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Name: Torgeir Lorange Østby

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Location: Oslo, Norway

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05 Aug. 2010 I Love My 50mm
04 Aug. 2010 Stockholm 2010
11 Jul. 2010 Feet in Oudtshoorn
08 Jul. 2010 Hood
30 Jun. 2010 Spontan omtale av Druen
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I Love My 50mm

05 Aug. 2010 at 23:01 — 0 comments

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Rock in the sea at Jomfruland (click for a bigger picture)

Stockholm 2010

04 Aug. 2010 at 22:47 — 1 comment

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I was four days in Stockholm this summer. It is a very likable place to be. Below are 16 photos of what I stumbled upon while walking the streets and paths. Areas of focus were Kungsholmen, Södermalm and Djurgården. Enjoy (the pictures are clickable)!

Travel bag on a high railing
The Swedes are weird sometimes. There was also a piece of wood tied to the railing by a regular power cable...
Sculptures
"Skådespel" (Play) by Sivert Lindblom. Kungsholmen.
Some palace
I'll let you know when the moving in party is. Taken from Kungsholmen, direction north.
A cozy backyard
A backyard on Södermalm
A park
Tantolunden on Södermalm
Roof between buildings
Funny roofing. Still on Södermalm.
A goose
There were a few hundreds of these in Djurgården (and lots of feces)
Long street
Långa Gatan (Long Street) in Djurgårdgen
A cat
A cat monitoring some pigeons. Djurgården.
Harbor
Harbor between Djurgårgen and Beckholmen, with Gröna Lund in the background
A duck
I see it, I take picture of it. This one is quite common.
A fountain and a "thinker" in the background
Waldemarsudde is beautiful place
An artificial butterfly
Found in a flowerbed made out of a big tree stub
A couple of deers
These decided to show up at Rosendal palace
A fountain, probably
Just behind Rosendal palace
Some kind of stork
At first, it didn't move, so I thought it was a sculpture. I haven't looked into what kind of bird it is.

The photos were taken during two of the four days. The first day was mostly spent in the Royal Palace (photos prohibited) and in shopping streets. The pictures above are from the two following days.

The last day was mainly spent at Fotografiska, a quite recently opened museum for contemporary photography. Definitely a place to visit!

Feet in Oudtshoorn

11 Jul. 2010 at 18:20 — 0 comments

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One of the places we visited in South Africa earlier this year was Oudtshoorn, which is in the middle of ostrich land. We stayed a couple of nights at Mooiplaas Guesthouse—an ostrich farm—which was simply fantastic.

In the front of the guest house they had a couple of fenced in areas with a few horses and ostriches. For some reason I had to take pictures of their feet:

Horse hooves Ostrich feet
Horse being cute and ostrich being ostrich (click on the images for larger versions)

Oudtshoorn was one of the really positive surprises, in my opinion. We only planned to use it as base for discovering adjacent areas, but after being introduced to some of what Oudtshoorn has to offer, we luckily changed our plans to have an awesome whole day there and in the surrounding mountains.

Special thanks to manager Andre at Mooiplaas, among other things for making the most perfect ostrich braai. If you haven't tasted grilled ostrich meat, you're missing out.