Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 30th 2007. Click image for larger view. This is probably my last insect photo this year as the snow came to northern Norway today. In this picture you can see a hoverfly (not sure about the species) feed on an autumn hawkbit (Leontodon autumnalis var. taraxaci) flower. This [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 27th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. In this photo you can see ripe cowberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), also known as lingonberries (and foxberry, mountain cranberry, lowbush cranberry, and partridgeberry). I have been collecting several kilograms of these lovely berries the last few days. I use cowberries mainly [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 8th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. These flowers are called Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) and they flower late in the summer. I photographed the flowers in my grand mothers garden where I find lots of interesting stuff to take photos of. Information about the picture: Camera: [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 8th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. In this photo you can see that my potato plants (Solanum tuberosum) have started to flower. These flowers are of a Norwegian potato species called Troll. When the potato plants start flowering you know that they are soon ready for [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 27th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. I have taken some pictures of the cloudberry plant in different stages of flowering and the final product as a tasteful berry (as you can see in the photo above). The cloudberry plant (Rubus chamaemorus), or bakeapple as it is [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 2nd, 2007. Click picture for larger view. Time for a close up photo of a hoverfly again. This time the hoverfly is feeding on cow parsley flowers (Anthriscus sylvestris; also known as wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, and keck). Check out my other macro photos of hoverflies: [...]

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