Summer

Rainy Day

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Where I live, June was very warm this year. But the weather has changed, and today we’ve had a strong winds and heavy rain. The temperature dropped quite a bit too, and it felt more like early September than the first week of July. Even if it felt like the autumn briefly visited us, it is within what we might expect. It is the high temperatures in June that are outside the norm.

Rainy Day (1/16s @ f/2.0, 50mm, ISO 320)

Stress Reaction

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Botanists say that there are more wild flowers this summer than usual. The main reason for this is the dry, hot summer we had in large parts of Norway last year. The drought last summer caused a stress reaction for many plants and trees, causing them to produce more seeds. Apparently it is a survival mechanism. Since we have had a more "normal" summer in terms of temperature and precipitation this year, the results is an abundance of wild flowers.

Stress reaction (1/180s @ f 4, 50mm, ISO 200)