The previous week has been cold, but at the same time sunny, with spectacular lights almost all day long, cast on the thin layer of snow. I was hoping the same pattern will persist throughout the weekend, but no luck. A thick layer of clouds brought in the gloomy days at the end of the week, but there was a strong need for a hiking trip in any case.
In one of my previous cycle trips to Nacka I tried to reach a lake called Källtorpssjön, which did a good job hiding itself from my sight. Therefore I headed toward it this Sunday, more specific to a place called Hellasgården.
The weather was quite warm, +3 degrees or so and I didn’t expect to find the lake still frozen and with a lot of ice-skaters on it. The ice didn’t look very thick, especially near the shore, but it was strong enough. Don’t worry, I tried it first with the tripod’s leg. 
I spent some time “hidden” between trees, trying a couple of panning shots on the ice-skaters and looking a bit strange, stalker like.
At 15:30 the sun already set, so I packed my stuff and headed back home. On my way back to the bus station, I saw some spectacular burning clouds between the branches of the trees. I rushed to the nearest gap in the forest, to get a better view, and quickly pulled out the tripod.
My tripod’s head has a clever mechanism to put the screw in the camera. They made the screw slot in such way that it may be fastened with a coin. Convenient. There is only one drawback here: having no coin with you. Of course, I could improvise, which is what I had done before, but the clouds weren’t waiting for my improvisation. I just put it in place and start shooting and in less than 5 minutes all the clouds you see in the photo below were gone.
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