Nature Lovers' Thread

[Rainman]

CD - That is sick my friend!! Congrats to you and the lady!! Life is good man!

 

[Dakine]

Love the nature but im not much of a camera guy. But i would like to say nice shots to everyone. Kinda inspiring in a way haha! Toke up and keep the pics comin!

 

[kallenavndk]

I couldnt agree more..




due in April...

Cellar my friend from tha ocean u soon have a kid , thats some cool shit m8 happy thoughts and good luck bro u be a great daddy
In the last picture of your lil miracel it looks like the wonder is praying or sucking on the thump or maybe cheking if its green like the daddy´s

I became a "Gran daddy" few days ago...here is nature m8 by my little rottie boy and girl

its fun to look at them pups hehe when the mum is out for a walk or just for a break they tuggle in whit each others but when they eat damn the big ones rules big time its nature from its ugly side when they do that.
Only the strongest will survive gene and that u can breed out of them .so i have to take the big ones away so the small ones can get a sip to

 

[arcticsun]

ohh they're beautiful mate gz on the pups and gz on the kid aswell CD

i really didnt need to see any more pups right now hehe, i already turned down 2 wonderful dogs this year because i want to do some travelling the next coupple of years. i love rottweilers man, they look beautiful mom aswell

here's one of the dogs i really wanted but didnt get, and it was ONLY because my dad took him instead. or i couldnt have let him go to someone else honestly, smartest dog ever

aicko, at about 4 months old i think.

 

[kallenavndk]

lovely m8 is it a collie mix?

 

[backwoodburner]

November in northern california

 

[John Allen]

Great pictures everyone, good to see people are still at it.

Backwoodburner Those coast shots are amazing, I love the Northern California coast so much. Same goes for the whole west coast, from Norcal to Alaska, I would only live in this region. Although other places are great ti visit.

I really like those rottweilers, long ago I thought of getting one my self but doubt I would have one unless I own property.
Here are a few pictures, misc. stuff I've shot. I'll start with the love of my life, haha, I love her to death, but her coat is a pain.

Some Forest

 

[John Allen]

Sonoran Desert

A few other random shots~

Along the Mendocino coast

 

[arcticsun]

lovely m8 is it a collie mix?

actually afaik his father was a champion border collie sheep herd show dog, and his mother was a working border collie sheep dog aswell. so he has loads of instinct, typical border collie really clever aswell, its going to be interresting when we go fishing in the mountains this summer. there are thousands of raindeer everywhere haha.

here are some pics of tha gang my sis the computer wiz managed to fuck up the first half of the CD she burned for me, so i didnt get any of the pics of the parent dogs.

Here are some pics from my drive home when I go trout fishing. Gotta love the Cali. scenery! Even better with packed bowls and 3 liars telling fish tales on the way home!! Peace!

how did someone say troutfishing and i didnt catch it? hehe
check it out mate, troutfishing in arctic scandinavia some summer shots.
btw tobad the pics with the biggest fish are the ones with me posing in them hehehehehe

finally this last picture is what i think is a brown bear, the picture is taken a quite a distance, this is bear country but it could be something else. if someone out there is an expert on bears i would love to hear your oppinion.

 

[kallenavndk]

actually afaik his father was a champion border collie sheep herd show dog, and his mother was a working border collie sheep dog aswell. so he has loads of instinct, typical border collie really clever aswell, its going to be interresting when we go fishing in the mountains this summer. there are thousands of raindeer everywhere haha.

here are some pics of tha gang my sis the computer wiz managed to fuck up the first half of the CD she burned for me, so i didnt get any of the pics of the parent dogs.

how did someone say troutfishing and i didnt catch it? hehe
check it out mate, troutfishing in arctic scandinavia some summer shots.
btw tobad the pics with the biggest fish are the ones with me posing in them hehehehehe

finally this last picture is what i think is a brown bear, the picture is taken a quite a distance, this is bear country but it could be something else. if someone out there is an expert on bears i would love to hear your oppinion.

FUCKING AWESOME NATURE U JUST MADE ME CUM YEAAAAAAAAAAH rep u i will

Yes border was what i think he was maybe some shetland shep dog in it doh ,my dad have a border to hehe he is 11 almost 12 year wich is very old for a border they run them self to dead in a age og 7-8 +- but he is clewer too and damn he still can play and run

 

[kallenavndk]

Well when we are whit the pups
My french bulldog Miss Mud

 

[arcticsun]

Well when we are whit the pups
My french bulldog Miss Mud

she is such a cutie lol.

i take pics of all my friends dogs when they come by, maybe i should upload them i'm all dog crazy at the moment...sigh, but its allrite cus i have aicko there to keep me company next summer when we go fishing, and then the year after i will most DEF get one myself aswell.

oh and i would just like to specify and clarify with the upmost respect to anyone who might be practicing catch and release when troutfishing. and to all other nature lovers out there that we have very good reason for not practicing catch and release in these areas.

first and foremost, very important, the trout is not indigenous here, it is a fierce predatory fish and it is territorial. it competes with another very very special and important fish for this habitat. look at this, its the most beutiful creature i know of, the arctic charr. its in the salmon family, and it is just perfect beauty and natural design. and we release these arctic charr when we catch them unless we are hungry.

