Time is valuable and still so often it feels like time just slips away. You want to write, but there’s so many other things to do, and you prioritise just to notice that after a while you haven’t written a single word, again. So let’s call this a new start! So far in this blog I’ve written about nature photography, urbex, portraiture, lighting etc. And what I’ve done is that I’ve usually focused on one topic, and writen about that subject in one post after another till I’ve got enough. What I will change now is that I’ll most likely write about whatever topic interests me at the moment, without thinking I should write about the same theme or genre on and on. Whatever the case photography will be there all the time as a main topic of course. It will be a mix, but that way I hope I can keep the fire burning. With our move to Italy during this fall, I’m sure there will be lots of stuff to write about. So what lies ahead, is probably not only lots of good pictures, but places and food, combined with pictures and tips how to shoot, where to shoot, what to shoot etc. So if you are reading this, stay tuned there’s some cool stuff on its way.
These two last months have been really busy. September went in packing our belongings, storing things we wanted to keep, but couldn’t take with us, and selling things we knew we couldn’t bring with us but didn’t have place where to put them. Then in the end of September we had our trailer and car packed with us, me and Alexandra, plus our two cats and a dog and the adventure coud start. Driving trough the Baltic states, then Poland, Austria and finally over to Italy, was not really a relaxing holiday trip, but we survived. This October we have spent in Castel Volturno, which is about half an hour drive from the city of Naples. Castel Volturno is not the most pictoresque place in Italy, actually quite far away from that beautiful place what we tend to call ”bella Italia”. So not too many images of cute italian alleys and buildings has neen made during this month of exile. Photographically it has ment more of landscape photography for me at the moment, but I did a couple of intresting urbex shoots as well. As my main goal is start marketing my self as a people photographer, portraiture, weddings and such, I decided to come over with my ”fears” of connecting with people I don’t know, by asking complete strangers on the street or where ever I meet people, if they would allow me to make a picture of them. Not a very easy thing to do always, but I noticed that the best way is just stop over thinking and then ask. Usually the answer is yes. And what’s the worst that could happen? Probably that they say no. So that’s pretty much what I’ve been up to. So I’ve had a break from building up my portrait portfolio, and instead I’ve concentratd on other genres of photography, which actually has been a nice thing to do. Of course on the other hand I hope I can get back to portraiture asap.
On Sunday we will be on the road again as our plan is to move to Perugia, which lies just in the center of Italy. I guess that will be a place with lots of beautiful things marvel and to shoot, the real bella Italia. I’m definitely gonna miss the ocean, but leaving all this garbage ( believe me, there is lots of it in C V ) behind, is worh it I would say. So Umbria is calling and we are answering the call! Hopefully about within a week we have found a place of our own and I can continue my adventures in a new place with new subjects.
Here’s a few images from this past month…
