Campfire and Northern Lights - Friday Photo #250

Friday Photo #250 – Aurora Campfire

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Photo: Campfire below northern lights, Storsandnes, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. September 28, 2017. 22:33 Sometimes life is best enjoyed simply by being there. The final evening of my 2017 Exploring Autumn photo tour, this was…
Veggen Coffee - Friday Photo #249

Friday Photo #249 – Veggen Coffee

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Photo: Dinner and a coffee on the summit of Veggen, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. September 4, 2017. 20:16 Despite the mild, and almost hot, weather this September, as each day passes, the sun sinks a bit lower in the sky. As…
Haukland Aurora - Friday Photo #248

Friday Photo #248 – Haukland Beach Aurora

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Photo: Haukland aurora, Haukland beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. September 27, 2017. 22:04 Had my tour finished before this night, I already would have been content that my clients had already gotten some decent aurora photos.…
Horseid Aurora - Friday Photo #247

Friday Photo #247 – Aurora Over Horseid

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Photo: Northern lights over Horseid beach, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. September 8, 2017. 22:38 Clear sky, full moon, mild temperatures and solar storm. The aurora season this year was off to a good start! But with seemly perfect…
Tønsåsheia camp - Friday Photo #246

Friday Photo #246 – Tønsåsheia Camp

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Photo: Autumn camping on the summit of Tønsåsheia, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. September 22, 2016. 18:40 The forecast had been better than reality - A common occurrence on Lofoten. What I thought would be fairly clear skies…
Midnight Glow - Friday Photo #245

Friday Photo #245- Midnight Glow

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Photo: Midnight sun shines between mountain peaks, Helvetestind, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 14, 2017. 00:17 On my second trip to Helvetestind in two weeks, Conditions were totally different on this night. A heavy fog was…
Olstind - Friday Photo #244

Friday Photo #244 – Olstind Twilight

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Photo: Olstind mountain peak reflects in fjord, Sakrisøy, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 14, 2017. 02:11 My fried Olaf dropped my tour group off at Sakrisøy after a midnight trip up Helvetestind - my second time to the summit…
Bunes Beach - Friday Photo #243

Friday Photo #243 – Bunes View

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Photo: View over Bunes beach, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 21, 2017. 22:08 Another weekend in the west. The original plan had been a somewhat ambitious climb above Vindstad. But as we made the first moves up the route, it…
Kirkefjord - Friday Photo #242

Friday Photo #242 – Kirkefjord

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Photo: Kirkefjord clouds, Rostad, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 16, 2017. 19:39 The rain was pounding my windshield as I headed west towards Reine. We had made plans to borrow a friend’s boat and to do a bit of exploring…
Summer Flowers - Friday Photo #241

Friday Photo #241 – Summer Flowers

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Photo: Field of summer flowers, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 6, 2017. 14:37 From mid June until early July the fields of Lofoten are filled with endless color of an infinite amount of flowers. Even the farm fields, such…
Storskiva - Friday Photo #240

Friday Photo #240 – Storskiva Camping

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Photo: Camping on the summit of Storskiva, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 22, 2017. 23:57 After 239 previous Friday photo posts, I can’t always remember what I have written previously, so perhaps this might be a bit of a…
Bunes beach - Friday Photo #239

Friday Photo #239 – Bunes Beach

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Photo: Summer light over Bunes beach from Storskiva, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 22, 2017. 22:40 In October last year I made my first attempt to camp on the summit of Storskiva. It didn’t go so well and high winds forced…
Storskiva Sunset - Friday Photo #238

Friday Photo #238 – Storskiva Sunset

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Photo: Watching the sun sink into the sea from the summit of Storskiva, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 22, 2017. 23:06 In October last year I made an attempt to camp on the summit of Storskiva. The weather decided otherwise…
Mountain pollution - Friday photo #237

Friday Photo #237 – Ryten Poop

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Photo: Pile of human faces and toilet paper under a rock on the summit of Ryten, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 5, 2017. 22:44 This weeks photo is literally shit, in more ways than one. First, it is a photo from my phone,…
Friday Photo #236 - Kirkefjord

Friday Photo #236 – Kirkefjord Light

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Photo: Rays of light over Kirkefjord, Moskenesøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. July 4, 2017. 22:22 Up to this moment, the light on this day had been somewhat flat and average, and I hadn’t even pulled out my camera so far. That was until…
Midnight Flowers - Friday Photo #235

Friday Photo #235 – Midnight Flowers

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Photo: Flowers at midnight, Gimsøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. June 12, 2017. 00:02 Another midnight image from Gimsøy. After a long winter and this years cold may, it is so nice to see the fields first turn green and then, in the first…