Category: helenaandthesea
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Preparations

A blog post about my preparations as a photographer before getting into Torneträsk in Swedish Lappland and photographing Lapporten in Swedish Lapland during the summer.
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I’m being interviewed

A short interview with me about my photography business, and a business community I was part of during the spring.
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Look around you – pay attention

Focusing on what’s ahead and not fully paying attention to my surroundings is something I sometimes do. Like this time when I was driving though Swedish Lapland and almost missed The Laponian Gate, Lapporten.
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You only regret the photos you don’t take

About my recent trip to the north of Sweden, to Lapland. Where I photographed off-piste skiing at Riksgränsen, in Sápmi country. And about photos that didn’t get taken, like one I Goa many years ago.
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Swimming with camera

About my first attempt at water photography in Ericeira, Portugal. Was going to take photos of surfers, didn’t but discovered a Wes Anderson hotel.
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The gang’s all here

I’ve always been obsessed by water, it started when I was really young and sitting in a water tub in our sauna until my fingers looked like raisins and continued with me happily swimming in the cold Torneå River while my friends had blue lips and were freezing their asses off. But not me. And…
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This week: mostly pink, some green

Photos I’ve taken this week, seems like so much have been pink. Tried to photograph the northern lights that appeared behind my house, took 35 photos out of them one is sort of sharpish. All in all, been a good week.
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It’s every day, International Women’s Day

It doesn’t depend on what women are doing, like succeeding in a sport where men have dominated for a very long time or playing with their child, all these activities should be considered equally important and women should be valued, respected and treated, the same way men traditionally have been. Women and men are equals.…
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It might seem like there’s only one thing going on

How to photograph surfing, water and how I do my surf photography.

