around Gudhjem…

I’ve found a new ‘meditation’ here on Bornholm, nothing better than walking around in the nature. With my camera. Whenever I have the time. Really been missing that in Nepal, where they’ve got plenty of great nature, but never just around the corner and usually entailing several days of uncomfortable road trips out of Kathmandu. [...]

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73 year old photographic mystery solved?

So far I’ve just been blogging about my own personal experiences, opinions, work etc. But I’ll break the “rule” now, blog about someone else’s work. And it’s one of the old classics: Robert Capa’s 1936 photo of a combatant falling to the ground after being shot dead. Allegedly!
The photo established Capa has a heroic, top [...]

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Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine

First off, apologies for this blog post which is going to be a bit of a rant about stuff in my brain, what I’ve been up to etc. Just to let you all know that I’m still here. And doing fine, by the way!
My Daughter
By far the biggest thing in my life now, Julie, soon [...]

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My Tamron 90 mm f/2.8 in action : Ethnic street portraits

Thought it’d be a good time to show some street portrait photos I took last week, just strolling around in Kathmandu for a few hours. All shot with my Tamron SP DI 90 mm f/2.8 lens at wide open aperture, f/2.8. I’ll review the lens in some detail here.
Interestingly, it was the only non-Canon [...]

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Nepal Political Crisis Worsens

Things have been happening fast here in Nepal the last two days. (Never thought I would be saying that!) A few hours after I wrote the previous blog post here (Nepal’s Maoists: Helpless in Power), things really started happening. I’ll not go into great detail since the big news media have it all covered, but [...]

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New Kenya Safari Pictures

Well, they’re not really new, about 3 years old in fact. But these Kenya safari photos are new on this site, Just uploaded them. Pulled a bit of a ‘Klavs Bo’ on some of them – they looked a bit ‘flat’. (Klavs Bo being the Danish PJ who was recently disqualified from the DK-PoY competition [...]

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