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I went for a short walk in the morning to check out the progress of spring. I found a big bunch of coltsfoot and decided to come back in the afternoon with close-up gear and also try the angle finder for the first time. Said and done, I packed the bag full (and oh boy…
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A rare event – went to Stockholm, only the second time since I moved to Sweden. Had to do some serious shopping but surprisingly, I didn’t blow my whole budget – probably because I didn’t get everything I had on my list. I didn’t buy much that was not on the list, either. That’s also…
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It was snowing this morning. I got up, looked out the window and the world was white, the stuff kept falling heavy. I rushed out without eating breakfast, worried that the snow cover would get too thick to manage with summer tyres if I waited. I was anticipating the snowfall to turn to rain before…
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It’s a beautiful sunny day but the camera stays in the bag. I just went for a walk hoping to see some new growth at last and I wasn’t disappointed. I saw the first butterflies of the year, the first pied wagtail and the first flowers – coltsfoot, naturally. That got me smiling! Yesterday I…
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Looks like the Finnish Eurovision entry is causing quite a stir in Europe (or in Finland, anyway), they even made it to the news tonight. Apparently, Lordi are just too ugly for the European stage and Finns are ashamed of sending such a travesty to the contest (I must have blinked through the part where…
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I made the big mistake of stopping by on Fotosidan. I forgot that the hepatica season has started in the southern Sweden, so the hepatica images are flowing in. They are just as bad as they were last year. To make matters worse, they all insist on quoting some Swedish poem or song or whatever…
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There’s an interesting discussion on NPN at the moment regarding the rules of photography. The discussion starter makes a point for not following the rules and provides an example (which, by the way, just strengthens the case for the rules). The people who have responded say pretty much what I think about the issue as…
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So I got my sunny day… mostly sunny, anyway. Time for the last skiing trip of the season, and it didn’t turn out to be quite what I had expected.I made sure to get to Lofsdalen before 10am to catch the first snow buggy up the mountain (it saves some time and energy – instead…
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Snowing…A litte bit, although it’s +2°C. It snowed a bit last night as well. The good news is that the snow melts fast when it’s sunny, so spring is definitely winning even if winter is putting up a fight. The weather should improve for tomorrow, so that’s my invitation to drive to Lofsdalen for some…
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After the snowfall finished and the temperatures crept up above freezing, I took out the skis and once again wondered if this would finally be the last skiing trip of the season (here in Los, anyway). The snowmobilers seem to be late starters so I had to work harder than I had anticipated and waded…