Roger Madsen Photography

Had a great week on Iceland. What an amazing country. The image above is shot in an area called Landmannalaugar. Definitely one of the highlight during the week. Probably a place I will return to for a longer time some day. It’s always a struggle when I visit a country for the first time and have a short amount of time. As much as I want to stay and really photograph a place, wait for the right light and all that I also want to continue and see all the other places.

My plan was to shoot mostly black and white on Iceland and most of the other pictures I will post later will be in black and white but this area was one that I for pretty obvious reasons decided too shoot in color. Still I don’t think the glowing neon green color comes through in the images I shot. It really was an unbelievable glowing green color. Maybe IR images could be interesting though.

I often prefer removing the colors from an image. It’s usually just another element that is distracting and not important. In this image my eye focus easier on the performer in the black and white version. In the color version it jumps up and down between the audience and the performer. One reason is probably the very red shirt that one person in the audience is wearing and I could probably have done something with that in post processing but still it’s too many colors up there that is distracting. I also just love the tones you get with a black and white image.

I’m interested to hear your opinion. Do you prefer the color image or the black and white image?

I photographed an event last weekend called City Hoppers. It’s a street performance kind of thing. Transit that I have photographed before and that you find pictures of in the gallery is kind of the same thing. It was a beautiful day by the sea and great weather for photographing. I enjoyed it very much. Here’s a video (not by me) with some moving images as well. If you look closely you will see me.

I’m leaving for Iceland with a friend in just two weeks. Really looking forward to that. A week of driving around on the island shooting amazing landscapes.

You might have seen it already since it was a couple of days ago that I finally added som galleries to this site. You will find them in the menu under galleries. I hope you enjoy them.

I have also updated my about page with some info and more is coming soon. If you are curious of how I got into photography and how it all started then you can have a look at the about page.

Yesterday I attended the third annual worldwide photo walk organized worldwide by Scott Kelby and locally in Malmö, Sweden by Amy Archer. Over 1000 photo walks were organized (1111 to be exact) all over the world and over 30.000 photographers attended. It’s a really fun social event. I had a great time!

You can see some of the pictures I shot during the walk here. It’s not the best pictures I have ever shot but it’s more about meeting other photographers and having a good time than taking great pictures

I spent the last week in Scotland photographing. Very nice place for landscape photography! I spent all my time on the Isle of Skye. Rented a car and drove around trying to find nice spots to photograph. The image above is of Eilean Donnan Castle that is just a few miles before the bridge to Isle of Skye.

More pictures from Scotland is available here.

To keep the momentum that I got in Scotland going I will start a photo blog to push myself to take more pictures also at home. My goal is to post at least a few pictures each week. Mixing new ones with old ones. Large pictures, one on each page and not much text. The focus will be on the pictures. The photo blog will also work as my portfolio. This site will just be one simple photo blog, that’s it. It will also be listed in all the major photo blog listing sites.

I haven’t decided which software to use for this. WordPress that I use now but with a photo blog theme instead or maybe pixel post that is a software made specially for photo blog. If you have any advice then please write a comment.

Photoburst is a daily travel photography contest. Today I found out that one of my picture was chosen as picture of the day! Check it out here. Now I just hope that it will be pick of the week as well

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.