Hej!
The photos in the third roll of film that we had developed were taken during one of our trips to Österlen. We spent a week writing, making and eating lots of soup and taking walks.
As with the photos from our wedding and honeymoon these are not perfect by any technical standards but that's kind of what I like about them. It feels so strange that technology has moved so fast because I was one of those people who used a Point and Shoot kind of film camera long after people started taking digital photos, and it still feels like it was ages ago.
And also, how come it was so easy to get used to the possibilties of taking a gazillion photos without having to think of film rolls and development costs? It already feels so strange and exciting to have to wait to see the photos. I sometimes catch myself looking at the back of the film camera for a display screen showing me what I just shot.
How quickly we get used to the speed of technology!
I love that I've started to fiddle with both the digital and the analog because to me that just feels so right.
Sometimes I want the power in being able to choose from a hundred photos and in that moment having the chance to correct and learn on the spot, but sometimes it's just so nice to take a picture of a time and place I think is worth capturing and storing it in my memory for a while before seeing the result and remembering it all over again.
It doesn't have to be either or, it can be two completely different things satisfying two sides of photography.

Ahhh, favorite season of them all!

Cute husband being all cute.

Hello lonely tree!

The cliffs of Vik were photogenic as always.

And I can't resist the hazy dusk and wind in reed.

Yesterday I brought the film camera when David and I were going in to town. Ten minutes from home I realised I hadn't loaded the camera with a new roll of film so for all of the two hours we spent walking around Gothenburg my camera was just some kind of stupid hipster necklace. Ha! That made me feel so very professional.
The camera is loaded now though, ready for the next analog adventure.

Hello!
A couple of weeks before our wedding David and I found a box of film cameras and lenses at a fleamarket and since we wanted our friends to take the wedding photos and use different types of cameras we bought the entire box. There was one camera that looked especially good so when the day arrived we lended that one to our friend Aili so she could photograph her view of the wedding.
There was no time to test the camera before though, so we just had to cross our fingers and hope for the best.
We stayed in the house at Österlen a week after the wedding for a little honeymoon and we used the camera to document what we did.
Our plan was to develop the films as soon as we came back home but, not very surprisingly, we forgot about them until a week or so ago. I actually used the camera during autumn too and was very excited to send away three film rolls for development. Two colour films and one black and white.
The photos arrived on monday and I am so happy with the result!
Aili's photos from the wedding are absolutely beautiful and the ones we took during our mini honeymoon are so lovely and makes me remember all of it.
It is quite interesting how these, in some parts, "flawed" photos can fill me with so much joy and I think they are absolutely flawless in my eyes! Light leaks, over exposure, blur and all- they are just what I wanted and perfect memories from a perfect week.

Jonas reading our booklet with the cartoon that David and I made of our love story.

At one point during the celebrations my husband was replaced by a cat.

Taking paparazzi photos of my husband.

We went for walks in the nearby town Simrishamn.

Flowers saved from the wedding.

We went for walks over the hills. David in bright light talking on the phone.

One of the best things we did during our honeymoon was that we had a late night picnic at an old fort by the ocean. We brought sandwiches with fried egg, cookies left over from the wedding, coffee and beer and then we sat on that little fort for hours until it became cold.

Our lunch view on one of our trips to Simrishamn.

One evening at the beach of Knäbäckshusen.

We went back to the place of the ceremony.

I am planning a post for the autumn photos too in a few days. I am so happy with how all these photographs turned out and can't wait to take more photos with this film camera! I also want to try the other camera in the box we found at the fleamarket. That one is way simpler than the one we used for these photos but I am really curious to see what kind of photos it will take. I'm sensing a new hobby forming...

Today it's exactly 6 months since David and I got married!
Our dear friend Hanna took lovely photos of the day and I really want to show you all.
It was the most wonderful day and looking back at these photos makes me all teary eyed. And it was still summer! Gosh, how I long for the warmer seasons to arrive soon! Anyway, let's take a look at the lovely day 6 months ago, august 24, when David and I became husband and wife! Prepare yourself for the most photo filled post I've ever posted...

We all gathered in the garden to my parent's house and then walked together to the place where the ceremony was going to be held.

After a while David and I headed off in another direction than the rest of the party.

The guests had to climb a stile to get to the top of the hill.
Say hello to David's dad, Ulf!

David and I took a moment for ourselves halfway up the hill because all guests hadn't reached the top yet.
Lots of skirt for me to hold on to when the ground was covered in sheep poo and thistles.

Time to get moving again.

The ceremony conducted by our wedding officiant Else Beth.

It was very windy that day. Love how the ribbon in my hair gets caught in the air.

Jonas, one of our witnesses, with the pocket watches that we exchanged instead of rings. See and read more about our wedding pocket watches here.

David hanging my watch around my neck.

And then, after David got his watch too, we were married!

Look at my husband!

So married!

Looking fondly at the marriage certificate.

Gosh, I love these photos! Look at my parents and me! My mother and I are the same and just can't stop the tears when it gets emotional. It's happening right now, just looking at these photos.
David being congratulated by his parents, Agnetha and Ulf, and in the background, to the right you'll see my friend Johanna (who did my makeup and hair) in need of tissues too.
(Oh, and that's actually my three best and oldest friends hiding in the backround of this photo. From left to right: Becka, Lisa and Johanna.)

