Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 18th 2008. Click image for larger view. This autumn has been a really awaking for me when it comes to edible mushrooms (and toxic ones). I did not know much about mushrooms except for golden chanterelles and fly agarics. A friend wanted to learn more about mushrooms so we [...]

Some months ago I was contacted by an employee at a magazine called The New Yorker. They had found one of my pictures on the world wide web and wanted to use it in collage that were to illustrate a fictional story. The picture they found was of some clouds hugging a mountain. I didn’t [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 18th 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture I have photographed some Terracotta hedgehog (Hydnum rufescens) mushrooms. They are closely related to the more common Hedgehog mushroom (also known as Wood hedgehog), but the Terracotta hedgehog have a more red and yellow color on the upper side [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera October 19th 2008. Click image for larger view. Autumn brings us some fantastic colors to photograph. Here is a picture from a walk I had in the forest yesterday. Some places the forest the ground was completely covered with yellow leaves. It was so beautiful and of course I had [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera October 16th 2008. Click image for larger view. The last few nights has seen more or less clear skies and since the moon was just full I had to step outside to take this picture of the moon rising above some treetops. I like the mystic feeling in this picture [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera October 14th 2008. Click image for larger view. The winter is getting closer here in Norway and some nights have been below the freezing point. If you get up early before the sun starts to warm up the place you can discover that the landscape is covered with rime (frost). Here [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 18th 2008. Click image for larger view. Here I have photographed some delicious Golden chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius). They are the most well known edible mushroom here in Norway and is probably the most exclusive mushroom too. You can use Golden chanterelles in a lot of different dishes, but I prefer [...]

Some of my readers might wonder why I haven’t posted any new pictures on this blog. The reason is that I have moved to the southeast of Norway (Nesodden in Akershus for those who know Norwegian geography) and I haven’t really got back into blogging. The big question now is what I should do with [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera June 29th 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture I have captured what was a fantastic midnight sunset here in Northern Norway. The sunset created some incredible light where this village in the sea was bathed in a beam of sunshine. The picture should be looked at in [...]

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Pic_series_of_starlings_feeding_their_young'; The starling couple that I photographed and blogged about in this post laid eggs in the birdhouse on our barn this year too. Here is some pictures that of the starlings feeding their young. Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera June 6th 2008. Click image for larger view. It seems like this young [...]