Frida - Uppland, Sweden

Hi. My name is Lotta Fridstrom but on the Internet I go by my nickname Frida. I’m a woman who celebrates the winter solstice as a turning point of new things to come. I live in a small town in the lower middle of Sweden with my husband and four children. Two of whom have already moved out to live on their own. I have always been interested in photography and you could find me everywhere with my camera.  I see images everywhere I go, when I’m driving, walking or shopping, images just pops up in my head.

The first digital camera was an awakening to new things. I’m happily snapping away lots and lots of images every day. My family has learnt to be patience when I just want to take “one more”. I’m a reg. nurse by profession, a work I love but life always takes its own peculiar ways and now I’m learning to live in a different pace. I try to live every day to the fullest and that’s were the photography comes in.

Closest to my heart lay all the little things we usually just pass without thinking. Such as tiny flowers, bugs or just an ordinary item that get so much more fascinating when you look really close. The apples of my eye (my grandchildren) are also in focus in my viewfinder nowadays. The whole process of choosing the object to shot, downloading them to my computer and process them more or less is a joy every time. I often discover images I like later on when looking through them for the onehundredandeleventhtime. 

Camera type and lenses and stuff like that are only interesting to me in the manner that they should work properly and that they do the things I want. I take the picture I like and present them on my blog. I have recently started to use a DSLR and it’s nice to learn new things every day.

I’m so thankful for “meeting” all the new friends online and to get all the good and constructive feedback on my images. It has also lead to possibilities to learn new things about photography. Every new day has a challenge ahead. One new exciting challenge for me is that I with participating in this project also have to put words to my images, in a language different to my own Swedish.

So I’m a happy amateur in photography and I always have my camera bag with me.  If you’ll ever see a tall woman with brown hair and a red camera bag……….

- It might be me!