Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

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 [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 25th 2008. Click image for larger view. The Wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) have been sprouting as early as mid January this year. This is extremely early for us in Northern Norway. Although we have had frost, snow and thawing several times the Wild daffodil can handle extreme conditions [...]

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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 [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera January 8th 2008. Click image for larger view. I was walking in the forest when I stumbled across some icicles hanging from a common juniper (Juniperus communis) branch. Might not be the most exciting thing to photograph, but I really enjoy the small details in nature, that make you [...]

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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 [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera November 7th 2007. Click image for larger view. The rivers have started to freeze here in Northern Norway and in this pictures you can see drops from the small water fall have frozen on branches and straws. I used 15 seconds exposure in this photo to get the look [...]

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