Kategori: Sverige
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I had planned another mountain hike for yesterday, this time just a day hike in Idre. The weather forecast kept warning about storm force winds though, so I decided that it’s best to stay at home. The wind was bad enough here as well, as my tripod so painfully discovered – it crashed down on…
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I love planning but only a fraction of anything I plan ever becomes a reality. This weekend was one of those rare occasions of action, but even now the plan would never have left the drawing board had I not had a friend to come along. We were determined that even the bad weather wasn’t…
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This is a story of ”I wouldn’t normally do that kind of thing”: Since my holiday, I haven’t been the least bit interested in taking any new pictures. In fact, I had almost settled on skipping August entirely and just wait for September, which is one of my favourite months. But on the bus home,…
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I was on holiday for the most of July, so I don’t have much data to go on, just one week. But here goes (almost) nothing: * * * Temperature (High): 21°C Temperature (Low): 12°C Temperature (Average): 17°C Barometer (High): 1008 mbar Barometer (Low): 998 mbar Barometer (Avg): 1003 mbar Total of sunny days: 0…
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Since it’s a long drive from Loos to Stockholm to catch the morning ferry, I drove to Älvkarleby for the night. It also provided me a chance to catch some sea air (not that I really crave for it) so I headed straight to the beach. I had planned to take some long exposure pictures…
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I hadn’t made any plans for my last day of this mountain trip, so when my photographer friend suggested Mittåkläppen with a plan B (=waffles in Djupdalen!), I didn’t need to think twice. The day dawned just like the two previous, cool and cloudy with little wind and maybe a small chance of rain. In…
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You know you’re in the mountains when a herd of reindeer runs past your window while you’re having breakfast! Today’s planned excursions were the Hamrafjället and Vättafjället mountains. Hamrafjället is something that no botanist should pass by, in fact the nature is so special that it’s protected as a nature reserve. Just a few metres…
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My holiday has officially begun! My plan is to spend 3 days in the mountains, come home for a re-pack and then take the ferry to Finland where I will spend the rest of the holiday.My first target was Ljungdalen. I had found a great botanical book about Härjedalen where the author gave some tips…
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June started off with a bang, with high summer temperatures. The period came to an abrupt end with a few days of rain – and the odd snowflake! No kidding. The rest of the month was rather dull, weatherwise, with temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees and hardly any rain at all. And speaking of…
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I had another look at the round-leaved wintergreens I had dismissed as un-photographable yesterday. With some generous gardening – and by that I mean weeding – I was able to get a clean background so I guess you could call this destructive photography rather than creative, I feel kinda bad for doing that. I have…