WEATHER PHENONOMEN IN PORTUGAL

I was standing on a beach in Portugal, flying my drone over the heavy surf at Nazare.

Suddenly I was being aware of a change in the humidity, the sounds, the temperature and I looked up from my DJI screen to orientate myself.

From the sea a very beautiful raincloud raced in, the speed was really high and I knew I had to secure my drone before this rain would arrive. I was 500 meters away with the drone, and I, despite my 196cm, can disappear in the sand, so it took a little while to get the drone on the ground.

Once down, I packed it very quickly and then was hit by the first rain.

I ran to the sea and in 2-3 minuttes I got some pictures of this wave of air and moist.

This is taken with a Fujifilm X-t3 + 16-55/2.8 optics.

TRAVELLING WITH A MENTOR

During my recent travel to Ireland, I brought a mentor. Not in a physical way, but as inspiration and a way to push me further.

One month before takeoff I bought an online mentor course from Magnum, with one of my heroes in photography, Alec Soth, Magnum member.

The course is 6 hours in 19 different classes, from stories about Alec and his projects, on the road shooting and through the editing process.

The course is 100 dollars and really worth taking.  <<Link>>

From that inspiration also came the variety in my project (which is not finished yet)

Like the two cold surfer girls on a beach outside Sligo. I made conversation with them about the surfconditions and even though they were cold, they accepted to pose in an Alec Soth way.

I instructed them to stand without posing, just be themselves, and I really think the picture work, also as a piece in my project about Ireland.

AT THE END OF THE WORLD

This picture is from one of the most western points in Europe, it is Slea Head, Kerry in Ireland.

After the telephonelines, after the island in the horisont waits 5000km of Atlantic Ocean before you reach New Foundland.

I was at the end of a long winterday in the region, heading back to Dingle, when the poles suddenly forced my car to stop.

The picture is taken with my Canon Eos R with the new RF 70-200/2.8L, indeed a great lens for landscaping in Ireland.

LOST IN TURKEY

What I really love about photography is the funny ability to get lost somewhere.

With a camera in hand you can convince yourself to overcome fears/struggles you normally would step away from.

I was visiting southern Turkey and actually only should drive from Antalya to Alanya, a trip of 120km on a Yamaha XT660 motorcycle, maybe 2 hours.

I must have thought it to be too easy, so I took a 300km detour into the turkish mainland, looking for curves for the bike and pictures for the Leica M9/28mm combo I brought.

After 150 km I arrived a at lake, it was 35 degree celsius, I needed something cold and bought myself an icecream.

At a small pier some boys were hanging out and I walked out to see what they were doing. We couldn't talk with each other because of the language, but handsigns and body language is always efficient.

After a longer 'conversation' about my bike and my trip, I asked if one of the boys would take a jump for the camera and one of them accepted to do the stunt.

I quickly measured the light and the distance and made my victim clear that I was ready.

He jumped, I pressed the shutter and together we saw the picture on the screen. I didn't take another and after more talk I drove off to my final distination.

Looking a the picture on my computer, I realized that this picture was a real diamond, and I use a lot in my life.

ALONE IN NEW YORK

This picture is from a series of pictures I took in New York during a holiday there.

All the pictures in the serie is about being alone in a crowd, being surrounded by people but still prefer to aviod contact.

This young girl was deeply concentrated of her phone, maybe waiting for that text to change her life, and I just saw her carrying around with a wellshaped man on the shoppingbag, she brought home.

Taken with a Leica M9 and 21mm Elmarit lens, so I was only 1,5 meter away.

TREKKING IN ITALY

I really like mountains, and I love to trek in them too.

This summer I went to Italy, the dolomites and did the classic treks around Tre Cime, up to Flanes and around the lakes.

I brought my M10 and three lenses, 21mm/3.4, 28mm/2 and 75mm/2, a perfect combo in a Billingham Hadley Small, weighing around 3 kilos, fullframe with the best glass in the world.

I use a Visoflex viewfinder for the 21mm (almost) and sometimes for the other 2 lenses.

When you shoot in the wilderness, superwideangle can often be a little dull, because of the perspective being flatten out of the distances.

It's important to bring in som foreground like the rocks in image no. 1, and like the trees in image no. 2, both taken with my 21mm.

At Tre Cime, i tried to move in really close, to avoid the distance/perspective issue, but of course, then you cant frame the whole mountain in one shot.

Instead I made 3 overlapping pictures and stitched them in Lightroom afterwards, bringing a better balance between foreground and background.

What do you think?