Uttakleiv Aurora - Friday Photo #378

Friday Photo #378 – Uttakleiv Aurora

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Photo: Northern lights reflect in the Eye of Uttakleiv, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. April 1, 2020. 23:40 I wasn’t planning to post another northern lights image today, but this was the only time I’ve been out shooting since…
Equinox Aurora - Friday Photo #377

Friday Photo #377 – Equinox Aurora

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Photo: Equinox Aurora over Storsandnes beach, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. March 20, 2020. 21:35 Last friday was a stormy and windy day with passing snow showers and storm force wind gusts throughout the day. Sometime in the…
Winter Storm - Friday Photo #376

Friday Photo #376 – Storm

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Photo: Hold fast, all storms pass. Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. March 20, 2020. 11:05 We bring in the spring equinox with the passing of another polar low pressure and gale force winds sweeping across Lofoten. But a bigger storm…
Stortind Waterfall - Friday Photo #375

Friday Photo #375 – Stortind Waterfall

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Photo: Mølnelva waterfall below Stortind, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 13, 2020. 15:24 It has been a strange winter photo season this year on Lofoten. The commonly popular places in former years - Uttakleiv, Haukland,…
Wind - Friday Photo #374

Friday Photo #374 – Wind

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Photo: Windy ridges of Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 20, 2020. 12:39 Each winter here on Lofoten seems to have it’s own defining element. For 2020 it will be the wind, and maybe rain for 2nd place. Defiantly not on…
Winter Twilight - Friday Photo #373

Friday Photo #373 – Winter Twilight

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Photo: Soft winter twilight the mountain peaks of Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 19, 2020. 16:46 This image is a prologue to last week's post: Friday Photo #372. There is always a bit of a balance of how much waiting…
Forecast vs. Reality - Friday Photo #372

Friday Photo #372 – Forecast Vs. Reality

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Photo: Forecast: Clear sky and KP5 northern lights. Reality… Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 19, 2020. 19:15 Finally, after endless weeks (months really) of near constant clouds over Lofoten there was a forecast for…
Seasons On Lofoten Winter - 4th edition

Seasons On Lofoten – Winter 4th Edition

I'm finally happy to announce that the 4th edition of Seasons on Lofoten - Winter is now available! Seasons on Lofoten - Winter I originally started on the update shortly after Christmas and was hoping to have finished before my first…
Rocks and Ocean - Friday Photo #371

Friday Photo #371 – Winter Grey

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Photo: Rocks and ocean, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 13, 2020. 12:49 It has been a grey winter this year. So far, half way into February, I’ve seen the sun four times. Ikke bra! (as one would say in Norwegian). I’ve…
January Grey - Friday Photo #370

Friday Photo #370 – January Grey

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Photo: Heavy grey sky over Flakstadøy, Vareid, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 24, 2020. 14:15 I only saw the sun twice in January this year - Once on Lofoten and once on Senja. The rest of the time the sky has mostly been filled with…
Polar Stratospheric Clouds - Friday Photo #369

Friday Photo #369 – Polar Stratospheric Clouds

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Photo: Polar Stratospheric clouds in the sky over Lofoten. January 24, 2020. 10:13 Lofoten and Norway have have multiple displays of Polar Strastopheric clouds this January. But until last week, I was never in a situation to photograph…
First Sun - Friday Photo #368

Friday Photo #368 – First Sun

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Photo: Skottind rises over Ballstad in the soft January twilight, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 18, 2020. 13:35 And just like that, after weeks of bad weather, the sun returned to Lofoten both on Saturday and Sunday.…
Are You Visible? Friday Photo #367

Friday Photo #367 – Are You Visible?

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Photo: Are you invisible or visible when standing on the roads? Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 15, 2020. 16:41 The weather continues to be mostly terrible here on Lofoten, but I’ve been out and about the last week attempting to shoot…
Stortind Dawn - Friday Photo #366

Friday Photo #366 – Stortind Sunrise

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Photo: Winter dawn over Stortind, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 21, 2019. 08:06 It is something from the archives today. Lofoten has had a stormy start to 2020, and not in a good way. I went to Uttakleiv today to try…
January storms - Friday Photo #365

Friday Photo #365 – January Storm

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Photo: New year, new storms - Lofoten enters 2020 with a blast of wind over Nappstraumen, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 2, 2020. 13:38 What was a somewhat calm New Year’s eve on Lofoten has turned into a series of passing…
Christmas Aurora - Friday Photo #364

Friday Photo #364 – Christmas Aurora

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Photo: Christmas northern lights, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. December 25, 2019. 23:09 364 ÷ 52 = 7 years of Friday photo posts - you can go checkout my first post from January 11, 2012 - Friday Photo #1. Some weeks I’m…