Well, I guess it’s about time I do a proper
presentation now when the blog has been up and running for more than 2 months
and I put up more than 80 photos on the blog.
My name is Hans G Bäckman and I am 39 years
old. I live in Stockholm Sweden with my wife and two boys aged 2 and 4. I am a
guy with many interests and I have been working with allot of different things
and ran allot of different projects the last 25 years. I have been self-employed for most of my working life and for the last 15 years or so I
have been working as a stock market trader. Between 1993 and 1999 I
lived in Gothenburg and worked as a sailmaker.
After I met my wife I moved to Stockholm in 1999.
I took my first photograph when I was three
years old and I remember it very well, it was a family portrait of the rest of
my family and it turned out pretty well. After my first photo I did some
shooting with an Agfamatic 2000 pocket sensor shooting 110 film cartridges.
This was in the late 70s and early 80s and I was 5-10 years old. After this
period I had a long “break” from photography and it wasn’t until the end of the
80s I started to find my way back to photography.
When the family were on holiday or when I went
on trips with school, many other children would pack a camera to bring home
some memories but I didn’t care (or have enough interest) to use a camera back
in those days. In 1988 I started to borrow my father’s Konika FT-1 motor, a
fixed 40mm lens and only manual controls and no autofocus. This was a great learning
tool as I learned to understand the basics of photography and how to get correct
exposure. I used this camera along with a Minolta rangefinder for almost 10
years, until I bought my very first SLR. But more about this in a later post…
Over there!
Shades #2
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