Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

What amazing luck - just a couple days after my trip to Brazil I experience this! What an amazing winter this could be.... Unfortunately I missed the beginning…


Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis)

Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis)

Chestnut-bellied euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis) is one of many species of birds seen in the garden of Hotel do Ype.


Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)

Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)

This group of tufted capuchin (Cebus apella) raided the mango trees like there was no tomorrow!


Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)

Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)

In this angle I think the name tufted is appropriate, but it's more commonly known as the brown capuchin. This tufted capuchin (Cebus apella) is naturally part…


White-whiskered Spider Monkey (Ateles marginatus)

White-whiskered Spider Monkey (Ateles marginatus)

A group of spider monkeys was accompanying a group of capuchin monkeys. While the capuchins were busy raiding the mango trees in the garden of Cristalino…


Oslo night sky – waiting for the northern lights

Oslo night sky – waiting for the northern lights

Catching the Aurora Borealis is perhaps easy in the northern parts of Norway or in general around the Arctic Circle, but at 60 degrees north where Oslo resides…


Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

The moon is adding a lot of light to this vista of a calm ocean and an almost cloudless sky.


Cumulus

Cumulus

Noen ganger ser det ut til at cumulusskyene vil bygge seg opp til tordenskyer (Cumulonimbus), og det ville vært veldig spennende å få en timelapse av det.…


Noctilucent Clouds

Noctilucent Clouds

Every clear night I hope to see these wonderful clouds seen only during the short summer weeks. At 60 degrees north the sky is too bright in June, so if they…


Aksveronika (Veronica spicata)

Aksveronika (Veronica spicata)

Selv på de skrinneste plassene sto aksveronikaene frodige og store. De var alle i starten av blomstringen - ingen visne blomster å se på blomsterstandene.…