(not my pic this one, i got my face in all the charr shots.)

secondly, the areas are through local enthusiasm protected by law from any motor transportation, even snowmobiles and helicopter landings or micro seaplane landing on any of the lakes. so the ONLY way in is a 2 day long kneebreaking mosquito hell of a walk. also there is no commercial fishing and very limited tourism allowed. basically you have to be accompanied by a local to get full access. the fishing is even restricted for people from other parts of the country.

third we carry as little as possible into the areas, because any little piece of plastic caught by the wind is a potential disaster in this most fragile ecosystem on earth, the arctic. we take only food fish, and then last night upon return we fish to bring home to the family. look at our fishing rods and gear in the pictures and you see we dont have expencive flyrods and flashy stuff, just basic gear for catching food. (not that i mind people that can afford that, id like some new stuff tbh)

fourth there is such an abundance of wild trout here, i guess it would be hard to understand for someone living in an urbanized area or in england or usa, mainland europe.. whatever. where trout is endangered. here's just thousands of freshwater lakes and large rivers connected which makes the perfect trout habitat. they grow up to over 10 kg in inland lakes, and the seatrout grows up to over 15 kg. even 20 kg specimens have been caught, but 5kg+ is normal. wild atlantic salmon grows to over 30 kg, even 35-40 and over 20 kg salmon gets caught every year. what is seen on my pics is pan size.

random map section finnmark county north norway (close to north cape, eurasia north point), ALL of these lakes will be trout and charr lakes, toss a lure at random. i could also have scrolled in any direction on google maps to see the same amount of lakes everywhere.

finally, the fifth good reason why we dont catch and release. we are local, with generations attatched to the land. and look(below).. no banana trees hehe
i just mean not much grows here, so we rely on harvesting responsibly from nature for food. fish being the main resource. and very important in winter when we get no sun for vitamin D so we dont get sick afterall no reason to go buy expencive crappy store food when you get this free.

take a gaze at the hill and the rainshower in the distance here, that is a 2 hour walk, the walking distance in to this pic is a 2 day walk. in here, there is just no nothing except trout, mosquitos and small berries. damn i should have uploaded some mosquito shots for you, my personal record is 28 mosquitos in one hit slamming my flat hands together randomly. if that gives you an idea how many of the little bloodsuckers there are. i think there's an annual mosquito slapping contest somewhere lol.

so again with the upmost respect to all out there, i beg your understanding and i give you my reassurance that we travel with the deepest care and with age old traditions. the knowledge about the areas and how to behave in nature is inserted in us from the moment we are born up here. afterall its the only place where loads of these species still flourish in the wild, because locals fought like hell to keep commercial interrests away. and i mean there was bloodshed sometimes fighting against commercial fishing and water dams. still goes on. its our legacy, and its my biggest pride and joy in life.

i just wanted to specify and clarify this to you all, because i got some positive constructive critizism in the rep department from a coupple of people regarding catch and release. thank you but i hope you can respect this, i guess the dead fish pics are a bit barbaric to some people, but hey nature is abit barbaric sometimes right? especially here in the arctic, its unforgiving, so in my eyes i feel at one with nature when i harvest from it.

but please, lets not start a catch and release discussion, that was not the intention. i just wanted to explain this, i fully understand and respect catch and release principals. given the circumstances explained above tho, its a different setting.

lets get back to the beautiful nature pics, i just absolutely loved the desert shots by the way unless i already said that. since i'm boring you all with all my text ill try to get up with teh little daylight there is tomorrow and take some winter shots for you all. we have loads of snow here now, and christmas coming up so should be nice

 

[spaceghost22]

For Gaia. From whose bosom we all share.

 

[steppinRazor]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to kallenavndk again.


those are some amazing pix bro!!!

 

[arcticsun]

some reindeer grazing in the backyard newyears day 09. 01,01,09. i was a bit hung over so i scared them when i came out, tobad they ran off, they were hanging out in the backyard for quite some time before i went out.


can one have a better start of the year?

after kind of a slow start with little snow before christmas,
we have had the usual christmas holiday weather. A LOT of snow!

 

[tomato]

poland under white quilt

 

[Dr Dog]

Thousands of these woodpeckers live around me, while I was walking through woods looking for some wildlife, which was impossible as I was making way too much noise to keep my presence a secret, they little guys started swarming me and singing out, it was kind of creepy actually, almost sounding like they were being tortured.

This is what I had to contend with going through the woods, nearly impassable

 

[pack a bowl]

love the border collies articsun, i have a mutt myself and she is the smartest dog i've ever known.

 

[jahman]

Some amazing shots guys!!!!!!! Really love em!

ok some winter pics from Poland! Hope you enjoy!

 

[John Allen]

Can't forget about this thread, I mean, whats better then sharing pictures with each other of our beautiful Mother Earth. A few winter pictures of the Sonoran desert, then a few up in Mendocino.