Kategori: norrland
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Since not many people seem to enjoy the morning hours, I was fairly sure that I could photograph the flower I missed yesterday in peace and quiet this morning. It was a lovely warm weather for cycling and when I got to the lake, I found that the sun hadn’t quite reached the flowers yet,…
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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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Dactylorhiza incarnata cruenta English: Early Marsh Orchid Swedish: Blodnycklar Finnish: Punakämmekkä This is why I drive to the mountains to hunt flowers. To find species that we don’t get around here.. like the early marsh orchid. I have visited the mountains regularly since I moved to Sweden, but I didn’t discover the early marsh orchid…
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When I woke up, the sky looked ominous, but it wasn’t raining yet. We drove to Rockvallen because we knew that we would find some orchids there while not straying far from the car in case it would start raining. I had an absolute blast shooting different flowers, and by the time it started raining,…
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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…