Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 6th 2007. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see the characteristic fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), also known as fly Amanita. There have been some talk that the vikings used to eat them to get into their “berserk mode”, but this is most likely just […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 8th 2007. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see a plant called Garden Angelica (Angelica archangelica ssp. litoralis), also known as Holy Ghost, Wild Celery, and Norwegian Angelica, in its winter suit. The plant grows wild in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 7th 2007. Click image for larger view.
In this picture, from the coast in Northern Norway, you can see the “Alpenglow” (from German: Alpenglühen) phenomenon on the clouds and mountain peaks. It is a phenomenon that appears as a red glowing band as the sun sets.

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera May 3rd 2007. Click image for larger view.
Time for a picture from the spring to remind ourselves of warmer times to come
The Primula got it’s name from the Latin word Primus that means “the first one”. It got it’s name because it is one of the first […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera November 28th 2007. Click image for larger view.
The dark season is definitely here with very little light during the day. The weather has been mostly boring with overcast almost every day, but on this day the sky was clear. There was some nice blue tones to be seen such […]

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