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May had everything. Snowfall and summer heat! It started out fairly typically with the kind of temperatures you would expect, then on the 10 of May we got over 20°C and it looked like summer was early. Not so – it started snowing on the 14th and kept falling on and off until the 18th.…
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I had found out that we have a rare primrose growing around here, bird’s-eye primrose (Primula farinosa). In fact, this is the only known place where it grows in the Hälsingland province and the flower is on the decline elsewhere in Sweden as well. We weren’t sure if it would already be blooming, but it’s…
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I don’t know what I was thinking with this picture-a-day crap. I’ve never been comfortable with taking pictures on cue, even when I’m the one who’s made the order. I know there are photographers who can be sent into the forest and an hour later they will emerge with the memory card full of pictures.…
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I don’t have a lot of margins in my picture-a-day project. Zero margins, actually. The day dawned bright and sunny, but I knew that rain was forecast in the afternoon so I went for a walk even though I could see the dark clouds already looming in the horizon. I thought I could photograph the…
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Every time I drive over the Björnån creek at Fågelsjö, I think that I should stop and take a picture. After three years, I finally did it today. Basically, I had to – I needed to create my picture-a-day and I really didn’t have any other ideas. So at first I took a cheap shot…
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Now that I have vacation, I want to have something to show for it – at least one picture per day. Now that’s quite a challenge for my photographic tunnel vision, I always struggle when I’m outside my narrow comfort zone. With what the snow wreaking havoc on the scenery and temporarily halting the progress…
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Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina) is fairly rare in Sweden and it’s on the decline – you’re most likely to find it in the northern Dalarna and in Härjedalen, and that puts Loos in the right neighbourhood. The only time I’ve seen it in Sweden so far was in Tännäs a few years ago, but today…
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Probably not a combination you’d normally see, but that’s a lily of the valley with ice drops on it, surrounded by snow. You can see in the leaves that they are suffering from the weather, and it’s not getting any better – in fact, it just started snowing even more than it did in the…
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I have vacation next week. I had planned to photograph flowers and ride my motorbike. All things considered, maybe I’ll go skiing instead. We had 15 cm of snow in the morning. It’s still snowing. Coincidentally, it’s 3 years ago to the date when we last had snow in May. The difference is that back…
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This was the warmest day of the year so far, and I wanted to make the most of it. The first task for today was to shoot some flowers before the winded picked up. After that, time to start my cycling season. The first impression when I picked up the bike was that it was…