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Weekend in Copenhagen
An autumn weekend in Copenhagen
I attended a three-day management meeting in Copenhagen from Monday to Wednesday, so I took the opportunity to travel out on Friday and spend the weekend in one of my favorite cities. Just walking around with the camera, dropping in on interesting restaurants and bars, and not thinking about much. There was not a lot of good light, so I focused on photographing the autumn colors, and visited the Botanical Gardens, which are always good for a few shots. I also took the train to Malmö, on the other side of the water.
The photographs are take, on a Fujifilm XE4, with various lenses, and a GFX50R with the 80mm f1.7 lens.
Århus and Netherlands
Back in the saddle
Finally It looks like we are back to a normal work environment after Covid. Having face-to-face meetings with people again is so much more productive and fun. You get things done in a day that can take weeks over e-mails and conference calls. I also work with an excellent bunch of people that are committed to their work and have a good sense of humor, in a way that only engineers have.
For a photographer, a change of scenery and new places to visit really gets the shutter-pressing juices flowing. Being around people that I don’t meet every day also gives me the opportunity to sneak in some portraits, which I enjoy a lot.
For the trip I brought my Fujifilm XE4 and set of prime lenses (XF16F1.4, XF23F1.4, XF35F2.0, XF50F2.0 and XF80F2.8). Let’s just say that I changed lenses a few times!
First stop was Århus for some project meetings. I like Århus and half-lived there for 2-3 years to support the acquisition of a company. It’s not a large city and but it has everything and is very easy to be in, which is kind of Denmark in a nutshell.
The week after I had meetings in the Netherlands so instead of going back to Iceland. I flew over there on a Friday and stayed in Groningen for the weekend. I’ve never been to Groningen before as it’s way up in Friesland, but I can confirm that it lives up to its reputation as a lively city full of young people. I also drove up to the Friesland coast, which is an interesting place with wide open skies and mud flats that extend into the distance.
I then spent a couple of nights in Enschede before going to familiar Nijmegen, which is near to our main office in the Netherlands.
