Happy Easter 2012
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Happy Easter 2012
First Aid Kit – Emmylou
I have totally fallen for these brilliant voices. The Swedish sisters in “First Aid Kit” Music Johanna and Klara have voices with really similar vocal harmonies, BUT the tiny little difference makes this duo MAGICAL!
Please watch this musicvideo by First Aid Kit performing their new single “Emmylou” This is the second single taken from the new First Aid Kit album, The Lion’s Roar, available on Wichita Recordings.
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Grand Finale – Northern Lights
The night is getting lighter and soon the Midnight Sun will be shining – thus making it impossible to see the spectacular phenomenon – Northern Lights (Aurora borealis). But still the night is dark enough to se the occasional Northern Lights. Although I am too busy at the moment to spend hours out in the cold gazing for this beautiful light show – yesterday I just had to.
I only shoot photos in RAW-mode. Hence it takes a lot of hard, manual labor to “develop” them into JPEGs suitable for showing here. And there it is again time… Well, I’ve processed one with the planet Venus shining brightly through the vail of the Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord.
Northern Lights yesterday - Venus is shining through the vail of Northern Lights
In for landing in the Coconut
One of my mother’s little friend – a Great Tit (Parus major) – coming in for landing in the hollow coconut used as a feeding station.
In for landing in the coconut
April Fools’ Day ;o)
Lovely! I’ve been tried fooled today (sorry, better luck next year) and I’ve managed to execute a few well-played pranks – for wich I have been thoroughly amused. So next year I am expecting revenge ;o)
Of course my blog has also been a scene for a small prank – namely the previous post “I’ve rounded 100,000 visitors to my blog!!!”. It would have been quite nice to have had more than 100,000 visitors – but my real counter shows just well over 15,000 ;o) As the observant reader might have noticed – the false “hit counter” has been stuck all day on 100,001 visitors…
April Fools' Prank
I’ve rounded 100,000 visitors to my blog!!!
I don’t know what has happened – but in one and a half years – I’ve rounded 100,000 visitors!!! Just take a look at my counter here on the right… It’s UNBELIEVABLE!!! Thank you all for making this blog such a HUGE success!!!
A Midnight Sun Beam
My latest English poem. Can’t read the text? Just click the picture to enlarge!
And – it’s been a beautiful day, too
Ofoten Fjord this lovely spring day
Very Early Pastel Sky
The morning sky at 6 am. Since we’re into the insanely stupid “Daylight Saving Time” the normal time this morning would be 5 am.
The season of the midnight sun is approaching Narvik here in the arctic…
Very Early Pastel Sky - The Midnight Sun season is approaching Narvik
Calm Fjord covered in Freshly Fallen Snow
Panorama of Narvik yesterday when the snowing stopped. Please click the photo and see all the details!
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed — Eratosthenes’ calculation of the Earth’s circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau’s measurement of the speed of light in 1849. (Launching a series on Inventions that Shaped History)
“How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries” was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz
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Spring is in the air! (-nope, false alarm, it’s just snow)
A commentary on today’s weather in Narvik…
What you (almost cannot) see in today's photo; The Narvik peninsula with Narvik Airport and the bulk carrier Island Green(...) at pier 5
Knights and Magic by Richard Birdsall
A fantastic piece of music written by the very, very young composer Richard Birdsall and winner of the Gary Garriton Contest. The conductor becomes airborne at the end! A brilliant piece of music well worth seeing!
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1st collector for Knights and Magic by Richard Birdsall
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