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Picture from a polar day in Northern Norway – Distant sunset

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Picture from a polar day in Norther Norway
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 30th 2007. Click image for larger view.
The polar days (I guess the correct term would be polar night day?) are pretty dark here in Northern Norway, but there are some nice sights to be seen. The sun made some nice colors at midday so I had to take my dear camera out in the cold weather.

The same mountains, in an autumn setting, can be seen in this picture.

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 71 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F3.5-4.5
Location: From Ånstad (Andørja), Troms in northern Norway

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Picture of moon over a snow covered Senja – the second largest island in Norway

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Picture of moon over a snow covered Senja
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 27th 2007. Click image for larger view.

The moon was very beautiful today so I had to take a picture when it was about to disappear behind a mountain on the island Senja. Senja is the second largest island in Norway with its 1586,3 km². I see the island every day in the horizon so that is why Senja often appears in my pictures.
This picture was taken midday so you can see how little light we have right now, but the days are getting longer and longer 🙂

Check out my other pictures of the moon:

A late merry Christmas to everyone!

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.5 sec (1/2)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm F3.5-4.5
Location: From Laupstad (Andørja) viewing Senja, Troms in northern Norway

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My personal top 5 favorite sunset pictures from the summer 2008 in Northern Norway

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Sunsets might not be the most original or artistic thing to photograph, but I still love a good sunset photo because it reminds me of how beautiful the nature can be.
Here is my personal top 5 favorite sunset pictures that I photographed during the summer 2007 in Northern Norway.
Update: Title supposed to say 2007, not 2008.
You can now buy the 2009 Norway photo calendar that includes some of these sunset pictures.

You can click on each title to read more about the individual photos.

Photo of sunset at 01:30 AM

Wide angle picture of sunset on a beach in northern Norway

Photo of amazing red sunset at midnight in northern Norway

Photo of incredible red sunset in northern Norway

Picture of rowboat and beautiful sunset in northern Norway
Hope you enjoyed the photos 🙂
All pictures taken with an Olympus E-500 DSLR.

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Photo of Garden Angelica plant on a winter day in Northern Norway

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Photo of Garden Angelica plant on a winter day in Northern Norway
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 Iceland, but is also cultivated in France.
Garden angelica is well known to be used as spice, food and medicine here in Norway. Back in the days Sami people and Eskimos used Garden angelica as a way of preventing scurvy.

Check out this other Arctic plant called Roseroot that I photographed a while back.

As you might notice I played with my flash in this picture. I used the flash because there was so little light and I wanted to keep the sunset colors in the horizon. It was taken midday so you can see that we don’t have much light here.

Information about the picture:
Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 11-22mm F2.8-3.5
Flash used
Location: Laupstad (Andørja), Troms in Northern Norway

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Picture from the coast in the Northern Norway – Alpenglow in the mountains and clouds

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Picture from the coast in the Northern Norway - Alpenglow in the mountains and clouds
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera December 7th 2007. Click image for larger view.

In this picture, from the coast in Northern Norway, you can see the “Alpenglow” (from German: Alpenglühen) phenomenon on the clouds and mountain peaks. It is a phenomenon that appears as a red glowing band as the sun sets.

Information about the picture:
Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 11-22mm F2.8-3.5
Location: Laupstad (Andørja), Troms in northern Norway

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