Kategori: norrland
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Spring is inevitable, but it sure takes its time. The problem is not with the temperature – it’s hasn’t been that cold – but it’s all the snow. Just to give you an idea, the lowest snow cover this month was higher than the highest snowcover last winter. But I was encouraged last night when…
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As I was waiting for the jays or squirrels to appear, I noticed that the forest was looking rather photogenic. So I concentrated on the background then, because nothing was happening in the foreground. That white strip at the bottom is the pile of snow in the jay image last week. The sun has now…
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The snowing just won’t stop. All day today… it just kept falling. Last year I was photographing crocus buds on the 6th of April, I reckon I won’t be doing that this year. The temperature was at zero, it really limits my excursion options. The problem is that the snow sticks to the snowshoes so…
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I’ve gone over to the dark side. I drove a snowmobile yesterday. Anyway, it was a whole lot easier than I thought. I guess the motorbike practice helped, so as soon as I got used to the way the snowmobile behaved, I had no problems at all. By the time we took a narrow trail…
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Spring is definitely in the air. It was a sunny and warm weekend, the snow cover was reduced by a few centimetres and the roads are thawing in the sunny places, birds are singing and I’m totally un-inspired by it all. Honestly, great weather to be out but I’ve no idea where to point my…
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You may (or may not) have noticed that the squirrels have been absent from the blog this winter. The reason is very simple – I haven’t seen any squirrels since early January. The seeds and nuts can go untouched for days so they’re not around here even when I’m not. And when the food did…
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Interesting – first month since Feb 2007 that it didn’t get above freezing. Or it did, but it was frozen by the time I got home and made my observations. So nevermind. Anyway, one thing is for sure – we now have more snow than we’ve had since I started making these observations. And I’m…
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It was supposed to be overcast with a chance (risk) of snow, so I figured I had good odds at photographing the creek I was betting was still open. My theory is that if you can see your shadow, it’s not good for waterfall photography. So when I got to the creek (had to do…
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It looked like I would be in luck – clear skies in the afternoon. Then at sunset, clouds in the west. Argh! No problems to see the moon and Venus, but with the clouds in the horizon, the orange gradient was conspicuous in its absence. When’s my next chance? Hmm… 4 weeks from now, actually.…
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Yesterday was half overcast, but when I came home the sky was starting to clear and Venus and the crescent moon were shining brightly in south-west. Photographing the crescent is one of my ambitions, so I set out although it was a little bit too late – there was very little light left in the…