https://www.rvfotografi.com/blog daily 0.75 2018-02-18 https://www.rvfotografi.com/blog/2018/2/18/humble-beginnings monthly 0.5 2018-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1518984323729-FXEQLWFLCL8TJGV96EML/K%C3%A4rnan.jpg Blog - Humble beginnings - One of the first Images I ever took since getting a digital camera is this one. It's taken at night of the medieval tower Kärnan in Helsingborg. https://www.rvfotografi.com/astroscape daily 0.75 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722313928052-M1H2B7QFDJBLGKIU42EP/image-asset.jpeg Astroscapes - Falsterbo Lights The Milky Way core rises above the lights of the lighthouse at Falsterbo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722313928052-M1H2B7QFDJBLGKIU42EP/image-asset.jpeg Astroscapes - Falsterbo Lights The Milky Way core rises above the lights of the lighthouse at Falsterbo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1632928825844-SSSJKW5VID6ALOZZLZSO/Eagle+and+Omega.jpg Astroscapes - Eagle and Omega During this years Perseid meteorshower I shot a photo that I've long wanted to take. A shot of the Eagle and Omega nebulae as an astroscape, taken with a 135mm lens. Unfortunately the shot as you see here is impossible to take at the location of the foreground as the only place you can setup is in the middle of a road. So I had to shoot the sky at another location that same night but everything is positioned correctly in the resulting image. So even if it is a composite, it's still a true representation of the view at this site. And would you believe it, I got lucky enough to snag a Perseid in one of the shots as well :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1629026843021-H5CF7WO3XONI87HRTT3X/image-asset.jpeg Astroscapes - Watching the Sky Fall So this years Perseids Meteor shower was a bit of a disappointment, the weather was not playing nice and the only night I managed to get out was the night before the peak of the meteor shower. Unfortunately just as things seemed to kick off properly there was a think fog descending on the area which forced me to stop after just 2,5 hours of capture time. But it was nice to be out under the stars again after the bright nights of summer and the sky was lit up with gorgeous green airglow… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1589466693780-6KOQS9T14PM77Z4MBP5E/Looking-for-the-light.jpg Astroscapes - Looking for the Light As photographers we cannot perform our craft without light… so how do you manage when you cannot find it?? Well… you go looking for it of course, maybe its beyond this sand dune? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1565626837802-PHPSBRKYBMZ2S0OTVRWI/Travel+by+Light.jpg Astroscapes - Travel by Light The lighthouse at Flasterbo on the southwesternmost tip of Sweden was built in 1796 but the location has had a light to warn sailors of the Falsterbo sandbanks since 1636 when a lever light was built very close to the lighthouse. Now the Lighthouse garden is a ringing site for the Falsterbo Bird Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1516739383979-9QIP3FDLF4LFNFJI88C0/The+Old+Superstitions.jpg Astroscapes The Old Superstitions The ruins of the Rya old church in northern Scania, Sweden was built in the late 11th century or the early 12th century. It was in use until the the 19th century when a new church replaced it. It started to fall apart until eventually the Rya parrish decided to go to great length to preserve what was left of the church. It is still in use during the summer months for weddings and baptisms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1516739359739-4EK285L5YN7NGJZPKZST/Deadwood.jpg Astroscapes - Deadwood A dead tree stands under the night sky. Old and gnarly its branches still reach for something much more ancient above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1516741519876-RPZ1AE5TDNDIEESJM2MO/Seekeing+Shelter+From+the+Vastness.jpg Astroscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1599666077152-HUE8TH8N7GF13Q2SYJPK/image-asset.jpeg Astroscapes - When Sand is Fireworks The Perseids meteor shower came on its annual visit in mid-august and this is one of the shots I took this year. These 10 meteors was caught over little more than 80 minutes worth of 30s exposures before my lens fogged up due to heavy humidity. The Perseids meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the debris left by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle during its passage through the inner solar system. The debris from the comets tail is mostly made up of small grains of ice and sand. Most of the Perseids burn up in the earth’s atmosphere and rarely get closer than 80km of the earth’s surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1516741503193-DVCTOLBMRFLB7410HTD9/Light+Pollution+in+the+Mist.jpg Astroscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1598979350748-5GZ2CN5DYW227LWE7ZV7/Venus+and+her+Admirer.jpg Astroscapes - Venus and her Admirer As I was packing up after shooting the Perseids I set up one camera to catch the rising of Venus and her admiring companion the waning crescent Moon. Was a bit lucky with the foreground as it was still quite dark when i shot this but the morning mists had started