Etikett: hälsingland
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It’s been another weird winter. Almost all the snow we have now came in December, and since then we’ve had some warm periods with snowmelt. And now it’s really cold again, it was -20 degrees this morning. But the sun is warm, so even if the winter is trying to stage a comeback, it is…
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I haven’t done any skiing in many weeks, since I came to the conclusion that there’s no good skiing to be done in Föne. But that’s just the photographer in me speaking, because I’m not tired of skiing in itself. So in order to get back to skis, I drove to Kajevall yesterday. They have…
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Two weeks ago I wondered when the sun would reach enough high in the sky to reach over the Vallåsen mountain and shine on my house. I walked up to the top of the mountain today again and when I came home around lunchtime, there it was… the sun shining right on my balcony! I…
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Well, having said that local walks don’t inspire me, curiosity took over today. I wanted to see what’s happened with the flood around the creek and down in Mon (although I had no intentions to actually walk into the area where I had my accident with the ice!). When I got to the creek it…
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I had an itch to go somewhere because the local walks just aren’t interesting to me. So in order to get my butt off the couch, I drove to Järvzoo. It was an overcast day but the cloud cover was very thin, so there was plenty of light for shooting in the zoo, even at…
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Well, I did get out after all. In search of good aurora viewpoints, I took the small dirt road (emphasis on ”dirt” – you can’t drive it by car) that leads from Föne to the foot of the old abandoned ski slope at Vallåsen, which is the mountain that obscures the winter sun for my…
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I have a problem. Ever since I realised that there is no good skiing (=skiing with photo potential) to be done in Föne, I totally lost interest in it. I’m not going on walks either, unless it’s clear skies with a chance of aurora, obviously… So, I’ve become passive and lazy and I’m probably gaining…
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I would normally not think that -20°C is any temperature for outdoors activities. But these clear cloudless nights are so rare that I felt it was a shame to waste it, especially now that there was a little bit of moonlight (37% crescent). I was determined to do some starry sky photography and had a…
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I had some trouble falling asleep last night, this Iceland trip kept playing in my head. Inevitably while awake, I felt the nature calling and when I was going through the kitchen, I was wondering why the sky seemed so light. On with the glasses – and I was looking at just about the best…
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After all the excitement yesterday, I forgot that I had some night sky pictures I took on Friday when we had one of these rare cloudless skies and almost no wind. Too bad there was no snow on the trees, but it’s such a long time I’ve made any major effort with night sky photography…