Category: Photo

Spring

Strange times theses days with covid-19 ruling our lives. Working remote and not seing any of our friends as often as we used to makes our life quite different from a normal everyday life. Luckily nature goes on with normal procedures like spring. This year I think I have enjoyed spring more than ever due to the situation with the earlier mentioned virus. In nature I can relax and do some of the things I love the most, like photography and walk my dog, Charlie Brown. My earlier mentioned trip to China was cancelled due to the corona-situation, så there will be no post from China. Maybe later, I am not sure because so much has changed since February.

It has been a long time since I posted and a long time since I posted macro-shots, but todays post I have a few macro shots to share together with my beloved sheltie; Charlie Brown 🙂

The first spring flower in Norway is often Anemone hepatica, it normally is blue or white but sometimes you can find pink versions too.

Anemone nemorosa comes a few weeks later than Anemone hepatica but is just as beautiful. My sheltie, Charlie, always look after squirrels when we go for forest walks.

Happy new year

Bye bye 2019 and hello 2020. What will 2020 be like? Hopefully a lot of new memories will be created. The best memories from 2019 was definitely from our journey to Vietnam. I hope to go back some day.

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The beach in Nha Trang
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Sunset in Nha Trang

This autumn I also visited York in England (a work trip) which is a wonderful and exciting city. I didn’t get so much time to see any of the tourist attractions as I was attending to a training course (business trip), but I did get time to take some morning walks in the streets of York. Some good memories from this trip too.

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Shambles

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In the middle of February I will be going on a business trip to China,  I hope to get to use my camera a little bit. I will spend two weeks in Shanghai and Suzhou and I know that both places has a lot of photogenic sites as I visited Shanghai a few years ago too.

Autumn in the forest

I love summer but autumn has a special place in my heart. Autumn is the most beautiful season with vivid colors and the crispy air on a sunny September day. The forest is loaded with mushrooms and berries and the green moss ground in the forest are sprinkled with leaves in all the shades of yellow and orange.

Hiking and photography

My photo challenge friend Ellen owns a cabin at Ble and a little while ago I was invited to stay there for a week end. The cabin is situated in the forest below Blefjell in Buskerud (Norway) so there are a lot of hiking possibilities both in the mountain and in the forest. We normally bring our dogs too but this time the dogs stayed at home, there is a mystical illness among dogs in the Oslo area these days and no one have found out what is the cause for this illness.

We both love photography so we hoped for proper weather for some cool shots. Friday evening was all rainy so we spent the time in doors by the fire, knitting. Saturday was a little bit rainy, but we went for a walk anyway. Saturday afternoon was sunny and warm so we had our dinner out doors. Sunday was OK, I slept too long (not a good thing for photography…..) so after breakfast the sun had disappeared, but we had a nice walk that day too.

Here are some shots from the trip:

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Lichen on birch

Dråper på blad

Droplets on lingonberry leaf

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Sunny cloudberry leaf

Blåbær og tyttebær

Blueberries and lingonberries

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Outdoor dinner

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Forest mushrooms

Kaffekopp i lyngen

Coffee in the mountains

I love these trips up to my friends cabin and the shots in todays post represent what I like so much about these trips 🙂

Have a lovely week!

Photo challenge – Many (a lot of)

The theme for the last photo challenge I have each month with my friend Ellen was “many” (like in “a lot of”. It is always fun to have a photo challenge together with one or more friends because different people will solve the challenge differently. I always photograph things I can see, but from time to time I get ideas to make a composition but not very often. My friend Ellen is a more creative photographer and she is very good at combining these to ways of solving the task. So in this post I got permission to show Ellens photos together with my own.

Ellens Photos

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Both shots are beautiful but the one with all the books is my favorite 🙂

My photos

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Our next challenge is “Architecture”. It will be interesting to see how different we are able to solve that task 🙂 Anyway this way of training our photographic skills is very inspiring.

Butterflies

A few days ago when I came home form work our little garden was crowded with butterflies. All summer it has been crowded with bumble bees and flower bees but now they was accompanied with butterflies. The flower beds contain mostly lavender and oregano. I rushed inside to get my camera and got to work, I was lying flat on the ground hoping the neighbors wouldn’t see me 😉

I was able to shoot three different species, there were four but butterflies don’t pose for the photographer so I had to be satisfied with the three of them, all so beautiful.

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Vanessa cardui – painted lady

 

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Nymphalis urticae – small tortoiseshell
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Argynnis paphia – silver washed fritillary

Little mushrooms

This summer the forest is back to normal compared to last years dry summer where there were almost no flowers and no good looking mushrooms for photography. Now the forest is full of mushrooms both edible and mushrooms which is worth a shot. Last Sunday I went for a forest walk, well, the weather was not the best for photography with heavy rain and dark skies but I was determined to find some nice mushrooms for macro photography. Here are the results (these are not edible):