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Yesterday was half overcast, but when I came home the sky was starting to clear and Venus and the crescent moon were shining brightly in south-west. Photographing the crescent is one of my ambitions, so I set out although it was a little bit too late – there was very little light left in the…
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Today I was notified that someone had stolen my pictures, this is the first time I’ve known of it to happen. The person who emailed me had several of her pictures displayed on this same site, but she asked if I could help in stopping the thief permanently. The site is full of images ripped…
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The scenery hasn’t really improved much from last weekend. It’s been snowing a little bit, but the wind picked up today so I didn’t nurse any false hopes for being productive today. Sure enough, I was nearly at the end of my snowshoe hike when the first real opportunity came up. With the wind picking…
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There’s snow and then there’s snow. The snow we have at the moment is not good for hiking, it’s very dry and powdery so even the snowmobile trails are soft. You waste a lot of energy in sinking and sliding with every step instead of going forward. So there’s something to be said for above…
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The landscape looks a bit scabby at the moment with these odd clumps of snow on the trees, so I’m not really inspired even if it was a gloriously sunny day. Just when I got out in the afternoon though, the clouds started to drift in and I ended up doing my hike in muddy…
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[This (very long) story starts on Saturday 7 February] It’s full moon on Monday and the moonset/moonrise co-incides with sunrise/sunset. It can only mean one thing – I have a day off and I’m heading to the mountains. I’ve booked myself to the Messlingen hostel and it’s snowing, so it’s almost a repeat of my…
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I can handle sunlight and I can handle overcast, but when it’s blue skies above and sunlight heavily filtered through a persistent cloud bank in the horizon, I came completely undone. I just couldn’t make any sense out of it, it was light but it also wasn’t? I was totally uninspired to take any pictures…
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A nice wintery January, there was a warm spell in the middle but nothing that really ruined the overall look of things because we also got plenty enough of snow. * * * Temperature (High): 3°C Temperature (Low): -16°C Temperature (Average): -7°C Barometer (High): 1031 mbar Barometer (Low): 992 mbar Barometer (Avg): 1010 mbar Total…
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For my weekend excursions, I pretty much only have two directions to choose from. I can go north-west to the Kvarnsjön lake, or south-west to the Älgsjön lake (my favourite). There used to be a third option to the east down to the Loossjön lake, but I think there was a dispute with the land…
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Yesterday was a windy day, so although we got a little bit of new snow the windblown debris was spoiling the landscape. Today however, it was snowing even more and the wind had quieted down enough so the landscape was looking a whole lot better. I did a snowshoe hike to the Älgsjön lake which…