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Current season is SPRING
Please click the photo to the left to go to my "Greenlandic Spring Photos 2009" Gallery

Below are the links to the seasonal photo groups, please refer to the individual group for a complete list of Galleries:
- Spring Photo Network
- Summer Photo Network
- Autumn Photo Network
- Winter Photo Network
- Christmas aorund the world

Want to know more? Maybe join us? visit the individual photo group to learn how

Current season is SUMMER:)
Please click the photo to the left to go to my "Greenlandic Summer Photos 2008" Gallery

Below are the links to the seasonal photo groups, please refer to the individual group for a complete list of Galleries:
- Spring Photo Network
- Summer Photo Network
- Autumn Photo Network
- Winter Photo Network
- Christmas aorund the world

Want to know more? Maybe join us? visit the individual photo group to learn how

Both for another Duploworld update (long overdue some would say:)) and to head off on another brief travel adventure...

Hi all:)

Well gues the major news is up there in line one already:)
On friday I will head off to Copenhagen again, for a little less than a week.
it will mainly be work stuff, as in countless meeeting on this and that, sneak in a mini conference and we are about there... but I guess I will get a chance to squeeze off a few photos while I am at it too, so you just got to wait and see:)

Winter bay

What I have left of spare time these days is spend outside, primarily with a camera attached to my eye and hand, but I do get some boarding time too:D
Now winter this year has been nothing short of amazing and when I say amazing, I mean amazingly winterly.
Unlike in Denmark where winter has been more or less absent, then up here we have had the hardest winter in more than 20 years.

Winter Kayaks

now how bad can it be you might ask?
Well, if we look at it in short oneliners:
- Disco bay has frozen over this winter
- Kangerussuaq has been at its coldest in over 20 years below -50C
- Maniitsoq have had visits from Polar bears
- The fiords around Nuuk has been steaming
- The fiords around Nuuk has even been partly frozen over, which the strong currents normally prevents.
- Nuuk have had prolong periods with well below -20C, several days in the -30C area
snowdunes

Now is that bad, well no it is not:) it means heaps of snow, which again means a lot of usage for snowshoes, snowboard and other outdoor accessories... something I really do enjoy:happy:
Sure one has to be close to nuts, to sit down somewhere way out in the lonely landscape, with a termo of hot coffee, to enjoy a sunset in solitude. Especially when the thermometer reads -29C (the icebow easily made up for it though;)).
But the truth is that I actually love it:happy:
Inuksuits

Well I think that is it for now, there is naturally a bounch of photos in the "Greenlandic Winter Photos" album, so go check it out:)
By the way, I have sorted it by date in a descending order, to make it easier to spot the latest additions (I will then a little int othe spring season cut it down till about 20 photos...
Yes I really do have an issue with the 300 MB limit Opera has - Please opera, can I get or even buy some more? and now that we are at it... The ability to move photos between albums would help a great deal too.
Sermitsiak

as said that is it for now... do take care you all:)

Thomas

would be a most suiteable tittle I think...

Hi All,

And welcome to a delayed, but winterly Duploworld update:)

A suitable tittle for the photo below.

Low Tide winter


The photo is from a walk Sunday afternoon, during the later hours of daylight, which by all means is something we do not have a lot of... that however is compensated, by a fair amount of snow, delightfully chilly weather and more snow falling today:) slopes are close to be ready for opening on nothing but real snow:D

There is 8 additional photos in the now updated "Greenlandic Winter Photos 2007" album.
Go take a look:)

Now I do need to apologize to all of you for not reading up on your blogs, but work is tough these days, a little tougher than I like it to be. But well, we cannot have it all can we:)

Now that is it for now a brief update just to let you know that I am alive and well.
Now back to a HUUUGE watchlist.

Do take care and thanks for stopping by:)

Thomas

Hi All,

Thrid Duploworld update in a row. Soon I will be off for Copenhagen and a week full of meetings, but also a weekend dedicated to photography...

This post is not really a lot of news, but I got one thing new to tell you... my brand new Pentax FA35mm f2 AL prime arrived today in time for me to bring it on my copenhagen trip:yes: This means that my travel setup for this trip will be 5 lenses.
DA14mm, DA21mm, FA35mm, FA50mm and a Sigma 105 macro. the workhorses will most likely be the DA21 and the new FA35.

Took it for a quick walk today and first impressions are nice, extremely sharp, excellent bokeh and as close to zero distorsion as it gets, I am going to love this lens too (I have almost too many of them and still got two more comming in the next months or so).

Here are the results of todays walk (and yes I was in a monocrome mood:D):

A ship yard view:

Togetherness?

A Hunters Home:

Playground...

Well these along with this, this and this concludes my Greenlandic Winter Pictures album. A total of 96 pictures:eyes: guess I will call that to have the Greenlandic winter covered:D

I will head back to bed.. WIll read up on you all some time during the weekend.

Do take care you all:)

Thomas