Etikett: dalarna
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It snowed a lot yesterday and last night, but it’s also been quite windy so the trees look a bit boring. But otherwise, it looks a lot like winter and we drove to Orsa Björnpark so see the animals in the fresh snow. In theory, a great idea – we even had perfect light for zoo…
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With so many days off during the Christmas period, I needed to do something else than long walks around home. I was curious to see Njupeskär in the winter, that’s a nice day trip and I got a fellow photographer to go with me so we set off in the early hours in order to…
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Third zoo in just over three weeks, third nice zoo visit in a row. We drove to the Orsa Björnpark today and got lucky with the weather, it felt like a risk because the forecast said it would be half sunny but it was actually quite foggy and the fog didn’t start clearing out until…
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The last time I visited the Orsa Bear Park, the conditions were… bad. The animals seemed to hate the weather as well, so I got almost nothing out of it. But today was compensation, everything seemed to work out for the best! Or maybe it’s just beginners luck. I thnk the first time I visited…
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The wonderful winter weather we’ve been having is all gone. First it was windy so that the trees lost their snow decoration. Then it became warm and rainy and the landscape is just plain awful now. Another long weekend and absolutely no prospects for any meaningful photography. Disaster. I think I will sit at the…
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The summer is starting truly atrocious. Yesterday morning I had to scrape the ice off the car windows and today… it was snowing. We knew that the weather wouldn’t be good today but still not bad enough for the zoo, so we drove to the Orsa Bear Park. At first, the only problem was the…
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The official opening of the expanded Hamra National Park has been pushed off until September (it was supposed to be opened last year). They have done most of the work with building the entrances and making new trails, so I was curious to see what it looks like now. There are three entrances to the…
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Snow leopard. Snow leopard in the Orsa Björnpark Zoo. I’m so there! Snow leopards are my favourite felines and I really, really wanted to see one. The last time I saw a snow leopard was ages ago back when I lived in England and it was love at first sight.So on this visit, I hoped…
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We had a long trip to the Orsa-Finnmark today. The weather was anything but photogenic, overcast and very windy so the grand view we had from our first stop at Finnberget was wasted. Since my only picture from the place is not a very good, I won’t post it but I couldn’t resist using the…
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I know I’ve talked about about zoos before and I think I might have even said that I will never visit one again, but I now solemnly swear that I will never promise I will never visit another zoo. The issue of captive animals, for and against, it’s been discussed already and now I just…