Photowalk
Wednesday morning photowalk
“Wednesday morning photowalk” or should I write “the time I had to spend in town while waiting for the car to get serviced”. The first one sounds better, so I’m going to use that one. Anyway, as I wrote yesterday, I had to wait in town for two hours and since there are no shops open (which we should avoid anyway) and they have told us to stay away from work there wasn’t much else to do than bring the camera and walk around in town.
So, here are what I say this morning, first two photos of Umeälven (Umu River) taken from about here. The path you can see along the river is a walking/biking path that is used a lot to get from one side of town to the other without needing to cross any roads (well, actually two but it’s usually not a problem).
The next one is taken from approximately the same place but down the river. This is central Umeå with a building they are currently constructing, the second photo is closer view of it.
Then we have one of the “restaurant boats” (taken from here). For some reason it seem to be quite popular to go there, I can understand it in the summer but in the winter …
Next, from the perhaps most central place in Umeå: Rådhustorget (Town Hall Square). You are free to sit down and rest if you want to.
And of course a shop sign
One of the art installations
Umeå Stads Kyrka (Umeå City Church) photographed from here
And the final two photos are essentially photos from where I took the other photo. The first one is from here looking towards where I took the second one.
That ended my morning photo walk and when came home I spent at least three hours in Zoom-meetings.
Another morning photowalk in Umeå
Monday again and time to spend an hour or two walking round in Umeå waiting to go home. Once again I decided to walk around among the buildings to see if I could find something interesting. There was just a few people outside at 9 and I couldn’t find much to photograph
I decided to walk down to the river and there the golden morning sun made things a bit better
After that I just walked around trying to find something interesting.
After snapping those photos it was time to head back home and do something “useful”.
A black and white day
I decided to take out my GM5 for todays walk, something light that easily would fit in my pocket. Just to make things more interesting I put on my 14mm (28mm full frame) and set it to black and white. Then I started to walk.
There is still a lot of water in the lake, despite that the water level is probably 10-20 cm lower than last week. And there are more reminders of that storm
And some random photos from the rest of the walk
Once I got back home, I sat down with a cup of tea and started to check the photos I’ve taken. But suddenly I got an “emergency” call that I needed to go and buy some roof repair stuff. So my lazy afternoon turned out to be less lazy than I imagined this morning.
Friday Photowalk
I try to take a daily walk (or two) and while walking I usually listen to podcasts or audiobooks. One of my favorite podcasts is The Daily Photography Podcast - I highly recommend it if you’re into photography - and every friday there is the “Friday Photowalk” episode where Neale James do a photowalk while reading/answering listeners emails.
I have of course heard about photowalks before but I have never attended one - living where I live partly explains it - but I thought a single person photowalk would work. So I decided to try it this morning while actually listening to todays episode. So here are some photos from today:
Winter Walk
I took a few photos during my daily walk, I’m trying to keep in shape and also satisfy my Apple Watchs complaints of me being too inactive … in fact, today is the 700th in a row that I’ve managed to fill all three circles.
Anyway, this is how it looks like around the village where I live
