A lovely day with rain and actually some sun. I appreciate my walks in Rövarkulan which is a small nature reserve in the middle of Skåne.
I'm doing a year of documentation of the area so I go there all the time with my camera has become a few hundred pictures by now. When I get winter pictures, I hope it will be an e-book.
In the meantime, I'll show you some pictures here as the project develops.
I usually avoid going yours because it always feels like I'm neglecting the traditional art in favor of all the computers and nets and stuff.
There is a movement in my subconscious towards painting again. But I struggle with all that I can really do. Painting is just endlessly boring, woody industry job. I don't want to be there, I don't want to do what it does to me.
But I can't let go of the thought that it's time again. The thoughts from the exhibition in Lund remain. I was depressed and the show was depressing. Unfortunately, the imagery you live with is not movable. Not to be honest.
I guess it's time to go back to the studio. It's also fucking cold. But saw the movie about Pollock and I'm not alone in freezing with color. The advantage is that the shit does not dry so you can make changes for an eternity.
I have a whole pile of empty canvases. Empty. Filling things up isn't easy, maybe...
Irving Penn's dead, I could read in my newspaper. It made me think about it when I started photographing myself. I was 19 years old and managed to scrape money for cameras and eventually a studio.
Irving Penn was one of the photographers I admired a lot. Especially for his portraits and fashion pictures that were usually just straight on. Model and nothing else. I went up and looked in my rather messy archive if I had any pictures that might show Penn's influence.
I think the girl's name was Helen and these are some pictures I think I took when I had just started to photograph. I don't remember much else about them but it's a little penny. A girl and a background.
The final picture was copied on a high-contrast paper. It took five rolls of film to get it and a lot of copies I see in the archive. Long live the digital photo.
HDR pic of the beach.
Have gone several long hikes at Lake Vomb and Övedskloster. Amazingly beautiful though it's autumn and a bit rugged. Lots of heavens and reflections passing by quickly. Autumn weather.
Maybe my new project will be now that I'm finished with Rövarkulan's nature reserve. Around the lake there are lots of picture opportunities and it should be one of Europe's healthiest lakes with lots of fishing. I need to buy some fish while I'm there.
Going around Österlen and visiting artists provides some great photo opportunities..
Here are some pictures and a glass bowl. Österlens konstrunda is a great opportunity to see what is happening around the art scene locally in Skåne. There are plenty of artists in the landscape.
