaction without the media, no screen.
I did not witness any loud banter or the typical pushing and shoving.
It was like a scene from a by-gone era.


M.Zuiko 40-150mm f7.1  1/4000 sec



M.Zuiko 40-150mm f7.1  1/3200 sec

The beauty behind death

When life ends death takes over pervading a sense of soberness.
Give it time the skeleton left behind can again become beautiful.


M.Zuiko 17mm  f5  1/20sec

Turtle shell at low tide.

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Rockit and the sea

The mesmerizing and soothing power of watching the sea.


Canon 300HS

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