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Stream of consciousness

There’s a first try for everything

22 Sep 201920 Sep 2019
This one's, as you may have guessed, about making water streaming over stones look like silk. I thought, I'd stay away from the scene of the crime and rather crop…
Stream of consciousness

Spooky beach

15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019
All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…
Stream of consciousness

From whence came you, stranger?

8 Sep 20195 Sep 2019
It is curious to realize that wet sand will keep footprints in it, while dry sand won't. I wonder whether it is as simple as a question of friction. Then,…
Stream of consciousness

When nature applies a warm-color-filter

1 Sep 201931 Aug 2019
It's actually Rayleigh-scatter we are talking about here. During the day, it gives you your blue sky, or at least it contributes to it. In the evening, however, a lot…
Stream of consciousness

Wave colors, wave breaking

11 Aug 201910 Aug 2019
A simple image of an ocean wave breaking on a beach. Good. Waves are a physical phenomenon which occurs wherever oscillations move about. They can be electromagnetic such as light,…
Stream of consciousness

Killer whales are real

4 Aug 20193 Aug 2019
The other day, the fam and I went out on a puffin safari. Yes, these exist at various places in the Subarctic. We found puffins, the eagles that eat them,…
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Blue water, blue sky

3 Aug 201924 Jun 2019
Living close to Norway’s longest, finest beach does have its perks. For one, I can stand in the water, hands in the pockets of my khaki shorts, pondering life, the…
Stream of consciousness

Blue mood

23 Jun 201922 Jun 2019
Looking at this image, one may be excused to believe that birds live a lonely, desperate life up here in the Subarctic, feeding as much as may be during the…
Stream of consciousness

The art of science

16 Jun 201916 Jun 2019
This sculpture is called "Triangel". You can find it in one of Oslo, Norway's art-themed parks, the Wigeland installation at Frogner Park. I'm sorry. I really am. There is a…

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