Kategori: botanik
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One thing there’s not so much of on Gotska Sandön is water. Yes, it’s an island and it’s surrounded by water, but I mean sweet water – there’s not a puddle of water to be seen, unless it’s man-made. Until today of course, when it started raining. And then pouring. I missed out on noting…
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Even though this is a course, there’s no pressure – the idea is quite simply to walk around the island and discover the plant life and hopefully pick up some pointers to use at home during botanical excursions. I have a tendency to overlook some ”uninteresting” plants but there’s no such thing here! We started by…
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A month ago I was among the icebergs and snow on the largest island in the world, and now I’m on a sunny and sandy beach on the tiny island of Gotska Sandön, some 40 km north from Gotland off the east coast of Sweden. The whole island is a national park, and for a good…
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I took my 365 (or what I intended to be such) during the day today so I could pack my camera, ready for tomorrow. I don’t like last minute packing, that’s just an invitation to forget things so I prefer to pack early and then in the morning I just need to doublecheck I have…
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I didn’t quite get around to creating that blurry cow picture that I speculated about earlier, but I made a blurry china aster instead. This is harder than doing straight macro! I took no less than 55 (!) frames with varying compositions and degree of shake so this is completely a hit and miss technique. I’ll…
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My china asters have finally started to bloom!
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Yes I’m calling it annoying. Don’t you just hate it that the flower is out of focus? And I did it on purpose – gotta try to break the rules sometimes!
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Something incredible happened today! It rained!
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I was really impressed with the dahlias last year so I planted some this year as well. They are late bloomers so the first flower opened today!
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This is a back-dated post – we had a thunderstorm going around Föne from about 3pm to 9pm so I didn’t dare to keep my computer plugged in while it was going on (the storm was never really right on us though, we only got 3mm rain). And after I thought it was safe, I started…