{"id":7057,"date":"2012-05-31T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2012-05-30T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:19:52","slug":"the-most-touching-story-i-heard-in-a-long-time-mattias-leppaniemi-taking-a-photograph-of-a-88-year-old-swedish-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/the-most-touching-story-i-heard-in-a-long-time-mattias-leppaniemi-taking-a-photograph-of-a-88-year-old-swedish-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Touching Story I Heard in a Long Time: Mattias Leppaniemi Taking a Photograph of a 88-year Old Swedish Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeGQQ-xG4wk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"670\" height=\"376\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was shooting with my good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/longtallswede.com\/\">Mattias Leppaniemi<\/a>, and he is currently working on a project on the elderly in Stockholm. He took a nice photo of this 88-year old Swedish lady, and had a really sweet story to tell. She told him that him taking a photo of her really made her day &#8211; and after he showed her the image she said, &#8220;Wow- your camera has really great film, that&#8217;s why the photo looks so good!&#8221; Watch the video above, it will really warm your heart and remind us why we go out shooting on the streets :)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Linnea (1) by mattel, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lepmat\/7297393632\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7084\/7297393632_657b21f99b_z.jpg?resize=426%2C640\" alt=\"Linnea (1)\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Linnea (2) by mattel, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lepmat\/7297393340\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7226\/7297393340_4206b107f7_z.jpg?resize=426%2C640\" alt=\"Linnea (2)\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/the-most-touching-story-i-heard-in-a-long-time-mattias-leppaniemi-taking-a-photograph-of-a-88-year-old-swedish-woman\/mattias1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?fit=484%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"484,648\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mattias1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?fit=484%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7058\" title=\"mattias1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?resize=484%2C648\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?w=484&amp;ssl=1 484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Make sure to follow Mattias on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/longtallswede\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lepmat\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Got a touching story to share? Leave it in the comments below!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shooting with my good friend Mattias Leppaniemi, and he is currently working on a project on the elderly in Stockholm. He took a nice photo of this 88-year old Swedish lady, and \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mattias1.jpg?fit=484%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}