New Year,New Friends and New Projects

So…this year is gone. I remember starting 2008 as a Sabbatical year. No more studies, no work, just being a stay at home mom untill I could recover from the stress from 2007…

It didn’t took long until I had new projects in hands. the only difference was that I had no pressure to execute them. they were my projects under my prerogative.

The most amazing thing with 2008 was maybe the thing I least expected:

I accepted the fact that I would never be “one of them”. What ever that meant. By doing that, maybe I opened my views to other social networks, other kinds of friendships. And without no effort, I suddenly had lots of new friends.Good friends!

Some I have really near me. Like Alex and Maria, Angelica, Maaike, Melinda, Linea, Fredrik Sinckonen… friends I can have deeper discussions with without feeling like an UFO. Some of them I talk often with, some less often…

I also reconnected with my best friend, Maria. Where would I be without her?

Some other friends I made are not phisicaly near me, although I really appreciate having them in my life as well and we’re never further apart than an e-mail, a jaiku insert or a blog comment.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the support and help of my Jaiku friends and contacts. They know everything about everything and they’re always happy to share there knowledge and advices with me.

I’ve also shared some happiness and sadness with two new friends I made on the internet…Mymlan and Anders. You’re always in my thoughts even if I’m not on-line everyday. I think you know that.I hope you know that.

On Flickr I met Bruno. A photo friend. Talented, unpretentious and always there to give me feedback. A friend I would really like to get to know better.

Fernando in Switzerland, far but still…very near.  Huge heart, huge brain…Always there. My favourite geek.

I ‘m just so happy to have them in my life after 8 years of solitude, that I felt like I really had to Put them on the spotlight here. On New years eve.

Thank you for being there for me!

Another special friend I made under 2008 is my mentor. Fredrik Welander.

I’ll never forget the day I stumbled on his blog on Bloggportalen.

I saw that his new posts had been pinged back there: Fragments of a family.

I got hooked on his blog and his way of celebrating everyday life in it’s beauty and ugliness. sometimes with words, sometimes with photos.

He really lives up to the word transparency .

Anyway, we met him in  person in Stockholm this summer so he could coach me and help me planning my career as a photographer ( the word career might be an overstatement here, but I ‘ll let it go).

We’ve been mailing each other since then and at some point, he invited me  to participate in his photo project “365 pictures”.

Fredrik has a website where he uploads a picture a day. Pictures of daily joys and struggles, happiness and sadness, details and overviews…without any pretensions. As he so well puts it:

This project is about reclaiming the everyday picture. Releasing contemporary Swedish photography from expensive prints, exhibitions and posh magazines. Freeing the most basic human feelings from our own expectations.

So now we are two photographers uploading  pictures on http://365bilder.se

You can read about it on the presentation page

So now you have another site to visit everyday under 2009.

That’s our gift to you…and an honour to me!

I hope you will enjoy it and even be inspired by it.

Just let you creativity flow and try to see beauty. Where ever you go, whom ever you meet, what ever you do.

Forget about right or wrong, technique or camera model. Just go for it!

I want to thank all of you who keep coming to my blog.

You make me feel like I’m ok the way I am. That’s priceless.

Thank You for being there for me and I wish you all a

Happy New Year!

She’a lady!

Guess witch is the most visited post on this blog! come on! A wild Hint ?

here

Answers Part II

A while ago, A challenge you to ask me any questions you want and some of you took the chance.

After that Bruno and Harlemite had some more questions and only now I find the time and the energy to answer. Sorry guys.

Here we go:

Harlemite asks:

1)If you’re stranded on a desert island, what is the one movie you would take with you? Yes, you can only take one (and by some miracle you can watch it!):

the only movie that comes directly to my mind is “As good as it gets” with Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. I loved it so much that I went to  see it twice on the same week at the Cine- theatre. After that I ‘ve watched it at least 4 more times and still love it. I guess I related a lot to the characters…I don’t know… I can honestly say that I haven’t been touch that much by a movie since then. Although I love movies and have many favorites. Titanic touched me also, nothing to do with Di Caprio, I sware. I’ve only seen it once but it touched me. I gues it’s because in some way I felt much like the Rose.

I would have to say that a book would have been harder to choose. It would have to be a never ending Agatha Christie or something.

2) What’s your favorite meals in Winter and Summer? (only one each)

Oh! I’m going to go wild on the summer choice! Barbeque! peter is really good at grilling. On the side, a good sallad with all kinds of vegetables and seasoning and a good glass of wine or a beer. Oh! I’m so wild! Barbeque on the summer! Who would have guessed!? ;)

(To be honnest, in Portugal, my answer would then be Shellfish).

On the winter side I have one answer for you: SOUP! ( God I’m wild!)

3) What would you say to your mother’s grandmother 10 generations back?

I would say: “Thank you!”  and that I wish they had had the chances that I have now…in a way ( or many) thanks to them.

Bruno asks:

Champagne at the Ritz or a can of beer at the beach?

Tough one!

I’ve never been at the Ritz, but I understand what you mean.

I’ve holden more beer cans in my hand than Champagne glasses.

Mostly I like beer with food or tapas.

I like the party and celebrating feeling that comes with a Champagne bottle. I like to take in at Hotels. A LOT! I enjoy every minute of it.

I wouldn’t  choose one if it meant eliminating the other. I think everybody’s life should have relaxing moments simbolized by a beer at the beach, but also some luxury touch to it.

I don’t know what this answer says about me really. That I have nether a working class  nor a middle class soul?

I’m not surprised, that’s why I have such a hard time voting in politics. Really.

It was an interesting question that way. I’ll have to think more about this.

So one part of my promise is now kept.

More to come soon.

Thank you to Harlemite and Bruno for their interesting questions and for showing interest in me and my pecularities!

