Misty air

Posted on 2012-02-20 by Jon Leirdal

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

Posted from Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Swans in the shadow

Posted on 2012-01-22 by Jon Leirdal

I captured these two using my little Canon G12, and not my regular 5D mark II that I usually lug around. I am not sure it is one of my greatest shots, I should have gotten a bit lower, but I do like how the shadows of an old pier kind of looms behind the great birds gliding over the surface of a cold winter sea. In some areas the ice has already covered part of the harbor, but here the water is still free. It has been a reasonably mild winter so far. Not like last year.

Swans in the shadow of an old pier.

Posted from Drøbak, Akershus, Norway.

Winter beauty

Posted on 2012-01-08 by Jon Leirdal

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.

Winter is near

Posted on 2010-11-26 by Jon Leirdal

Frozen beach

The winter is fast closing in, we have had temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius for a while (slightly above 10 degrees Fahrenheit) and the snow seems to have settled for the season in Asker. A little while ago my girlfriend and I went for a walk down by the sea, and the frost had taken hold down there as well. The low sun was glittering over a frosted autumn scenery that was good looking even though you knew that most life was shutting down for the winter.

Frosted Grass

Snowing in Oslo

Posted on 2010-02-23 by Jon Leirdal

I often bring along my little Canon G9 when I am out and about. Today there was -12 degrees Celsius and a few snowflakes were falling slowly down from the skies. Except that the building where my company has their office is built in such a way that there is a small draft coming from below. Thus the snowflakes were equally falling down and blowing up again. Some of these flakes even got stuck to the windows.