Cut-Off Ridge, Nantahala National Forest

Blue Ridge Parkway, Sylva, North Carolina • United States A last look onto the Blue Ridge Parkway before we turned onto the 74 to get us to Waynesville, where we tried to find a hotel to stay for the night. No need to say we weren't very successful in finding one, so we continued to Asheville where we got lucky.

Cut-Off Ridge, Nantahala National Forest

Blue Ridge Parkway, Sylva, North Carolina • United States A last look onto the Blue Ridge Parkway before we turned onto the 74 to get us to Waynesville, where we tried to find a hotel to stay for the night. No need to say we weren't very successful in finding one, so we continued to Asheville where we got lucky.

Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Newfound Gap, Bryson City, North Carolina • United States Just one day later and the fall colors start peaking through at Newfound Gap on the Tennessee / North Carolina boarder.

Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Cades Cove, Townsend, Tennessee • United States My friend took me to Cades Cove to see if our luck in search for fall colors would change for the better here. We also were considering to take a ride on our bikes, but soon found that too many visitors had the idea of visiting Cades Cove as early as we did...So no bike ride but some nice fog photos.

Stones River from Stones River Greenway, Nashville

Music City Bikeway, Nashville, Tennessee • United States The Nashville Music City Bikeway is a 26mile long route from Percy Priest Dam to Percy Warner Park through Nashville, mostly on greenways.

Salt Lick Creek

Salt Lick Creek, Gainesboro, Tennessee • United States Salt Lick Creek is located on the Cordel Hull Lake on the Cumberland River System about 10 miles from Gainesboro, Tennessee. Even though I was visiting in October the fall colors had not been showing, this due to higher than normal temperatures–records were set almost every day while I stayed in Tennessee that year, beating almost records from the early 2000s and "surviving" records from the 1930s– and an ongoing drought in 2016.

Central Business Destrict of Seattle from the Sky View Observatory

Central Business District, Seattle, Washington • United States

River Mya near Venabu (HDR)

Venabu, Ringebu, Oppland • Norway HDR processed photo of the river Mya near Venabu, Norway. This photo is made out of 5 exposured and an artistic template, to create the strong look in the colors.

Looking over Puget Sound toward Bainbridge Island

Central Business District, Seattle, Washington • United States On my last evening in Seattle the dust that had hung over the city for the first day or two had lifted and the view had finally become good enough to enjoy Seattle from a higher perspective. So I decided to get to the Sky Observertory on the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center, this way I was not only able to spot Mount Rainier but could also include the Sky Tower in my photo. I thought that the Sky Observatory would be on some sort of balcony, so I really wondered if I had taken on too much, but actually it was not, I had to take the photos through the windows instead. As the difference between the lighter sky and the darker city was too much for my camera to take in one photo, I decided to go for a composite of five photos which I then combined as a HDR with an as natural preset as possible.

Office building in Grønland, Oslo HDR

Grønland, Oslo, Oslo • Norway

March sunrise on the Oslofjord's shores

Sentrum, Oslo, Oslo • Norway This is a HDR created out of 5 different exposures which were combined in HDRSoft into one more artistic looking image.

Oslo Opera at sunrise with the Dutch research vessel Grace in the foreground

Sentrum, Oslo, Oslo • Norway An HDR photo build out of 5 different exposures of the same spot taken within just a couple of minutes. In the background one can see the Oslo Opera as well as the Barcoden. In the foreground a Dutch research vessel, the MS Grace.

Akerselv Oslo

Grünerløkka, Oslo, Oslo • Norway Oslo Akerselv which is the only waterfall of Oslo ... but of course not the only one in Norway.

Generator House in Atnbrua (HDR)

Sollia, Atnbrua, Hedmark • Norway Atnbrua is located at the end of the Atnsjøen lake. It is an old mountain village and passage going back into the 1600s. The small building in the photo shows the generator house, which was build in 1943, before the area was connected to the electricity network. During WWII there was a shortage of parafin, so the generator house was build to house a generator to provide the fourty households of Sollia with electricity until in 1948 the area was connected to the electricty network.