Valla Gård – a walk with the fisheye lens

One of the nice things about staying in Valla Folkhögskola is that it’s right next to lovely walks through Valla Gård – with all of its historic treasures of rural life in Sweden – and into the forest beyond. Of course, it’s also handy for going to conferences on the Valla campus of Linköping University which is why I was there last week.

I’ve been taking lots of pictures lately using the body cap fish eye lens for my Olympus. I find that taking just one lens with me means I get used to what it will, or will not, do and here’s a range of the pictures I took with it. The students were doing a group project and I bumped into them one lunchtime and asked if they minded me taking their picture. As you can see, some of them had to be dressed as fictional characters. The rest of the pictures were taken one evening and I experimented with different foregrounds beneath the interesting cloud formations.