When a club steals your photos
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Other Thoughts on February 3rd, 2012
As a working photographer you expect that sooner or later you will find your images being stolen and used on the internet. In some ways it’s a cost of doing business in this day and age. And in many ways you kind of have to enable it. Just maintaining a website and filling it with images puts you at risk. Then if you do any type of social media marketing, which you should, you only increase the risks you take.
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AIK wins another hockey derby
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Photo Journal on January 27th, 2012
Last night I went and photographed Stockholm’s hockey derby between AIK and Djurgården. Normally the Stockholm hockey teams play at a smaller stadium called Hovet, but for the derby they move next door to the much larger Globen area.
As a photographer going to Globen can be a bit of an irritation. For some reason they have the press entrance on the opposite side of where the actual press room is located. This really wouldn’t be to much of a problem except for the derby the stadium is locked down in order to prevent fan violence, making moving from section to section very difficult. Plus it seems that most of the people working events don’t even know where a lot of things are located.
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One hundred points
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Photo Journal on January 17th, 2012
In Sweden, basketball is not a very popular sport. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty far down the pecking order. Sitting behind hockey, football (soccer), and many other sports. This current basketball season I’ve been trying to go to more home matches for 08 Stockholm and take pictures. It often seems like whenever a newspaper runs a story on basketball they have to pull up a picture that is pretty outdated. So I’m hoping my efforts are rewarded. Either an editor finds and uses my picture while it’s still relevant, or he finds and uses it a year from now when it’s become outdated.
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When editors call in the middle of the night
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Photo Journal on January 15th, 2012
I’m not shooting much Elitserien hockey this season as I mostly filling in when other photographers are unavailable. This past Thurday I got to shoot my first hockey game of 2012, it was a match between Stockholm’s Djurgården IF and Gothenburg’s Frölunda HC.
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Venezia
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Photo Journal on January 12th, 2012
Venezia, or Venice as it’s called in English, holds a special place in my heart. Venice is the capital of the Veneto region of Italy, which is where I’m from, and is a city I visited a lot with my family when I was young. It’s a city that is simply breathtaking and fascinating in it’s history and construction.
The city sits inside a lagoon at the top of the Adriatic sea and is built over 117 of small islands, separated by 177 canals, and connected by 409 bridges. It’s the largest car free area in Europe. Even today, all transportation in Venice is either on foot or by boat. It’s the only functioning city in Europe that runs and operates without cars or trucks.
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