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You absolutely won’t believe this!

12 May 201912 May 2019
I don't, that's for sure. As Gandalf said: "I have no memory of this place." I'm not Gandalf, so with me it's about the outside of a Norwegian mountain, not…
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What does it take to geek out about…clouds?

7 May 20196 May 2019
This is the Sun. It looks a little like a monochrome Jupiter, shrouded in clouds and a (for Northern Norway) weird kind of dusty veil, halfway cloud, halfway glass. Those…
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I’m going to bed now

31 Mar 2019
It's part of my daily routine. If I'm at home and the weather permits it, I'm on my way outside to find stories. Sometimes, these stories can be quite elaborate,…
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Think you’re fast enough?

24 Mar 201924 Mar 2019
Taking pictures of rocket launches can be a little tricky. Most people simply film and adjust the view as the rocket moves away from them. Not me, no, no. I…
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It ain’t freezing

21 Mar 201921 Mar 2019
No, it's not (necessarily) a climate change thing. In fact, if we keep up what we do right now, this ocean along the Norwegian coast has a better chance of…
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Browsing old pictures

17 Mar 201915 Mar 2019
While browsing through my old pictures, I came across this marvel taken on the North island of Tromsø. I remember experimenting with the different functions on my brand new digital…
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Cell phone halo

3 Mar 20193 Mar 2019
These are little crystals hovering in the air, reflecting the light of the Sun behind the mountain in a rather characteristic fashion. Sometimes, it looks like there are miniature suns…
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Varying sunset colours

7 Feb 201927 Jan 2019
During spring and autumn, a day's length varies by about 7-8 minutes from day to day. It is the time during which the Sun's rays hit the Earth's high-latitude atmosphere…
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German winter

3 Feb 201924 Jan 2019
In Germany, where I grew up, there is a certain kind of novel which almost exclusively plays in landscapes like this. Those stories have a tendency to be a little…

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