Just finished the picture from this past saturday night (after my failed plane spotting @ Arlanda). This is how it turned out:

Along with this picture I’m launching a new category on my photography site – dailies. It sometimes happens that I take pictures which are more or less devoid of context, and the only reasonable place to put them would be in a category like this (rather than the misc or other categories).

I happened to have a rental car over the night this saturday, so I thought that maybe I’d go to Stockholms no. 1 airport Arlanda and try to get a bunch of cool pictures of airplanes landing/taking off. After having visited the proper spot for sighting airplanes (the spot which is endorsed by the airport itself) and realising that all the airplanes aren’t using that runway I got in the car and zipped to the runway being used (i.e. where I saw a plane land). My plan was to stand under the planes when they approached, so I went to the south end of the runway. After having stood there for about 30 minutes I see one plane – approaching from the other end! Turns out that there was no wind to speak of so I guess the pilots could pick any approach they wanted.

This is about as fun as it gets…

Turns out that Arlanda on a saturday night is pretty darn boring. I’m guessing that going there on a sunday night would’ve given me more photo opportunities. Some other time maybe. Instead I decided to head out to Nynäshamn and maybe take a few pictures of the sea. I might be able to show you the result of that little trip later tonight.

Update:
Here’s the picture I promised you before: http://blog.diktator.org/index.php/2009/05/25/mist-over-the-road/. As you’ll see it has nothing to do with water or boats (which is what I had imagined when I set out to Nynäshamn). I just saw this scenery and I had to get out and take some pictures of it. So there you go, enjoy! =)