Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Here are a couple of pictures of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) that I captured last weekend while collecting seagull eggs on some skerries on the coast in Northern Norway (a post about the egg collecting is coming in a few days so stay tuned). Herring gulls live here in large numbers and the sounds of [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 29th 2008. Click image for larger view. At this time of the year we get to see some amazing sunsets here in Northern Norway. During the spring, before we get midnight sun, the sun is setting in the ocean in the horizon. In this picture I have zoomed [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 20th 2008. Click image for larger view. Here I have photographed water drops falling from some icicles that were melting on a sunny day here in Northern Norway. In the picture I used the fjord and snow clad mountains as a background to the icicle. I also used [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 17th 2008. Click image for larger view. The Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritim or Erolia maritima) is a small shorebird (about 22cm) that live on the coast here in Northern Norway. While many birds migrate to warmer climate during the winter this bird stay here throughout the winter. The [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 17th 2008. Click image for larger view. We had some fresh snowfalls overnight so the forest got a beautiful layer of snow. Seems like the spring is set back a few days.. The small village by the ocean is called Å, which is a very common village name [...]

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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 [...]

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