Nyhavn, Copenhagen · 7:40 am CET
Gamla Stan, 8:10 am
Riddarholmen, sunset
Behind the camera90-minute walk · 40 edited photos the same evening · $180 for twoBook a walk
No. 1 · The idea
No. 2 · The walks
Stockholm · with Linnea
The medieval island: Stortorget’s gables, the 90-centimeter lane, and Riddarholmen’s quay at sunset. Morning walks start at sunrise; afternoon walks end on the water as the sun goes down.
Copenhagen · with Mads
The painted quay before the cafés open, the wooden boats, then across the harbor to the quiet canals. Sunrise is the walk to book: Nyhavn is empty and the light comes down the canal.
No. 3 · The route
2:00 pmCET · minute 0:00
We meet at the old well in the middle of the square. Ten minutes of walking slowly past the red and orange gables, until you forget there’s a camera.
2:15 pmCET · minute 0:15
The narrowest lane in the old town, 90 centimeters at its tightest, and 36 steps. Linnea goes up first and turns around.
2:35 pmCET · minute 0:35
The quiet lane behind the tourist street. In November the sun never climbs above 14 degrees here, so it slides in sideways all afternoon.
3:00 pmCET · minute 1:00
Over the little bridge to the island of the old church spire, while the water turns gold.
3:30 pmCET · minute 1:30
The last frames face west across Riddarfjärden with the sun behind you. Every few weeks, someone kneels here.
The walk ends on the quay at sunset. Linnea walks home to Södermalm and starts editing.
7:30 amCET · minute 0:00
We meet at the big anchor at the head of the canal, coffee in hand, two minutes before the sun comes up over the harbor.
7:40 amCET · minute 0:10
The frame on our front page. The quay is empty, the boats are still, and the light comes straight down the canal at you.
7:55 amCET · minute 0:25
Sit on the old stone with your legs over the water. Mads talks, you laugh, he shoots.
8:20 amCET · minute 0:50
Across the harbor bridge to the canals, the moored wooden boats and the bicycles nobody locks.
8:50 amCET · minute 1:20
One pastel lane Mads won’t name online. He backs up it; you walk toward him, twice, slowly.
The walk ends at a bakery on the canal. The cinnamon buns are on Mads.
No. 4 · The same evening
We edit the same day, while the walk is still fresh. Your private gallery arrives by text and email by 9 pm local time: forty photos, every one color-graded by hand, full size, yours to print.
010203040506070809101112No. 5 · The photographers
“A couple from Osaka handed me their phone at the top of the steps, and I took twenty.”
I grew up in Västerås and came to Stockholm in 2011 to study photography. To pay for it I opened up a café in Gamla Stan at seven every morning, and every morning someone asked me to take their picture.
In June 2016 it was a couple from Osaka at the top of Mårten Trotzigs gränd. A year later they wrote to me: the photo was on their wedding invitation. People cross the world and come home without one picture of the two of them together. I started the walks the next spring.
“Nine years on the harbor buses. I saw Nyhavn at 6 am every single day.”
I crewed the harbor buses for nine years, first boat of the day, and photographed the same canal every morning before anyone was on it. I met Linnea at a photography workshop in Malmö in 2019, halfway between our two cities.
She asked who walked people through Nyhavn at sunrise. Nobody, I said. I took my first guests out in May 2021, a couple from Hamburg on their fortieth anniversary. They still send a card at Christmas.
No. 6 · Gallery
Shared with each couple’s permission, with the place, the hour and the settings.
Birgit and Hans, forty years married · Nyhavn, 7:58 amf/2 · 1/500 · ISO 100 · 50mm
Two friends from Edinburgh · Skeppsholmsbron, 9:20 amf/2.8 · 1/800 · ISO 100 · 35mm
Rain, and a clear umbrella · Gamla Stan, 10:05 amf/2 · 1/200 · ISO 800 · 35mm
A bridge in Christianshavn · 3:40 pmf/2.8 · 1/400 · ISO 200 · 35mm
Three friends, one coffee · Nyhavn, 7:36 amf/2 · 1/400 · ISO 200 · 35mm
No. 7 · When to come
Sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month, local time. We walk at the two ends of each bar: the low light, and the empty lanes.
Stockholm Copenhagen
Now, November. Stockholm 7:40 am to 3:25 pm; Copenhagen 7:43 am to 4:06 pm. The sun stays low all day, so every walk is a golden-hour walk.
June. Stockholm from 3:31 am to 10:04 pm, and it never gets fully dark. We walk at 6 am and 8:30 pm instead.
No. 8 · Before you come
No. 9 · In their words
“We booked from Osaka three weeks before we flew. Linnea found the lane from my grandmother’s postcard, and forty photos were on my phone before we finished dinner.”
Aiko T., OsakaStockholm, October“I’m always the one taking the pictures. For once I’m in all of them. Mads even took six on my phone so I could post that night.”
Priya R., TorontoCopenhagen, September“I photograph weddings for a living, so I’m hard to please. Quiet, quick, no stiff poses, and he knew exactly where the light would be at 7:40.”
Tom H., wedding photographer, LeedsCopenhagen, August“She said yes on Riddarholmen at 3:31. Linnea had been a tourist with a camera on the bench for ten minutes.”
Daniel W., SingaporeStockholm, NovemberNo. 10 · Where we meet
Both are a short walk from the central stations. We text you a photo of the exact spot the evening before.
No. 11 · Questions
No. The walk is about photos of you, taken by us. Bring your phone if you’d like a few on it as well.
Almost everyone says that in the first five minutes. We don’t pose you; we walk, talk and give you small things to do (walk toward me, look at the boats, tell him the joke again). The stiff part is over by the second stop.
In light rain we walk: we bring two clear umbrellas and wet cobbles are some of our favorite photos. In heavy rain or wind, we move your walk free to another time, or refund the deposit. You’ll hear from us by 8 pm the night before.
The same evening, by 9 pm local time: a private gallery link by text and email, 40 edited photos at full size, yours to print anywhere.
All times on this page are local, Central European Time (CET, or CEST in summer). Stockholm and Copenhagen share a clock. We text any number in any country, and prices are in US dollars.
Yes, and quietly. Book the proposal walk, tell us the plan in the notes, and we’ll scout the spot, hide in plain sight and be ready when you kneel.
Of course, on the group walk. Children love the narrow lanes; we keep the pace slow.
No. 12 · Book
Pick the city, the day and the hour. $60 holds it, and the rest is paid when your photos arrive. Times are local, Central European Time, the same in both cities.
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