My name is Thomas, thomeven@gmail.com. I retired from work in April 2022 at the age of 62 and I am a passionate photographer of wildlife and love staying in the Norwegian mountains (in Norwegian). Grand kids, photography, continue maintenance of my macOS application RsyncUI and beeing in the Norwegian mountains keeps me busy.

Birds

Most of all, I capture photos of birds. Some birds are used to people and easy to photograph. Others, again, like birds of prey, are very shy, and a photo hide is almost required to get a photo of them. Bird photo is about 90% travel and waiting. But all the waiting does pay off when the bird you are waiting for shows up.

There are also some photos of wild animals. Some of the animals were just discovered; e.g., I was on the right spot at the right time, and the camera was ready. Muskox and moose are captured on photo trips in Norway. Mostly, I capture photos of birds, but wild animals are also very exciting to take photos of.

Nature

I have, as long as I can remember, loved being in nature. Photography has also been one of my hobbies for years. Nature and wildlife are under pressure. There are too many politicians who do not understand the importance of preserving nature and wildlife. Every day I learn more about nature, how fragile it is, and how everything in nature is somehow connected. And humans are experts in destryoying nature through ignorance and eccenomical motivations. That frightens me.

Sony gear

For the last 5 years I have only used Sony gear. Previous Sony camera bodies are Sony fullframes A7iii and Sony A9ii. I have also used lenses from Tamron and Sigma, but all are sold. My gear now are Sony fullframe A1 camera body, the Sony FE 600mm F4.0 GM OSS lens, the Sony FE 50mm F1.4 GM lens and a Sony FE 1.4x teleconverter. The 600mm lens is primarly bought because it is a superb lens for bird photography. The 1.4TC extends the 600mm to 840mm and two stops down.

How is this web built?

Hugo, which is a static site generator, is the web framework serving these pages. The source for this website is hosted on GitHub. Netlify, which runs the web server, automatically picks up changes on the main branch and rebuilds the server. The Hugo theme used is another open-source project hosted on GitHub.

Every time I change or add pages, I commit the changes to GitHub, and Netlify automatically builds the new server in seconds.