What’s in a name?

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Jon Leirdal

Cloudberry is the English name for "Multe". This one of the names where I think the English name is a lot better than the Norwegian one. I guess the Norwegian name is old and have a lot of history back to the Old Norse language, but just read the English name. Cloud… berry…

The name says it all, they are found in the clouds.

When visiting my family this summer I also managed to pick a few cloudberries up in the mountains above my home village. And among the picking I also managed to attempt a few photographs of berries with the mountains and sky in the background. It didn’t turn out that magnificent, but I have to experiment in order to get better.

The not so ugly duckling

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Jon Leirdal

As I’ve told earlier, I recently visited Stockholm. While we were there we had a walk along one of the parks there and we spotted this strange action. A lot of Barnacle geese came swimming hurriedly passed us. They were in a great rush obviously, as they used both wings and feet to get maximum speed. I managed to grab a few pics, but I had to wonder what had caused them to behave so strangely. But I only had to turn my head to discover the culprit. Please read the full post to see the last image showing the big bad boy.

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Stockholm

Posted on 2008-07-07 by Jon Leirdal

I’ve just spent the weekend in Stockholm together with my girlfriend. A nice city to visit as long as the sun is shining and the weather is warm. And luckily for us, that was the case this weekend. Among else we went for a long walk trough the Djurgården park. A nice park with a lot of birds. Several pictures will soon follow

Posted from Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

A crane craning

Posted on 2008-04-17 by Jon Leirdal

A few months back I happened to get some pictures in the fog. One of them I published on this site under the title "Attack of the cranes" and on foto.no. One of the comments on that entry (foto.no) gave me a tip. So according to the tip I did some editing in Photoshop and removed the disturbing elements in the lower part of the picture. So here you are again. With a new title.

Safari dreams

Posted on 2008-02-07 by Jon Leirdal

I friend of mine recently visited South Africa. I’ve never been there, but after seeing pictures like this, I would like to. Especially considering the hours spent behind a computer lately.