to form and gave the scene the mood it deserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1586701131357-4GDOHDOTM81G3OJABVKO/Moonrise.jpg Astroscapes - Moonrise Taken in 2018 I stayed around a little as the moon rose out of the Baltic Sea to try and capture it together with the Milky Way… And now with the COVID-19 situation I got bored and had a look through my catalog of images that were yet to be edited and found this… The sky is one series of exposures and then I’ve taken shorter exposures of the moon just to ensure to get it nice and sharp. Foreground is focusstacked and then sky and foreground is blended together. All of the images are taken during a 17min window during the moonrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1546449965676-APU39X1MFK6YNRD4JMKS/Rocking+the+Stars.jpg Astroscapes - Rocking the Stars Digging through the Lightroom archives I found this shot that I took back in the spring of 2016. Was a very cool night with very cool airtemps after a long period of relatively warm weather and lots and lots of Sea smoke or steam fog as it is also known. Sea smoke is formed when very cold air mixes with warm moist air that is just above the waters surface. And this night it looked like the ocean was boiling there was so much of it as can be seen in the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1530394698617-W0EZ535B69B830MW35LT/Mars+Rising.jpg Astroscapes - Mars Rising Mars rises over the Baltic Sea just over the light pollution from the danish island of Bornholm. Mars is the bright “star” that casts a reflection in the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1548866029324-GSQJJXKB79JI9U3X90H3/Hawthorn.jpg Astroscapes - Hawthorn As I was scouting the location while waiting for the Milky Way to rise up out of the ocean I came upon this Hawthorn bush and thought that would be good in the foreground… And I totally forgot about the fact that I’d have to mask out all of those branches as I took the shots for the sky using a tracker… But I quite like the end result… https://www.rvfotografi.com/seascapes daily 0.75 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722314091766-NE10P1F64CK8D8Y0L2WH/Summernights+by+Lagan.jpg Seascapes - Summernights by Lagan.jpg The noctilucent clouds shines down on Lagan as it flows through the landscape outside the town of Ljungby as the sun is about to rise again... oh how wonderful they are, these midsummer nights... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722314091766-NE10P1F64CK8D8Y0L2WH/Summernights+by+Lagan.jpg Seascapes - Summernights by Lagan.jpg The noctilucent clouds shines down on Lagan as it flows through the landscape outside the town of Ljungby as the sun is about to rise again... oh how wonderful they are, these midsummer nights... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1567106235371-NX3GQ7YECBDHAF5S9RHU/The+Energetic+Dance.jpg Seascapes - The Energetic Dance A Thunderstorm over the danish island Zealand gave me the immense pleasure of standing on the beach just north of the scanianvillage of Viken just outside the reach of the storms rain… Hardly any wind… just me, the silent lapping of the ocean on the beach and the distant rumble of the thunder… Absolutely stunning!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159224831-84ISLS0YXKW63YCT63Y1/Black+and+White+Dawn.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1600440794814-UPT9TG6AJSDYXYJWFJFC/image-asset.jpeg Seascapes - When the Sky Lights Up I love thunderstorms and photographing lightning… something I’ve not been able to do much this year despite very promising stormcells and what not that I’ve chased on a few occasions… But they’ve all been during the day with all the action hidden under very heavy rain or they have dissipated as soon as it was getting close to my chosen location… Very frustrating… So this is a shot from 2019, a much more prosperous year from the lightning photography viewpoint :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159226729-P8WKQZDC92ZWG1M18GPY/Calm+and+Chaos.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159226140-M9325SIDC14PX6EWDG6G/Driftwood.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159230075-2VJLMPTUQ2X82ZIBTCPS/Good+morning.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159227884-HUWXFJSVJIS0NBJJZVXW/First+Light.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159229322-5XF8TNEFEW7LPYMNIBVE/Misty+morning+in+the+reeds.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517159231222-X1KFBAZABUTR0NX73W95/The+Motion+of+the+Ocean.jpg Seascapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1527975306828-52ASE1ZM9D5FGY7D10EG/Under+a+Rainbow+Sky.jpg Seascapes - Under a Rainbow Sky The first capture of Noctilucent Clouds for the summer of 2018… a very nice night out that ended with a sweet in the middle of the night swim! