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.

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5 min readSep 30, 2020

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Humans are small in the nature. Hikers descending from the Folgefonn Glacier, near Odda, Norway. Copyright © Øivind H. Solheim

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…

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Øivind H. Solheim
Happy Hiking

I was an educator, now I write in English and in Norwegian. I have published 6 novels and a poetry book. @oivind47 · oivind47.medium.com, oeivind.substack.com/