iPhone nature photo wallpaper

I thought I’d share some of my nature photos for those of you with iPhones and a desire to bring some life onto your iPhone’s screen. The images are cropped and optimised for the iPhone 4′s Retina display resolution. This is also the resolution used by the newer iPod Touches. You can still download and use them on older iPhone/Touch devices.

To get a photo into your iPhone’s photo library, the easiest way is to:

1. On a thumbnail, right click on the small thumbnail below, and choose “Save link as…” (not “Save image as…”), OR, on the full size image, right click on the middle of the picture so that neither the forward or back arrows are shown, and select “Save as…”
2. Find the saved picture and email it to your iPhone’s email account.
3. On your iPhone, view the email and press the icon that shows an arrow pointing left, and choose “Save n images”.

Then just choose the image as usual to be shown on the Lock and/or Home screen. Some photos are better suited to the Lock screen than the Home screen. I hope you find one or two you like!

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Feelings of summer

The first pictures I’ve actually had time to take this year, so although they’re nothing amazing, I’m happy to have been out in the sun and got something. Some were taken in the midday sun, which is normally very bad for nature photography, but I think with these photos works quite well with the strong contrast and bright colours, evoking feelings of a hot summer.

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Oslo Fjord

Here are a few photos from my last couple of trips to the fjord. I’m looking forward to some bad weather to help with the skies!

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Rondane in Autumn

Last weekend I took a trip to Rondane, which is the oldest national park in Norway and about six hours north of Oslo. It’s famous for its rounded mountains and rolling terrain, interspersed with rocky rivers and peaks. I stayed in the Rondvassbu hut, which is run by the DNT – basic accommodation but good food. It was beautiful, with snow settling on the mountains and below the treeline, the leaves were a golden brown. Obviously I was there for the photography, and here are a few of my shots. I’ve also made a Rondane gallery where you can see many more photos.  Also, check out Seung Kye Lee’s photos of Rondane – stunning.

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The End of the World

Well, that’s the name of the place, at least! It’s a translation of Verdens Ende, which is a point of the coastline at the southern tip of the Oslo fjord in Norway. I was there at the weekend for the first time, and found the area beautiful. It’s a scattering of barren, rocky islands and headlands, and the rocks are very weathered and rounded, with big cracks and hollows. There’s not a lot in the way of greenery, though the lack of it makes the place even more interesting.

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I had with me my new toy, a ND 3.0 filter, which lets though only 1/1000 of the light that’s normally let through the lens. This means exposure times of minutes, rather than fractions of a second. Choppy seas are turned to mirrors, skies are made wispy and the view is given a warm tint, making for unusual and slightly unreal impressions.

These are the only shots I could get in the limited time before the sunset, bearing in mind each shot lasted a few minutes. I didn’t find what I was looking for in terms of composition and style, but I couldn’t race around looking for other spots as the coastline was pretty inaccessible. I’ll be back again!

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