Yesterday I attended the third annual worldwide photo walk organized worldwide by Scott Kelby and locally in Malmö, Sweden by Amy Archer. Over 1000 photo walks were organized (1111 to be exact) all over the world and over 30.000 photographers attended. It’s a really fun social event. I had a great time!

You can see some of the pictures I shot during the walk here. It’s not the best pictures I have ever shot but it’s more about meeting other photographers and having a good time than taking great pictures

I spent the last week in Scotland photographing. Very nice place for landscape photography! I spent all my time on the Isle of Skye. Rented a car and drove around trying to find nice spots to photograph. The image above is of Eilean Donnan Castle that is just a few miles before the bridge to Isle of Skye.

More pictures from Scotland is available here.

To keep the momentum that I got in Scotland going I will start a photo blog to push myself to take more pictures also at home. My goal is to post at least a few pictures each week. Mixing new ones with old ones. Large pictures, one on each page and not much text. The focus will be on the pictures. The photo blog will also work as my portfolio. This site will just be one simple photo blog, that’s it. It will also be listed in all the major photo blog listing sites.

I haven’t decided which software to use for this. WordPress that I use now but with a photo blog theme instead or maybe pixel post that is a software made specially for photo blog. If you have any advice then please write a comment.

It’s pretty amazing that they build all this up and take it down again every night. During the the day the square is completely empty and then at 4 PM or something they start building up the food stalls again. It’s not easy to photograph because as I have said before no-one in that country wants to be photographed. It’s been at least four month since I was in Morocco but I haven’t got around to these pictures until now. The best place on my trip to Morocco was definitely Essaouira and if you missed the pictures I posted from the harbor in Essaouira earlier you can see them here.

This is a quiz. Is this shot in Alaska or at the beach by my home town Ängelholm in south of Sweden? Correct answer will be published in a few days

Jumping back and forth here. Mixing winter images with tropical images. I hope you can follow along

Every morning at six the monks goes in a long line through Luang Prabang to receive offerings of food from the inhabitants, and from some tourists that wants to join in. It’s very peaceful to just sit and watch the probably around one hundred monks quietly walk by early in the morning while most people still are asleep and the shops and restaurants are closed.

The winters here in south of Sweden is usually not at all like the one we have this year. We are “lucky” if we get a few days of snow each year. But this year it has been freezing cold for weeks now and the ground is covered with snow everywhere. Nice for photographing but otherwise I’m more of a warm climate kind of guy. This is a image I shot earlier today. I like the graphical elements the windows make and the very few colors in the image.

Once the sun had set the crowd was starting to walk down again and I could finally find some space to set up my tripod and shoot some landscapes. It was not really the kind of light and images I was hoping for but it was the best I could do considering the situation.

I read somewhere that when the water is low in the Mekong river people go out on the sand banks digging for gold. I don’t know if it’s true. I took a walk outside of Luang Prabang one day and walked down to the river and saw people digging on the sand banks but it actually looked more like they where collecting some kind of stone or something. They didn’t seem to mind having me around for a while taking pictures.

I also found some really nice spots down at the river for landscape images with great reflections in the water. My plan was to go back in the evening and shoot some landscape but that was the evening I got sick so that never happen. This image was the last one I shot on this trip.

My trip to Laos turned out to be a disaster. I got really sick in Luang Prabang with stomach problems. I’m pretty sure you don’t want the details I’ve been in that part of the world a couple of times before and have never been this sick before. Getting some stomach problems is almost a guarantee but usually it’s just for a day or two and then you can continue on but this time I was sick for a week and had to get back to Bangkok to talk to a doctor and get medicine. Once I got the medicine I got well in a few days but I was still tired and didn’t feel up for much so I decided to go back home a week earlier.

Now I just want to leave this trip behind me and start planning for a new trip. I still managed to shoot some pictures that will be posted here in a few days. The image above was shot in Luang Prabang in Laos. I found some kids down at the Mekong river that runs through Luang Prabang making a fire.