Norway is amongst many this, the land of tunnels. Long unlit tunnels that is. They are a bit unnerving for someone that is not used to drive trough tunnels at all. It best to let someone else to drive and photograph them from the passenger seat instead.

In case you are wondering, the "lights" are reflector.

As promised, here are the long exposure photographs on Månafossen

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In Norway me and the friend we were visiting went to see the Månafossen and its 90 m high waterfall. It was definitely worth dragging all my camera equipment up the mountain for. I shoot with both long and short exposure times and will as usual post them in separate blog posts. I'm posting the short exposure ones in this post and save the long exposure ones for later.

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Things have been going well so far. All flowers are in their final locations now. Out of the eight sunflowers I cultivated I have given away five. So only three are left on my balcony.

The two boxes on the floor contains Chrysanthemum greens and Bluehead gilia mixed together. The tree pots up against the wall contains the three sunflowers. The hanging box to the right contains the Buck Bay vygie. The big pot contains the Clematis I received for my birthday last year. I'm happy it survived the winter.

We choose to "plant" some fake grass in the balcony box this year. Our dog Simpson likes to stand there and watch, so we didn't want to place anything there that would block his view.

The Rhubarb has survived yet another winter. This winter I for the first time let it stand out on the balcony. Looks like I made a good decision. It looks better than ever.

Our second stop in Norway was the small village named Mandal. It is a nice place on the south coast filled with small white houses. It was a nice place to visit and walk around in for a day.

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The first stop on our vacation in Norway was Oslo. A stop we made because we wanted to visit a few museums there. One of them was the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. It's an open air museum that contains many old building of various age and the one I was most interested in seeing was the Gol stave church. It is a type of church that, I far as I know, doesn't exist in Sweden. I wanted to see it because I probably won't see another one again. I like the design of the church, kinda medieval looking.

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Last post with pictures from the Tiger Temple. This time with photos on non-tiger animals. There were a lot of other animals roaming around freely on the temple grounds and I didn't waste any opportunity to take photographs of them. They were mostly farm animals, but we saw some wild animals too. These are the best pictures I managed to take on them.

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While being in Bangkok we decided to make a visit to Jim Thompson's House. Jim Thompson was man that made his fortune in Thailand and decided to spend it by collecting various traditional Thailand object. Everything from china to houses. The place had a luscious garden that was a sharp contrast against the regular cityscape in bangkok. Here are few photos I took in the garden.

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Tiger cubs!

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I still have plenty of pictures from my Thailand/Cambodia trip to show and I'm no way near the end of posting them. This time I'm posting my pictures from our visit to the Tiger Temple with Tigers. I have to add "with Tigers" because I was told there are many temples called "Tiger Temple", but this one is the only one with real tigers. The trip to the temple was something I planed in advance because I had seen photos from it were people were petting the tigers. I really wanted my own chance at petting a tiger. The photos I had seen before the trip from the Temple, made it seem like the tigers were awake and free roaming when you meet them. In reality they were chained and asleep. I was told they were sleeping because they are nocturnal, but after goggling the temple I found allegations claiming the animals are in fact drugged to allow tourist to get near them.

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This year me and my SO went to Norway for about a week. We did the trip mostly because I wanted to visit a friend and we both wanted to experience (which in my case means photographing) the Norwegian landscape. We drove along the coast and made stops in Oslo, Mandal, Stavanger and Kristiansand. Although it was raining a lot during our trip we still got a fair share of nice weather and we where able to enjoyed the trip a lot.

Below are two pictures that I couldn't group in with the other pictures I'll post later.

Last post with photographs from Hallands väderö. I took several photos on different flowers, but this photo on a single Field chickweed flower was the only one I felt was special enough to get posted on this blog.

At the end of our visit on Hallands väderö, we walked through a forest. Everywhere in the forest we could hear small mice running through the undergrowth and sometimes we were able to catch quick glimpses of the them. On one occasion though, I got the chance to photograph a mouse before it ran away.