Kategori: hälsingland
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Nymphaea alba candida English: White Waterlily Swedish: Nordnäckros Finnish: Pohjanlumme If I really had to name my #1 favourite flower, it would probably be the white waterlily. It goes way back to my childhood – all those endless summers at my parents’ summer house. We have a shallow, mud bottom bay nearby and I remember…
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Although we are not suffering from such severe heat waves and drought as the rest of Europe, the water levels are low in the lakes. This provided me an opportunity to walk on the shore of the Loossjön lake, as during normal water levels you either get bog or forest right to the edge of…
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The day improved later in the afternoon so I headed for the overgrown field where I had photographed purple avens in June – I figured that the place should yield some other flowers as well and was secretly hoping for thistles. I got rewarded as there were thistles-a-plenty, with bumblebees busily working on them. I…
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Campanula rotundifolia English: Harebell Swedish: Liten blåklocka Finnish: Kissankello It’s an usually cold day for July, and then it also rained a little bit. I opted to photograph some flowers close to home and these harebells couldn’t really get much closer – about 5 metres from my front door! The wind wasn’t making this easy…
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Time for another short mountain break. I just can’t give up on those orchids, and now it should be the high season for them. The summer is putting on the heat and the mosquitos, gnats and other flying nuisances are out in their force so you don’t really get a moment’s peace to when you…
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Just to show that I do sometimes persevere and follow up on my ideas, I finally took the shot of the Lo(o)s Monument I talked about in June. I underexposed generously in order to get a proper silhouette and not to wash out the sky. I also only let the edge of the sun to…
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So you know how I always go on about the joys of discovering new detail when doing close-up photography? Well, proof is in the pudding. Look at the insert. Doesn’t that look just like some pre-historic fish? I didn’t notice the little ”eye” when I was taking this picture. In fact, I had trouble noticing…
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If I ever again decide to have the midsummer week as a holiday, please do me a favour and remind me that I’m an idiot. How many years has this happened now? June is statistically one of the rainiest months of the year… so I shouldn’t be surprised to find that days just get washed…
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Today is the first day of my summer holiday (of one week). It figures that the sky is overcast. I don’t really mind that, but I do mind the heavy wind that is being forecast for the whole week. The overcast conditions are favourable for flower photography, but the wind is anything but. We’ll see…
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It has been a really windy day. I tried some flower photography and I succeeded surprisingly well, helped by the relatively protected site and then just simply waiting for a lull in the wind. But it is also possible to use wind to your advantage and produce motion blur on purpose. I even experimented with…