Mike's photos

My spot on the web where I upload photos from my adventures
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A little about me

It all started in 2003. Back then I was a computer junkie with no interest in the outdoors at all. Then all of a sudden in the middle of a computer programming coarse I got fed up with computers, office chairs and mankind's technological advancements and decided to do something totaly different. I wanted to get out. So I went to Åland on a one year coarse in outdoor leadership. Evidence of what went on during that year at Åland and what I've been doing since can be seen in these photo galleries.

I still work with computers though, I have a job in the TV broadcasting industry. I enjoy my job and I get to travel a lot too, but most importantly, it finances my adventures :)



News

May 10, 2011
The fantastic ice climbing season of 2010 / 2011 ending a while back and I have uploaded a bunch of new galleries from various ice climbing trips. I didn't break my record of ice climbing days from last year but ended up with the exact amount of ice climbing days, 30. So all in all a very active ice season for me. But now it's rock season and we will see what kind of photos make there way up here. I've already been to Kalymnos (photos coming) and have plans for some climbing on Norwegian granite in the midnight sun... So let's see what this season of rock will bring...

December 15, 2010
As some of you might have noticed I have given this site a major facelift. I got tired of the really old and boaring plain text HTML page and gave it this new look with a menu bar and a bit of color. I've actually put a bit of effort into restructering and re-writing the HTML codes and photo gallery generation scripts, making it easier to update and change the layout in the future.


 

Latest updates

September 14, 2011
I've been fairly active shooting photos of abandoned structers and such, just not as active editing them all. Some of these photos where taken in April this year and have not made their way up here until now. Here are five new galleries for the Out of bounds category, but there are more on the way as at this moment I have seven more galleries in this category to edit.

Out of bounds
  • Two abandoned defence bunkers
  • Abandoned cement factory
  • Old iron ore loading tunnel
  • Abandoned processing plant
  • Abandoned steel works


August 12, 2011
Once again I've been a litle slow updating this page. The pile of photos to go through has been a bit to big to manage but this time around I've managed to get photos from two climbing trips up. I've also put up some caving photos which is nice since it has been a while since I added something new to the Caving section. And last but not leaste I've added photos from some abandoned buildings I've shot during trips abroad. The rest of the photos from other abandoned places will be put up when I've hit the bottom of the pile. That'll take a while I guess, it usually does...

Climbing photos
  • Midnight sun climbing at Lofoten and Stetind
  • Limestone climbing on Kalymnos

Caving photos
  • Caves on Kalymnos

Out of bounds
  • Abandoned mental hospital, Norway
  • Two abandonded industrial sites around Rome



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