uk roadtrip part 1: edinburgh

UK roadtrip 2023 travel blogging, commence!

We landed in Edinburgh in mid-April, the day before Katy's and Nick's wedding celebration. But I will have to skip that day for now, because I took way too many photos and am still working with them. While we're waiting, here's day 2 of our trip!


This Sunday happened to be the lovely Katy's birthday!



She celebrated with a walk up Arthur's Seat and then brunch with a whole gang of friends, and it was such a joyful day. Several times I caught myself thinking "it's so strange that I'm here!", you know, in the best way - it's so strange and magical that I know these people (how did I get here?) and get to be a part, however small, of their lives.


Up we go! I've done this hike once before, eleven (!) years ago, when I was in Edinburgh with the Academy of Music chamber choir. In a different life. But I loved the walk then, and I loved it now.




All the little ant people up at the top!



Also, look at all those gorgeous people.



I am quite unfit and was the last person up and the last person down. Still very much worth it.





The views are generally not shit!


Also, how delightful it is to make a new friend. How delightful it is to click immediately with someone you've never met before, and spend the whole hike talking and talking with them, and feeling immediately comfortable and at ease in someone's presence, how delightful.


After the walk we went down to Revolution for FOOD.


Hugging happened!


And Liam, who had been resting instead of walking because of his poor torn calf muscle, joined us there.


I like him


Katy with the birthday card I got her <3 (I like her, too!)


And several hours after everyone had finished their food we were still there, chatting and hanging out and just having the best time.





Edinburgh, and this whole gang of fabulous humans, thank you for having me! It was a perfect day.

two weeks in the uk

We went to the UK!

It's early May, it's spring, and Liam and I just got back from a two week trip to the UK. (Plus three nights in Helsinki after that, but that feels like an entirely separate trip even though we didn't go home in between, so that's for another blog post.) We're exhausted, in love and so, so happy.


We went to Edinburgh, Leeds, Brownhills, Peak District, Manchester and London. We went to a wedding celebration, a funeral and a birthday brunch. We went out for dinner with dear friends, we went to a big dance weekender and a local social dance, we had a delightful pint of stout in a London pub. We visited two science museums (but were disappointed in both) and did an escape room. I hiked up Arthur's Seat with a bunch of friends and Liam tore a calf muscle in a cèilidh (but is pretty much fine now). We went to some truly great parties.


We've been utterly spoilt by everyone we visited; people have taken time off work just because we were coming or taken time out of their day to go for lunch or dinner with us, hosted us in their homes, cooked us meals, joined us for walks and daytrips, taken us to the local pub, told us about their lives; I'm too grateful to properly express it.


We drove through some magical landscapes, stopping often to take photos. We had delicious, slow breakfasts as well as boring sandwiches on the go. We spent quite a bit of time in various comfy hotel beds watching Grand Designs on Channel 4 and eating Percy Pigs. Most importantly, we hugged some of our most favourite humans in the whole world.


It was an absolutely wonderful holiday.

Expect many more photos and words, but for now, I'll just leave this here:


Coldplay | Strawberry Swing

patrik & åsa | bröllop i göteborg

Dags att förra säsongens sista bröllop får sin plats i bloggen! Och jag brukar ju alltid säga hur fint det är när gamla bekanta hör av sig och vill att jag fotar deras bröllop ... men ... sedan blir jag precis lika glad när för mig helt okända människor har blivit tipsade om mig någonstans ifrån, och vill boka mig. Som nu. Det här jobbet slutar liksom aldrig att vara en ära som jag blir verkligt glad för.

I alla fall! I början av september, en helt underbar sensommardag, gifte sig Åsa och Patrik i Oskar Fredriks kyrka. Här kommer bildkavalkaden!


Patrik och Åsa bokade en pre shoot också (vet ingen rimlig svensk översättning, gör ni?) - en porträttsession där vi lär känna varandra lite. Så kul alltså! Vi åkte till Tjolöholm i början av augusti för porträtten, eftersom det var där de förlovade sig. (Och för att det är superfint där.)


Jag tänkte en kort sekund "är det för klyschigt att be ett par kyssas i en tunnel av rosor?" och ögonblickligen därefter "DET SKITER VÄL JAG I DET ÄR JU ASFINT".













De här blickarna ändå! Sådant man är glad som fotograf åt att få fånga.


Hela den stunden påminde mig (återigen) om hur roligt det är att fota porträtt även när det inte är på någons bröllopsdag. Jag ska se till att göra det mer!


Dags för bröllopsporträtt i Botaniska! Ni anar trädgårdstemat. :)














Vigsel i Oskar Fredriks kyrka som sagt.














Och sedan var vi tillbaka i Botaniska för mingel och skål, och sedan var det dags för mig att avvika och låta kalaset fortsätta utan mig. :)

Tack Patrik och Åsa för förtroendet och för att jag fick vara del av er fina dag!