There are many really good high quality photo blogs and podcast or whatever out there that I visit / listen to every day. The people behind them do it mostly for free. I wouldn’t mind adding some money to Flattr and use it to spend on sites I really like. The donate button some sites have is just to complicated to use. What do you think? Is this something that can be useful in the photography community on the net?

It’s pretty amazing that they build all this up and take it down again every night. During the the day the square is completely empty and then at 4 PM or something they start building up the food stalls again. It’s not easy to photograph because as I have said before no-one in that country wants to be photographed. It’s been at least four month since I was in Morocco but I haven’t got around to these pictures until now. The best place on my trip to Morocco was definitely Essaouira and if you missed the pictures I posted from the harbor in Essaouira earlier you can see them here.

This is a quiz. Is this shot in Alaska or at the beach by my home town Ängelholm in south of Sweden? Correct answer will be published in a few days

Jumping back and forth here. Mixing winter images with tropical images. I hope you can follow along

Every morning at six the monks goes in a long line through Luang Prabang to receive offerings of food from the inhabitants, and from some tourists that wants to join in. It’s very peaceful to just sit and watch the probably around one hundred monks quietly walk by early in the morning while most people still are asleep and the shops and restaurants are closed.

The winters here in south of Sweden is usually not at all like the one we have this year. We are “lucky” if we get a few days of snow each year. But this year it has been freezing cold for weeks now and the ground is covered with snow everywhere. Nice for photographing but otherwise I’m more of a warm climate kind of guy. This is a image I shot earlier today. I like the graphical elements the windows make and the very few colors in the image.

Once the sun had set the crowd was starting to walk down again and I could finally find some space to set up my tripod and shoot some landscapes. It was not really the kind of light and images I was hoping for but it was the best I could do considering the situation.

I read somewhere that when the water is low in the Mekong river people go out on the sand banks digging for gold. I don’t know if it’s true. I took a walk outside of Luang Prabang one day and walked down to the river and saw people digging on the sand banks but it actually looked more like they where collecting some kind of stone or something. They didn’t seem to mind having me around for a while taking pictures.

I also found some really nice spots down at the river for landscape images with great reflections in the water. My plan was to go back in the evening and shoot some landscape but that was the evening I got sick so that never happen. This image was the last one I shot on this trip.

My trip to Laos turned out to be a disaster. I got really sick in Luang Prabang with stomach problems. I’m pretty sure you don’t want the details I’ve been in that part of the world a couple of times before and have never been this sick before. Getting some stomach problems is almost a guarantee but usually it’s just for a day or two and then you can continue on but this time I was sick for a week and had to get back to Bangkok to talk to a doctor and get medicine. Once I got the medicine I got well in a few days but I was still tired and didn’t feel up for much so I decided to go back home a week earlier.

Now I just want to leave this trip behind me and start planning for a new trip. I still managed to shoot some pictures that will be posted here in a few days. The image above was shot in Luang Prabang in Laos. I found some kids down at the Mekong river that runs through Luang Prabang making a fire.

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