Winter fog

I am not sure if you have ever considered that weird thing that surrounds us everywhere we go. The air around us. The atmosphere. This thing that we very seldom bother noticing.

There are moments when the air and what it means to use is more visible than other moments. Fog is maybe one of the most obvious ones. The weird fact that misty air can reduce the visibility to such a degree that we lose detail and color, in fact so much that we might get lost in our own well known woods.

Here are a few photos I have taken of fog over the years. I have a couple of misty images from Venabygd as well.

Autumn fog

Spring fog

Bridge

Crane in the mist

As a hobby photographer, it is mostly during the weekends that I am able to play around with my camera and my computer. During the weekdays, work and other social responsibilities normally take up too much time to really spend some hours just clicking.

I happen to live near the cost, and while enjoying a sunny -1 degrees Celsius, I walked down to a beach called “Elleskjær” near me.

The usual suspects greeted me when I got down to the beach. They were alert though and flew away when I tried to get a bit closer.

I tracked them, but as most of you know, seagulls are capable of escaping in 3 ways; walking, swimming and flying. I was prepared to engage in only one of those activities.

A seasoned tracker could probably tell the sex or something like that from this print. All I can tell is that it most probably was a bird that can swim. And most likely a seagull.

This is a northern view in two ways I guess. It is the view towards the north, and as you probably have guessed; this was photographed in Norway.

During the summer most boats you see are slick, big, fast motor powered boats. During the winter the "real" men are out using other means of propulsion.

The sun got down to my height after a while, and the snow almost went totally white.

It is always nice when the sun shines trough the trees.

 

Posted from Drøbak, Akershus, Norway.

Fotovideo is one of the better photography shops in Norway. Among maybe having the largest selection of photography accessories, they also arrange workshops and training in everything photography. On Thursday they arranged a quick intro to macro photography with one of their instructors, Roger Brendhagen. I was lucky enough to get one of the spots available. We started with a quick intro and tips and tricks before we went to Oslo Reptilpark (a small zoo specializing in  snakes, lizards and other slightly scary creatures.

As usual I mainly add photos to this blog, so below you will find some of my attempts at nature photography.

Life in colours

Redbeard

Tasting the world

Climbing the glass window

Not that big, but big enough

Not a tiger

Textured colours

Slick texture

Textured in brown

Earlier this summer NRK had one of the most talked about live shows ever in Norway. They had a Minute by Minute live stream while a ship sailed from Bergen to Kirkenes (5 days of sailing). The stream is available here.
Some of the areas that had a lot of interest was Geiranger and the fjords of Norway. We recently drove trough that area and I got a few nice pictures.

Geiranger in summer sun

Waterfall in Geiranger

Geiranger

Rindal is part of Trollheimen (one of several mountain areas in Norway)

Summer in Rindal

In addition to this I have been playing around with my macro lens and capturing some of the wildlife in Rindalen.

Spying spider

Bumble bee

Bumble bee 2

My girlfriend celebrated her xx birthday on Friday, and we marked the event by visiting UK. We arrived in London Wednesday evening and jumped on a bus to Bath, Stonehenge and Salisbury the following day. These are a few of the pictures from Stonehenge. Other pictures will follow later.

• Alternative Stonehenge image 1
• Alternative Stonehenge image 2
• Alternative Stonehenge image 3

I’ve been playing around with an attempt at wildlife photography this Easter holiday. I managed to get a lot of pictures, but few of them of decent quality. Here are a few of the ones I think might be adequate.

European Greenfinch

Siskin

Red Squirrel

Test of 100mm macro lens

I recently purchased a 100mm macro lens for my camera. I’ve not been able to test it in a great scale yet, but watch this space when life starts popping up outdoors in the next few weeks. While we are waiting you might like to have a look at these two as well. Leaf 2, leaf 3 (with extension ring).

It seems that I always am out traveling. Not really, but I just came back from a little winter holiday. Norwegians have a lot of vacation protected by law. I guess this is some of the benefits of living in one of the Scandinavian countries.

My last visit was to Gran Canaria, one of the Canary islands. One morning I woke up early and went for a walk on the beach outside our hotel. Not many people visible, but I saw some traces of life.

All these images are also available at my flickr account

We are visiting Rome, and for the first time I got an inkling about how many 5 million starlings are (also see BBC).

I played around with my extension rings and my 50 mm 1.4 lens this weekend and maybe I got some of the last few insects and flowers of the summer/autumn on "film". I haven’t been able to test out all of my extension rings since I bought them earlier this summer.

This weekend though, I just felt that I had to do something. So this is one of my lucky shots. This bastard fled just a few seconds later. Actually I only got this one picture of this fly.