Happy New Year!

I want to wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! with a photo from a firework show we went to a few days ago.

Macro Mondays: Lit By Candlelight

This week we are challenge to take a photo where the only lightsource is candlelight. I got this crazy idea about shooting my Ski Smurf in artificial snow. I used a very high ISO which caused the photo to be a bit grainy, but I still like the way it turned out with the snow overlay as well. I used 6 or 7 tealights as my lightsource and had the camera on a tripod.

Macro Mondays - Stick

There is plenty of different kind of sticks in a house and in a garden. I took some photos of matchsticks that was really good but I wanted something that not everybody else was going to photograph and then I came to think of my swatch sticks for all my nailpolish. This is a few samples of my red ones.

Macro Mondays - Buttons and Bows

I was looking for fun buttons in my home and ended up with this photo with a not so very fun button, but a composition that I really liked.

FotoSöndag - Expectation

Expectation or Anticipation well I feel expectation everyday before Christmas when it's time to open my adventcalendar. My husband has one with one different beer everyday and I get a nailpolish in mine :)

Macro Mondays - Game Pieces

I got my inspiration to this weeks theme this Saturday when we visited our son and played some Trivial Pursuit.

FotoSöndag - Abandoned

And old abandoned apple has now got a new life as birdfood!

Macro Mondays - Stone Rhyming Zone

This week the challenge is to take a photo on something that rhymes with stone not an easy task but it's allowed to use things that has a word before stone so I decided to use my beloved cross with stones that are in the color of my birthstone. I got this from my grandmother at my first communion when I was 15 years old.

FotoSöndag - Collection

I have two things that I collect. One is Nail Polishes and the other is Smurfs and today I decided to show up most of my Smurf collection.

Macro Mondays - Fingertip(s)

Fingertip! What kind of photo are you supposed to take on that theme. Well I use a lot of cuticle creams and hand creams so I got this idea to make a nice pile and do a fun photo of that and so I did :)

Macro Mondays - Musical Instruments

Instruments! Well I know that we have a guitar in the house but after thinking a bit I remembered that I had a very small mini keyboard that could be useful for this theme. I found it and those keys are really small!

Macro Mondays - Halloween

I'm not a big Halloween fan. For me living in Sweden where it's a fairly new tradition it feels like a holiday made for the stores so they can sell a lot of stuff. But I do have a pair of tealight holders that I love and that helped me get a photo for todays theme.

FotoSöndag - The Human

Taking photos of humans is not my strong side, but after thinking of not participating today I decided to show only a part of a human and one thing that most humans do. They prepare food.

Macro Mondays - Spiral

When I peel a clementine it doesn't usually look like this but when I really needed a spiral I got one!

FotoSöndag - Inspiration

A big inspiration for me is my sons, the youngest is still living at home and he inspires me all the time to read books, play video games and to be a better person. But the biggest inspiration is to be their mother I can't descripe how much that means to me. So todays photo is a portrait of my wonderful, thoughtful, emotional and smart son.

Autumncolors!

I just wanted to share this autumn photo with you since this is my favorite photography season :)

Macro Monday - Souvenir

This was a tricky theme! I don't really buy a lot of souvenirs. Sure I have nailpolishes I've bought while being on vacation and I had a handlotion from Prauge but small memory things, no those is not something I buy and keep.

But the area where I live is famous for their glassworks and I have of course visited the workshops and bought some glas as well. So in the end I took one of my tealight holders from Kosta Boda and took a photo of it that could very well be used as a productphoto! This holder is from their design called Mine.

FotoSöndag - Autumn Photography

Todays theme is autumn photography and today was also the day when I had my family to help my to clean up and make the garden ready for autumn and winter.

Macro Mondays - Sidelit

I had no idea what I should use to take this weeks theme photo. But in the end the best result came with my mobil flashlight and a garlic!

FotoSöndag - Nobel

This weeks theme in FotoSöndag is Nobel and right now the winners of the different prizes are revealed in the news. When I think about Nobel I think about dynamite, the Nobel prize and the amazing ice cream that are for desert at the party after the Nobel prize ceremony with sparklers in them!

My photo represent both the moment before the dynamite blows of, the sparklers in the ice cream and this years literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro.

Field with round bales

When round bales are not covered with ugly plastic they are actually pretty!

FotoSöndag - Art

Art is this weeks theme in FotoSöndag and for me our mother nautre gives us wonderful examples of art if we just look. For example the shape and colors of an autumn leave. 

Macro Mondays - Zodiac

Zodiac  a bit tricky theme, but I had fun preparing for the photo that I decided on for today. I don't think you will have a hard time understanding what sign this will represent.

FotoSöndag - Key

First try of using foil as background and I kind of like how it looks!

Dahlia

Don't you just love when your neighbours plants to many dahlias and let their friends come and pick as many as you want to? Well I certinaly do and I love using these beautiful flowers for photoprojects.

