Category: helenaisthlm
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After photographing snow and trees for 18 months

Got into a trishaw and went to another Southern Province Market here in Sri Lanka. Of course I took some photos while also having good food and doing great shopping. Some photos and some reflections and stories about photography, escecially self-doubt when not being able to take the pictures you want.
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Women who surf

How I use my background from photographing roller derby when I photograph surfing. And a bit of critisism towards surf photography since it doesn’t yet reflect the equal pay/prize money that WSL has introduced.
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On the road

Photos from my travels here in Sri Lanka where I’ve spent a lot of time on the roads. Traveling in cars, due to trains and buses not running as they should due to the pandemic, enjoying my road trip and taking photos through the wind shield.
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Nature, huh?!!

Photos I took during a tuktuk safari on the East Coast of Sri Lanka. I’m experimenting with a different photo editing style because think it suits the photos and the weater condition they were taken.
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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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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.

