Analogt

Recently developed a film I shot at Mölle last time. Also found some old negative lying in a box, from when I went to school. Can't describe the feeling of getting a really well-shot picture. Everything's matching up to make the best result and no freaking megapixles and shit. It's cool...

A good try

Känner mig väldigt filosofisk för tillfället, och känner mig väldigt mystiskt kreativ på något sätt.. Barbados är bokat och jag åker den 19 okt.. snart! peppad! Jag tänkte göra något speciellt av denna resan med tanke på att det är andra gången jag är där, och känner till lite mer än sist. Tänkte försöka mig på att göra en fotobok om barbados som surf-land, och barbados surf-kultur. Får se hur det går, är inte skit taggad att ligga och fota soup bowl i 3 meters vågor oc 35 pers i vattnet, men vore kul att försöka sig på lite lugnare bryt. få ihop massa porträttbilder på massa folk osv. Får se hur det går med det.

The trip to Barbados is on, I'm of October 19th! Super stoked! I was thinking I made this next trip a special one, making it sort of a project. Stashing lots of film and get loads of portraits of bajan surfers, skaters and all the culture down there. I can't really put my finger on how I'ts gonna look tho, but I belive it's worth a good try..

Pic from the photo course in Wasaa, Finland.

work

A LOT of workin' goin' on right now. Needs to be done, if I want to get that little pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I guess.
Recently been looking at some flight dates for this years Barbados trip, looks like it probably will happen! Around 17ish october I'm off, for not as long as last time, but atleast a month or so. Really stooked! recently won a vintage 35mm Nikon nikonos III underwater camera on Ebay as well, so you'll be getting the juciest analog surfpix, from the water, I promise you that!
By the way the Hurley Pro comp is going on live right now Here, not making it easier for the surf stoke. but love to watch anyways. Missing flips a lot at the moment as well since she's studying in Karlskrona, and I'm all over south of sweden working with the schoolphoto thing. Got about 3 weeks left now and then I'm all game! pix underneath is the nikonos and a sweet pic taken by it.. loving it without even having it here yet.. Analog love!

Stressigt liksom

Today was my first day as school photographer.. Stress is an excellent word to encapsulate it. I guess the routine comes growing slowly as I struggle on tho.. I miss Filippa too much right now to function normally. But hey, look at my two new friends!

It's oh so quiet

A wise contemporary me

Picture not related....

Right now I'm in a sort of writing mood, so just bare with me and try your best to understand all my crazy thoughts.
And please, if you have any inputs, let me know! I'm more than happy to hear your thoughts on my thoughts, so to speak..

Also, I miss my girlfriend a whole lot right now so the thoughts about what ever kind of just helps me get my mind of missing her for at least a second, or not really but at least I try..


Recently I keep finding myself thinking quite a lot about other peoples behavior.
By that I don’t mean behavior as in good or bad behavior, It’s more in a creepy observant kind of way. It’s like every thing and everyone around me are cooperating to create a playground for me to explore. Sadly I seem a bit lazy to explore it. To me it’s still just like when a baby turtle snaps out of it’s comfy little hideout inside the egg. Plenty stoked on what’s coming yet so discouraged and well aware of what it's leaving behind. There’s a long devious road between me and what I might become, or not become for all I know. But in the process of me becoming future me, I keep telling my self that I am fully capable of jumping what ever hitch or disqualification that may occur along the way. A wise contemporary me once said to my self; As long as you are aware of your problems, you immediately lose at least half of them. And I guess that’s a quote I’m still trying to live after.

Daniel Jönsson 12.07.11 - 01:53

alter universe

I'm sitting on my porch gazing into a strange yet not so distant alter universe. Everything I see is the wrong way around. Not so different to what I would call properly visualized but yet there’s something that’s misrepresenting about it. If only the man in front of me could say something different than me. Since I’m looking at him, being a twisted version of me, he would look at me as a better version of him. But if everything I say seems to be wrong, could the portal between these two universes be screwing with me? If so, I wish the twisted version of me could say something. There for, when the incorrect things he’d say hit the universe portal it instantly turn right, and I would never have to worry about saying anything wrong again.

Daniel jönsson 1/6 19:02:20

Fluff

Well, If you ask me I would probably say that the most common photographic motive in the world would be the sunset or the clouds or something even more cheesy. Like flowers and trees & such. But I guess there's a certain thing to these objects that just makes us want to perpetuate them. I myself has recently decided to take my photographing up a notch. And by that i don't necessarily mean by snapping photos like this, more like the fact that I just signed a contract with a school photography company doing portraits and such. Anyhow, these shots where taken on my flight back from stockholm after a weekend course with this new company. I don't usually shoot these kind of stuff but I guess I just got caught in the moment.

What if..

What if all the trees surrounding us confirmed thinkers, suddenly catched feelings & emotions. Would the tree it self feel tall or would it even notice us? Not that there’s only tall trees, but I’m thinking theoretically. Since the climbers their self, the humans, the new generation ”groundbreakers” often refer to others as taller, not so young people. Meaning they often are kids, of course.
Would the breeze be irritating, or would their mood simply be depending on the weather? I, myself would probably be frustrated not to be able to control where my leaves where blowing. Imagine not being able to be completely still, or even worse, imagine yourself standing all your life, and by the time you finally hit horizontal position you die? Bullshit. But most of all I would probably miss my yearly favorite leaf when it fell of my branch too early in the autumn. Once again imagine,

Your favorite buddy leaf slowly looses grip of your o-so tired branch after several months holding on, succeeding to avoid the new generation grabbing them and ripping them of as they pass climbing. It slowly lets go and sails onto the air’s gentle way down on to the ground, where you not only can’t reach it, yet still have to watch it be either blown away by the breeze or watch it slowly decay as the weeks go by.

And there’s one thing too. Not being able to know time. A lot of people’s lives circuits around the fact that they are always, fully capable of knowing what time it is. If not they get stressed, concerned or dare I say, LATE!!!
To me it’s quite fascinating actually. I had plans today, but as you read this I’ve already (and I have to say, hopefully) been sitting with these words about 40 minutes more than you, just so you can read it all in a small amount of minutes. No worries though, really. I at least have the option to get moving towards the refrigerator, grab some food & be on my way. Now try imagine doing that being a tree.

Daniel Jönsson 25/5-11 12:09:30

Digital-art / Illustrations

Nyligen hemkommen från kurs i Stockholm, Skolfoto Norden i två dagar. Kändes bra att få lära sig proffskameror lite bättre, inte för att det var superinvecklat, men så man har lite insyn iallafall. Gällande skolfotojobbet i övrigt så blickar jag framåt nu, mot 1 augusti då det bär av mot Wasa, Finland och 10 dagar slutkurs tätt följt av upphämtning av min foto-utrustning & firmabil. Spännande! Kursen i Stockholm var intressant på många sätt men då vi inte skulle gå igenom så himla mycket praktiska metoder förens i Wasa i höst bestod den mestadels av kafferaster & matpauser. Inte mig emot dock, kaffe smakar fint! Kursen avslutades med ett besök på stockholmskontoret och när det var avverkat hade vi runt 3 timmar att döda innan det var dags att flyga hem igen. Satt och pulade lite med en massa olika stockbilder och kom underfull med att jag tyckte det var ganska roligt. Här är resultatet efter 3 timmars flygplatshäng!

Notera att dethär alltså är mina kreationer. no stealing tack!
Andra bilden är ju faktiskt Lincoln för er som inte känner igen göbben