Hamnoy Classic - Friday Photo #631

Friday Photo #631 – Hamnøy Bridge View

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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

Friday Photo #630 – Hamnøy Bridge Crowds

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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

Friday Photo #629 – Midday Shadows

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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

Friday Photo #628 – Stormy Sea

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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

Friday Photo #627 – Northern Lights

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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

Friday Photo #626 – Twilight Moon

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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

Friday Photo #625 – Dark Mornings

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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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The Longest Night - Friday Photo #624

Friday Photo #624 – The Longest Night

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Photo: Himmeltindan rising over Storsandnes beach during the polar night, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. December 20, 2019. 11:38 The brightest hour on the darkest day, or there about. With a clear sky it is only a soft twilight…
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Almost Night - Friday Photo #623

Friday Photo #623 – Almost Night

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Photo: Clouds blow across the twilight sky from Vareid’s rocky coastline, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. December 14, 2021. 13:04 Lofoten is now a week into the Polar Night. But this year it might as well have started in mid…
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Polar Night - Friday Photo #622

Friday Photo #622 – The Night Is Coming

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Photo: Early afternoon darkness as Mørketiden - The Polar Night begins, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. December 8, 2020. 14:20 This weekend Lofoten will see its last sunlight of the year as the Mørketid - Polar Night begins.…
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Getting Wintry - Friday Photo #621

Friday Photo #621 – Getting Wintry

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Photo: Snow covered Stornappstind mountain peak rises over Nappstraumen, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 27, 2024. 13:04 The temperature has slowly dropped over the last week in what otherwise has been a mild and wet November. In…
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Long Shadows - Friday Photo #620

Friday Photo #620 – Long Shadows

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Photo: Long shadows over snowy November mountain landscape, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 19, 2023. 12:12 Having spent the last month in sunny Spain, returning to a November version of Lofoten is like hitting a wall of darkness.…
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November Sun - Friday Photo #619

Friday Photo #619 – November Sun

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Photo: November afternoon sunset from Ballstadheia, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 25, 2022. 13:09 November is that middle ground between no longer autumn and still not winter. Although as far as the sun is concerned,…
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November Snow - Friday Photo #618

Friday Photo #618 – November Snow

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Photo: The morning’s high tide line washed into the snow covered sand of Vik beach, Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 20, 2023. 09:23 Not every year is it possible to photograph snow covered beaches already in November.…
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Frozen November - Friday Photo #617

Friday Photo #617 – Frozen November

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Photo: November deep freeze over mountains of Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 10, 2023. 08:51 It was a frozen morning with temperatures dropping to -5.8˚c in which I caught the morning light over Ristind and Himmeltindan…
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Winter Roads - Friday Photo #616

Friday Photo #616 – Winter Roads

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Photo: Northern lights shine in sky over icy Myrlandsveien road, Flakstadøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway. November 27, 2023. 22:13 Already in October, a Finnish tour bus full of passengers slid off Lofoten’s ice roads and multiple other…
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