The City and The Mountains instead
I went out in a cold (freezing) weather last night to take a few Northern Lights shots, but unbelievably messed up the focus. So I ended up with a panorama of the City Narvik and the surrounding mountains instead. The mountains are basked in the light from the full moon. Not any other full moon, but the very full moon the tribes of the North-American native people (indians) designated Wolf Moon! Please click on the photo, to see the finer details!
First Panorama of 2012!
Enjoy this first panorama of the year 2012 taken today of the Ofoten fjord! Click on the photo to see THE REALLY BIG PICTURE! Warning it is really big, and takes time to load. You can explore the PHOTOSYNTH by clicking here..!
New Years Celebrations in Narvik as seen from the Fagernes Mt.
Bente Hjellsand graciously lent me these photos of the center of Narvik City taken from the Fagernes Mountain! The photos has also been published on the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK’s homepage. Please, DO CLICK on the images! They’re quite amazing!
Center of the City Narvik - Fireworks New Years Eve 2011/2012 (photo: Bente Hjellsand)
Center of the City Narvik - Fireworks New Years Eve 2011/2012 (photo: Bente Hjellsand)
Center of the City Narvik - Fireworks New Years Eve 2011/2012 (photo: Bente Hjellsand)
Center of the City Narvik - Fireworks New Years Eve 2011/2012 (photo: Bente Hjellsand)
A lovely visit
My nefew has been visiting uncle and grandma. My brother came with my nefew Sondre and stayed for a week. They went back to Oslo yesterday. It has been a lovely week. Just a pitty that I don’t get to see them more. It has to change next year ;o)
Sondre crawling around the floor playing
Norway in Red, White and Blue
As you probably know, the Norwegian Flag‘s colours are Red, White and Blue. My friend Jack caught just those colors in a brilliant shot a few days ago:
Norway in Red, White and Blue (photo: Jack Lihaug)
Narvik under the Winter Moonlight
Beautiful Winter Scene this Evening - Narvik getting ready for Christmas
Real Heavy Winter Storm
I flew from Denmark to Northern-Norway on Thursday. That was just as a heavy low pressure weather system moved in from the West. And it hit the coastline of the two nations with extreme force. All the way up in the jet-stream where we flew at 32,000 feet, the turbulence could be felt all the way to the North. My friend Ole spent some time by the West Coast of Denmark in his cottage. He reported a real heavy shaking in the cottage as the storm gusts hit. But no harm was done. Ole graciously lent me this picture from the storm of 9th of December.
The violent storm reached the beaches of Western-Denmark on Friday the 9th of December. Photo: Ole Hejgaard
The Ghost Bird
I love making HDR-photos, and play around with it a lot. Yesterday I took some photos in Aarhus. One of the scenes I captured was a flock of geese crossing the autumn sky. Naturally I made three rapid exposures and hoped to turn it into an HDR-photo. So I processed the images. This resulting HDR-photo consists of three images. Each image is taken 12-13 milliseconds apart. That – of course – is a problem when merging a motive that is moving rapidly across the frame. So the HDR-software has a built in function to remove “ghosting”. But that method isn’t fool proof, and so this shot resulted in a funny ghost, one single white bird following the rest.
HDR – Narvik today
Shot this HDR-photo today. This photo is a composite of 5 photos. The camera was hand held, but inspite of that I ended up with a pretty nifty result..!
5-photo HDR-composite of Narvik today.
1 year minus 2 days
In two days time this blog has been up and running for one year. In this time I’ve had some 8,850 visits to my blog. Not bad for a little “miniblogger”.
While waiting for the 1 Year Anniversary – you’ll might enjoy this photo taken today. It is a High Dynamic Range Photo where I tried emphasizing the very special light on the fjord and in the autumn coloured mountain in the background. Enjoy!
Special light - Autumn fjord
Yet another beautiful autumn day by the Ofoten Fjord
Yet another beautiful autumn day by the Ofoten Fjord
Scene from Narvik Harbour
Scene from Narvik Harbour
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