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Time-lapse of about 1500 RAW images taken between 22:00 and 01:00 on E6 between Skedsmokorset and Kløfta on a freezing November night.

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I was tired of needing to connect an external drive to my MacBook to access my image archive, and was planning to buy a 1TB drive to swap with my Apple-supplied 320GB. Then I came across the MCE OptiBay adapter that makes it possible to swap out the MacBook’s built-in DVD burner with a second drive, freeing up the standard HDD bay for an SSD.

I now have 800GB of storage in my MacBook, split between a speedy 160GB SSD and a 640GB regular hard drive. Great success!

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Norway is currently having the best winter in a long time: Lots of snow everywhere, and real winter temperatures: -10°C (14°F) and below.

For me, this means a lot of cross-country skiing in great conditions, and not much photography at all. Except for a few snapshots with the Canon IXUS 100 IS I (almost) always have in my pocket, sometimes resulting in shots like the one above.

After one of many heavy Christmas dinners I decided I needed to get outside and move around a little. It had snowed heavily for days, and was still snowing when I went out around midnight, all dressed up in Norrøna Lofoten and some big boots bought at Svalbard.

D300, 800 ISO, 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 23mm, f/2.8, 1/30s.

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A bit late, but here’s s photo I took (quickly) while shopping food on December 24th:

D300, ISO 400, 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 55mm, f/2.8, 1/40s.

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Inspired by Ben Ingham’s superb photos for Rapha rides Norddal and other series, I have fiddled a little with the new “Grain” effect in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 RC1:

Nikon D300, 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 78mm, ISO 1600, f/3.5, 1/320.

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Kreftforeningen (the Norwegian cancer foundation) arranged Oslo Grand Prix in August, and some of the world’s best cyclist raced a short circuit in the middle of Oslo. More than 60,000 people came to watch the race. I brought my camera.

Thor Hushovd
D300, ISO 1600, 70-200mm 2.8 @ 70mm, 1/250, f/2.8. SB-800 on camera.

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It’s been a very long time since I posted anything now, and one important reason for that is this:

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Last year I missed the “Kongen på Haugen” (“King of the Hill”) longboard competition at St. Hanshaugen in Oslo, but this year I was in town. The weather was fantastic: 25°C and no clouds, a lot of people turned up – both to race and to watch/tan/etc – and I managed to get some good shots too.

Johan W. Simonsen
D300, ISO 400, Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm, 1/1600, f/4.

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Some time ago I wanted to buy a spare Nikon BM-8 LCD cover for my D300, just in case. This little piece of plastic costs USD 9.95 in the US, but in Norway Nikon seems to think it’s worth more than five times as much: NOK 350, or USD 55. Do you think that is a bit too much? Well, before I contacted the store, FotoVideo, their advertised price was NOK 420, or USD 65.

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