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The House being eaten by The Sea

On the North-West coast of Skagen I happen to stumble on this lonely house. It’s windows boarded up and with a futile attempt to stop the raging North Sea by dumping boulders around it. All the land around this house had already been reclaimed by the sea. My guess is, that it will no longer be there after a few storms. People in this area has never been able to secure long-term loans from banks if they wished to build a house in this area! It is simply to much of a risk.

On it's way into the frothing sea

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 21. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, HDR, Photo - processed RAW, Photographic Art, Seasons | Leave a comment

Breathtaking

Frozen lake in Raabjerg Mile

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 16. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Nature's Delight, Seasons | Leave a comment

Another Raabjerg Mile (Råbjerg Mile) Impression

Frozen Lake in Raabjerg Mile

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 9. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Leave a comment

Poul and Anders

My good friend Poul – who made this trip possible! It has been a fantastic and absolutely delightful week on the top of Denmark. A long with my friend Anders – the three of us has enjoyed a Gentlemen’s Vacation with Lavish Cuisines, Brilliant Wines, Beers, Whiskey and Port Wines, Grand Nature and Breathtaking Cultural Experiences. I am a really lucky man to be in such good company!

Poul in Raabjerg Mile

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 9. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, Just for fun, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Leave a comment

It’s like the Gobi Dessert – only a bit smaller

In the otherwise green northern parts of Denmark, sand is moving right across the country in the general direction of the wind from West to East. This flying sand is moving like a dessert, although the sand is quite moist. The moving sand has throughout history buried houses, farms, roads and churches and only after many years when the sand has passed the area, these abandoned farming community appears on the back side of this moving dessert. However, the sand erodes the fertile top soil and carries it away with the wind leaving barron marshes in it’s wake.

I shot this photo in a particular area called Raabjerg Mile (Råbjerg Mile).

Raabjerg Mile - Tuesday February 7. The lake in front is frosen.

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 9. February 2012 | Categories: Biology, General Information, History, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW | Leave a comment

The lighthouses of Skagen

On the very Northern tip of Denmark there are three distinct lighthouses – Grå Fyr (The Grey Lighthouse, still active) – Hvide Fyr (The White Lighthouse) and Vippefyr (The Tilt Beacon) which all signals the importance and necessity throughout history to guide ships safely around this northern point of Jutland.

Grå Fyr

Hvide Fyr

Vippefyr

Vippefyr (The tilt beacon) seen from the base to the tip. It tilts around the central axis which makes it possible to hoist the basked with the burning logs after it's been been lit.

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 9. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, History, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Leave a comment

“The Branch” – “The North Cape” of Denmark

I shot a thsi photos on Grenen (translated from Danish: “The Branch”), the very top of Denmark, where the North Sea meets Skagerag. It was bitterly cold with -7 degrees Celsius, moist air and wind so my wool underwear and sweaters was highly apreciated! The coastline is constantly moving and the seas and winds meets – often times – violently. This has been one of the most dangerous places on The Seven Seas, having lead in earlier times to numerous shipwrecks.

The tip of Denmark covered by ice - Next stop Norway

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 9. February 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, History, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Leave a comment

And The Lofoten Wall – mountain chain

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 27. January 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, General Information, Nature's Delight, Photo, Seasons | Leave a comment

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Blogging from 30.000 ft in the air

Although the solar activity lately makes it a risky business health-wise to fly, it’s beautiful up here. And with the airline Norwegian’s brand new Boeing 737-800 it’s even possible to connect to the Internet for free. Way to go Norwegian! And now the company has made the single biggest purchase of aircrafts in European history. It’s a very interesting company to follow!

Right now I’m crossing the strait between Norway and Denmark in the brand new machine “Anders Celsius”. Here’s a photo taken

enroute from Northern Norway earlier today.

From the skies with love!

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 27. January 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The New Record and The Waiting Game

Today my blog has reached a new time high! My last entry about with the Northern Lights photos has shot through the roof! Right now we are experiencing the biggest Sun Storm since 2005. This is really bad news for communication and navigation satelites. It is not very healthy being an airline passenger or crew neither. But for watching spectacular lights in the night sky, it is great. Right now there’s a lull in the activity, but as the Earth rotates a little bit more, we in Northern-Norway will be right on the backstream of the charched particles from the Sun.

I have already shot a few photos tonight and are waiting for more. Unfortunately there is a lot of clouds right now. And since it’s rather cold, people are throwing birch into the fireplaces – like ther was no tomorrow – which produces a lot of smoke particles which scatter the light even more.

I hope you enjoy these preliminary shots of tonights show!

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 24. January 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Everyday Life, General Information, Geophysics, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Leave a comment

Stunning auroral activity!

Yesterday was a fantastic night! All one could hope and dream for! Often times the Earth’s magnetic field pushes so hard back against the Sun’s magnestic field, that the particle from solar bursts never enter the ionosphere to create this spectacle. But yesterday was – luckily – a day when the magnetic field lines let slip particles deep down into the ionosphere to create these breathtaking views. With the good help of my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen, I managed to process the final details of my RAW photos to stand out like they are seen.

Enjoy!

Seen straight up!

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 24. January 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Art, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons | 3 Comments

Engulfed in light all around!

Have you ever gotten a present that just keeps on giving? This night was such a present! Northern Lights covering the entire night sky. Severeal times I just had to stop – I simply didn’t know which part of the sky I should shoot… Now that is a serious luxury problem! I have several hundred pictures ready for processing.

Here are just a few! More to come!

Posted by alliumsativum69 | 23. January 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Leave a comment

It’s like ice-fishing – you freeze your behind off – whether you catch something, or not….

Yesterday I spent quite some time down by the fjord, trying to catch some northern lights. It’s a bit like ice fishing. Sometimes you get a good catch, sometimes you don’t. There was quite nice flashes, but by the time I had rigged my equipment and was ready to shoot, there was more or less nothing. Waiting and waiting… Practically nothing…

I swung my camera around and shot a couple of shots of the City (Narvik) and its suburb Ankenes and then drove home at 01:30 am.