The Milky Way core rises above the lights of the lighthouse at Falsterbo.

During this years Perseid meteorshower I shot a photo that I've long wanted to take. A shot of the Eagle and Omega nebulae as an astroscape, taken with a 135mm lens. Unfortunately the shot as you see here is impossible to take at the location of the foreground as the only place you can setup is in the middle of a road. So I had to shoot the sky at another location that same night but everything is positioned correctly in the resulting image. So even if it is a composite, it's still a true representation of the view at this site.

And would you believe it, I got lucky enough to snag a Perseid in one of the shots as well :)

So this years Perseids Meteor shower was a bit of a disappointment, the weather was not playing nice and the only night I managed to get out was the night before the peak of the meteor shower. Unfortunately just as things seemed to kick off properly there was a think fog descending on the area which forced me to stop after just 2,5 hours of capture time.
But it was nice to be out under the stars again after the bright nights of summer and the sky was lit up with gorgeous green airglow…

As photographers we cannot perform our craft without light… so how do you manage when you cannot find it??
Well… you go looking for it of course, maybe its beyond this sand dune?

The lighthouse at Flasterbo on the southwesternmost tip of Sweden was built in 1796 but the location has had a light to warn sailors of the Falsterbo sandbanks since 1636 when a lever light was built very close to the lighthouse. Now the Lighthouse garden is a ringing site for the Falsterbo Bird Observatory

The Old Superstitions

The ruins of the Rya old church in northern Scania, Sweden was built in the late 11th century or the early 12th century. It was in use until the the 19th century when a new church replaced it. It started to fall apart until eventually the Rya parrish decided to go to great length to preserve what was left of the church. It is still in use during the summer months for weddings and baptisms.

A dead tree stands under the night sky. Old and gnarly its branches still reach for something much more ancient above.

The Perseids meteor shower came on its annual visit in mid-august and this is one of the shots I took this year. These 10 meteors was caught over little more than 80 minutes worth of 30s exposures before my lens fogged up due to heavy humidity.
The Perseids meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through the debris left by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle during its passage through the inner solar system. The debris from the comets tail is mostly made up of small grains of ice and sand. Most of the Perseids burn up in the earth’s atmosphere and rarely get closer than 80km of the earth’s surface.

As I was packing up after shooting the Perseids I set up one camera to catch the rising of Venus and her admiring companion the waning crescent Moon.
Was a bit lucky with the foreground as it was still quite dark when i shot this but the morning mists had started to form and gave the scene the mood it deserved.

Taken in 2018 I stayed around a little as the moon rose out of the Baltic Sea to try and capture it together with the Milky Way… And now with the COVID-19 situation I got bored and had a look through my catalog of images that were yet to be edited and found this…

The sky is one series of exposures and then I’ve taken shorter exposures of the moon just to ensure to get it nice and sharp. Foreground is focusstacked and then sky and foreground is blended together. All of the images are taken during a 17min window during the moonrise.

Digging through the Lightroom archives I found this shot that I took back in the spring of 2016. Was a very cool night with very cool airtemps after a long period of relatively warm weather and lots and lots of Sea smoke or steam fog as it is also known. Sea smoke is formed when very cold air mixes with warm moist air that is just above the waters surface. And this night it looked like the ocean was boiling there was so much of it as can be seen in the image.

Mars rises over the Baltic Sea just over the light pollution from the danish island of Bornholm. Mars is the bright “star” that casts a reflection in the ocean.

As I was scouting the location while waiting for the Milky Way to rise up out of the ocean I came upon this Hawthorn bush and thought that would be good in the foreground… And I totally forgot about the fact that I’d have to mask out all of those branches as I took the shots for the sky using a tracker…

But I quite like the end result…