I was born 1996 so now i'm 13,I lived all my life in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. I am more a birder then a photographer but the photographing has made it even more fune. And keept me interested in birds and the nature in almost 5 years now.
I start birding thanks to my father, he had been birdwatching when he was young but ended when he meet my mother. When I was 5 years he start to take me out in the nature and I got my first bird memories. We lived close to a forest called Nacka reservatet, It was a place I liked to walked in. The same year we went to Brazil and it was a wonderful trip we walked in the rainforest and saw tucans, hummingbirds...
After that I always loved birds, and my dad start the birdwatching again. Now we birdwatch together.
He translate books from portuges (the langues in Brazil) to Swedeish. So he have to go to Brazil to meet the authors, then we use to birdwatch as well. Thats why I got so many twiches in my lifer word list now i'we got 1074. I started birding seriously when I was 10 and start making year list, lifer list in Sweden/world...
In later years I'we start photographing and that makes it alot more fun, you can visit my site at http://www.pbase.com/ivansjogren please visit!
I focus on birds, but I am also interested in the nature and the animals in it.
I got my first camera at 2007 a canon 400D and some years leater i bougth the lens 70-300 1:4- 5.6 IS USM.
I have now been photographing in three years and taken photographed species from Sweden, Brazil, USA, Spain and Tunisia maybe have photos of 400 species. In this summer we going to Amazonas and that will be the trip of my life!
My favourite birds are Snowy Owl, Red-necked Phalarope and Red-flanked Bluetail. And my biggest blocker is the Brazilian Merganser you can see a picture on the link http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/media/braz-merg-1008.jpg (photo not taken by me).