Indian wedding!

Fatima got married to her dearest Salim this weekend and the wedding festivities lasted for 4 whole days!

The wedding took place in Stockholm, where the bride is from. The bride groom came from England, where he permanently lives and their guests came from England, Australia, Kanada, the States, India and Dubai!

It was amazing to have the pleasure to follow the festivities and photograph them all 4 days, as well as to get to meet the couple's families and guests who made as feel more than comfortable with them.

Soon we are going to show here a series of photos from all days but first we have to go through some 5.000 pictures to choose from!

Yelena Isinbayeva!

Who Yelena is does not need to be explained for anyone interested in classic athletism and especially the women's pole vault.

I had the chance to meet her two years ago in Stadion, Stockholm, where she participated and, of course won.

I was amazed by how polite and humble she is! Always smiling and always replying "of course!" to all the demanding reporters and photographers who flock around her asking for her attention.

I met her again at Stadion, after she had just won (again!), on her way to the changing room.

She was stopped lots of times for pictures, interviews and autographs and she did not mind at all to come back from the corridor leading to the dressing rooms, when i called her and asked if i might photograph her!

"of course, of course!" she smiled and asked what she should do.

I photographed her hands, still dirty after her efforts to jump higher than 5 meters.

Being the only woman in the world who has ever jumped higher than 5 meters, and having broken the world record 21 times, it feels that she is going for a new record at the Olympics in Beijing next month!

tags: Yelena, Isinbayeva, Stadion, Stockholm, Sweden,pole vault

DN-Galan 2008

I am in love!!!

Yesterday i attended the sports meeting at Stadion in Stockholm, taking pictures that will be used as feature pictures in different articles as well as the webpage of the University of Stockholm.
Nikon was also there to support the proffesional photographers of the meeting and lend them equipment to use and test.

I borrowed a Nikon "D3" and a "AF-S 70-200/2,8 G ED VR"!
What a combination!
Beautiful, sharp photos every time, that almost don't need any kind of post produktion at all!

I loooove this camera!
(i wish i had borrowed also the AF-S 400/2,8 G ED VR, but at the price it has and at the kilos it weighs maybe i was lucky not to...)

Our 080808 couple in the Hallwylska museum.

I met Johanna and Micke a couple of days ago and we visited the place where they are going to get married.





First "Wow!" for what a place they have chosen for the ceremony! Both outdoors and (especially) indoors the whole museum is so beautifull, stylish and elegant!





Second (and even louder) "Wow!" for how much in love both of them are to each other! One can easily see on the photos how they feel when they hug and kiss each other, their lough, the way they look at each other...







I am so much looking forward to photographing their wedding ceremony as well as to following them to Grand Hotell for the bride's toast and the reception!

" The birds!!! "

We where in Vimmerby, sitting outdoors late in the evening and enjoying a drink at the bar of the Stadshotell there, when a sudden sound scared the birds that where sitting on the roofs of the surrounding buildings and they started flying!

Oh boy! The sky became almost black and it reminded me immedaitely of the famous horror film, dericted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963!

The irony was that we where at the village where the famous "Astrid Lindgren's World" is wellcoming hundreds of thousands of children with their families every year!

In the "Astrid Lindgren's World".

What a wonderfull place it is, both for children as well as adults!

So many activities, so much to see and try and so many happy faces of small children, full of exhitement and laugh!

Wedding near the water ...

Niklas och Sandra got marrried a very warm Saturday at Värmdö.

The wedding took place near the water, just a couple of hundret meters from their summer house, at their favourit beach. They stayed under the very same tree that was also painted on their wedding-invitations.

Yeeesssssss !!!

What a relief when the wedding ceremony is over! 

Now it's only party-time following!

They are sooo beautiful!!!

This Saturday was "wedding-free"!

Instead i stayed in Åkersberga were the finals for the "Greyhound 2008" took place.

God, they are so fast and powerfull!

The camera was firing at a rate of 10 frames per second at a prefocused point and it was just a matter of luck to get them in focus! 

Here is the winner ...

... and here is the happy owner carrying his "baby"!

Beautiful brides!

It's finally warm and light in Stockholm; the high season for weddings!
It's also the high season for boudoir or otherwise "morgongåva" photosessions!

The picture above is from one of "our" brides that gets married this summer. It was taken last weekend in a central famous hotel in our city!