Birds!

Autumn migration for a number of birds have started and as I spend some time at Kvitsoy I try to photograph some of the species stopping here on the island. This is not really a good place compared to i.e. Jaeren, but still I manage to capture some birds with my telephotolenses :-)

Today I spent the evening trying to get some shoots of a small group of dunlins. I was sitting in the mud under a camuflage net and with my wetsuit on when suddenly a sparrowhawk attacked the wading birds. Probably I moved a litle just before the hawk almost hit me. This most likely resultet in a lost evening meal for this bird of prey! Lucky dunlins :-)

The sparrowhawk landed on a small hill a bit to far away to obtain any good quality images, but I still decided to include the image to illustrate the story. See above.

Whale in Sognefjord!

On sunday some friends and I went for a boattrip in the outer part of Sognefjord. During the crossing of the fjord we spotted som black "rocks" far away. Approaching slowly and stopping the engine allowed us to get as close as 25 meters from the animals. Very nice to hear the sound they make when breathing and their special warning sounds. Sadly, not all the pictures turned out to be of the best quality, but still, above are some of them.

Tall Ships Race 2008

I photographed the sailships as the left Bergen and to the west of the island of Fedje when the race started. Image above shows Statsraad Lehmkuhl at race start.

Please follow this link for more images from TSR2008:

http://www.fjordimages.com/Album2/TSR2008/index.html

Mountain summer 2008!

I have uploaded some images from the trip Ellen and I had this summer to a test gallery at http://www.fjordimages.com/. Follow this link: http://www.fjordimages.com/Album2/Mount-sum-2008/index.html . Comments and suggestions for improvement are appreciated!

One incredible week in the mountains!

Ellen swimming among icebergs!


On the glacier underway to Fanaraaken!

Our tent on the summit of Snoehetta, 2286 meters above sea level.

Ellen at Snøehetta.


Mosk oxen at Dovrefjell National Park.

Last wedensday Ellen and I returned from our vacation to Jostedalen, Jotunheimen and Dovre. Almost the whole week was sunny and hot. Closer to 30 deg C. Actualy a bit more than I like in the step mountains in these areas. We got to the top of two mountains during this week. The first one was Fanaraaken, 2005 merters above sealevel, Getting here involved crossing a glacier and climbing a steep snow ridge. The second one was Snoehetta, 2286 meters above sealevel. At Snoehetta we spent the night on the summit in my small tent. At Dovre we met Musk oxen several times. Se pictures.

During this week we also padled on a mountain lake in Jostedalen where the front of the glacier was going into the lake. Here we both bathed among "icebergs" too!