Photography
At the latitude where I live, the sky is quite bright during the summer nights. Round mid summer it barely gets dark enough to see the brightest stars. As we move into August the night sky darkens and stars start to appear again. Another late summer phenomena are noctilucent clouds.
A recurring theme for me, the ferns. There are a lot of nice, fine details in the leaves of the ferns which gives the eye a lot to explore. This low resolution version may not convey that, but it is there in the original.
I have tuned the B&W conversion a bit to make the ferns stand out from the background. Some may not like that, and label it as cheating. But I see it as a way of conveying my vision of the subject. It is an important part of the process of creating an image. Keep in mind that most images you see online or in magazines have been subjected to some form of post production. Either by a human, or by the processing software in the camera or the app on the smartphone. It is very rare to find an image which is unaltered, though news and documentary photography are, as a rule, notable exceptions.
Gentle waves and ripples on water can create nice, distorted reflections. I have published a few examples of this in the past. But for some reason those images seem a bit stale, perhaps even "old". So I decided to prolong the exposure to make the images a bit more abstract. And here is an example of the images I got from this slightly different approach.
About this time of year last year I posted a couple of images from Haukelifjell, a mountain range on the way from the eastern to the western part of south Norway. This image is taken a bit further west than the two images I posted last summer.
The images from last year were taken a couple of weeks earlier than this one, and the air was warmer and the snow melting. This year conditions were quite the opposite. The weather was a lot colder and the road was closed due to snow storms the day before and the the after I drove across.
ISO 50, 1/500 @ f12, 50mm equivalent, 5/8 crop
Here is a different angle on the theme "waves and sunlight" I did a post on last week. A rather strong wind blowing across the small pond created waves with a short wavelength, and for this image I chose to go with a relatively slow shutter speed. What I got in return are these hatch like patterns drawn by the specular highlights.