Year: 2014

Food- Picante de Huevos

Made some Picante de huevos today. This simple recipe is my favorite of the week and I want to share it with you. Today I used: Sourdough bread, eggs, sugarsnaps, cream, salt, chili, garlic and oil The recipe for the hot eggs comes from my boyfriends aunt Elia in Peru, she used to do it for us when we where there but then it was different and tasted different due to the the fact that they have other ingredients in Peru. This is how you do it: 1. Heat a pan and pour some oil in it 2. Add chili and garlic (we use some dried chili Martin prepared) and fry it 3. Whip up some eggs with some cream (or milk, water) and some salt 4. Put in the pan together with the spices 5. Fry and stir at the same time. Don´t fry more than about a minute tops 6. Put on plate and fry the sour dough bread and the sugarsnaps in the same oil for a couple of minutes, until the …

Behind the scenes

From this weekends shoot of self portraits. Some went well, some went less well. Here are the less wells..   Trying to get the self timer to work..   (not) fitting the frame..     Pushing the button to late.. Not getting the focus right.. Crazy looking .. Falling out of picture.. And weird pose with weird connotations.. Well, who said it was easy? Katarina   Canon 5D Mark iii Sigma 50 mm f 1.4 Art lens No editing

Work in progress

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Äntligen vilse (@antligenvilse) Above shot with iPhone 6 +, edited in in the Instagram app Today I have been working with my photoproject the entire day. Most of the time trough a web seminar with fellow students. It is nice to be given critique about your work, now I have got the energy to push forward in this November darkness. To give a short update about my life I am also working on a guestpost for a travel site called Resfeber. The post is in Swedish and will hopefully be published shortly. Will of course link it when it happens. My next step in my project is to go out shooting more and will probably try to put myself in the scene more and experiment more with light, to show my perspective of Bergslagen. That is my aim at the moment. For the spring I am thinking of offering a photographer to be his/hers assistant for a photoshoot or two. Have anyone tried internships/ being an …

Selfportrait- the forest

Taking a self portrait is more difficult than you can imagine. I take mine with a self – timer, wireless. The timing is crucial. In this post I want to show some photos I took yesterday. Have been practicing different styles all weekend. Saturday I did the out of focus portraits and Sunday I tried getting full focus and perfect sharpness. I succeed in some and in some not so much. It is hard telling when you are out if you have gotten that perfect shot or not, it isn´t until later when home again your realize that 90% of all photos lack something like focus, sharpness or are to light or dark etc. But it is a challenge that I love. Enjoy my portraits from the forest of Grythyttan. Katarina     Canon 5D Mark iii Sigma 50 mm Art lens Ed in Lightroom

My new friend – iPhone 6+

Newest in in the camerabag and handbag is my iPhone 6+. Well needed for my eyes with bad vision as well as an update for my camerabag due to the better camera functions. Will head out now for some shooting. Katarina     Trying it out the first time..   Canon 5D Mark iii Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art lens Lightroom (converting to black and white)

Oasis.

When the weather shift in Sweden I think of Perus steady climate and look at this picture from the oasis in the desert outside Ica. Then it feels better. Katarina     Canon 5D Mark iii 24-105 mm Canon lens Ed in Lightroom

The style of a vintage guy

Ingemar and Ann-Marie must be the couple with the coolest, handson approach to vintage. Have you ever seen anything like it? They where a part of the team that strolled the streets with granntanter Camilla Thulin and Karina Ericsson Wärn for three days in Paris. I only snapped a couple of photos of Ingemar and Ann-Marie but if you want to check out more from Ingemars style, visit his Pinterest. Katarina     Camera: Canon 5D Mark iii Lens: 24-105 mm Canon Lens Editing: Lightroom

When the seasons shift- warm weather and falling leaves.

November is here with all it´s rain and darkness. The Swedes open up their wardrobes, bring out their ”middle-thick” winter garments and light candles, hiding under a blankett hoping that this winter will pass as soon as possible. Others run around in joy, soon the snow is here and then you know that Christmas is coming. Photo taken at the 25th of July by the lake close to our house. On the photo you can see nettles that sting.   M-R, a fellow blogger who lives in Australia pointed out that why not share more photos from Sweden to see the season shift. And yes, why not. But to see the change I think we need a recap. Because what is the seasonal shift really? I dug up some photos that might work to see some of the shift and wrote spontaneously about it, more from personal knowledge than true facts, so please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Summer July Summer in Sweden is between June and August, this July being …

My photoguide to Paris

I don´t have so much to say about Paris due to the fact that I´ve only been there for 7 days in my life, but since I took a lot of photos during my travel I also reflected upon great and not so great photoplaces. Here is a list. Top 1. The Eiffeltower My mother and I went there twice. The tower is probably my favorite place and a the best photoplace for me. If ever back in Paris I will go back. The tower turns golden in the sun and leans like the Leaning Tower of Pisa with my Canon 24-105 mm wide-angle lens. The park by the Louvre, Tuileries Garden Fantastic light and isles with white sand makes the photos great. The park is big so even if the park is filled with a lot of people it is possible to find a spot to take a shot or two by yourselves. The park has green chairs to use as well and in October, not so many people visits the park so you will …

There is so much out there to read!

There is so much out there to read, isn´t it? Sometimes I have a hard time choosing. A long time ago I used to read books in piles, my bookshelf still witness this great book-reading-mania. Nowadays I read blogs. I want to get back to reading book and have started with a few related to my projekt, Fotografi (a basic book about photography) as well as a book about Bergslagen and different notions of the concept of Bergslagen, it is named Fram träder Bergslagen, nytt ljus över gammal region. This photoproject has gotten me really hooked on books and litterature and pictures about Bergslagen, but why not learn som old Swedish history, I think we are to bad at our own history, don´t you think? How many know the history of their own city or village for example. I don´t think there is so many that we like to think. I think that we always take it for granted. My next readings will continue on the same theme, Bergslagen and the surroundings, or photography. Maybe …

Och vinnaren är..

Anette Ericsson vinner resväskan från Resia med denna fantastiska bild och följande text ”I somras hade vi turen att träffa på “forbönderna” när de åkte förbi vår fäbod i Yxbodarna med hästar och gammaldags vagnar. Jag lyckades fånga deras följebil med dessa härliga ungar och resväskor. Tycker bilden är som klippt och skuren för denna tävling om den fina retroväskan :)”.  Resväskan kommer skickas inom kort. Tack för alla andra fins bidrag. Katarina

Fujifilm Instax mini 25 – a polaroid camera

In Paris I bought a new camera. Something different. A polaroid camera to be exact. How fun to play with! It is a easy to use little thing, just point and shoot really. The camera also have a selfie-mirror on the front which makes it easy to take a portrait of yourself. The film is a bit expensive, about 10 photos cost around 12-13 Euro, 15-20 dollars and around 100-200 sek. But on the other hand you get something that not so many others have to give to your friend on the trip or just keep yourself in the wallet. The photos are the size of a creditcard. You unpac the camera, unpac the film and put the film in the back, matching the yellow dot on the film to the yellow dot on the camera. You don´t need to do anything more than that and hit the power button on the back. You can shoot with or without flash and on the setting L (light), normal and D (Dark): I tried them all and …