Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 6th 2010. Click image for larger view. If you pay attention to the nature around you you can find beautiful things everywhere. Here I have photographed an old snail house sitting on a withered thistle. The snail seems to have crawled up the thistle stem and died there. [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 2nd 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture you can see four yellow snail shells from some kind of land snail species. During the winter the markings on the shells has almost vanished so it is hard to say what species they are, but I’m guessing [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 28th 2008. Click image for larger view. In this macro picture you can see a common limpet (Patella vulgata) covered with barnacles (Semibalanus balanoides) at low tide. The limpets are snails that feed on algae living on hard rock and stones. They are able adhere themselves strongly to [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on August 26th, 2007. Click picture for larger view. I really enjoy walking the coast and observe all the life living amongst the rocks, pebbles, sand and seaweed. My macro lens is a perfect tool to take photos of all this wonderful life. Here you can see some snails [...]

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View large. Taking macro photos can be so much fun! Here I have tried Tweet

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