Kategori: Sverige
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Or Skiing, Shopping and Sightseeing Some weekend. I had two days off because my family (my parents, sis and her two kids) came to Sweden to celebrate my Dad’s 70th birthday. My mini-vacation started with a great day of skiing. New snow, suitably cold weather and sunshine – can winter get any better? Then I…
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The weekends just seem to drag by. Some would say that we had good weather, but I was rather disheartened. Zero degrees centigrade, high winds and sunshine is not my idea of ideal conditions – for photography anyway. The scenery is downright depressing in fact. Ugly snow, that’s the problem. Rather optimistically, I took the…
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Another weekend has passed by, low on photography but high on outdoor activities. I skiied a loop – one I had not done before – yesterday, with camera in backbag but never taken out. And having thus gotten sick of skiing, I chose to walk today. I had a closer look at a couple of…
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As a child, the first star constellation I learned was the Big Dipper – I think if people know just one constellation here up north, then it’s the Big Dipper. After that, I learned Cassiopeia and then I was proud to find the Polar Star. I added more and more constellations to my casual astronomy…
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Now we’re talking! Snow, snow, snow, snow… and more snow! We haven’t seen this much since early November. I’ll take it. When I had made my way to Hembygdsgården, it looked like the weather would clear up and some blue sky started to appear between the clouds. But it was just a brief scare, because…
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We had a little bit of snow overnight, but unfortunately we also had a lot of wind so the trees are bare. And the little bit means that dry flower stems and grasses are sticking out through the snow, so we are still not talking about the snowscapes I’ve been waiting for. But, one has…
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Another cold (relatively speaking) day and I didn’t want to drive to the same old creek again, so I drove to another creek – river, even. I was driving on the small forest roads, it was sometimes icy but the snow wasn’t a problem for sure… My first stop was at the Högforsen rapids (or…
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Just about the only thing I seem to photograph these days is water. We are still waiting for proper snow (half of what we got on Monday is now gone) so the scenery is not looking photogenic by any means – unless grey and dreary is your cup of tea, that is. So once again,…
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Would you believe it, snow? It’s white everywhere and snowing, so I rushed out soon after sunrise because if there’s one thing I’ve learned this ”winter”, it’s to enjoy the snow while it’s here. By tomorrow, it might be gone. Normally I am happy to be out in snowfall, but now I was sad to…
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Another long, boring weekend ahead. Looks like the only photo ops I can find these days is moving water, so I drove to the Österhocklan creek, armed with a Cokin Blue/Yellow varicolour filter (otherwise known as a Blue/Gold polarizer). I don’t normally like gimmick filters but it felt like a gimmick was exactly what I…