Winter has got its cold grip on Sweden at the moment. Even here in the south where we usually don’t get much snow, temperatures have been well below zero, the landscape is white and all the lakes are covered with ice. The water in the pool at my hide...
Last week, I checked a few more of my 20 Tawny Owl nest boxes that I have set up in autumn 2009. Amazingly I found owls in three out of four controlled boxes. They were well visible in the hole with my binoculars. I guess they were watching me thoroughly too. Even...
Well, I am back from the Kalahari, which was wonderful with quite a few sightings of lions, leopards and cheetahs, to name a few. There was absolutely no Internet but I will write about the journey here on my blog as soon as I have browsed through my images and film...
After weeks of preparations, Susanne and me are finally an our way to the Kalahari Desert and Hluhluwe Wildlife Reserve in South Africa to photograph wildlife for two weeks. After a visit to the Kalahari in 2005, this is my second visit to the area and in total my...
Today, I finally bought the brand new 7D. At first glance, this camera seems to be a real beauty, it is fast, has a great AF and makes it possible for me to use EF-S lenses which I cannot use with my 1D Mark 3. I especially like the possibility of using Canons EF-S...
On February 17th 2010 I will be guest speaker at a monthly meeting of the NFD (Danish Wildlife Photographers Association) in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the evening I will talk about an show images of some of my recent Swedish photo projects, e.g. Eagles in...
Today, I found another Tawny Owl in one of five nest boxes that I checked. Spotting the owl was easy as it looked out from the entrance hole, which was quite exciting. The owl had moved in after only four weeks which can be a sad reminder of the lack of natural tree...
Ten more Tawny Owl nest boxes are finished! Last weekend I spent some time setting up another 10 Tawny Owl nest boxes in the forests around here. This makes 20 Tawny Owl boxes in total now. The first ten came up three weeks ago. After a lot of work, I am of course...
This week I have been busy building and setting up Tawny Owl nest boxes here in southern Sweden. On Monday, I have placed ten of these wooden nest boxes in the scanian forests and ten more nest boxes are currently under construction. To build the nest boxes, ask...
During the last weekend the winners of the 2009 “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” competition were announced. My photograph “Grashopper Greetings” got “highly recommended”. Several thousand photographs from all European countries...
