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  • Happy Midsummer! Part 2

    Happy Midsummer! Part 2

    Fullspectrum converted Canon EOS 80D, IR 720 nm

    The may pole is dressed with leafy twigs, usually birch, and decorated with wild flowers. In many places people gather in the morning to dress the Maypole, then gather again in the afternoon to carry the pole to the place where it is to be erected. Those who owns a local traditional costume dress up for this special occation.

    The pole is long and heavy, it takes several people to carry it, often in procession with fiddlers playing folk music. The lifting itself is also a procedure and takes place with special tools. While waiting for the pole to rise up to its full glory, there is entertainment in the form of music, song and speeches.

    Once the pole is up, we finally get to dance! We sing about the little frogs and the fox that rush across the ice. The fact that it’s in the middle of summer doesn’t matter, the fox can still run across the ice because we’re happy that it is summer and the light are finally here and now it’s only 6 months until Christmas and the darkness, but today we’re happy!

    Glad midsommar!

    #misummer #midsummernight #summernights #midnightlight #midsummersday #maypole #midsummerpole #swedishmidsummer #midsummermagic #midsommar #midsommaridalarna #dalarna #visitdalarna #dalecarlia #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #alternativephotography #old_houses #traditions #swedishtraditions

  • Happy Midsummer!

    Happy Midsummer!

    Fullspectrum converted Canon EOS 80D, IR 720 nm

    In Sweden, midsummer is one of the most important holidays, it is celebrated with maypole raising and parties.

    We always go to Dalarna and celebrate with friends and family. Most people celebrate Midsummer on Midsummer Eve, the small village where we celebrate does it on Midsummer Day. The special thing about Dalarna is that midsummer is celebrated on different days during the summer, so it is possible to celebrate several times for those who want.

    When the pole is raised, we dance around it and sing dance songs.

    Midsummer also includes a smorgasbord of good food and high-calorie desserts. But it doesn’t matter because we’ve danced!

    Glad midsommar!

    #misummer #midsummernight #summernights #midnightlight #midsummersday #maypole #midsummerpole #swedishmidsummer #midsummermagic #midsommar #midsommaridalarna #dalarna #visitdalarna #dalecarlia #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #alternativephotography #old_houses #traditions #swedishtraditions

  • Fine Art America – closed account

    Fine Art America – closed account

    A few years ago, more precisely just before the pandemic broke out, I thought I had so many interesting pictures that I wanted to try exhibiting and selling. I have had a few exhibitions, which you can read more about on this page (link), but it was rare that I got any pictures sold, so I started looking into what opportunities there were to sell online.

    One way was to make my own website, print, pack and sell myself but since I was working full time it felt like a big job even if it wouldn’t sell that much. Then again, I’m a bit of a curious tech geek, so I wanted to try some sales sites. There are many different solutions, dropshipping is one where the art is sold, printed and shipped through a company that specializes in this. Sometimes you have to have your own website where you link to the shop and others have a shop from which you can sell directly. All solutions have a cost somewhere, usually it is a percentage of the sale and then you have to pay extra for certain benefits such as uploading unlimited images or that the shop with them is adapted to the layout you have on your own website so that it is not visible that one changes site.

    Skärmklipp från Fine Art America med sju fotografier fotograferade i infrarött.
    My page at Fine Art America

    Fine Art America was one of the first I tried. It has several advantages: images can be printed on a variety of products including wall art, home decor, phone cases, bags and more. The customers come from all over the world, anyone around the globe who likes the pictures can buy them. There is a community that organizes competitions.

    Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to spend entering contests or participating in discussions so I haven’t gotten much response to the images and I haven’t sold a single image there.

    I’ve been meaning to delete the account for a long time but it hasn’t happened, I wanted to organize the pictures I posted so I can keep track of what I uploaded where. First, I wanted to check another thing that is important in dropshipping when selling images to and from countries outside the EU: taxes, VAT and customs duties. Serious sites inform about how to handle those pieces, for example, an F-tax number may be needed for VAT reporting. I searched every possible way on the site but did not succeed here

  • Winter at the Camping

    Winter at the Camping

    It’s winter at the campsite. There are some caravans inside the camping area but I don’t know if anyone is there or if they are just parked for winter storage.

    Out by the bathing area, the beach that is well visited during summer, it is empty and deserted except for some ducks that descided to not fly south in the autumn. They’re not in much of a hurry to save energy, they probably freeze those poor little souls too.

    I continue round the cape. Watching the view. Looking away towards the women’s prison and the destinies that hide there.

    I continue back to the car, turn on the heat and go home to safety again.

