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December 28, 2014 / / Family

My nieces are fun loving little monsters, driven by a high intake of sugar. There is only so much of that energy that can be absorbed by iPads, but luckily there was plenty of snow…

December 25, 2014 / / Family

Here in Sweden Christmas is celebrated on December 24. When the guests arrive we usually start by serving them some hot glögg (mulled wine) together with raisins and almonds. Dinner is lavish, with many typical Christmas…

December 19, 2014 / / Family

My cousin Madeleine Näs has been riding for 20 years at Djursholm’s Stable. We had been talking about taking some riding photos this past summer, but it was not until today that we finally met…

December 18, 2014 / / Cambridge

I mentioned in my last post that I would talk a bit more about off-camera flash next. When you take flash photography with an on-camera flash it will create a very flat illumination of your subject,…

December 16, 2014 / / Cambridge

Last Thursday the PdOC Society hosted this year’s Christmas formal at St John’s College. We had 210 postdocs and others in attendance, making it one of the biggest events our society has organised. Everyone had dressed…

December 14, 2014 / / Cambridge

When I woke up yesterday there was a thin layer of beautiful frost and a glorious sunrise. I was kicking myself for not scheduling the day’s photo shoot earlier. Instead I cycled through the cold…

December 12, 2014 / / Photography

The Cambridge Fashion Show is being organised by Lottie Franklin and Victoria Herren-Schmidt. The big show happens on February 13 (2015) in the Guild Hall, and is in support of a charity called Cambridge House that was founded…

December 5, 2014 / / Cambridge

I am one of those people that need a hot meal for lunch, and ideally a bit of sunlight to an fro. One of my goals is to eat at all the colleges in Cambridge, either…

December 4, 2014 / / Cambridge

This past Sunday the European Tour Group was having their dress rehearsal of Macbeth. The show is directed by Nicholas Hulbert and will be travelling to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France over the next two…

December 2, 2014 / / Cambridge

One of my colleagues at DAMTP needed some photos to demonstrate her new image processing algorithm. So we scheduled half an hour before lunch and went out into the light rain with a camera and a…