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  • That’s no swan

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    Spring is on the way and it’s time to start keeping an eye out for the migratory birds. I took the Mega-Tamron out for a walk, I knew that there were swans in the open water in Ljusnedalssjön. I found two pairs of swans, a bit sad that there were no young birds, but then…

  • Tough day

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    We are really getting to see the nasty side of the weather in the islands. The wind is relentless and it’s still raining, but what is that to an intrepid group of photographers? We were out and about early in the morning, as usual. We drove to Tjørnuvík, where the bay is somewhat sheltered from the…

  • Red-throated diver

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    I haven’t seen the divers since May and I was hoping to see some little divers besides the two adults. But all I found was one bird and it was extremely sleepy, while the thousands of insects around it were extremely busy!

  • Pyramiden

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    Having gone to bed after midnight (and having had trouble falling asleep), it took me a moment to figure out what’s going on when our guide was outside shouting ”A big whale! A big whale!”. But we got up and there we were on deck at 3am, shooting the plumes of what turned out to…

  • Kongsfjorden

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    We spent the whole day in Kongsfjorden. Our first landing was also the first proper hike of the trip (if 2 km can be called proper), as we walked up a black-legged kittywake bird cliff. This was the first time I’ve seen any flowers in any significant numbers, and it was interesting to see how tiny…

  • Grey

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    We did an early landing to check out more ruins related to arctic expeditions in Mosselbukta. This is the place where Nordenskiöld had to spend the winter in 1872–1873. There was very little wind, but it was snowing, so it feels even more lucky to have had sunshine yesterday with the polar bears! Then we…

  • Walruses

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    During the night, we passed the northernmost point of Spitsbergen, which means that we were 80 degrees north! I missed that, not that there would have been anything to shoot there out on the sea in overcast weather anyway. We had anchored during the early hours of the morning and I got out on deck…

  • M/S Stockholm

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    We had the morning to ourselves so we went down to the eider ducks again and it was a good move, the light was better. We also saw Svalbard reindeer and oh boy are they strange… our first reaction was, a goat?! They are stocky with short feet. Only the antlers are the same as…

  • Longyearbyen

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    I had a morning flight with a stopover in Tromsö. We had to get out of the plane with our carry-on and then through the passport control and back to the plane. There was some confusion as to where the passport control was (I wasn’t the only confused person!) because one sign said Arrivals and…

  • Waterfall season

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    I guess we can declare the waterfall season open as well! Now that most of the snow is gone, the water level in some creeks is already reduced to photogenic levels. Take Livsäterån for example, it closer to having too little water than too much. Even if there’s still thick patches of snow when you get…