Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Apple iPhone 3GS camera August 11th 2010. Click image for larger view. Here is a picture of a fish called angler fish (Lophius piscatorius) that I caught in a herring net this summer. It was not a big fish, but the angler was a pleasant surprise as I have never caught one of [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 17th 2009. Click image for larger view. Here is a close up picture of a Goat Moth Larva (Cossus Cossus) that we found last spring. This larva is found in most of Norway, but not further north than Nordland county. The larva often lives in old trees with [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 8th 2009. Click image for larger view. We have been having some crazy snowfalls lately here in Southern Norway (I moved to the south from Northern Norway half a year ago for those who don’t know). Some people might think all the snow means a lot of trouble, [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera January 26th 2009. Click image for larger view. We have had a lot of gray weather lately so there hasn’t been many photo opportunities, but the other day there was some colored clouds in the sky in the evening. I had to take out the camera and photograph these [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera January 1st 2009. Click image for larger view. Here I have photographed a Red Banded Polypore mushroom (Fomitopsis pinicola) growing on a dead Norway spruce trunk. The colored bands around the mushroom made me stop and take a better look. The bands are really beautiful, aren’t they? Also notice [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera January 1st 2009. Click image for larger view. When I was walking in the forest I came across a Norwegian Spruce (Picea abies) tree that was broken and I liked the view with the trunk looking at the fallen tree. It seems like a strong wind had passed through [...]

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