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

Picture of grass straws and boathouses as background – Winter scenery in Northern Norway

February 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 22nd 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see some straws growing at the coast in Northern Norway. I love the texture of this kind of straws so I thought they would look great together with the old boathouses.
I wanted to get the boathouses a [...]

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Tags: Boatsheds · Clouds · Countryside · Flora · Nature · Norway Norwegen Norge · Plant · Scenery · Sky · Snow · Winter

Picture of wave and seagulls sailing on strong wind in Northern Norway

February 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 15th 2008. Click image for larger view.
We had another day with strong winds from the northwest, but today I dared taking my camera outside for a few photos of the great waves.
In this picture you can see some seagulls sailing on the strong winds. It looked like the [...]

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Tags: Birds · Coast · Countryside · Landscape · Mountain · Nature · Norway Norwegen Norge · Scenery · Sea Ocean · Seagull · Shore · Sky · Snow · Storm · Waves · Winter

Black and white picture of rural scenery in Northern Norway – The house I grew up in

February 12th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera January 31st 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this black and white picture you can see the house that I grew up in. It is located at the tip of a small headland called Laupstad, one of the most idyllic places in Northern Norway (in my humble opinion).
The cloud [...]

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Tags: Black & White · Clouds · Coast · Countryside · Norway Norwegen Norge · Rural · Scenery · Sea Ocean · Shore · Sky · Snow · Winter

Macro photo of pink primula flowers with water drops

December 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Countryside · Flora · Flower · Macro · Nature · Norway Norwegen Norge · Primula · Spring

Picture of rural evening scene in Northern Norway – The days are getting shorter

November 2nd, 2007 · 15 Comments

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera October 28th 2007. Click image for larger view.
The days are definitely getting shorter here in Northern Norway! I took this picture 4 PM in the “evening”.
I really love this scene with the combination of mountain and sea (and of course the boatsheds).
A similar scene, in a spring setting, can [...]

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Tags: Autumn · Boatsheds · Clouds · Coast · Countryside · Evening · Fjord · Landscape · Mountain · Norway Norwegen Norge · Rural · Scenery · Sea Ocean · Shore · Sky · Snow