Hi, thank you for visiting and viewing my photo images. Please leave a comment or an Emoji, if you have any questions you are very welcome to ask. The photo images that I have posted here at flickr are images that I like of my own taste (some not with the best editing finish, sorry), I do not use AI nor "photoshopping", HDR or stacking.

Take a look inside my Photo Albums flickr.com/photos/193727845@N03/albums/

You can also follow me at Pixelfed pixelfed.dk/Brask

I am a Still Photographer, I do Nature, Wildlife, Macro, Bird and Landscape Photography, Street/Urban, Architecture, Documentary Photography, Portrait Photography and more... Most of my Photography I do fully manual, manual shutter speed, manual aperture, manual ISO and manual focusing, so I am in full control with what happens and it is joy. I never do video.

In the 1980´s and 1990´s I did most Black & White film Photography, developing the films and prints in my own Darkroom. I also did some color Photography, most Slide Film, I used both 35mm SLR Cameras (sometimes compact pocket Cameras) and 6x6 SLR Cameras. I have also for a period worked with Large Format Cameras 4x5 and 5x7 inches when I was a Professional Photographer and I have also worked as a teacher in analog photography .

For many years in the 1980´s and the 1990´s I arranged guided tours for professional photographers and advanced hobby photographers to the old Hasselblad factory in Göteborg, Sweden.

I have had several very talented mentors, one of them who was a professional theater and commercial photographer said "If you have two prime Lenses, one wide angle Lens and one short tele Lens, then you can cover 90-95% of all types of photography. An other mentor was a photographer at the old Hasselblad factory in Göteborg, Sweden, he said "If you are in doubt, go one step closer to the subject to fill the frame".

Now my Cameras are SONY A7RIVA and A7RV (I had the SONY A7RIII and A7RIV). My SONY E-mount Lenses are Sony 14mm 1.8 GM, ZEISS Loxia Distagon 21mm 2.8 T*, SONY 24mm 1.4 GM, Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 35mm 2.0 Aspherical, SONY Carl ZEISS Sonnar 35mm 2.8 T* ZA, Voigtländer Nokton 50mm 1.0 Aspherical, SONY ZEISS Sonnar 55mm 1.8 T* ZA, Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 65mm 2.0 Aspherical, SONY 85mm 1.4 GM II, ZEISS Batis Sonnar 85mm 1.8 T*, Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 110mm 2.5, SONY 135mm 1.8 GM and the Sigma 500mm 5.6 DG DN OS Sports. I do not use zoom lenses, in my opinion/experience zoom lenses can destroy your creativity, also zoom lens are too big and heavy and expensive, so I cannot recommend zoom lenses !

I have used analog adapted Lenses Lenses for Sony E-mount Cameras (and also Canon EOS Cameras), fx Leica R, Canon FDn and Tamron SP Adaptall-2 Lenses, fx the Leica Macro Elmarit R 60mm 2.8, Leica Telyt-R 250 4.0, Tamron 90mm 2.5 Macro Adaptall-2 and Tamron SP 300mm 5.6 Adaptall-2, Canon FDn 300mm 2.8 L (often with the Canon 1.4x extender), but I do not have many old Lenses now and I do not like the missing EXIF data for the analogue Lenses.

My very first camera I got as a 10 years old kid, it was a Kodak Instamatic 233 (126 Film), later I got a Agfamatic 2000 Pocket (110 Film). My first SLR Camera was a Minolta XG-1, but I only had it a few weeks, it was a freezing cold winter and the Minolta Camera could not shoot in the very cold weather, so I got two Nikon FE, later a Nikon FM and two Nikon F3 so I had 5 Nikon Cameras in all, but then I got Hasselblad 500 C/M with 120mm 4.0 ZEISS Macro Planar. Later I got a Hasselblad 2000 FC (plus five A 12 magazines) with 50mm 2.8 ZEISS Distagon, 110mm 2.0 Planar, 350mm 4.0 ZEISS Tele-Tessar and ZEISS 2x Mutar (earlier I had the ZEISS Tele-Tessar 250mm 4.0). My most intense years with Hasselblad lasted 16 years until I got Canon F-1 New with 20mm, 24mm, 85mm and 300mm 2.8 L (some times with 1.4x and 2x extender) which I used until I went to digital Cameras. I also used compact cameras, Minox 35ML and Leica Minilux. I have had many other Cameras and Lenses. Other gear I had was fx Manfrotto Tripods, Durst enlarger... I donated much of my gear to my niece, fx a Hasselblad 501 CM with a Zeiss Macro-Planar 120mm 4.0 Canon New F-1, Leica Minilux and more. I have also had DSLR cameras, Canon EOS 400D and later the Canon EOS 7D with fx Canon EF 135mm 2.0 L, Canon EF 300mm IS USM L and Tamron 60mm 2.0 Macro, plus adapted analogue Lenses. My first digital Camera was a compact Fujifilm Finepix F30 (which I still have). My SLR periods are 1979 Minolta, 1980-1982 Nikon, 1983-1998 Hasselblad, 1999-2006 Canon. My DSLR period are 2007-2018 Canon. My Mirrorless period are 2019 till now and into the future with Sony. Ask me about Cameras, Lenses and other photographic equipment, images or what else you like to ask about.

You are very welcome to join my Flickr Groups. May the Light be with you, John Brask

Prime Lenses for SONY E mount Cameras flickr.com/groups/14877369@N24/

Photography social group flickr.com/groups/14888770@N23/

Prime Lenses for Nature Photography flickr.com/groups/14837602@N20/

Manual Photography with Prime Lenses flickr.com/groups/14807665@N24/

National Geographic Scandinavia flickr.com/groups/14877936@N22/

Voigtländer Nokton 50mm 1.0 Aspherical flickr.com/groups/14903573@N23/

SONY 85mm 1.4 GM II flickr.com/groups/14903290@N23/

Sigma 500mm 5.6 DG DN OS Sports flickr.com/groups/sigma500mm5_6/