Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 30th 2007. Click image for larger view.
Last night I was out on the beach late at night taking pictures of the sunset. A tern couple landed on this old rowboat so had to take a picture of it against the beautiful sunset.
The sun is not up 24/7 […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 23rd, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
I have always been fascinated by bumblebees and whenever I get the opportunity I try to photograph these chubby insects. It’s not always so easy because they can be very camera shy and get annoyed if you get too close.
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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 28th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
The fireweed, also known as Rosebay Willowherb in Britain, (Epilobium angustifolium) have started to flower so I had to take photos of them.
They are very nice to look at, but I have some mixed feelings about fireweed. The reason for this […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 23rd 2007. Click image for larger view.
I enjoy watching clouds and I enjoy watching mountains so why not take pictures of them together. Looks like the clouds are hugging the mountain
The mountain peak is called “Drangen” and is about 1000 meters above sea level.
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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 23rd 2007. Click image for larger view.
In this photo you see the family boathouse again (check this photo to see it with the fjord as a background). Loved the way the blue sky, clouds and the mountain created a nice background to the boatshed.

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 15th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
This is a close up photo of a common frog (Rana temporaria) being very camera shy. I found the frog pretty far up in the mountains and I was surprised because I have never seen frogs in this area before.
Frogs are […]

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