{"id":519,"date":"2011-07-20T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-07-20T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:44:27","slug":"summer-on-the-west-coast-of-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/519-summer-on-the-west-coast-of-norway.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer on the west coast of Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this summer NRK had one of the most talked about live shows ever in Norway. They had a Minute by Minute live stream while a ship sailed from Bergen to Kirkenes (5 days of sailing). The stream is available here<\/a>.
\nSome of the areas that had a lot of interest was Geiranger and the fjords of Norway. We recently drove trough that area and I got a few nice pictures.
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\"Geiranger<\/a>

Geiranger in summer sun<\/p><\/div>
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\"Waterfall<\/a>

Waterfall in Geiranger<\/p><\/div>
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\"Geiranger\"<\/a>

Geiranger<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Rindal is part of Trollheimen (one of several mountain areas in Norway)
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\"Summer<\/a>

Summer in Rindal<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

In addition to this I have been playing around with my macro lens and capturing some of the wildlife in Rindalen.
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\"Spying<\/a>

Spying spider<\/p><\/div>
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\"Bumble<\/a>

Bumble bee<\/p><\/div>
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\"Bumble<\/a>

Bumble bee 2<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this summer NRK had one of the most talked about live shows ever in Norway. They had a Minute by Minute live stream while a ship sailed from Bergen to Kirkenes (5 days of sailing). The stream is available here. Some of the areas that had a lot of interest was Geiranger and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[289,290,526,523,511,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-photography","8":"tag-fjords","9":"tag-insects","10":"tag-macro","11":"tag-nature","12":"tag-photography","13":"tag-pictures","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1057,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/1057-scenic-norway-the-atlantic-ocean-road.html","url_meta":{"origin":519,"position":0},"title":"Scenic Norway – The Atlantic Ocean Road","author":"leirdal","date":"2012-08-03","format":false,"excerpt":"Most Norwegians enjoy a long summer vacation. 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