Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 3rd 2008. Click image for larger view. Here I have photographed the landscape outside my house in Nesodden (Akershus county in southeastern Norway) after a fresh snowfall. The snow covered everything with a thick layer of white crystals making the landscape calm and quiet. Fresh snow can look [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 4th 2008. Click image for larger view. We had some beautiful northern lights (Aurora Borealis) some nights ago here in Northern Norway. It was pretty jaw-dropping to watch the lights traveling incredibly fast over the sky so I had to grab my camera to share it with you [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 2nd 2008. Click image for larger view. After a period of not taking any pictures I got some inspiration today and went out on a photo trip. I found an area where some Scots pine trees (Pinus sylvestris) were growing wild. I really liked the form on this [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 14th 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture you can see a traditional, old Norwegian summer barn with some mountains as background. In older times these barns were used to house livestock during the summer season. The summer barns were often located a bit away from [...]

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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. I was out rowing, for the first time this year, when I saw this herring gull (Larus argentatus) standing on a seawall. Had to take a picture of the seagull with the snow covered forest as background. Let me tell you [...]

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