Malmö Technical museum and some fruit

Malmö has some awesome institutions including a bunch of museums. Here are some picts of their technical museum where I was lucky enough to be asked to photograph a seminar event. I didn't include the seminar pictures cause they aren't nearly as pretty:) My lovely friend Julia and I went to the local farmers' market a couple of weekend ago and bought fruit for her party later that night. The market was larger than I had expected and the produce is mostly organic and definitely local and seasonal. The Swedes value their farmers and local food very much.

Athens- August 2011

Windy city

Malmö is definitely very windy. We get sudden changes in the weather a lot, cloudy to sunny, and vice versa. Here's the view from our kitchen window, cat included:)

nio veckor

(aka nine weeks)

That's how long I've been living in Malmö. It feels much much longer. Our apartment and the city are still treating us well but the weather has been pretty cold and cloudy for what I'm used to.
Here are some picks from one of our evening adventures in Copenhagen. It's a wicked and dynamic city, we always have so much fun over there. It's only a 30 minute train ride so it's an easy trip.

summer is getting summery

The month of July was more rain than sun. I was getting seriously jealous of the heat wave that struck Ontario! But this last week has been hot and sunny- that's what I'm talking about. I have a serious obsession with the sun. Here are some pics of the beaches and some other random bits. The apartment building is of one of the many waterfront residential areas in Stockholm. The grey picture of the boardwalk is what July looked like. The cup is at one of my favorite coffee houses that serves fair trade coffee, amazingly with refills!

Swedish cows and knacke bread

There is no shortage of amazing restaurants in this town. When we were thinking about moving here I had no idea Swedish gastronomy was so advanced and delicious. There are good meals to be had at every corner at another unique little establishment. The traditional fare includes fish roe, shrimp, cured meats, knäckebröd (crisp rye bread), lots of mayonnaise, all kinds of fish, and meatballs of course.
I was lucky to go on a canoe trip with some Canadian friends last week. I was amazing to paddle again, it's been to long since I steered a canoe. We had a great view of the countryside as we paddled down a small river and that's where these shots of the cows and fields came from. I hope to get out in a boat again this summer.

Ansel Adams

Here are some inspiring words from American landscape photographer Ansel Adams. I found this quotation beautiful and very true:

"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique- these too are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. Art, said Alfred Stiegliz, is the affirmation of life. And life, or its eternal evidence, is everywhere. Some photographers take reality as the sculptors take wood and stone and upon it impose the dominations of their own thought and spirit. Others come bfore reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Expressions without doctrine, my photographs are presented as ends in themselves, images of the endless movement of the world."