A merry Christmas to you all!

I don’t think I’ll be able to blog some more today so I’ll see you all Tomorow.

Enjoy your evening and take care of each other!

God Jul !

Feliz Natal!

Joyeux noël!

To maja with a hug!

I also have

Jaiku Invites.

Jaiku is for those of you intrested in sharing knowlege and ideas about more geeky stuff, like web development, social media, software, mobiles, computers,  but even a good way to keep in touch with your friends through microbloging. A bit like Twitter only better. Much Better.

Sounds like something you could use? Something you would like to try?

leave a comment explaining why, and I’ll send you one.

Christmas Present for you

I have 2 Spotify invites to share.

For those of you who don’t know, Spotify is a service on the internet where you can listen to all kindes of music. Streamed Music, witch means that you don’t have to buy it or to store it on your computer, you just have to connect to the internet. You can find almost every artist and song with some exeptions. you can make playlists like on Itunes, share playlists with your friends whom also have Spotify and even make playlists together, so you learn about eachothers tastes.

If you’re interested in trying it, write a comment down here and let me know !

Dear Santa…

I’ ve been good, I’ ve been nice, I’ ve been kind….so if you could pass by my home this year and drop a Nikon 3Dx I promise I will be even nicer next year !

Please don’t mind my frustration last Christmas…It wont happen again. Promise.

Thank you… hope to hear from ya soon…

Dearest Santa.

Sincerly yours, Sonia

10 AM

And I allready feel like I’ve runned a complete Marathon.

Still I’m loaded. This adrenaline/ stress thing is very impressive.

Tired but still loaded. Intresting.

Honey, You came to the right place. NOT

“i want telephone number swedish man”

one of many interesting google searches that led someone to my blog.

So here’s what I ‘ve been thinking:

I’m a chick, so I guess my phone number isn’t that interesting

But maybe you could try your luck here? Who knows?!

I promise…

December the 23th december at 6 PM, I’ll be closing the door of my Photostudio for one and a half week.

During this mini vacation, I PROMISE that I’ll answer all your questions, comments, mails, messages and even SMS.

Yes I will.

I’ll also read and comment on some blogs and photos I haven’t been able to keep up with ( a special and BIG sorry to Sissel, Bruno, Harlemite, Sir Satire,Jos, Fernando, Xavier, Anders, Karin and Fihja).

I’ve allready started to catch up, but I am so busy! I was not prepared for so much work.

Really not, for three days I haven’t been able to eat or drink from 10 AM to 7Pm. Home is Chaotic. My free time I try to spend with my kids so they don’t miss me to much.

I’m exhausted, happy, frustrated, happy, and in need of rest….but happy…(the key word here being: Happy, in case you missed it ).

So bare with me, will you?

I’ve decided

to search some new blogs to read…

some in my RSS feeds, I’ve been following for over a year…sadly, I don’t feel like they give me anything anymore. I thing I grow apart from some of the writers… some blogs have grown to big… some blogs have grown elitists…some blogs don’t feel welcoming anymore…some never felt welcoming, I just thought they might if I gave them time…however good they might be, I must feel welcomed.

As I said, I need some new reading material…sugestions?

I have 3 words for you:

WORK, WORK and WORK…

Daily triviality then:

We had 12,4  degrees Celsius  inside, this evening when we got home . The heating system was down.

2 hours later and with my father in law’s help, it started again.

It feels much better now: we ‘re up at 13,5 degrees .

Blue Christmas

I don’t know if it’s the snow falling outside, the dark swedish winter days, or the fact that I am alone with the kids so near Christmas…I feel kind of blue.

I wish I had more time to decorate around the house, time to bake.

Time to welcome Christmas.

I love Christmas. When everybody tries to live up to an ideal of kindness, generosity  and love. It’s a  gleam of light.

A  gleam of a perfect world.

15 minuter till

så slutade Fotoklubbmästerskapet

( jag ser ju inte klok på bilderna. Fan vad jag spänner mig när jag ska fotas!)

Picking your brain

I need a push…please?

a while ago, I bought an advertising place on “Lokaldelen”. It’s a local telephone list for Hällefors- Filipstad region.

The only problem is: They printed the wrong telephone number! People call that number and ends up in Skellefteå in northen Sweden. Just my luck!

I’m trying to reduce the damage by changing the number on their webbsite and some other places on the webb, but still. I need people to fast and easely find me. My guessing is that, if they don’t find me on Lokaldelen, their next step would be to google me.

I’ve Googled myself and the way to my presentation page on my Photoblog is not easy to folow. First you end up on Jaiku, Facebook, Bloggportalen and of course , this blogg.

I would like them to fast and easy end up on my photoblog

So I guess what I’m asking you to do is to make a post on your blog with a title containing the words Sonia Jansson fotograf Hällefors ( “photographer” if you write in english). and then in the actual post write a link to      http://soniajansson.wordpress.com

You could also write some nice words about my work, but I’ll leave it up to you ;)

This way my photoblog will climb up on  the next google searches with my name on it( links are the only way to make it raise fast). ( I must also admit that this is not my idea from the beginning. I’ m just shamefuly imitating Jonas Peterson when he started his own photoblog back in August).

Just for the record, I would never ask you this if it wasn’t for the wrong phone number story…

So Thank you for your help! Really!

Congratulations!

Jonas peterson and his girlfriend just had their second child. A boy. Why not go there and congratulate him? He made a beautiful slideshow of the birth…

My apologies

to all of you waiting for my calls, messages, mails and comments on your blogs. My apologies to all of you whom so kindly have been commenting n this blog. I haven’t forget you.

I’m on it!

The studio is doing fine, I have much more work than I ever  hoped for and the stress is positive only!

Thank you for your patience! Thank you for you presence!

Thank you!