The pure natural beauty of nature in the significant four seasons and seasonal lighting fascinates me. Early or late sunset in winter vs. summer time in Scandinavia adds another dimension. Looking out of the window last night at 9PM gave a great reminder. My wife and I are at our vacation home and Sweden and inspired by the special sky we hurried to the local beach for a photo hunt. We’ll gladly take you along and hope you find it worth while:
Going crazy with my new Cannon Power Shot G11, let me share some of the shots from today (click to bigify & enjoy!):
Golden sky beach beauty in Scandinavia:
This is our favourite photo hunting beach in our “home away from home” in Mariestad. My regular readers know I love to play in posts with photos from the same spot in different seasons. Let’s start with one from tonight’s golden sky:
Then the difference from spring (now) to fall, then winter and at last a hot day for tanning: Amazing to observe this is the same place, don’t you agree?
Left: Fall gives golden beauty too! Right: Winter with nice fresh and crisp air!
Summer time – even topless tanning.
The days are growing longer here in Scandinavia, with the sun not going down until almost 9:30 in the evening. Soon it will be summer and the nights will be lighter than any other time of the year. I do hope you will soon be experiencing this with us at the Oslo Blog Gathering 2010. If you haven’t done so already check out the program and join the team!!
So beautiful shots
from a very fantastic country :)
Love it …..
Have a happy weekend
These are beautiful pictures, and I like seeing how different places look during the 4 seasons too.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I’ve had quite a hard time keeping up with everything this year…also discovered Twitter and got a little too into it at one point. A great tool but a little too easy to let everything else go. This spring I decided I missed the blogging world. I may not spend as much time on it as I used to, but am going to try to keep up a bit.
That said, I just started following you on Twitter, lol!
Gorgeous colours!
Gorgeous! I saw the pictures on Flickr and I would have guess it was taken in some sunny exotic island if I didn’t know better!
These sunsets are stunning.
Lovely!!! I love this time of year of course and I love going out to see the sunset all pink and beautiful like this! Great pics!
Nice to learn you take now good time in Mariestad with Diane! I am impresse to see how different are the same landscapes depending of the season! The colours, the atmosphere! We are nothing similar here south of France!
I can’t wait now to taste the Scandinavia night during the OBG!!!
We’re experiencing the same long days with you, Renny, going to bed when it’s still not totally dark yet. Thank God for thick drapes! :) And I do love the spectacular photos you’re getting with your little G11 camera. I know your love it.
Simply wonderful and fascinating my dear friend.
As far as can recall, we have been there all seasons but the Spring. Am I right? Ok, during Ester, but that’s not like it is these Days.
Hope we could join you in Mariestad for some Days during the Summer, before the OsloBG. Second half of July?
Lovely pictures, Renny!
Check out Dackel Princess. I have an entry up about Einstein, the World’s Smallest Horse!
The beach pics from spring-summer-fall-winter would look great as a framed series!
Amazing colors. The contrast of the blues of the water against the golds and yellow of the sky is gorgeous.
You really are an excellent photographer, you know. And I am glad you took me along for the ride.
I can stay there all day soaking in the beautiful skies & baeches ;)
It’s amazing!! I liked this differents photographies!! We don’t have this landscapes in our country…
Your pictures are beautiful. The colors are so lovely that the pictures look more like paintings. I also like the trees which could be made of lace. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Absolutely stunning! Great photos. The contrast between seasons was neat.
Fab beach photos! I love your new camera!
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