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Entries from March 2008

Picture of stone on the beach and incoming wave

March 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 7th 2008. Click image for larger view.
If you have been following this blog you probably know that I enjoy taking photographs of the simple beauties in nature. I was walking the beach and liked the colors on the stones, seaweed and ocean so I photographed the scene when […]

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Tags: Rocks · Shore · Seaweed · Beach · Nature · Sea Ocean · Norway Norwegen Norge · Waves · Coast

Close up picture of housefly (Musca domestica) on snow - First insect in Northern Norway

March 12th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 10th 2008. Click image for larger view.
We have had a couple of warm days here in Northern Norway and a few insects have been waking up from their hibernation. In this picture you can see a common housefly (Musca domestica) sitting on some snow. Usually these flies are […]

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Tags: Insect · Fly · Nature · Snow · Winter · Norway Norwegen Norge · Macro

Picture of lonely straw and winter mountains in Northern Norway

March 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 7th 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see a lonely straw against some snow covered winter mountains in Northern Norway. I love the deep blue color on the sky in contrast to the white mountains.
I used a low f-stop, f/2.8, to get a shallow […]

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Tags: Clouds · Scenery · Plant · Nature · Snow · Winter · Norway Norwegen Norge · Mountain · Landscape

Picture of old Norwegian fishing boat decaying on land

March 9th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 7th 2008. Click image for larger view.
Old Norwegian fishing boats made out of wood is one of my favorite objects to photograph. In this picture you can see a fishing boat that haven’t been on the ocean for many years. It is kind of sad to see it […]

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Tags: Boats · Sky · Shore · Snow · Norway Norwegen Norge · Coast · Winter · Sea Ocean · Boatsheds

Picture of small wave breaking over chunk of ice on the coast of Northern Norway

March 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 7th 2008. Click image for larger view.
I love all the small, beautiful details in nature. Like in this picture where I have photographed a small wave breaking over a chunk of ice on the coast in Northern Norway. If you click on the image and look at it […]

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Tags: Nature · Shore · Ice · Waves · Norway Norwegen Norge · Winter · Sea Ocean · Coast

Picture of old boatshed against snow covered mountains in Northern Norway

March 6th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 1st 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see the family boatshed with some snow covered mountains as background.
You can tell from the battered look that the boatshed have endured countless of harsh storms. It’s tilting a bit to left because of some extreme storms […]

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Tags: Nature · Countryside · Scenery · Sky · Snow · Mountain · Boatsheds · Winter · Norway Norwegen Norge · Landscape