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Discover Slovenia through the new OM-3
Europe | Photography | Travelogue

Discover Slovenia through the new OM-3

ByRania June 5, 2025June 6, 2025

Ever since Olympus changed it’s name to OM System and I started working with them, I (and…

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Sunny forest outing
Photography

Sunny forest outing

ByRania October 24, 2024October 24, 2024

After a week of rain I biked out for a sunny forest outing to a newly found forest, in the hopes of getting both photos and mushrooms.

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Amongst Rocketcress & Apple blossom
Adventure that is life | Photography

Amongst Rocketcress & Apple blossom

ByRania June 7, 2024June 7, 2024

It is amongst the rocketcress and apple blossom that I find my joy for life return. Summer is here and I live and breathe flowers right now.

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Photography and the Art of Perception
Photography

Photography and the Art of Perception

ByRania November 14, 2023April 22, 2024

This post is about photography and the art of perception, how nature and photography opened my eyes and taught me to see.

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Foraging & photography – Moving freely with the OM-5
Photography

Foraging & photography – Moving freely with the OM-5

ByRania October 26, 2022March 14, 2024

I am ducking under trees and treading on soft moss. Movin freely with the OM-5 on my shoulder as I forage for mushrooms.

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M.Zuiko 20mm F1.4 PRO Review
Photography

M.Zuiko 20mm F1.4 PRO Review

ByRania November 15, 2021April 22, 2024

OM System has just released a new lens and during fall I have been to only one to use it. This is my in depth M.Zuiko 20mm F1.4 PRO review.

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Mindfully exploring nature
Photography

Mindfully exploring nature

ByRania April 30, 2020March 14, 2024

Photography as a tool let’s me get closer to nature, slow down to mindfully explore it and view the world in a new light.

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Autumn and fishing in Norway
Photography

Autumn and fishing in Norway

ByRania September 10, 2019April 24, 2024

By taking the arctic train all the way to Narvik I was able to meet up with my friend and spend a few amazing days fishing in Norway before her wedding.

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hello and welcome!

My name is Rania

I live in a small northern town of Sweden where I work as a freelancing photographer, visual communicator & photography educator. I strive to live slow, sustainably and intentionally and in this blog I will share my life from outdoor adventures and photography tips to traveling and foraging & using wild food.

May also contain traces of coffee and cats.

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Grain & Fern

photographer, content creator and maker of things

grainandfern

Fotograf & kommunikatör med fokus på natur & livsstil 🌲 @omsystem.cameras ambassador. Represented by @johnerimages📍Sundsvall, Sweden

This is my garden, wonderfully wild and unkempt. B This is my garden, wonderfully wild and unkempt. But even though it's ours, it's not for us, it's for them 🐝🦋

In return, there is so much beauty and life for us to enjoy, and for me to photograph 📷 🌼

#liveslowstaywild #savethepollinators #nomow #biodiversity #biologiskmångfald
//sponsored post // ✨️ These images perfectly capt //sponsored post // ✨️ These images perfectly captures what this summer is all about. After a long, hard winter and spring, all I plan on doing is bike around enjoying nature. Just slow living and close by adventures 🚲

I've teamed up with @sportproffsen.se who's made sure me and my partner can enjoy this together, so you can expect a lot of bike adventures, photography and camping 👌🏽 I love biking SO much, and nothing makes me feel quite as free as when I'm gliding through a golden sunset with a camera slung over my shoulder. 

If you need a new bike, SUP or anything else for an active summer, use the code Rania8 for 8% off the entire selection at @sportproffsen.se.

#liveslowstaywild #näräventyr #sportproffsen #fitnord #summervibes
The other day I went to check the mail and found a The other day I went to check the mail and found a wool carder bee 🐝 We gently got it out onto a log with some damp moss, offered it a flower and after a little while it flew away. Luckily not before I could get my camera + macro lens. What a cute fuzzy buzzy!

As we work on making the garden better for biodiversity, I keep coming across species I've never seen before and it is such a joy ✨️

The day after heavy magazines from both @cameranaturamagasin & @fotografernasforbund were thrown down into the mailbox, and I'm glad the bee was no longer there!

📷 OM-3 + M.Zuiko 60mm F2.8 

#svenskafotografer #biologiskmångfald #macrophotography #cameranatura #naturfotograferna
The first rays of the sun illuminating 'my' local The first rays of the sun illuminating 'my' local forest. 

#omsystemcameras #putyourselfoutthere #cameranatura #skyddaskogen #biodiversity
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