MacroMondays - Evolution

I've been way to tired today so my imagination wasn't on top, but I came up with this idea of a coffebean evolving to coffe powder. And for some reason I wanted it in retro colors of orange and brown!

FotoSöndag - Erosion

I kind of new right away what I wanted to take photos of for this weeks erosion theme. Last year we built this pond in the middle of our forest and the edges of that has very significant signs of erosion since all the rain and water from melting snow has made grooves on the edges. My husband drove me down there so I could jump around with my crutches and camera to make this photo happen.

Macro Mondays - Rust

Rust is one of my favorite things to take photos of, but I wasn't that inspired today. I'm still pretty pleased with this one.

FotoSöndag - Port

This weeks theme is port. I really like taking photos of different doors and ports, but at the moment I'm not able to move around so much so I got my husband to drive me to the village next door and their beautiful church. The port was open and I think this photo gives you a welcoming feeling.

Macro Mondays - Connection

This weeks theme is connection and for me the connection between a match and a candle is very important. I can't live without lighted candles.

FotoSöndag - Start

Start, that is a theme you could interpreted in many ways. I took the easy way out. Here in Sweden we have cereals called Start and that is actually a pretty nice kind of müsli.

Swallow

I was supposed to clean the house today, but there was a bunch of young Swallows sitting in the appeltree just outside my window so I just had to take some photos.

Macro Mondays - Abstract Macro

Well I can't walk very far right now so it's a good thing that all that junk in our backyard still hasn't been picked up! This week the theme is abstract macro and I think this works pretty well.

Fly

I love taking photos of insects, but unfortunatly I have injured my knee so I haven't been able to go out and do so as much as I wanted to. But this fly was kind enough to land on my flowerpot just beside where I was sitting.

Macro Mondays - Bread

I really like baking bread and have started a little nice tradition to have newly baked bread for Sunday evenings so this weeks theme was perfect for me. Hope you enjoy my bread!

Macro Mondays - High Key

I asked my husband to bring some blueberrys or a mushroom or something from his walk, but he forgotten that so instead I get to use one of my beloved Smurfs once again. High Key is tricky and I'm not sure if this is totally correct, but I still like the photo.

Macro Mondays - Staying Healthy

This weeks theme in Macro Mondays is Staying Healthy. What do I do to stay healthy? Well I do take vitamins and probiotics but I have already taken photos of that so instead I decided to show you something else that is supposed to make you stay healthy: vegetables and this time in the shape of a radish.

Macro Mondays - Queen

For this weeks theme somebody was kind enough to send a letter with this stamp to my work!

Macro Mondays - Three

My inspiration or imagination wasn't on top tonight, but I did manage to get a decent photo of three balloons still not blown up.

Macro Mondays - Texture

The theme is texture and the fabric on my chair definitly has a texture :)

Macro Mondays Bottoms Up

I haven't posted so much here lately, been busy working, but this week I have taken a photo that works well on the theme bottoms up. Because this is the bottom of a rose that my son got for his graduation. I'm not a person who is good keeping flowers, but this dried and looked interesting so I kept it just so I could take photos.

Macro Mondays - Broken

Broken is todays theme and this photo could be interpred in two ways. Oh no, my gingerbread broke or as I think most of you would see it as a broken heart. 

Foto Sondag - Paydays

A suitable theme for this Sunday since the 25th usually is payday in Sweden. My smurfs is having a hard time getting all the money out to those who have earned them.

Foto Sondag - Waterdrops

I was not that happy when I realized that most of the photos I took during this waterdrop session was out of focus, but this one turned out pretty good anyway.

Macro Mondays - Silhouette

Not much to say about this more than it's a silhouette of Papa Smurf.

Foto Sondag - Symbols

Symbols is this weeks theme, I know this will probably be the symbol that a lot of us chose to show today. But how could I not show this beautiful flower shaped just like a heart the symbol of love. 

And this weekend has been filled with a lot of love. 

Macro Mondays - Pareidolia

Simply described you could say that Pareidolia is when your brain makes you see patterns or faces where they actually doesn't exist. Like when you see animals in clouds and so on. This week the admins in Macro Mondays wanted us to find faces in everyday objects.

I went out and found this skull face in a bird dropping.

Foto Sondag - Deep

Deep or Depth is this weeks theme and I took this photo of our son yesterday where he is deep into is book sitting with the feet in the refreshing water at our pond.

Birch

No theme today, but I took this photo down by our pond in the forest. Played a little with it and thought I would share it with you.

Macro Mondays - Chip(s)

I was really tired when I finally drove home from my job and workout so I actually was very clear with just going into the store and buy a package of Pringles and I did, but on my way to the cash register I walked by some bananachips and figured that those where more fun to take photos of than regular chips.