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Hej på dig!

Welcome into my hectic world of thoughts, children, weddings and lots of love!

I'm a destination photographer, a graphic-designer, a mother-of-three, a swimmer, a guitar-hero fan, a backpacker, a citzen of the world who loves photographing life.

I'm based in Stockholm but have your world as my studio!

If you'd like to talk to me, book your shoot or just say hi, feel free to mail me at info@morethanwords.se

You can also reach me at: +46 (0)70 2635767

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Oskar, three & Måns, four months

On my way to heaven this morning, I mean, one-of-my-favorite-places-on-Earth Saltsjöbaden, I couldn’t understand the butterflies in my stomach. Why? I was on my way to a family shoot, something I’ve done for the last ten years, so why this feeling of extreme excitement?

Well, when later on I got home and started to look through the pictures, I understood: this was the first family shoot of the year, after a month filled with reportage shoots and business portraits, and wedding contracts…..of course I was excited: I was on my way to meet a little baby, a little boy and their parents. What could be better than that?

And I understood, while I sat on the car and smiled, that yes, it could be better than that :

they could have lived in Brazil for nine years, and they could speak Portuguese fluently, they could just looooove everything related to Brazil, and I could fall in love with them directly!

I can’t forget to thank the sunlight for paying us a visit today and making everything brighter, even my camera, that could shoot and glide on natural light!

As I felt completely at home with them, you can see by their pictures that they came straight from my heart!

Morethanwords & Hjärt-Lung Fonden

I’m very proud to start this week letting you know Morethanwords is one of the sponsors of the American Women’s Club Annual Luncheon, donating two children photo-shoots to their auction!

This annual campaign raises money for pediatric cardiology, both specific equipment or treatment programs and research. This year’s drive is to fund a mobile unit to give children living outside the knowledge centers of Stockholm, Lund and Gothemburg access to specialist doctors. The equipment will allow pediatric heart patients to be examined virtually by specialists from the knowledge centers. The campaign will also fund research positions within the realm of pediatric cardiology.

Every child has the right to get the best health care available!

February 8, 2010 - 1:55 pm terri lindholm - super bra juliana! jag köpt min barnen hjärt-lung fonden pin igår! är du medlem på american womens club?

February 8, 2010 - 5:41 pm Ju - HEj Terri! Nej, jag är inte medlem. Jag tror att man behöver vara North American för att bli medlem, inte bara American (South) som jag är...hihihihihi........ Kram! ju

Your family photographer for life!

This weekend I’m going to show you how great it is to have family pictures taken by a photographer every year.

And I know what I’m talking about, as I myself have my favorite photographers photograph my own family every autumn. The joy of seeing their growth in pictures every year, after a couple of years, is something impossible to describe in words, so I’ll give you pictures!

The first family I have the pleasure of showing you is one I  photographed for the first time in 2007, and since then every year. Now we have even become  friends! The mom is also a photographer, Jennie Pettersson. Jennies drives down from Luleå during their summer vacation and stops by in Stockholm every summer for a family shoot.

Here you are, the shots from all three years in a row!

Coffee Table Book

Well, I’ve now spent two working days designing my masterpiece: Li & Markus’ Wedding Book!

Yeah, sixteen hours, sitting in front of the computer, listening to my inspirational Delerium Poem & Karma and then, Wow! Just like giving birth to my newest baby. I got soooo carried away in the whole process that I even chose a new book format that I think fits Morethanwords better, and made it 60 pages long.

And here you have a slideshow with the rest of the book:

February 4, 2010 - 10:23 am tuca - it is beautiful Ju. well done!!!

February 4, 2010 - 12:01 pm terri lindholm - Stunning book and stunning couple! I love that alot of the book is in B&W. I'd love to do an entire wedding in B&W... one day...

February 4, 2010 - 6:50 pm Gisela - Åh, vilken underbar bok!! Kul att se att en och annan bild från min kamera fick vara med. Kram!!

February 4, 2010 - 9:27 pm Christina - Åh, vilken otroligt vacker bok! Bilderna är underbara, som vanligt och jag riktigt känner hur lyckliga de är! Här hemma håller vi just nu på med att göra i ordning en hel vägg, med bara dina foton! Jag skickar en bild när vi är klara:-) Kram från Christina och killarna

Posing

Whenever I have to take a picture of the bride, the same problem comes out: how should she stand?

I just found this fashion catalog which gives us many useful ideas!

Today’s Serendipity

One of my favorite parts of the whole wedding photography process is creating my Coffee Table Books, it’s when I can join my background as a Graphic Designer to my present life as a photographer.

And then, nothing brightens up my day more than receiving a mail like this one I just got:

“Hi Juliana,

Just checked your order. I have to say: very very nice pictures and style!

Keep on creating such beautiful books. Maybe we can talk to use one of your books as an ASUKABOOK sample to show at workshops and seminars…

Unfortunately we just release new sample books, but there will be need for more in the future.

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Chris

Thank YOU, Chris! You made my day!

February 2, 2010 - 8:31 pm terri lindholm - wow! what a compliment! congrats!..and it is a lovely book you've put together.

February 5, 2010 - 6:56 pm Gisela - Åh, vad fin boken blev. Suuuuuper!!

Just found an old favorite….

Action-Reaction

Whenever I photograph children, I have a whole bag of tricks I take with me.

