Månad: november 2006
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So the miserable November is winding down. Good riddance. It started so well… with a promise of winter, which then quickly melted away when the warm winds from Sahara swept over the landscape and drowned us in rain. The only photography I did was from that short snowy period, the rest of the month reminded…
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Flashback to last winter… Snow and cold weather followed by a period of rain, repeat cycle. Now we had the beginnings of an excellent winter, but after a few days of raining it’s all but gone. Still some dirty snow in the forest and ice on the roads (covered by a layer of water) so…
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That’s a photo I took on Sunday. It was a great day, it was. A lot of snow. I just haven’t bothered to fire up the computer to check the pictures I took until last night… when I installed the new 1 GB memory that I had managed to swap for 2×512 MB. That should…
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There are no problems, just issues. So this memory issue for my home computer then. From hoping to upgrade from 1 to 1.5 GB RAM, I went to having 512 MB instead. I managed to restore the original 2×512 MB and then tried again to figure out how to get the additional 512 MB to…
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Last winter I discovered a great place for shooting sunsets. There was a trinity of pines left after the forest was cut last year. I’ve calculated that the spot is suitable for shooting sunsets from late November to early January, so now I’ve just been waiting for the days to get shorter. Today when I…
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I got my ND8 filter this week so of course I just had to try it, despite the snow-slash-sleet-slash-rain that was falling from the sky. The Stormjacket works fine for the camera, and shooting water means that the camera is pointed down so the front of the lens is protected from the drops. All I…
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I think we can declare the skiing season open now! Yesterday I discovered that the track has already been prepared, so I had been looking forward to skiing all day today. When I got there, I found some places though where the wind had blown the snow off, but mostly it was just fine. It…