Recently I have been getting some new Tech stuff, like a new camera a while before Christmas (Canon EOS 600D) and now the other day I got an iPhone 4S when renewing my account. To learn about this new stuff takes many hours of my time. (Fun hours though!)

There is so many nice features in both the camera and the mobile phone. The camera will take the longest time to get used to though - or to get skilled enough to use all the extra functions I might say.

When it comes to the mobile phone, it takes hours and hours to search through for all the apps - even though there are recommendations from friends, other users and experts - I still want the ones I like the most, not only the ones others like.

I’ll come back with some kind of report of what I finally decided to download in apps - and even anything special I discover or learn with the new camera, but I suspect I’ll not shoot so many photos until we’re going to meetup with our Norwegian friends in February.

Anyway: now you know what I’m occupied with. I really LOVE both my new tech babies. Only thing missing now is a new laptop too…

Have any great travel apps or photo apps to recommend? Write a comment!

©Lifecruiser Love Tech Stuff
 

I captured a snake on photo at our summer island (Gotland) once, which I think is a Swedish grass snake (snok in Swedish) - or Natrix natrix, family: Colubridae. We have two subspecies: N. n. natrix and N. n. gotlandica - which not even many Swedes know actually.

I think this one is a N. n. gotlandica, but it’s hard to tell, they can look rather different from each other, up to 40 percent are black without the characteristic yellow spots on the neck - and there sometimes are black European Viper (huggorm in Swedish), Vipera berus, too.

See that it’s blurry, the photo? That’s because I was not totally convinced it really was dead and not was the more dangerous Viper. I do have a fear for snakes, so I was trying to take a good photo for a long time, but I was shaking too much… ha ha…

It was not I who killed this snake - in fact: all snakes in Sweden are protected species. I think it might have been increasing a little the last couple of years, because we even saw the farm cats playing with a snake at the farm yard once.

This also reminded me that one should always do research about a countries dangerous species before going there as a tourist. It’s always best to be prepared.

©Lifecruiser Love Swedish Nature
 

I wonder how many different type of fiching cottages there is at our summer paradise island Fårö, Gotland. I can’t resist taking photos of them. this one with a boat wreck with a hole in it at the side of the old worn out fishing cottage.

Look at the sky - so wonderfully summer blue like it can be in Scandinavia this time of the year (July). I had almost forgotten because in the winter it’s mostly gray… *sigh*

©Lifecruiser Love Fishing Cottages