Us and everybody!

After the ceremony we stayed up on the hill for a while, drinking mojitos and mingling.

My beautiful mother!
She's made that gorgeous necklace and the earrings herself!

Becka with wind in her hair, looking all lovely.

Lisa and Björn! They got married just a couple of weeks ago!

My niece Hilda meets Claes.

When we got cold we walked down the hill again and went to Mandelmanns trädgårdar who owns the land where we got married and the beautiful garden where our dinner and party was going to be held.

Inside one of the greenhouses everything was ready for the rest of the celebrations to start. The flowers are from my parent's garden and we had collected twigs and grass and wild flowers around the village. The table cloths are a mix of fleamarket finds, my mother's stash and sweet neighbours helping out. My mother and our friend Inger made it all look this lovely!

The seats of the bride and groom.

That's me! Love David's illustrations on the place cards.

Oh, and the 3D glasses were for the little booklet...

Hehe...
My sister Sara to the upper left corner, my niece Hilda in the lower right corner and then Thomas and Inger who are dear friends to my family and the wedding witnesses at my parent's wedding!

Everybody finding their seats and admiring the beautiful greenhouse.
We are so happy that we got to have our wedding and reception there because it's the most wonderful place and just being there made the day feel all magical.

We had popcorn, because that is my absolute favourite snack. We also had a big bowl of the chocolate candy Polly since that's David's absolute favourite kind of sweets.
The sign is for our guestbook, telling people that we are going to take their picture with a polaroid camera and put the photos in the book later.

In action!

Jonas and Aili. Our wedding witnesses and dear friends.

The dinner was absolutely amazing! Everything we ate was grown and made on the farm we were on and it was the most beautiful and tastiest food ever! Lots of colourful vegetables! That's one of the things people who were at the wedding still talk about when we meet, how incredible the food was. I wish I could eat food like that every day.

Checking up on internet. Facebook was a mad house of congratulations!

My nephew Alfred, who had been born just a couple of months before, in the arms of Thomas.

Sneaky bride squeezes into the picture...

A very cuddly cat found it's way into Ida's lap in time for dessert. We had apple pie and custard and it was heaven!

Ulf gave a really nice speech.

Aili and Jonas were Quiz masters. They had made a really great quiz with questions about David's and my tastes in movies, music, books and all things pop culture.

The evening came.

My dad gave a speech and then he sang a few songs. One of them together with my sister Sara.

And then together with Thomas who is my dad's friend since childhood.

It was such a nice evening.

Applause!

And then it was time for the cake! A cinnamon bun cake! Inspired by a scene in my favourite movie Äppelkriget that actually took place in this exact part of Sweden!

Oh, and the following photos might be my all time favourites...

The bride gets to break the cake.

David is excited.

It's David's turn...and look at David's friend Fredrik, haha! That look he gives me! He is not trusting me with the cinnamon bun cake!

Appearantly it was some sort of law that the bride should feed the groom with cake.

Oh and yes, that is wedding Smurf and Smurfette on top of the cake.

And that was that wonderful, magical, lovely day.
It was THE BEST!
I hope we get to return to the scene of the crime when it's our one year anniversary.

So, monday you say? February?
Well, I'm still in warm august memories, let me stay there just a little while longer.

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hello hello!
This monday David and I went to the little fishing village Vik to take photos of the waves. On our way in to Simrishamn we had seen the ocean roar and we thought the cliffs of Vik would look amazing with waves crashing into the edges.
When we arrived there we were so surprised because the entire cliffs were covered in water and I have never seen them like that before. If you want to see how they look normally you can click here and scroll down a bit in that post.
The waves were HUGE and it looked like a set from a doomsday kind of movie. Powerful, beautiful and scary all at once.
We stood with our backs to a wall of earth and couldn't get any further in that direction and at one point an especially large wave came rushing towards us. I looked around me to see if I could run away but in the last second I realised the only thing I could do was jump up on a large stone. At that exact moment the wave came smashing around me and it was such an amazing movie moment, you know like in action films when the hero run away from melting lava and you think it's too late but he or she makes it Just In Time. That's how it was.
Adrenaline rushing and laughter rising in my throat and the camera clicking away infront of my face. It was amazing!

When we stepped down the last step of the stone stairs this was the view to the left.

In the first photo I am standing in the stairs and David are looking ahead standing just below the last step. Water everywhere!

It was extremely cold and the storm was so loud you couldn't hear a thing except the thunder of wind and waves.

Look at the waves! They look like the clouds in The Neverending Story!

The foam and waves look sort of like snow and footprints when photographed. Isn't that cool, how when you freeze time in a photo something flowing can look solid?

Hard to see but that is one very large wave coming towards us.

We went to the harbour to check out how the piers were holding up. There were two other photograhers there and I'm guessing photographers have been swarming the place this entire week.

I mean look! Poor pier looking so small and fragile in the angry ocean.

The ducks looked super calm though, just bobbing along on the waves.

A tank top left behind from summertime blowing around in the strong wind.

David and the ocean.

It was quite the experience to see this actually. I have spent a few weeks every summer since I was a child in this little fishing village and it looks like a completely different place during wintertime. This was beyond exciting and if it hadn't been so very very cold I could have stayed there just looking at the ocean for the entire day.

See you soon!
Tjingeling!
/Lotta