Kategori: norrland
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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…
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Surprisingly, it wasn’t raining this morning. I didn’t care, I just simply wasn’t inspired to photograph anything or look for flowers, just wanted to go home. As usual when I make a hasty exit from Funäsdalen, I took the scenic route via Sörvattnet and Lofsdalen. I have been eyeing the old pine roots on one…
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The law of diminishing returns… my holiday is drawing to an end, but the rainy days and photographic slump are not. We drove to Mittåkläppen with high hopes to hike up the mountain in search of exciting flowers. We had barely reached the tree line when it started raining, and then it started pouring, so…
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We Finns seem to have an affinity for tar. Historically, tar was very important – together with the sauna it was a cure-all and it worked brilliantly for everything else, too. Tar was (is) naturally used elsewhere in the world as well, but nowhere has it remained as popular as in Finland. We even have…
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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…