Sea Eagle - Friday Photo #688
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Friday Photo #688 – Sea Eagle

Photo: White-Tailed Sea Eagle silhouetted against winter sky, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 6, 2026. 12:45 It took me several days this week to delete around 500gb of data or roughly 10,000 photos to clear up some hard disc space.…
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Olstinden Reflection - Friday Photo #687
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Friday Photo #687 – Olstind Reflection

Photo: Classic view of Olstinden mountain peak rising over Reine harbor in winter, Reine, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 27, 2026. 11:34 Some scenes require little work and this is one of them. When you have a perfect…
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Narvtiden Reflection -Friday Photo #686
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Friday Photo #686 – Narvtind Reflection

Photo: Dawn light shines over Narvtinden mountain peak and reflection, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 26, 2026. 09:51 This view has long been a favourite of mine. It is often a relatively straightforward shot, so I don’t…
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Guiding in Norway - Part 3
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Guiding in Norway Part 3 – Thoughts On The Future for Guiding on Lofoten

Continued from: Guiding in Norway Part 2 - Disfunction in the North News of the enforcement of the commercial driving regulations in the Lofoten region has begun to spread in the background of the photo workshop community. Many of the…
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Guiding in Norway - Part 2
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Guiding in Norway Part 2 – Disfunction in the North

Continued from: Guiding in Norway Part 1 - Commercial Driving Regulation Enforcement Begins on Lofoten The following is going to be long, complicated and confusing. And if you think it’s bad just to read, imagine trying to operate…
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Guiding in Norway - Part 1
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Guiding in Norway Part 1 – Commercial Driving Regulation Enforcement Begins on Lofoten

Several years ago I wrote an introductory article about the commercial driving license regulations in Norway for small guiding operations like photography workshops. See Article - Commercial Driving Regulations for Photography Workshops…
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Valley Light - Friday Photo #685
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Friday Photo #685 – Valley Light

Photo: Warm winter light shines through the steep valleys of distant Flakstadøy, Yttersand, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 26, 2026. 11:36 Despite the quickly lengthening days, the late January sun does not rise far above the horizon,…
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Pastel Dawn - Friday Photo #684
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Friday Photo #684 – Pastel Dawn

Photo: Misty clouds conceal Ristinden peak at dawn, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 5, 2026. 09:30 I will dare to say that the last month has been the best winter in recent memory. Day after day of cold and still weather,…
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Windswept - Friday Photo #683
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Friday Photo #683 – Windswept

Photo: Winter winds blow over Haukland beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 2, 2025. 11:48 But where are the mountains? Yes, there should be mountain in the background of this image, except at this moment in the middle…
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Colorful Aurora - Friday Photo #682
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Friday Photo #682 – Colourful Aurora

Photo: Colourful northern lights fill sky, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 20, 2026. 18:37 This is the following night from last week’s aurora image (Friday Photo #681) and actually a better display than the previous…
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Red Aurora - Friday Photo #681
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Friday Photo #681 – Red Aurora

Photo: Red Northern lights fill the northern horizon over Lofoten, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 19, 2026. 23:23 On Monday night one of the biggest solar storms in the last 20 years hit the earth, bringing northern lights…
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Frozen Fjord - Friday Photo #680
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Friday Photo #680 – Frozen Reinefjord

Photo: Frozen snow covers the surface of Reinefjorden on a still winter day, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 7, 2024. 10:29 It is not often that the surface or Reinefjorden freezes during winter. While the temperatures…
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Pillows of Snow - Friday Photo #679
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Friday Photo #679 – Pillows of Snow

Photo: A young birch sapling in pillows of snow, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 14, 2025. 11:52 One thing I sometime miss about the Lofoten landscape is the ability to find a nice lonely tree in the middle of a field…
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Vanishing Sun - Friday Photo #678
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Friday Photo #678 – Vanishing Sun

Photo: Vanishing sun in snow storm on Reinefjord, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 13, 2025. 10:13 On this week’s cruise around Reinefjord I could see the large wall of cloud and snow approaching from the north even before…
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Kirkefjord Mountains - Friday Photo @677
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Friday Photo #677 – Kirkefjord Reflection

Photo: Mountain peaks rise over Kirkefjord on a calm winter morning, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 1, 2024. 09:51 The inner fjord arms of Reinefjord are some of my favourite areas in western Lofoten. Even if not putting…
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Sea Eagle - Friday Photo #676
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Friday Photo #676 – Sea Eagle

Photo: White-Tail Sea Eagle picks up fish from fjord, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 5, 2025. 13:33 In some of my recent photo workshops we are beginning to introduce more activities than just landscape and northern lights photography.…
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