The Canola blossom in Skåne

During the month of May, the very southern part of Sweden turns all yellow with beautiful blossoming canola fields as far as the eye can see. This is the typical image of the county of Scania or as you say in swedish "Skåne".

Skåne is also the place which I am fortunate to call home. It's a highlight every year, chasing that perfect canola photo in perfect composition with some other specific detail of our county like a wind mill or our purple painted local trains. To make the hard even harder the canola fields changes every year since you can not grow canola in the very same field two years in a row. It's also just during a limited period of time you can see the canola in full blossom, my guess around one week so you have to be lucky with the weather and made your research about where to shoot well in advance.

The ever changing conditions makes it very challenging and you will always end up with new and interesting photos. Here is some of my canola photos shot from the last years!
 

Canola closeup
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/400 sec, f/7,1 @ 300 mm)
 

The purple local train called "Pågatåg" among the canola fields and wind mills
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/640 sec, f/5,6 @ 150 mm)
 

Canola field with an old mill in the background
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/320 sec, f/7,1 @ 190 mm)
 

Contrasts to the yellow canola field
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/5,6 @ 300 mm)
 

The purple local train called "Pågatåg" among the canola fields
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/1000 sec, f/5,6 @ 300 mm)
 

Typical scenery of Skåne county during the canola blossom
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/500 sec, f/7,1 @ 300 mm)
 

Closeup of the canola flowers
(Canon EOS 5D Mark III - ISO 100, 1/400 sec, f/6,3 @ 300 mm)