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Herdalssetra close to Norddal/(Dalsbygda) and Eidsdal on the west coast of Norway.

An old seter. It's still in use, the old fashioned way, so I guess in a few weeks the place will be crowded with sheeps and goats, "budeier" (people working there), maybe cows and a few horses, and of course; tourists :D

I don't think there's an English word equal to the Norwegian "seter", but the closest might be mountain dairy or summer farm or... something :XD:

Post-processing
Stitched together of about 30 pictures taken in portrait format.

Decreased the contrast on all the pictures - by turning down exposure slightly, up recovery and added some fill light - in camera raw to make a more neutral starting position and try to have as little overexposed or underexposed areas as possible.

Stitched the pictures together with automatic photomerge in camera raw.

Turned up the contrast with selective curves layers. One curves layer for darkening the sky-area around the sun. Two curves layers for darkening and turning up the contrast on the blue sky at the sides, one of them with the blending mode set to luminosity.

One curves layer for the foreground for lightening and turning up the contrast. Also added another curves layer for the whole picture, lightening it a bit more.

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Gjør at man blir stolt av å være norsk!
Flott bilde! :)

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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. (Tallulah Bankhead)
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Forresten, er det veldig nærme Eidsdal? Vi har nemlig vært der et par ganger, og det er utrolig fint der!

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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. (Tallulah Bankhead)
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Fantastisk flott bilde!

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''Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there!''
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You're image is featured [link] :rose:
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I'm even unsure if there's a Swedish word for it. Feels more like there should be a German or French word for it. Only place I can imagine who has something similar is along the Alps.
:iconkvikken:
I tried to use wikipedia as a translator, (it usually works pretty well, actually :D), but there was no link to an English version from the Norwegian one, so I went through the Deutsch one and ended up with alpine meadow, but that's not really exactly the same, but probably the closest one can come in English :lol:
:iconkvikken:
Nja, ikke så veldig langt unna, 20 minutter, en halvtime kanskje, pluss, minus (så ikke på klokka da jeg kjørte, men det er ikke så veldig langt :D)

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Camera Data

Canon
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
1/100 second
F/16.0
10 mm
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Jun 1, 2009, 2:01:46 PM

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