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1561649780196-1MV5JB3NW2NPL1MQKAHV/Broken+Rainbow.jpg Seascapes - Broken Rainbow I was out hoping to capture some cool lightning shots but the thunderstorms this day was extremely high precipitation. And I was standing there all ready getting a bit frustrated of all the rain… then all of a sudden… a ray of sunlight breaks through and for the first time in my life I found myself looking down at a rainbow. So glad I didn’t give up and packed up my gear into the car… You never know when the light comes and brightens up your day… https://www.rvfotografi.com/landscapes daily 0.75 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722314353062-6VJ717837GTLGUYSEZ62/All+the+colours+of+the+rainbow.jpg Landscapes - All the colours of the rainbow.jpg All the colours of the rainbow in full display as the autumn colours the beech trees in Rövarekulan nature preserve... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1722314353062-6VJ717837GTLGUYSEZ62/All+the+colours+of+the+rainbow.jpg Landscapes - All the colours of the rainbow.jpg All the colours of the rainbow in full display as the autumn colours the beech trees in Rövarekulan nature preserve... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1603206162632-S7T1HSGSLLTRKDZV8RPJ/Morning-Sunlight.jpg Landscapes - Morning Sun Just starting out on my way home from shooting the sunrise in the early autumn coloured forest, and some wildlife, i came upon this scene… and it was just to good to pass up on. Glorious sunlight filtering down through the trees highlighted by the early morning mists. Good times… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1601311647807-NZYYSNARM24N4PFG8NV3/Stillness.jpg Landscapes - Stillness The magic of the summer nights… Noctilucent Clouds… Just imagine everything being perfectly still… it’s quiet… far away you hear a bird sing in the summer twilight and above in the night sky, the blue and silver ice crystals dance in the mesosphere reflecting the sun’s light… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1604593662600-WKQ7X1TW6YLNIUFIIZT4/image-asset.jpeg Landscapes - The Little Birch That Glowed As the suns first rays of light peeks through the trees and the mist rising off the lake, this little yellow birch soaks up all that it can of the early warming light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1533878159916-YGZ9ID2MEC3WO3S7LLFI/The+Beauty+of+Raw+Power.jpg Landscapes - The Beauty of Raw Power Some thunderstorms passed by and mother nature showed her power in a most beautiful way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517162913690-4EA9K3R476JK96OCBVGS/Calm+before+Chaos.jpg Landscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1561201085882-4QQ3JGGTHSQXQCFIE2HL/A+Midsummer+Nights+Dream.jpg Landscapes - A Midsummer Nights Dream So last night there was quite the show in the night sky, on Midsummers Eve no less. The Noctilucent Clouds put on a spectacular show and as it was nearing it’s end I caught this shot with the NLCs lightning up the night sky behind the Windmill of Kulla Gunnarstorp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1565282912245-9D0HYK2RG0UDT7VW7NQX/Twisting+Turbine.jpg Landscapes - Twisting Turbine Found myself in the wrong place with the wrong lens to far away… but I managed to get a clear view and got my first ever twister with a proper camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517162919424-135Z93LBZQI1HWCMZ8YJ/I+stand+alone.jpg Landscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1560106448846-HT2BQCQJLPPF65XPS8EL/Otherworldly-Presence.jpg Landscapes - Otherworldly Presence The Noctilucent clouds shimmer and shine over the church in the village of Mölle in Scania, Sweden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517322313060-SAXUZR8D7HE3Q4AYAQQI/Where+the+Trolls+live.jpg Landscapes - Where the Trolls live https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1525116461152-ZNWEML8L57I7LH0XBA0Y/Out+in+the+Fields.jpg Landscapes - Out in the Fields With the ending of the Milky Way season a new season begins... the first of the thunderstorms have already made their first loud appearances... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1567956172942-88EGD5HG1AE6AD09DIFJ/Rays+of+Light+Above+and+Below.jpg Landscapes - Rays of Light In the Night The summer nights are usually very beautiful with the neverending twilight and then when you add the shimmering lights from the Noctilucent Clouds it is just simply breathtaking. Here I’ve captured its magnificence over the E6 Highway that stretches from Kirkenes in the northernmost parts of Norway down to Treleborg in southernmost parts of Sweden covering a distance of 3058km. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1534709379860-XODL8NE4YTB7NIFMZNQ9/Twins+of+Turbulence.jpg Landscapes - Twins of Turbulence I’ve been wanting to take a lightning shot at this very location since I started taking photos. This little valley is just south of a small village called Glumslöv at it’s overlooking the Öresund straight between Denmark and Sweden and in the middle there is the Swedish island of Ven where the danish astronomer Tycho Brahe had his observatory in the 16th century. Unfortunately there are some street lights ruining the foreground a bit but my word did the storm provide some spectacular action this night. Just look how the clouds are torn to pieces by the winds feeding this stormcell. 