Nature

Hiking and Nature Photography — Nature’s Amazing Image Gallery

This story is about two things, hiking and nature photography. We can look at it as two legs that I stand on and walk with.

My one leg is the trip, the experience of walking in nature and seeing things, discovering landscapes and at the same time observing my feelings. I get physically tired and I get happy when I walk in nature.

The other leg I stand on is about what I see and the pictures I take. Hiking and photography — these are two things that are closely related. Being physically active is good for body and mind. It means that I can feel good at the same time as I do something else ie hiking. It is often good to be able to stop a little on the path and turn around and look out over the landscape, take out the camera and see if there is something nice or beautiful I can capture with the camera while looking outwards.

This is how I practice my walking, combined with nature photography.

I like to go on mountain peaks, so therefore I plan and like to have a whole day at my disposal. Sometimes I lie out in a tent in a sleeping bag.

In this article, it is about the two things — walking and nature photography, and I will show some examples of pictures I take when I am out for a walk in the Norwegian nature — what I see…

Sunset

Sunlight

Colors

The big. The large. The infinite

We are surrounded by images. We carry pictures inside ourselves. We send each other pictures.

What we see, is the world.

We try to see ourselves in the world.

Earth & Sun.

Sea & Sky.

Rain. Winds.

No matter what it is, we are affected.

It’s much about light, and it’s about forms. It’s about biological and geological diversity in nature, it’s about rocks and mountains and about steep, inhospitable slopes that I go up. And it’s about peaks that I see far away or that I have climbed on and stand on after I have walked for many hours.

It’s about what I see. What I look for is the beauty of nature, it is the untouched landscape where there is a footpath or a path or a small road through flat areas, hills and steep slopes.

I love nature photography in places where there are few people and where there is peace and quiet, where I can listen to nature at the same time as I take in my visual impressions and feelings. This is for me the big thing when it comes to walking in nature, next to taking pictures.

The pictures I take can be of the great things, the great landscapes, the plains, the mountains. Or it can be at the portrait level, ie objects, natural landscapes, woods and shrubs. And it can also be at the micro level, ie close-up images of bio, flowers and insects, small things in nature.

I specially love taking pictures with snow and ice, late autumn, winter, early spring:

Water, snow, ice photography

Ice and water -

— surprising forms, shapes, and colors

The motif can also be snow, water, ice — conditions and phenomena that occur in nature due to the temperature fluctuating from freezing to melting, and back to freezing again, natural phenomena that create wonderful shapes and visual impressions.

I love hiking in the Norwegian nature, all seasons.

I love what I can see in the nature.

I love taking photos. On some hikes I take hundreds of pictures.

Walking like this in nature with the camera in hand gives me a good feeling, and it gives me insight into myself, it gives me thoughts and it makes me feel good when I come home after a long trip.

It also gives me a lot of pleasure to be able to write an article or a story from a trip and publish it together with pictures on medium.com.

If this story has a purpose, it is to convey beauty — nature’s beauty.

Flowers,

stone,

mountains

Water, flowers, grass …

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