Scandinavian summers are short and there is a lot to photograph. This summer has been especially rainy. Moist weather is good news for snails and mushrooms which I was just about to experience on July 31st. Whilst photographing mushrooms in the nature reserve...
Batman begins! To photograph flying bats at nighttime has been a dream for me for a long time. Well, I guess that it is the ultimate dream and challenge of every keen wildlife photographer. You hardly see them, when they pass you by at nighttime, navigating with their...
I haven’t been blogging much recently. There has been little time because I have become a father in September last year. This is great joy but ‘time’ has decreased quite a lot. At the moment, there is simply no time for wildlife photography. I...
One of the youngsters is waiting for the pygmy owl mother at the entrance of the nest hole. When the juveniles are still small, the owl mother spends much of the day inside the nest hole. As the youngsters grow bigger and become more space demanding, she will stay...
I have been photographing owls for a few years now and have even built some 250 nest boxes for owls. This year seems to be an excellent year for forest owls in southern Sweden. I found a record number of four breeding pairs of Pygmy Owls in Skåne, the southernmost...
Black Grouse Lek! This morning I spent some time in a hide next to my wildlife photography colleague Johan Hammar who has invited me to join him to photograph Black Grouse in southern Sweden. Male black grouse display and compete for the females in a bizarre arena...
This winter, Susanne and I went back to South Africa to photograph wildlife. Togeteher we stayed for two weeks in two completely different areas. The first week we spent in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which is part of the world famous “Kalahari...
Owls are keeping me busy these days. I just came home from a nice rendezvous with a Long-eared Owl. Amazingly it was hunting during daytime. Perhaps the large amount of snow forces the owls to hunt during the day? The whole show was over very fast, too fast actually....
My swedish barn owl projekt “Tornugglegruppen” that I run with a few friends has now got its own page on Facebook. Any breaking news will be published there. Don’t miss it. If you have Facebook, you can join the project by becoming a fan. Just click...
Last Wednesday, on February 17th, I visited the monthly meeting of the Danish Nature Photographers Association (NFD) in Copenhagen. Chairman Klaus Bjerre had asked me to talk about “high-speed flash photography”, a technique that I have been using for some years now....
