Kategori: norrland
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My goal (wish) for this summer was that I could find two new species of orchid. This region is favourable to many orchid species and we even have some rarities, although naturally not even close to the extent that is found on Gotland (big island off the south-east coast of Sweden). But, I’ll happily settle…
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Or as the Swedes would say it, Humleblomster och en humla. I was just setting up the rig when this bumblebee showed up. Knowing that it will not wait for me to finish setting up things, I fired the shutter and hoped that I got the exposure, sharpness and composition. Exposure, yes. Sharpness – good…
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When I was aching for the 300mm lens, it was not only for the smooth backgrounds but also for the smooth foregrounds. An experienced photographer can quickly pick the subjects and backgrounds. I can pick them, slowly. But then you have this thing about foreground, and now suddenly you have three things to worry about:…
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In some respects, May felt like a cooler month than April. April had a warm spell that lured us into thinking that summer was around the corner, then when May was being typically May (we had roughly normal temperatures most of the month), we thought it was really cold. What was not normal about May…
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Amazing. I have waited and waited… and now it’s finally here. The flower season. In the past weeks I’ve gotten in the occasional flower shot, but the floodgates really opened today. I’ve been walking around with camera in hand most of the day, and finished with a car ride to the lake and got my…
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Every spring when I see blueberry flowers I think that I should photograph them. Every year I have not done it. Until now – I have these things growing 5 metres from my house, no excuses! Not even the high winds deterred me, I just made use of my new Wimberley Plamp to steady the…
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A day off, and not wasted. That’s gotta count for something… My favourite wood anemone patch is best photographed in the morning, so I set down to shoot the flowers. Since the place is shaded for most of the day, the wood anemone are blooming later than elsewhere and there were plenty of buds and…
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On Tuesday I discovered some glory-of-the-snow flowers (Scilla forbesii) in Loos. The property where they grew looked empty, so I made some enquiries and found out that the owner lives in Stockholm and rarely visits. The owner’s father was the previous occupant and he was an avid gardener with carefully maintained flowerbeds and a variety…
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April was… well, April. We had a couple of really warm spells but also some typical April weather with a little bit of snowfall. Otherwise it was the month when all the snow disappeared, I now have but a small pile in a shaded trench behind the house. It was also a month with big…
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In the past years I’ve sworn not to show any of my hepatica pictures, because I was so fed up with all the hepatica crap that people posted on Fotosidan. Well, that problem is easily cured – I stopped visiting Fotosidan. Thus, I can now finally post a hepatica picture of my own. Not saying…