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Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.
Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are slightly fewer than 20,000 known species of bee, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains flowering dicotyledons.
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Minus 14 degrees celsius, not a cloud to see for miles and miles.
The perfect day to ski in the Norwegian mountains!
The photos is taken in the Norefjell mountain range, just an hour and a half from Oslo.
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The Oslofjord (Oslofjorden) is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from Langesund in the south to Oslo at the head. The bay is divided into the inner (indre) and outer (ytre) Oslofjord at the point of the 17 km long and narrow Drøbaksundet. The entire population situated around the Oslofjord including Oslo is about 1.7 million. In spite of its name, the Oslofjord is not, geologically speaking, a fjord. In historical times, it was known as Viken (the bay); it is unclear when (and for what reason) it acquired its current name.
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch had a cottage and studio in Åsgårdstrand on the fjord and it appears in several of his paintings, including The Scream and Girls on the Pier.
Oslofjord seen from Ekeberg, in OsloThe fjord was the scene of a key event in the German invasion of Norway in 1940. The invasion, Operation Weserübung, included a planned landing of 1000 troops transported by ship to Oslo. Colonel Eriksen, Commander of the Oscarsborg fortress near Drøbak, mainly maintained for historical purposes, sank the German warship Blücher in the Drøbak narrows.
The fortress resistance blocked the route to Oslo, thus delaying the rest of the group long enough for the royal family, the government and parliament to be evacuated, as well as the national treasury. The result was that Norway never surrendered to the Germans, leaving the Quisling government illegitimate and permitting Norway to participate as an ally in the war, rather than as a conquered nation.
The Oslofjord is one of the nine venues of the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.
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This one is shot and compiled by multiple RAW photos and then tonemapped using an HDR technique
Critical masses: Tried to get detail and a nice, sharp photo, which is not easy with my cheap equipment an short tele lens.
My other hobby, facts:
The Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966
Thank you USSR for the most important achievements in the Earth/Moon history
My HDR photos
HDR tutorials
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During winter in Norway the sun moves low across the sky, creating very special colors and light.
Even at a day like this with no clouds at all, the sun is not strong since most of it's energy is deflected by the ozone layer (also because of the low orbit)
The sunsets here up north is like no other place.
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