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Picture of lonely straw and winter mountains in Northern Norway

7 Comments / Clouds, Landscape, Mountain, Nature, Norway Norwegen Norge, Plant, Scenery, Snow, Winter / Thomas Laupstad

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 a shallow depth of field to get the mountains and the rest of the scenery a bit out of focus, while the straw is in focus.

I’ve done something similar in a scene with some grass straws and boatsheds.

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 11 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 11-22mm F2.8-3.5
Location: Laupstad (AndÃ¸rja), Troms in northern Norway

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Picture of old boatshed against snow covered mountains in Northern Norway

10 Comments / Boatsheds, Countryside, Landscape, Mountain, Nature, Norway Norwegen Norge, Scenery, Sky, Snow, Winter / Thomas Laupstad

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 1st 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see the family boatshed with some snow covered mountains as background.
You can tell from the battered look that the boatshed have endured countless of harsh storms. It’s tilting a bit to left because of some extreme storms a few years ago that moved the boatshed a good 40 cm (16 inch) from the foundation. I hope it wont fall down over my boat 😉
The tallest mountain in the background is called Åtinden and is about 1000 meters above sea level.

Check out this photo of a decayed boathouse that is about to fall down.

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F3.5-4.5
Polarizer filter used
Location: Laupstad (Andørja), Troms in Northern Norway

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Picture of sjark fishing boat sailing in evening scenery in Northern Norway

6 Comments / Boats, Clouds, Coast, Dusk, Evening, Fishing, Fjord, Landscape, Nature, Norway Norwegen Norge, Scenery, Sea Ocean, Seagull, Shore, Sky, Snow, Sunset, Winter / Thomas Laupstad

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 4th 2008. Click image for larger view.
In this picture you can see a small fishing boat that is called “sjark” in Norwegian, sailing on the fjord. These small fishing boats are very typical for the fisheries on the coast in Northern Norway and I’m hoping that some day I will be doing fishing from a sjark too. They can be quite expensive to buy especially if you want to buy the boat with a quota for commercial fishing.
The spots over the boat and in the sky are seagulls and not dust spots on the camera sensor/lens 😉

Here are a couple of other pictures of fishing boats on the sea in Northern Norway:
–Old fishing boat on a calm sea
–Boat in autumn scenery

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F3.5-4.5
Location: Laupstad (AndÃ¸rja), Troms in Northern Norway

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Photo of beautiful winter dusk over fjord in Northern Norway

8 Comments / Clouds, Coast, Dusk, Evening, Fjord, Mountain, Nature, Norway Norwegen Norge, Scenery, Sea Ocean, Shore, Sky, Snow, Sunset, Tree, Winter / Thomas Laupstad

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 1st 2008. Click image for larger view.
Yesterday we had a beautiful and cold dusk here in Northern Norway. Had to take out the good old camera to capture some pictures of the sunset so I could share it with you all 🙂 I liked how the thin birch tree created a bit of a frame for the scenery.
The mountains in the horizon is a part of an island called GrytÃ¸ya. The same island can be seen in this picture of the first days of winter last year.

Information about the picture:
Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 11-22mm F2.8-3.5
Location: Laupstad (AndÃ¸rja), Troms in Northern Norway

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My top midnight sun pictures in Northern Norway from 2007

52 Comments / Clouds, Coast, Landscape, Midnight Sun, Nature, Norway Norwegen Norge, Scenery, Sea Ocean, Senja, Shore, Sky, Summer, Sunrays / Thomas Laupstad

Here is a selection of my personal favorite midnight sun pictures that I photographed during the summer 2007. The season for midnight sun is closing very fast so stay tuned for more midnight sun photos and you can buy the 2009 Norway photo calendar with some of the pictures.
You can click on the pictures to see a larger version and click on the titles to read more about the individual photos.

1. Photo from a midnight stroll on the beach with the sun behind some clouds