    #winter #loveswinter #lovestrees #lovesreflections #treelovers #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #alternativephotography #wintercamping #loveslakes #

  • Old phone booth

    Old phone booth

    För länge, länge sedan utbildade jag mig till telereparatör, ni vet sådana där som kopplade telefonledningar och kunde reparera lågspänningsapparater som telefoner, tv-apparater och sådant. Därför tycker jag det är spännande med gamla elektronikprylar.

    Någon som kommer ihåg när det inte fanns mobiltelefoner och vi antingen var tvungna att knacka på hos någon för att låna telefon eller hellre använda en telefonkiosk om det fanns till hands? Då hade man alltid ett mynt i fickan så att man skulle kunna ringa från telefonkiosken eller lämna som tack för lånet om man måste knacka på för att låna telefon. De kunde vara riktigt vackra att se på också.

    #telephone #telephonebooth #téléphone #telephonebox #vintagetelephone #visitaskersund #askersund #telephoneboxes #visitnarke #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #railwaystation #telephoneboxes_of_our_world #telephonelove #telefonkiosk #creativeir_world #creativeir #infrared_world #infrared_photography

  • Abandoned train part five

    Abandoned train part five

    Infrared 720 nm, shot with Canon EOS 80D fullspectrum converted.

    Flammable.
    Must not be deflated with oxygen.
    Transport equipment.

    An old wagon with a big, rusty tank that has seen its best days. I wish I had taken a photograph of the other side, somewhere it must say what was transported in the tank. Now I have to content myself with thinking that the tank is empty.

    #railroad #railway #railroadphotography #railroads_of_our_world #railroadstation #visitvadstena #visitostergotland #railwaystation #railways_of_our_world #railways_of_europe #railway_station #railwaysofinstagram #freighttrain #infrared_world #infrared_photography #freightcar #train_nerds #trainphotography #trainart #trainsofinstagram #lustforrust #rustinpeace #rsa_preciousjunk

  • Forged in fire

    Forged in fire

    Once a year, on the second Sunday of August, the blacksmith opens the door to the forge and lets us view the handiwork. Heats and shapes, heats and shapes until the nail, hinge or whatever it may be he is shaping is ready. Because the sun always shine on this special day, the weather has got its own name: Dammtôrpavä’r (Dammtorp’s weather after the place where this all happens).

    #infrared_photography #summer #retrospective #smithing #blacksmith #historic_crafting #ironwork #visittiveden #tivedsdagen #dammtorpadagen #creativeinfrared_world #visitlaxa #old_forge #historical_forge #forge

  • Watertower

    Watertower

    Canon EOS 80D, fullspectrum converted, 720 nm IR-pass filter

    Vattentornet tornar upp sig som ett ufo över orten. Vakar över oss, förser oss med vatten. Friskt vatten tänkte jag skriva men även om det inte gör dig sjuk så är det preparerat med kemikalier så att du inte ska bli sjuk när du dricker.

    Vattentornet i Laxå har en större kusin i Örebro, den kallas för svampen för att den ser ut som en svamp. Svampen i Örebro har en ännu större kusin i Saudiarabien.

    • Laxå 1962 (arkitekt: Sixten Löfmark)
    • Örebro 1958 och Riyad 1971 (arkitekter: Sune Lindström och Poul Kyhl)

    #watertower #watertowerphotography #watertowers_of_our_world #visitlaxa #laxa #visitnarke #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #watertowers_of_europe #watertowersofinstagram #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #watertowerpics #watertowerart

  • Abandoned train part four

    Abandoned train part four

    Old freight cars have such a beautiful patina. The wind-ravaged wood, the rusted metal. The remains of what was once shipped are mixed with the plant power in the shipping space. It is so exciting what power there is in life, what will to get ahead and survive even for the smallest blade of grass.

    #railroad #railway #railroadphotography #railroads_of_our_world #railroadstation #visitvadstena #visitostergotland #infocuswomen #fotogaris #railwaystation #railways_of_our_world #railways_of_europe #railway_station #railwaysofinstagram #freightcart #infrared_world #infrared_photography #train_nerds #trainphotography #trainart #trainsofinstagram

  • Taking the old road

    Taking the old road

    Fullspectrum converted Canon EOS 80D, IR 720 nm

    The old road runs parallel to the new one. It is a little more crooked and a little narrower. I take my walks along that road because it’s quieter to go that way, avoid the village and avoid the traffic.

    The roads have been straightened as the traffic got faster, the first time they were straightened for the milk truck to arrive. It was both wider and faster than the horse and cart that went around the countryside and picked up milk barrels with fresh milk for transport to the dairy.

    #infocuswomen #fotogaris #500px #appicoftheweek #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #alternativephotography #infrared_world #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_world #alternativephotography #oldroads #treelovers #skylovers #surrealcolors #fantasyworld #infraredworld #infraredlandscape #infrared_moments #infraredlandscapephotography #infraredcommunity #visitvastmanland #visitlinesberg #visitfellingsbro