Scattered notes and structured chaos
Field Notes is where the camera is put down – and the thinking begins.
Here, I write about photography not only as a craft, but as a way of seeing, feeling and communicating. Some entries are reflections – quiet observations from a place, a moment, or a subject that stayed with me. Others are more hands-on: tips, tricks, tools and thoughts on what makes an image work.
I don’t claim to have all the answers. But after thirty years of working with visual storytelling, I’ve learned a few things worth sharing.
This is a notebook, not a manual. A place for ideas, not instructions.
Welcome in.
Enough Is Enough
For the past year, I've been bouncing back and forth like the world's biggest indecisive fool between macOS, Windows, and Linux. One week I convince myself that I should just accept Windows for what it is. Maybe it's not so bad after all. For a while. Then come the...
The Story Has Not Changed. Only the Tools Have
A follow-up to "Getting it right from the beginning" (2013) Thirteen Years On, the Argument Remains Thirteen years ago, I wrote about retouching. About how it was never a modern invention, never a digital sin, never something that began with Photoshop or ended with...
Missing the Train to Bollnäs – and Arriving Exactly Where I Needed to Be
One might imagine the worst thing that could happen before a national archery championship is forgetting your bow, or perhaps turning up in the wrong-coloured club shirt. But no — it's standing on Stockholm Central Station, realising that your train to Bollnäs departs...
PAL vs NTSC: It’s Not About the Look – It’s About the Light
Why your gorgeous footage flickers like a haunted house — and the embarrassingly simple way to fix it. Scene One: The Café Myth Picture this.A small café, soft indie music in the background, two filmmakers deep in conversation. One stirs their oat milk latte and...
Goodbye Full Frame, Hello Freedom – A Photographer’s Shift from Nikon to Sony
"There comes a time in every photographer’s journey when a tool becomes a weight. Not just in grams, but in spirit. That time, for me, was now." I have been photographing professionally since 1989 – which means I’ve seen more camera systems come and go than most...
Debunking the Sensor Size Myth – Why Full Frame Isn’t the Holy Grail
For as long as digital photography has existed, the topic of sensor sizes has been a battlefield. Full-frame versus APS-C. APS-C versus Micro Four Thirds. And somewhere in the distance, medium format looms, ready to take its own swipe at the so-called "king." The...