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Sunday morning drive

I'm up way too early on a Sunday.

Along Jølster lake

Alpacas in Norway

Not much has happened lately, but here's an interesting story I did the other week. A farmer here in Norway got a shipment of 25 Apacas all the way from New Zealand. They had traveled for over a week before they got to their new home on the west coast of Norway.
Raising Alpacas is a new way of business for some of the farmers in Norway. The Alpaca fiber is used for knitting and used the same way as sheep's wool. It is a very expensive product.
My concern doing this story was getting spit on by the Alpacas. They actually spit quite far and it smells really bad, I've heard. But these guys from New Zealand were quite calm and cool! Here are some photos and the link to the story is below.

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Link to the TV-Story: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/distrikt/sognogfjordane/verdi/88335

Sunset at - 6 degrees Celcius

Førde, January 1st

Førde, January 1st

Førde, January 1st

Here's a few photos from a cold walk around Førde today. It was cold, but pretty.

Snowy conditions

On the way up to Strynefjellet mountain pass

My car on Strynefjellet mountain pass

A couple of photos describing how it is to drive acros Norway now in the winter. You are either inside a tunnel or outside in the "white-out" snowy landscape.

Photo of the shortest day of the year

Here it is! The shortest day of the year at the exact shortest moment. This photo is taken outside my house at 1pm on December 21st, the time the day has the shortest amount of daylight of the year. From today at 1pm, the days are starting to have more and more daylight. Hurray for that! :)

Shortest daylight of the year

All the way out west

 

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Just three photos from filming on the very western edge of Norway today. Great place for a time-lapse clip. Watch it in tonight's TV story: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/distrikt/sognogfjordane/verdi/85143

Closer to the moon

Førde night time

The moon, 50.000km closer to earth

Here are some photos taken in Førde at 5:30pm. This shows how dark it gets in this part of Norway this time of year. I also read that the moon was 50.000km closter to earth than normal at the exact moment these photos were taken. Pretty cool, eh?

When working among goats

Here are some photos I found on my computer taken earlier this fall. They are taken during the filming of a Children's TV series I did up in the mountains. Working with over 200 goats around you is quite a challage and caused for some funny situations. They are extremely curious and tried to eat my headphones cord and my jacket all day long.

 

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Nokia Friend View

I have started to use Nokia Friend View on my phone. Its just an awesome application. The application is a mix between status updater and a location tagger. It show you where you are and where your friends are located at the moment. Of course they have to have the application running on their phone to be able to see where they are.

With this program you can have short status updates and show your location to your friends. Say you are downtown and you look at Nokia Friend View on your phone and you see your friend is nearby. Then you can just call and meet up for a coffe.

This application does not require a GPS in your phone. It can triangulate your location within your network. I think it is a cool litte program that fun to use, especially if you have lots of friends on it. 
Check out Nokia's video on Friend View:

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You can also use this online at: http://friendview.nokia.com/
Download to your phone at: http://friendview.nokia.com/download.jsp

Moonlight

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There was a full moon this morning. Icy cold -8 degrees celcius at 8 o'clock. Got out the Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 L and shot this photo.