The Chronicles of Särna (and other stories from the North)

Hole, Sweet Hole.

6/28/2013

 
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The Tengmalm’s Owl’s chicks went out two days ago from the nest you can see in the picture at the left, which shows the adult female; the nest is placed in a quite obvious spot and it is recognizable, so I’ve chosen to wait to publish this photo of an ongoing nesting.

I also tried to intercept the chicks coming out, in order to get some shots to go beyond the classic iconography of this owl, but my timing wasn’t apparently good enough.

It was different five years ago, at the same hole: I was together with an Italian guy came to Särna to attend one of my photo courses, and we came there in the very moment a chick was facing its new outdoor life, hesitant, while another one already did the huge step and was hiding between a birch’s branches, a twenty meters far.

Here at the right a memory from then (ph. Fabio Alessi). You can see how, in time, the external layer of the bark had partially overlapped the hole: in ten years or so, it won’t be likely usable by this species anymore.


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A simple flower.

6/22/2013

 
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And to be precise a marsh marigold, shot during a long session in a hide on the shore of Särna lake, when the light of the approaching sunset was combined with the rippling water: as a matter of fact the true subjects of the picture, with the plant that merely acts as filling and contrast element.

Stone.

6/10/2013

 
I am closing the series from the High Coast with some stones: first the red Rapakivi granite from Norrfällsviken, then the coloured rubbles of Bönhamn, and finally three shots from Rotsidan, which include the peculiar coastal flat rocks made of diabase.

Wood.

6/7/2013

 
Difficult as usual photographing trees, whether they are dead or alive, standing out or fallen. The bidimensional representation debase them, and the final blow is given them by the inadequate amount of pixels of the web vision. However... here they are four shots from Norrfällsviken Nature Reserve in High Coast, which boasts, beyond the beautiful pinewood, the so called "klapperfält" (fields of rubbles), vast accumulation of rounded stones covererd in map lichen, once the bottom of the sea.

Seascapes.

6/6/2013

 
I’ve never really tried motion blur seascapes before, even if it’s a defined subgenre in landscape photography, so I took advantage of my High Coast stay to have some fun. As in any other photo genre, knowledge from previous experiences is precious, and you can see it (when it lacks). First one is from Bönhamn, the following two from Rotsidan Nature Reserve.

Postcard from the High Coast.

6/5/2013

 
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That is Höga Kusten. It’s called "high" for the coastal cliffs and the reliefs on the many islands and along the mainland which go up to 280 mt. (which, in Sweden, is a relief... of a certain relief).

The area spans for almost 100 km, and belongs to Unesco Heritage because, besides the beautiful landscape and nature, it is the stretch of earth's crust which boasts the greatest land uplift in the world - almost 1 cm a year - caused by the elastic bounce following the melting of the 3 km thick ice layer resting on it 10.000 years ago. In short, the current 270 amsl contour line is where the shore was then.

I start the mini-exhibition on my recent pictures in Höga Kusten with an ultra-classic postcard-like view taken from the Skuleskogen National Park, and in particular from the summit of the huge rift Slåttdalsskrevan (30 mt. deep, 200 long), the most famous place in the park. The rift itself, whose above end is partially visible, was sadly impracticable due to the snow still filling it.

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    The Chronicles of Särna, and other stories from the North.

    I live in Sweden, in Särna (Dalarna). The Chronicles are a photo diary about the nature (but not just) here around and from all the Scandinavian areas where my photo job takes me.

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