News, blog posts from www.haarbergphoto.com http://haarbergphoto.com en Copyright Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg RSS 5 Thu, 17 May 2012 23:57:49 GMT Thu, 17 May 2012 23:57:49 GMT After a mild winter with little snow in the inner parts of Middle-Norway, the cold and snowy April was a delightful surprise. As a consequence, ski conditions were better in the beginning of May than during the whole winter. And I was lucky to spend this wonderful period of spring in the mountains…Late spring is a season full of contrasts in Norway. While birches turn green in the low lands, the landscape is still covered by a thick blanket of snow in the mountains. Animals living here adapt to these conditions, such as the stoat that kept his elegant white winter coat in the mountains until the middle of May. The hares started to change coat a little earlier, in the end of April, and as the start and the length of this process varies from individual to individual, I could observe hares with white, spotted or homogeneously light brown coats at the same time. 5 different individuals were visiting my feeding place, so I could add many new hare images to my photo archive.After some weeks in the mountains, now we move to the coast where we will spend the whole summer and a great part of the autumn. We are very excited about what new experiences (and images) these travels will bring along... Thu, 17 May 2012 15:17:02 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/late_spring-52 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/late_spring-52 Forrás We are delighted to announce that our images accompanying a story about Iceland has been published in the May issue of the National Geographic Magazine.Excerpt from the article: ”It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded airplanes all over Europe in 2010, Sigurður Reynir Gíslason was dishing up fish soup and pickled herring. Lunch felt like a gift. The volcano was quiet, its glacier muffled in clouds, but we’d forded icy river channels to get here, and twice Siggi’s SUV had got stuck. Outside the warm hut, gnarly birch trees formed a spiderweb of branches against the white hillside. “This is what it looked like when the Vikings arrived,” said Guðrún, Siggi’s sister. As we arrived, a ptarmigan fluttered out of the snow.Guðrún is a geographer, Siggi a geochemist at the university in Reykjavík. They were telling me the story of Iceland’s landscape, and if you counted the smoked lamb, all four main actors were present... Humans and their beasts, struggling to survive in a land of volcanoes and glaciers, have degraded it to an astonishing degree.If you don’t know that story, you see the astonishing beauty that remains.” (Rob Kunzig)You can read the whole article here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/iceland/kunzig-text©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic “The volcano Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, just before dawn on April 23, 2010: The worst is over. Lava flows freely. Earlier, as it punched through the ice cap, it triggered a meltwater flood that destroyed roads and farms, and a steam explosion that hurled ash into the stratosphere, stopping air traffic for a week.”©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic “A shifting stream drops bog iron onto volcanic sand near Háfur, on the south coast.”©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic “A glacial torrent pours over a 40-foot-high ledge at Gođafoss, "waterfall of the gods." After the Icelandic assembly adopted Christianity in 1000, its leader threw his pagan idols into the falls. The mossy island, notes geographer Guđrún Gísladóttir, "is protected from sheep.""You can browse through the images by clicking here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/iceland/haarberg-photographyVisit National Geographic Magazine on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NGM Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:22:28 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/iceland_story_in_the_national_geographic_magazine_-48 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/iceland_story_in_the_national_geographic_magazine_-48 Forrás I am happy to share with you, that I have 7 awarded images (out of total 57) in the Russian Golden Turtle Nature Photo contest! I won the Landscape and Mammal categories, and 5 images were highly commended in their categories. See all my awarded images under menu “Awards” on our website – I included three of them in this post below.Jökulsárlón, Iceland / “Landscape” category, highly commendedFeeding red knots, Iceland / “Harmony of life” category, highly commendedThe ghost of the lava field (Arctic fox I Iceland) / “Harmony of life” category, highly commendedThe all-over winner of the competition was Sergey Gorshkov. Congratulations Sergey! :-)See all the winning images here: http://animalphoto.ru/catalogue/archive/?catalogue_id=233Orsolya Haarberg Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:44:47 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winning_images_in_the_russian_golden_turtle_-47 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winning_images_in_the_russian_golden_turtle_-47 Forrás I am happy to let you know that in the last months several images of mine have been awarded in different international nature photo competitions.In the largest Italian nature photography contest “Oasis” (1143 authors from 44 countries) I won the 2nd prize in the Landscape category, and 3rd prize in the Mammal category. The list of winners can be seen here http://www.oasisphotocontest.com/en/partecipants.html, and as the gallery of the winning images is not published on this site yet, I share my winning images below.Category Landscapes, 3rd prize / The erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in IcelandCategory Mammals, 2nd prize / Norway lemmingIn another Italian contest ASFERICO I had 4 awarded images. The list of winners can be downloaded from here http://www.asferico.com/winner.asp, unfortunately we have to wait for the gallery of the winning images on this site too… Category Mammals, highly commended image / Norway lemmingCategory Mammals, highly commended image / Fighting arctic foxesCategory Birds, highly commended image / Singing bluethroatCategory Composition and form, highly commended image / A dwarf willow and patterns of mudAnd finally, in the contest “Glanzlichter 2012” I had a highly commended image in the Mammal category. Click on the link to see this winning photograph: http://www.glanzlichter.com/odb/index.cfm/fuseaction/enlageObject/nID/1202/rubrikid/16/kategorie/25/nCompanyID/286/functionmode/2/bgcolor/000066/textcolor/FFFFFF/lastuuid/71A733DC-B0A6-8834-AC6380DE52734691/55/index.htmErlend Haarberg Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:59:17 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/asferico__glanzlichter__oasis…-46 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/asferico__glanzlichter__oasis…-46 Forrás We continue sharing images from our trip to Iceland in 2011 - this time we reveal some hidden details from the coast...Waves on black volcanic sand...Tidepool on grey basalt...O&E Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:14:36 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winter_iceland_2-45 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winter_iceland_2-45 Forrás After attending at the Photo Fair in Oslo (2-3 March), where I had an exhibition of 34 large photo prints, we went straight to Jotunheimen, where we (Erlend and I) were planning to tent a couple of days in the mountains over 2000m above sea-level. Since Erlend has a long experience in the mountains, I had no worries to set out for such an adventure.In Jotunheimen, some roads are closed for the winter, so we had some extra kilometres to go in order to reach our destination in the Smørstabb-tindane. Starting at the height of 900m, in three days we walked approx. 45 kilometres on skis, 1100m up and down hills, with fully packed sledges and photo equipment.Although meteorologists failed when forecasting cloudless weather for this period, we had a great time tenting on the snow-covered Leirbreen glacier, climbing mountain tops and -ridges around. This time the weather was calm up there, however, avalanches and high, vertical walls of cliff or snow can make this place extremely dangerous in bad weather.Orsolya Haarberg Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:42:43 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/jotunheimen__4_6_march-44 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/jotunheimen__4_6_march-44 Forrás Last winter we spent 3 months in Iceland, and we thought that now it would be time to share some images that were taken about a year ago but were hardly exposed since. We hope you will enjoy them. O&ESnæfellsnes peninsula, February 2011Snæfellsnes peninsula, February 2011Hverfjall, March 2011 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:42:10 GMT mail@haarbergphoto.com (Haarberg Nature Photography) http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winter_iceland_1-43 http://haarbergphoto.com/blog/archive/winter_iceland_1-43 Forrás