I have games we can plan together, I have things I tell them to do to get the reaction I’m looking for and I talk a lot, I use different tones of voice and really use my whole body as a giant “action-toy” to amuse them.

Imagine my joy to find Jerry Ghionis also has something like that, but for bridal couples! Yesssss! His Action-Reaction pack of the picpockets series is totally fantastic. I got my set yesterday and I just can’t wait to “play” them with my coming couples!

;-)

Kungsholmen

Yesterday the day was soooo beautiful that I took the two kids that were home and decided to walk from Kristineberg to Kronobergsparken to pick up the third kid who was at at birthday party.

During our walk on the icy water, besides seeing crazy people running naked in -10 degrees C and jumping right into the freezing cold lake, we could see the amazing sunset…..beautiful beautiful Kungsholmen!

Vikings

The grass is always greener on the other side. The one  you don’t have. The dream one.

Swedes always talk about living in a warmer country, about the joys of a better climate, about the good living we have in South America.

Brazilians always talk about the beauty of snow, the strength of the  Scandinavians, the sporty high class living they have in Sweden.

And I’m no different: I love other’s grasses!

I think men who can ski and ice skate the sexiest on the planet. My friends usually laugh when I say that. “yeah, we were born in skis, my dear, so it’s not such a big deal for us”, they say. Whenever my husband comes gliding on ice or skiing like a God from the top of a hill, I just sight and am reminded of why I’ve chosen a Swede to be my husband. Sexyyyyyyyyyyy, stroooooong, invincible!

Well, maybe not quite, but these are the three words which come to my mind whenever I try  to feel more like a viking myself.

Yesterday was one of those days. Beautiful, sunny, freezing cold. And I thought: “Sexy, strong, invincibleeeeeee!” , and left home with my three little vikings-in-the-making. Yes, we were going ice-skating. Just mommy, the kids, and nature.

We found a  beautiful frozen lake, that was full of people already skating on it. Very important for not-yet-so-viking-mommy: unthinkable to go somewhere where the ice might break. For the true vikings, this is not a problem, as they always go skating with the full safety pack and its most important item: ice pickers, in case you happen to fall into the freezing water, and then, with the strength of your body,  push yourself out of the freezing water using your ice pickers. Piece of cake. For a viking, of course. For the wanna-be viking mommy here, the bare thought of maybe falling into the water was enough for canceling our brave plans.

So, lake with lots of people=no chance of falling: the perfect place!

The viking thought followed me throughout the day. When we were going down the hill, carrying a huge bag with helmets (I mean, mommy carrying everything), a backpack with my skate boots, another backpack with warm chocolate and lunch (of course viking-mommy planned a typical viking-lunch on the snow), my ski-pols, and the last bag with the kids skates and mine, all four pairs of those. Ok. One, two, three. Down we go…..down we go…..viking mommy viking mommy…..ten minutes later and some wild desperate screams of “don’t run too far out”, “don’t go out in the ice without mommy”, “don’t eat snow”, “waaaaaaaait for meeeeeeeee”, we got to the lake.

-15 degrees celcious…..nobody but me seemed to care, so I just took of my gloves and started the process of putting the skates on the kids.

20 minutes later I was ready………with the FIRST kid……ok…..mind note: never again bring hockey skates……by the time I was ready with the last kid, my hands had frozen and I had heart piercing pain on my legs for kneeling down for so long…..viking mommy viking mommy…

Then my own skates…..aaaaaaa……the boots were sooooo tight that I almost felt like skating on my socks  would be less painful.

viking mommy viking mommy…

We had managed to skate for five minutes together, as a family, when Noah, who is four, started crying and wining he was tired, that he didn’t want to skate anymore, that he hated skating……..to make things better, an elder woman passing by tried to be kind and said that “such a cute little GIRL shouldn’t be lying on the snow and crying like that”. Not even our lunch on the snow helped then. He just refused to skate anymore and I had to drag him back to the bench where we had started. And only that took about 20 minutes, to skate maybe 300m, as I’m not a viking-skater yet.

While I tried to find the other two kids who had gotten tired of waiting for us and disappeared around the lake, Noah managed to bury himself in the snow and get completely wet, which made our process of packing and going back to the car at least as painful as the taking off my boots.

viking mommy viking mommy…

Well, next Saturday we will go back to the lake, but this time, I’ll be sure to bring a pulka, for either carrying all the stuff or Noah, and of course, the most important item of all, my husband, as I realized after the adventure, is the one who will always be the true viking in the family.

February 1, 2010 - 10:11 am Magnus - Vilken klockren bild!

February 1, 2010 - 11:18 am terri lindholm - lovely story juliana...you write so beautifully that it reads to me like a movie scene...

February 1, 2010 - 12:11 pm Ju - Hi, Terri! yeah, sometimes I wonder if my life is not coming out of a weird movie script the gods have written........ehehehheeh! :-)

February 1, 2010 - 2:05 pm anna - I love all your stories... we need to collect them properly like the gems that they are. Hilarious, loving and perfect illustrations of Daily Life with the Wiklunds. Loving it!

February 1, 2010 - 6:44 pm Angelica Tånneryd - You are indeed a Viking-mother :). I was out skating with my family the other weekend and discovered that my 7,5-year old is sooooo much fast than me on the skates. I was the one stopping all the time with sore feet :).