Windswept

At last, I have found time to get out with my camera again. And for a change of scenery I decided to go to the seaside to see what I could find. The area I visited is a windswept stretch of coastline, and here and there you will find trees crawling along the ground seeking shelter wherever it may be found.

It was quite windy, and I decided on a long exposure with an ND-filter to convey how the branches of the fir tree were blown about. Due to the wind it was hard to get the trunk of the tree crisp and sharp, so I made a second exposure without the filter. I have combined the two images using the tree trunk from one and the branches from the other.

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Sognefjorden revisited

As I was reviewing the images I took this summer I decided to convert some of them to B&W, and this is one I think works quite well as a B&W image. The small size and the low resolution version I have presented here may not do the image justice, but I still think it works well as a B&W image.

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Near Flåklypa

This image if from the same area as one of my previous posts, "Rock face".  Different part of the stream, and I have used a 10 stop ND filter to blur the water.

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The name Flåklypa has a special ring to it for most Norwegians my age. It is closely linked with the stop motion-animated feature film "Flåklypa Grand Prix", or as it is know in English, "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" (see the Wikipedia article for more info) 

Autumn Colours - Reflection

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Long exposure

A couple of days ago a friend of mine and I visited a park downtown to do some photography. The light was kind of flat and the autumn colors where not quite as bright as we had hoped. I guess we need a night or two with frost first. So I decided to try to make an image of this artificial waterfall instead. It is a merge of two 30 second exposures, one with the plant in the foreground in focus, and one with the background in focus. A bit tricky to merge the images as there was a slight breeze moving the straws around during the exposures. 

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Near Lærdalsøyri

Here is an image from the Norwegian countryside. It is not too far from Lærdalsøyri in Sognefjorden. I have used a 10 stop ND filter to blur the water to create a line which could echo the dark tree line at the top of the image. 

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At the foot of Nigardsbreen

This is taken at the foot of the glacier Nigardsbreen, which is a branch of the Jostedalsbreen glacier. What you see here is the river of melting water flowing from the glacier. You might expect the water to be clear, but it carries a lot of silt hence the murky look. This is of course emphasized by the long exposure.

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You can get quite close to the edge of the glacier, and even onto the glacier. There are guided tours, anything from a short walk for families or a days walk for the more ambitious. If you look closely you may spot two people on the far left close to the edge of the ice - just to give you a sense of scale.

From Flåmsdalen

This is taken from the road that follows the Flåm Railway. The road is part of the "Rallarvegen" which was used by the workers building the railway. Today the road is used by hikers and cyclist. The road starts at Haugastøl and goes down to Flåm.

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Long exposure

This is a 30 second exposure made with a 10 stop ND filter. The 10 stop filter can be a bit challenging to work with when the light changes a lot in a short time. Here the sun was out just a few seconds and gone again. So I experimented to see what worked best, and after a series of shots I had a bit of luck and the sun was out for most of the exposure.

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