2 very visible lightniong strikes in this single exposure but when observed closer there are a few more hidden in the rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517162916199-IHNYWVLD7YWZA3QSMVIO/Deep+in+the+Beech+Forest.jpg Landscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1517162917195-LG6T01BF7SIHSPLJKLAI/Driving+Home.jpg Landscapes https://www.rvfotografi.com/cityscapes daily 0.75 2019-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382040835-9RPW38OZWADUDT7HL2F7/Bangkok+by+night.jpg Cityscapes - Bangkok by night View from my hotelroom during a visit to Bangkok. Woke up in the middle of the night as you often do when suffering from jetlag. Built a provisional tripod using an ironing board and some other stuff I found in my room... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382040835-9RPW38OZWADUDT7HL2F7/Bangkok+by+night.jpg Cityscapes - Bangkok by night View from my hotelroom during a visit to Bangkok. Woke up in the middle of the night as you often do when suffering from jetlag. Built a provisional tripod using an ironing board and some other stuff I found in my room... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382041205-SUS0LWT9X5BQFQ7GYUUN/Colours+Colours+and+Colours.jpg Cityscapes - Colours, Colours and Colours Leake St in London has this underground passageway that it absolutely covered in graffiti… Played around with an HDR capture just to make the colours “pop”… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382042442-1HVZPKMARI3VFLNI646G/Escalating+Light.jpg Cityscapes - Escalating Light And HDR capture I took while waiting for a train at Copenhagen Airport… riding the escalator up towards the Arrivals hall going from darkness into the light… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382042778-EHYHE19GY71GAOAZIT2B/Peace+in+the+City.jpg Cityscapes - Peace in the City St Dunstans-in-the-East is such a little lesser known jewel in the heart of London. An old church that was struck during the Blitz is now a small park where you almost feel as you’ll run into some characters from The Lord of the Rings as you turn a corner… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1528382043680-VFMS6FKCPJM39HNBGXSY/Westminster+Underground.jpg Cityscapes - Westminster Underground The wonderful industrial feel you get in Westminster Underground station… After a little unnecessary harassment from a security guard, who were very friendly btw, this is one of the shots I got away with… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1559997284694-AY96C30L4YXC5KNJMYHU/_C_E4385.jpg Cityscapes - Clean the gutter! So I guess someone put this here to allow you to wash yourself after… rolling in the gutter?? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1560611309256-S372FHRHZJF0RXQ311KY/Lightning+Up+My+Day.jpg Cityscapes - Lightning up my day This is the view from my balcony and the tower seen with the danish(!) flag waving from it is the Kärnan, a medival castle built in the 1310s. I’ve long wanted to capture a lightning strike in its vicinity and this is as close I've gotten a strike so far… But I’ll keep trying for that “perfect” shot :-) https://www.rvfotografi.com/dso daily 0.75 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1613655754679-SRWDEYSSSUUU91LURUL7/The+Great+Nebula+in+Orion.jpg Deep Space Objects - The Great Nebula in Orion The Orion Nebula also known as M42 or NGC 1676, is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye given that you are in a dark enough area… It is the closest massive star forming region to Earth and it is about 1344 light years away from us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1613655754679-SRWDEYSSSUUU91LURUL7/The+Great+Nebula+in+Orion.jpg Deep Space Objects - The Great Nebula in Orion The Orion Nebula also known as M42 or NGC 1676, is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye given that you are in a dark enough area… It is the closest massive star forming region to Earth and it is about 1344 light years away from us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1641486531145-FOYD0XXUW7XN9Q9T68DH/Tarantula_Nebula+copy.jpg Deep Space Objects - Tarantula Nebula So I got bored with the endless string of cloudy nights and thought I'd try some remote photography using a telescope in Chile, So off to Telescope.Live I went and signed up for a try-out. Choose an object not available to me in the northern hemisphere - the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Not quite as fun as capturing the whole thing myself but still fun to tinker a bit on the computer :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1613474654182-39XF29NN36EWFINJ9IN6/NEOWISE+F3.jpg Deep Space Objects - Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1613474657749-0N5NY02BGC83UPRGLU2T/Orions+Belt+v2.jpg Deep Space Objects - Orions Belt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1613474656957-BC97NHYU04USTB22L0TG/North+America+Nebula+and+Deneb.jpg Deep Space Objects - North America Nebula and Deneb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1643019883192-HAUD7Q9UCSS1ECACU319/Trifid+%26+Lagoon+Nebula.jpg Deep Space Objects - Trifid & Lagoon Nebula https://www.rvfotografi.com/coverpage daily 1.0 2021-02-17 https://www.rvfotografi.com/about daily 0.75 2018-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59c7925a32601e6b513fe015/1516742254655-PE5DSHYD6HYW4DPOK4IE/Deadwood.jpg About