Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 27th 2007. Click image for larger view.
Went for a walk a up in the mountains and this is the view I got when I turned around. It was very steep so had a hard time standing and photographing.
The fjord is called “Vågsfjorden”. The mountain is called “Drangen” […]

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This is a horror story from my garden! I was walking around enjoying the nice weather and then I noticed some weird looking large flies. After closer inspection it wasn’t just one fly, it was three! Two dance flies were mating and consuming a fly. So I had to document it with my camera and […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 22nd 2007. Click image for larger view.
What beautiful and warm day here at the coast in northern Norway. I really like it when it’s 20C and slightly overcast. Anything warmer get to hot for my arctic body
Here I’m crawling between pebbles trying to make a […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 21st, 2007. Click image for larger view.
This is a hoverfly (Syrphidae), also know as flower flies, that are feeding on a dandelion flower. I have been trying to figure out what kind of species it is and I believe it is a Leucozona lucorum. From the looks […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on January 30th 2007. Click image for larger view.
This was shot back in January when I had just got my DSLR camera and had no idea about what I was doing. I quite like the “postcard” feeling to it.
This house is placed directly below a mountain called Å-tinden. You […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 6th, 2007. Click image for larger view.
This is a picture of a Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris). Please correct me if I’m wrong about the species. The species “Norwegian Wasp” looks similar so I’m not 100% sure.
I’m not a big fan of these stingy creatures, but after taking […]

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