Hello! Welcome to the launch of my new blog. Virtual Champagne for everyone!! I have had a few different ones and, yes I know, it can be a bit confusing. But this one will be more focused on photography and things that’s surround it. Well that is the plan at least. I also want to thank everyone that followed my other blog (timeisnotanumber.blogspot.com) without all you nice people checking in and leaving friendly comments it wouldn’t have been half as fun. So thanks! It came to an end on the 14th of February after a year of daily shooting. I felt nice and free without a camera on my shoulder for a few days, but a few days was enough.
I have been in Tasmania for the past two months. Checked on a small globe the other day and it turns out I am on the (more or less) exact opposite side of the world to where I normally wake up and have my muesli, amazing really. It is a truly incredible place, it borderlines to ridiculously scenic in some places. Sometimes the journey to a place of silly beauty is more amazing than the actual place we set out to visit. My friend and fellow photographer Ed and I have been no more than a couple of meters away from each other since November, and we have managed to stay friends! We have only had some minor arguments where the latest one was over cheese.
We spent a couple of days with the guys at Camp Florentine, a barricade built to stop the logging of old growth trees in the southern froests of Tasmania. Apart from playing cricket and eating veggie curry we also took some pictures and we are now trying to write a story on it. But it turned out to be slightly more complex than we first thought when we set out. Since it is our first story we inevitably found ourselves scratching our heads in a pub, flicking through old issues of National Geographic trying to figure out how a good story is structured. There is a shortened version up on my website. You can have a look here.
Until next time, take care and be good to each other! Joakim
