These pictures are a result of me wanting to get out and use my photo gear, and extending my portfolio. Thanks to Sigve, Remi, Jon, Andreas, Anne, Linda, Edvald and my neighbor for letting me shoot pictures of you guys!

All pictures from the event

Last weekend I shoot picture during the Ski jumping World Championships trails in Vikersund.
With a World record of 246,5 meter Friday and victory to Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen Saturday and second place Sunday, the atmosphere throughout the weekend was great. Here are some of my favourites, including a sideshow of Johan Remen Evensens 240 meter jump Saturday.

Oslo´s pride and joy, Holmekollen ski jumping hill is being rebuild for the 2011 Nordic Ski World Championship. Last week I was up there with NXC for a guided tour, and I took some pictures

This old lady is one of many nice neighbors that I have. She waters our flower beds, and has been doing so for 35 years. She is also often seen sitting outside on one of our beaches. On my way out today, I took a picture of her ( ask asked for permission after..)

Red Bull hosted a kite event at Haugastøl Norway this weekend, and I was there. What an event. On Friday 110 kiters competed in a endurance kite race, and Saturday a snowboard / ski cable track freestyle competition.

The concept (Taken from www.redbullragnarok.no)
The participant event Red Bull Ragnarok will select up to 200 riders from all over the world to race for 3 hours; 6 rounds of approximately 30 minutes each, stretching from 10-20km. After each round, if not already given up voluntarily, a number of snow-kite heroes will be eliminated.

After a crazy race start Friday, I was doing well after 3 of 5 round holding 4th position. But patience ran out after the wind died for the second time, so I forfeited. Did not bring my camera that day ( picture coming soon) . On Saturday I took pictures of all the snowboarder doing crazy stuff at the cable track kickers and sliders.

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Links to web pages with pictures and video from the event

www.redbullragnarok.no
www.mortengjerstad.com
www.happygolucky.com

After I got my new Hackintosh up and running, I have so much storage. I decided to add some of my older pictures to my Lightroom library. Running Snow Leopard, I´m also able to run Lightroom in 64 bits mode. I am not sure how much faster it is since I need more time with it, but rendering RAW images is quicker. Anyway, I found this picture from a trip to Haugastøl almost 3 years ago. I was windy, but bad weather, I was in the car almost the entire day. I was bored, and took this picture. I kind of like it.

After hocking up on Facebook almost a year ago, I finally managed to meet be old army college buddy, Anders. I had not seen Anders since we graduated 11 years ago, so I was pretty excited. After living in different part of northern Norway, Anders and he´s family moved back to were he and his wife Tone grew up, Senja. This is Norways second biggest island, and is the northern part of Norway, a 2 hour flight from Oslo.

On saturday, Anders took me around the island, and it has some pretty stunning nature.
The weather was not all that great though, something I really felt on our mountain trip, 30 knots and snow. Not exactly a walk in the park. But all in all we had a great weekend with catching up, good food, FIFA 09, mountain trip and I got to meet Anders and Tone´s kids, Erik and Frida and Anders parents.

Road to Husøy	Husøy
“Fiskevær”	Happy campers, Anders and I

190 days of leave, 4 continents, a lot kiting (and soar muscles) amazing places, a lot of new friends, some 7000 pictures, and rich on life; the party is over and I´m soon on my way back to Oslo, Norway. I´m really looking forward to get back home to see my friends and family.

This last week I´ve been working for my friend Hege and helping here out with Cabarete Summer Fest. During the event I´ll take pictures and write festival reports. Hege also want´s to display some my pictures at the festivals photo exhibition. Pretty cool! If they get sold, the money goes to www.wishspring.org

I took some pictures of Alex Soto, which will be competing during the festival. He is one of the local professional riders from Cabarete

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