WELCOME TO MY BLOG "BEAUTY OF NATURE"

I have been thinking for a long time to start a photo Blog, and now finally I have. Feeling a bit nervous which is only natural. I believe that some of the fear we have for things in our life, is the reason to why we limit ourselves in our every day to day life. So I took a deep breath in the cool, crispy air and decided that today will be a perfect day to take that step out into the unknown. Today is the day when I am going to make that "bungy jump" into the breathtaking spectra of the Beauty of the Nature, to set myself free from one of my fear. For the first time I am now going to share my photographs with all of you who is going to visit ,my Blog. 

I have taken photographs ever since I was a little girl, and I enjoyed every second of doing so. I have never thought about aperture, shutter and ISO etc. I just took my photographs and it was reasonably easy to take very nice shots

After many different cameras I decided to buy my first professional camera. I fell for a Nikon F3, since many of the landscape photographers was using that model. I remembered the first day when I was holding my Nikon between me and the flower, it felt really good.Then the digital cameras came and I did not immediately decide to go for a new camera, I was content with my F3. Feeling a bit unfaithful I later bought an 8.0 Megapixel, Olympus 850 SW which was waterproof. My thinking was to use that camera when taking photographs in bad weather conditions along with shots from the water or even in the water. I bought it just for fun and since it was much smaller than the F3,I started to enjoy the freedom of not having to carry my F3.

I loved the fact that I was now able to take a lot of photographs, decide which to save "delete" and then take new ones with the D3 I had limited amount of photographs to take,  it was 24 or 36 , it was heavy to carry and with the small Olympus I was able to take more than 700 photos and take Macro. Another very handy thing was that I could just drop the little camera into my pocket to keep it safe and warm. I had discovered  many positive things with a digital camera, even if I had the feeling that there was something that I was missing. And after a while I realized that it was the weight and the F3 feeling which I actually was missing.

I decided to go to the closest camera store t buy a new Nikon, a digital model. And so I did!

I bought a Nikon D60 kit with a Nikon DX AFX 18-55mm 1:3,5-5,6Gll ED and then I went out in my garden with my D60.

During the summer when we were celebrating my birthday, I received new camera equipment. It was a Sigma DC´EX´s1:2,8 ll APO HSM 50-150 mm and a kit with KENKO Extension tube one 12mm one 20mm and one 36mm for N/AF.I wanted to get even closer to the nature, so starting to shot Macro was a perfect and interesting turn. 

Now today, I feel very proud that I never gave up. I think that sometimes when bad things happen we need to continue with what we love to do and find new ways of doing it, it would have been so easy for me just to quit taking photographs instead of pushing and challenging myself like I did.

I had started to look at another Nikon model, namely the D300s. I wanted to learn more about everything and I was very lucky that a very good friend to my family was working within the field of photo. He knew so much more and had taken more photos knowing about everything that I had not bother to learn. So I started to ask him questions and I red everything that I could get a hold of, different photo magazines like Photography Monthly, Practical Photography ( two UK magazines which you can find here in Sweden) and the Swedish Magazines Fotoguiden DIGITAL FOTO (Digital Photo) FOTO (Photo) FOTOSIDAN (Photo page) and finally my favourite Magazine which have been very useful FOTOGUIDEN

(The Photo Guide) Lately I have also had the privilege to borrow KAMERA&BILD (Camera&Picture)

At the end of the summer I bought my Nikon D300s with an AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm1:3,5-5,6Gll ED and 

it felt incredible good. 

To start learning more about the many different techniques have also taught me a lot about myself, about some of my fear, about my expectations, I have had to work really hard with not having to high demands which destroys more for me than they create Inspiration. To start to learn new things also gives us new opportunities to get creative, see new things, get down on the ground to experience new angles and to expose yourself to things you had decided yourself for not being able to do. Every step ahead, even if you are afraid, even if you feel stupid crawling around taking Macro shots, or when you force yourself to go out in the forest and sit there alone for 5 more minutes (when scared of actually meeting a wild animal) you have taken one step closer to be able to either handle your fear so much better, or even to be able to totally "loose control" and then discover that you have been living with being scared without a reason which justifies how the "thought" made you react.

We all have a exciting journey ahead of us, if we look down, we are already standing on our path, so just by taking one small step ahead, we will slowly get one step closer to our goal and we will never the the same person as we were when we started.

Don´t limit yourself!