Hakefjord Project

With my landscape photography I would like to show space and places in the world that I have visited, sometimes big and infinite, but other times microscopic. In my landscape photography, the presence of nature naturally takes a natural part, but also focuses on artificial features or disturbances of landscape. With my photography, I want to recall a personal observation or experience in nature, especially when I've been traveling around the world. To me it is also a lifestyle, and to be involved in nature and the elements, as a escape from our artificial world. My landscape photography has been motivated by an appreciation of the beauty of nature and a desire to see it preserved.

Fine Art Photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creative expression. The goal of fine-art photography is to express an idea, a message, or an emotion. This stands in contrast to representational photography, such as photojournalism, which provides a documentary visual account of specific subjects and events, literally representing objective reality rather than the subjective intent of the photographer; and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to advertise products or services.

Bird interest, or bird watching, is a form of wild sightings where observation of birds and is normaly a leisure activity.

It can be done with the naked eye, through a visual enhancement unit like binoculars and telescopes or listening to bird sounds in nature.

In addition to photography skills, bird photographers may need field skills. For example, some birds are difficult to approach and thus requires a knowledge of the bird behaviour in order to predict their actions. Photography of certain species may require knowledge of following or sneaking on the birds or using a photo blind or camouflage.

Through my interest in nature photography I decided to start observing birds as well as to register and document them with a photograph. All the birds I noted in my app “Club300 Sweden”. By the end of 2023, I had identified and photographed over 187 bird species.

In addition to photography skills, nature photographers may need field skills. For example, some animals are difficult to approach and thus requires a knowledge of animal behaviour in order to predict their actions. Photography of certain species may require knowledge of following or sneaking the animals or using a photo blind or camouflage.

During the second half of the 60's I was actively involved in the boy scouts, where I gained good knowledge of nature, animals and how to behave in forests and fields.

In the mid 70's, I updated my system camera to a Pentax ME with power drive and a 200 mm telephoto lens including a 2x teleconverter.

This became the start of my nature photography, I was very active until the late 80's. When our children grew up and the first digital camera was purchased in 2006, interest in nature photography was raised again.

I have lived most of my life on the west coast of Sweden and the marine life has characterized me and my life both privately and at work.

In our family, 4 generations have been working in the Marine Industry.

In my professional life I have been working with ships and ports for more than 40 years. It has also meant that I have travelled around the world to visit customers, suppliers and colleagues.

Photographing the marine environment has been a natural part of my life, I have also worked with marketing companies in Sweden, Norway and England where photography and image handeling have been an important part of my work.

In the Maritime Photo area I divide it in Seascape and Marine photography.

I have lived most of my life on the west coast of Sweden and the marine life has characterized me and my life both privately and at work.

In our family, 4 generations have been working in the Marine Industry.

In my professional life I have been working with ships and ports for more than 40 years. It has also meant that I have travelled around the world to visit customers, suppliers and colleagues.

Photographing the marine environment has been a natural part of my life, I have also worked with marketing companies in Sweden, Norway and England where photography and image handeling have been an important part of my work.

In the Maritime Photo area I divide it in Seascape and Marine photography.

Winter is a beautiful time of year and offers many opportunities to capture good pictures. Living on the Swedish west coast, I often have good possibilities to get nice winter views with ice, snow and frozen fjords.

You are dressed in appropriate stock clothes, complete with warm waterproof boots, fingerless gloves and hand warmers for increased comfort. Spare batteries are placed in the bottom layer of your clothes, close to your body, to keep them warm in an attempt to extend their lifetime in the Nordic winter climate. Extra lens cloths for immersed lenses and an air and waterproof bag to avoid condensation of your equipment.

How do you then take the perfect photo in the snow?

Below are some examples of my winter pictures with snow and ice.

Street photography is a form of documentary photography where the photographer and the object are in real-life situations in public spaces such as streets, parks, beaches, malls or political meetings.

In my job where travel has been an important part of my everyday professional life, photography has been a nice relaxation as well as an important part of bringing my daily travel life to family and friends on long trips around the world.

In recent years, cameras have become smaller and better, and the mobile phones have offered greater opportunity to take good photographs.

A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon. It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

City skylines serve as a pseudo-fingerprint as no two skylines are alike. For this reason, news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set a location.

I started shooting rock bands in 1974. The thriving Gothenburg Rock Music scene offered me the opportunity to capture many outstanding English and American bands and musicians. In the late 70's, I began to document many young prominent groups that grew into the most successful and influential Prog-Rock bands in time with bands like ELO and YES. In recent years I have visited many rock festivals and documented my old favorites from the 70's and 80's.

In the mid 70's I went to a number of courses in photography and darkroom work and started developing my own photographs. What really made me interested was to process black and white photos. I was fascinated by the darkroom process and the magic of seeing that the photos came out of nowhere on photo paper.

I built my own darkroom in my parents home in the mid 70's and developed my skills in the treatment of the black and white images.

With some friends in Gothenburg we started a photo club at Gothenburg University. We build our own photo lab and spent many hours there during the weekends.

Today, I still work with black and white pictures but now on my computer with the Adobe Lightroom software.

I have been a Global Traveler for the last 40 years.

During my 40 years in the international Marine Industry, I made many over sea business trips to Europe, Asia, North America and Middle East.

Normally I had my camera with me on the trips round the world.

In March 2019 we did two-and-a-half-week trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. We vised the north, middle and south of Vietnam. We did also trip for four days to Siam Reap in Cambodia to visit the temples in Angkor area. Here will find some of the photos we took during the trip.

Rosor har alltid odlats i Trädgårdsföreningen, men det var först 1987 som Göteborgs Rosarium invigdes. En av initiativtagarna var den småländske prästen Göte Haglund, som hade en fantastisk rossamling som han donerade till Trädgårdsföreningen. Han hade även kontakter med rosarier och rosodlare världen över.

Redan från början bestämdes att rosariet skulle ha en historisk inriktning, det skulle gå att följa och förstå kulturrosens utvecklings genom årtusendena. Rosorna är därför planterade i sina olika sortgrupper, som oftast bygger på släktskap.

Varje grupp har en presentationsskylt på plats och varje art/sort har en skylt med uppgifter om namn, ursprung eller förädlare och årtal när de dokumenterats eller förädlats.

Arterna, eller vildrosorna, med hybrider är systematiskt ordnade i undersläkten och sektionsvis.

alla fotografier tagna av Lennart Svensson © 2020 Lensharkey Photography

(text från Trädgårdsföreningens hemsida)

The Base Camp are located in Kuhmo, Finland. Base Camp Kuikka is near the Russian border. We spent 4 days at the hides photographing Bears, Wolfs, Wolverine and other birds and animals