New Lofoten Prints Added to Gallery

I’ve added a few new (10 in total) prints from my last couple lofoten trips into my print gallery. – click here to checkout the gallery –

As my last few journeys to the islands have been with my D800, I’ve increased the size in which these new images are available to be printed.  The newly available images are available to be printed up to:

20×30 – $50
24×36 – $80
32×48 – $95

I made a few test prints at 32×48, and I must they, there are perhaps the most beautiful prints I’ve ever made!  The detail from the D800 is simply amazing.

 

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New Northern Lights Photo Gallery

As I mentioned last week, I’ve now added a new gallery of Lofoten Northern Lights images.

-CLICK HERE- the view the gallery

A few of the images are older, but most are from my February 2013 trip, which was by far my most successful time ever on Lofoten for watching and photographing the Northern Lights.

Also, over the weekend I added a new page talking about the movement of the sun throughout the year on Lofoten.  -CLICK HERE- to check it out.  I mainly explain, with the help of a few diagrams, how the sunrise/sunsets move from the far south in winter to the far north by the end of May.

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New Winter 2013 Gallery

New images from February 2013 are now in a new gallery.  Yay!

–CLICK HERE– to checkout the Winter 2013 photo gallery.

Where are the Northern Lights photos?  I had a fair bit of luck with the Northern Lights this last trip.  So instead of adding maybe 1 or 2 photos which miss some nice images.  Or adding 5 to 6 photos which would then overpower the rest of the images in the gallery, I figured I’d just make a separate gallery just for Northern Lights photos.  I should have this online by next week.  I figure this is also best as some people might just be looking for Aurora images and not really care about anything else.  I haven’t quite decided if I will keep the gallery to just images from this last trip, or if I’ll throw in some older stuff as well, some of which already appears on the site here already.  But I’m leaning towards the latter, as it will give you guys a better overall perspective on say the difference between photos from Autumn and Winter (ie: no snow or snow). We’ll see…

Also, maybe sometime in the next week or two, I’ll post up a few more thoughts about the Winter light on Lofoten, and how even a few weeks seem to make a difference.

Hope you enjoy the photos!  And as always, any feedback is appreciated…

 

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New Hiking Guide for Offersoykammen

There is now a hiking route guide for Offersøykamen, an easy hike on the west side of Vestvågøya.  CLICK HERE to check it out.

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New Mountain Page – Ryten

New mountain hiking page for Ryten -CLICK HERE-

Second new page for the week, not too bad!  While the view from Reinebringen is perhaps Lofoten’s most iconic, if there is to be a runner up, then the view from the slopes of Ryten down to Kvalvika beach would be high on the list.  Ryten is an easy mountain walk that finished with you standing 500 meters almost directly above the sea and scenic views in every direction.

This will be my last update for the year; not that there’s many days left anyhow.  I’m pretty happy with the progress I’ve made in the last couple months, and I think the site is off to a pretty good start.  Once I’m finished adding all the info and guides here on the site, I’ll most likely begin working on some that pages more location and photography specific.  I’ll hopefully also turn these into (free) eBook downloads so you can take them with you to the islands; though the functionality I envision is somewhat beyond my technical and design abilities.  It will at least be a start to something useful.  I also get an email every once in a while about ‘the best of Lofoten.’  So I’ll probably write a suggested itinerary guide along the lines of ‘1 week on Lofoten – the best of.’  Or something along those lines.  Maybe a separate summer and winter version as well.

And the best new for me is, I’m already ticket shopping to head back to the islands in mid February…

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Himmeltindan – New Hiking Guide

New hiking guide for Himmeltindan -CLICK HERE-

Himmeltindan, at 964 meters, is the highest peak on Vestvågøya and an exciting hike up a steep trail with airy view from the summit.

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Autumn 2012 Photo Gallery

A surprise for the weekend.  the Autumn 2012 gallery from Sept – Oct is now online a bit ahead of schedule (I’m a little bored at the moment).

-CLICK HERE- to check it out!

I’ll probably add one more hiking page next week and then will take a bit of a break until the end of the year.  Hopefully in that time I’ll start to work on a bigger project that will eventually be added to the site here.  And I’ll probably also do a bit of house cleaning to bring a bit more consistency between some of the pages;  my main goal is to make all this info as clear, direct, and to the point as possible.  I really hate sites that are full of words, but don’t really tell you anything, or at least anything that you want to know.  Hopefully I can add something new in that regard…

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New Hiking Guide – Hoven

New hiking guide is online for Hoven on Gimsøya.

-CLICK HERE- to check it out!

I’m also working on the final touches for the Autumn gallery, should be online early next week…

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Summer 2012 Photo Gallery

A new photo gallery is up for images from August – September this year.  20 images total.  Locations include: Horseid beach, Kvalvika beach, Ryten, Stamsund, Utakleiv and a few more places.

-CLICK HERE- to view the gallery.

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Horseid Beach Hiking Guide

I’ve added a new hiking guide for Horseid beach -CLICK HERE-

Horseid is probably my favorite beach on the Lofoten Islands, and I highly recommend making the effort to go there and camp for a couple nights.

I’ve changed up the format a little bit.  Instead of having just some rotating images at the top, I’ve now just inserted them in the post after all the text content; in the same style as the other beach guides I’ve written.

If you actually read this, I would greatly appreciate some feedback as to which style you prefer best: Rotating images at the top of post, or all the images displayed within the body of the post.  On the one hand, the rotating images is a bit cleaner look, but if you actually want to study the image for longer than a second or two, having them within the post seems a bit better.  If you guys like it, I might update everything to this format…

Next week I should get around to adding new Summer and Autumn photo galleries.  I’ve edited and selected the images, now all I need to do is downsize and upload them.

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