Unstad Waves - Friday Photo #640
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Friday Photo #640 – Unstad Waves

Photo: Setting winter sun behind misty waves at Unstad beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 25, 2025. 16:47 One benefit to this year’s windy and stormy winter is that the sea is anything but boring! Unstad in particular…
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Aurora - Friday Photo #639
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Friday Photo #639 – Aurora

Photo: Northern lights dance over Storsandnes beach, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. March 6, 2025. 20:46 Like every year, the ever shortening nights of April mean Lofoten’s northern lights season is quickly coming to an end.…
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Snow - Friday Photo #638
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Friday Photo #638 – Snow and No Snow

Photo: Snow and no snow at Haukland, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. March 17, 2025. 09:55. And March 6, 2025. 12:40 In the last days of March it finally feels like spring is in the air and that winter is coming to an end.…
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March Aurora - Friday Photo #637
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Friday Photo #637 – March Aurora

Photo: Aurora Highway - moonlit northern lights rise into the sky over Gimsøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. March 24, 2024. 22:17 Eight months after their first appearance in Lofoten’s night sky, the northern lights will soon be making…
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End of the Road - Friday Photo #636
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Friday Photo #636 – End Of The Road

Photo: View across the sea from the cliffs at Å to Værøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 18, 2024. 13:49 I make frequent visits to the end of the road at Å each winter and despite being quite familiar with the location, still…
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Winter Cormorants - Friday Photo #635
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Friday Photo #635 – Winter Cormorants

Photo: Cormorants at dawn, Haukland beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 15, 2024. 09:11 As the blue hour light over Haukland beach faded into early dawn I was ready to head off to the next location. But walking back…
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Winter Light - Friday Photo #634
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Friday Photo #634 – Winter Light

Photo: Soft dawn sunlight shine over Flakstadtind, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 6, 2024. 09:24 Before this moment I had actually been shooting pretty wide in the 14-20mm range with some nice foreground wave action over the rocks…
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Unstad Winter - Friday Photo #633
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Friday Photo #633 – Unstad Winter

Photo: Dusting of snow covers rocks at Unstad beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 5, 2024. 12:23 Sometimes one doesn’t need to contribute much more to a photograph than being there. This is one of those times: park…
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Frozen Reinefjord - Friday Photo #632
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Friday Photo #632 – Frozen Reinefjord

Photo: Olstind mountain peak rises over a frozen Reinefjord, Toppøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 7, 2024. 10:16 It is not so often that Lofoten is still enough or cold enough for a large portion of Reinefjord to begin to freeze…
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Hamnoy Classic - Friday Photo #631
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Friday Photo #631 – Hamnøy Bridge View

Photo: The classic view from Hamnøy bridge, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 20, 2024. 07:30 A moody morning at one of Lofoten’s classic views: the red rorbu cabins from Hamnøy bridge. While the desire for many photography is…
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Hamnoy Bridge Crowds - Friday Photo #630
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Friday Photo #630 – Hamnøy Bridge Crowds

Photo: Photographers stand shoulder to shoulder on Hamnøy bridge during sunrise, Lofoten Islands, Norway. February 12, 2024. 08:43 With February arriving tomorrow Lofoten’s winter photography workshop season will be kicking into high…
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Midday Shadows - Friday Photo #629
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Friday Photo #629 – Midday Shadows

Photo: Noon winter sun casts long shadows over icy shoreline at Nappstraumen, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 24, 2025. 12:23 Lofoten hasn’t had much sun this year. Well, Lofoten hasn’t have much sun since last August.…
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Stormy Sea - Friday PHoto #628
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Friday Photo #628 – Stormy Sea

Photo: Lofoten Sjark - fishing boat heading to sea in stormy winter weather, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 28, 2022. 11:34 A thousand years before the oil was discovered, tørrfisk - air-dried cod from Lofoten was already…
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Northern Lights - Friday Photo #627
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Friday Photo #627 – Northern Lights

Photo: Northern lights and moonlit mountains over Vik beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 24, 2019. 00:13 The media hype around this year’s solar maximum and, ‘OMG!!! Best time in 10 years to see northern lights!’…
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Twilight Moon - Friday Photo #626
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Friday Photo #626 – Twilight Moon

Photo: Moon in twilight sky over Skolmen, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. January 3, 2023. 11:19 Welcome to 2025! When I first registered 68north.com in 2010 as a small portfolio for my growing collection of travel images from…
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Dark Mornings - Friday Photo #625
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Friday Photo #625 – Dark Mornings

Photo: Dark morning on Hamnøy bridge, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. December 31, 2020. 09:21 The darkest day of the year has now passed and the sun once gain begins its journey north and in only 5 months the midnight sun will…
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