Kategori: norrland
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The sun is out today so I went cycling. Even though the thermometre didn’t show any impressive numbers, I knew from experience that it would soon feel warm so I wore a t-shirt and a thin wind jacket and fingerless gloves. This time however it didn’t help me no matter how hard I was pedalling,…
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Bad weather is supposed to be the photographer’s best friend but today I have serious doubts about it. Snow, sleet, rain. Not that it would stop me, of course, so I went for a walk. Since there’s almost nothing to see anywhere at this point in time, I walked down to the flood plains (don’t…
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As I mentioned yesterday, I did a bicycle trip to check out some new places. Cycling the tarmac roads is boring, so I took the gravel road that runs almost parallel with the paved road. There are loads and loads of small roads around here, part of them thanks to the military installations that were…
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Labour day weekend! Well not really, I did a brief appearance at work on Monday but it’s been a lot of time off anyway. So let’s see… On Saturday we drove to Gröntjärn, thinking that for sure we would see some pale pasque flowers. Yes we did, only problem was that they’re still budding. Gotta…
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Here in Sweden we have a concept called aprilväder, April weather. It could be anything – cold and snowing, warm and sunny, and anything in between. Sometimes during the same day. Last year around this time I was wearing a t-shirt while cycling. Today it was snowing. Well ok to be fair, it was the…
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There’s one trail in Funäsfjällen that is advertised as the ”sunshine trip”, solskensturen. Called so because in the spring when you ski it from Ramundberget to Tänndalen, you’ll have the sun on your face all the way. It’s a long trip (23 km) and I’ve always wanted to do it but reluctant to do it…
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I had very lofty ideas about skiing to Svartmorgraven today but I got seriously distracted on the way. I mentioned the reindeer yesterday and today I get coming across them at every turn. So I ended up zigzagging the tundra in search for the best angles to show the reindeer in this tough environment. Of…
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In March, it seemed like spring is coming ahead of time. Things pretty much grinded to a halt in the past week with cold temperatures and even a little bit of new snow, which gave me hope that there would still be some skiing to be done in the mountains. I was going to go…
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Another exciting thing about moving is that you have a whole new region to explore. I’m familiar with Föne only as far as driving through a few times but I’ve never stopped to take a closer look at anything. The first thing I did was to study the map and I found an interesting looking…
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It seems like lately I’ve been in a lens frenzy. In the past, I’ve normally bought (changed) one lens per year on average. Last year I got two and now I have yet another new lens. The thing is, since I got into wideangle photography, the Canon 24-105mm lens that’s been my normal walkaround lens…