We are very proud to announce that starting Tuesday next week
Lola Akinmade-Åkerström will be our new picture blogger. 
If you want a glimpse of some of Lolas beautiful pictures you can have a look here: http://www.lemurworks.com/lola/travel/sweden/2010/arctictrip/
Check out the site on Tuesday if you want to know more.
Welcome Lola!
//Cecilia
A couple of weeks ago I announced that we are looking for a new picture blogger. I could never dream of getting such a fantastic response. I wish we could have at least ten picture bloggers, but at the moment there is only room for one. The choice was not easy to make but I feel extremely proud and happy to announce that we have made up our mind and the winner is…Helena Wahlman!
Helena has been blogging for a while (http://wah.se/) and will be blogging for us here the rest of the year.
Enjoy!
/Cecilia
We’re looking for a photo blogger in Sweden who wants to share his/her everyday life with (us and the rest of) the world. We don’t expect you to be a professional photographer but you should enjoy taking pictures.
The selected blogger will blog for two months from the end of October — or, if successful, longer. The purpose of the photo blog is simply to show non-Swedes what everyday life in Sweden may look like.
Are you the one or do you know someone who would be perfect for the job? Leave a comment here or send an e-mail to cecilia.sundstrand@si.se or mikaela.gustavsson@si.se.
Have a nice weekend!
Cecilia and Mikaela
Swedish flag by Luc de Leeuw: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/2108865836/
Happy Friday!
//Cecilia
When I went south to my home town for midsummer celebration this year I was thinking about a post a colleague made a couple of days ago: Midsummer madness. I decided to try to bring back the perfect midsummer picture.
The conditions were perfect: happy people, dancing children, a beautiful maypole and sunny weather. We had a fantastic day. I took a lot of pictures. Late Sunday evening I came back to Stockholm and was excited to go through all my pictures…which showed a lonely maypole and no happy dancing people at all. Not what I had planned to show and share. Just a pretty bad picture with a touch of melancholic back light. Again.
Sometimes it´s very frustrating to love pictures but to be a lousy photographer.
/Cecilia
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