For Norway's National Day, I chose a subject that could hardly be more Norwegian: an image of the country's quiet beauty.<\/p>\n
The photograph shows a peaceful coastal landscape. In the foreground is a shoreline edged with rounded stones; beyond it, the calm sea opens gently towards the distance. A small red house stands near the water, bright and almost defiant against dark conifers. To the right rise majestic mountains beneath a beautiful sky. Clouds drift across the land like painted stories. This is a place of peace, continuity and the Norwegian spirit.<\/p>\n
Sea, mountains and red houses. These three elements appear throughout Norway, from north to south, from fjord to mountain. They are not only features of the landscape but cultural symbols as well. The sea speaks of openness and longing, the mountains of strength and stillness, and the red houses of warmth and belonging.<\/p>\n
Especially on May 17, when Norway celebrates with colourful flags, traditional costumes and music, it is worth honouring its quieter side too: places where nothing happens beyond what truly matters, light, wind, water and a feeling of home.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Passend zum heutigen Nationalfeiertag in Norwegen habe ich ein Motiv gew\u00e4hlt, das kaum norwegischer sein k\u00f6nnte: ein Sinnbild f\u00fcr die stille Sch\u00f6nheit dieses Landes. Das Bild zeigt eine friedliche K\u00fcstenlandschaft: Im Vordergrund ein mit runden Steinen ges\u00e4umtes Ufer, dahinter das ruhige Meer, das sich sanft in die Weite \u00f6ffnet. Am Ufer steht ein kleines rotes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_pon_spot_enabled":false,"_pon_spot_name":"","_pon_spot_key":"","_pon_spot_lat":0,"_pon_spot_lng":0,"_pon_spot_note":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,116],"class_list":["post-12822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gedanken-geschichten","tag-fotografische-haltung","tag-norwegen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/idyll-HP-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13828,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions\/13828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturesofnorway.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}