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Storm, rain & sunshine

by Marc 04/18/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

As I mentioned in the previous post, storms and rain, bad weather makes for the best pictures. This is one of my best pictures from my stay in Vesterålen!

Looking towards another Vesterålen island, almost backlit by the low sun as a rain shower had just passed through. The clouds broke briefly and a little blue sky appeared. And then the next rain front approached. The sun shone just for a moment on the waves and the small whitecaps in front of me, a wave breaking on a rock in the foreground.

A minute later, the beautiful moment was over again. Once again, this was an experience!

Another day — storm and rain

by Marc 04/16/2025 | 1 BILD IM BLOGBEITRAG | No Comments

After a day with lots of sunshine, the second day on Vesterålen came with storms and rain again. I remembered what Trym Ivar Bergsmo, my mentor and great photographer of the northern Norwegian landscape, who passed away far too soon, used to say: “The best photos are taken in bad weather!”

So once again I put on my rain pants and jacket and set off. Luckily, the weather cooperated and there were some heavy rain showers that swept across the landscape from south to north. However, the sun also came through during the breaks in the rain. Here it helped to illuminate the sandy ground of the beach section in front, while the rain front was still hanging over the mountains in the background.

Evening Hour

by Marc 04/11/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

In the early hours of the morning, I had waited for the sun to rise on this stretch of coast. Now I had come back here at sunset to take in different light mood. And how different it was! There were practically no more clouds in the sky. The sun had now moved to the south-southwest and was shining at a shallow angle over the land behind me. It had just come out from behind the mountains to the south and was now illuminating not only the mountains on the other side of the fjord, but also a few rocks in the foreground.

The warm light on the rocks was almost summer-like, only the last remnants of snow on the mountains in the background still betrayed something of the winter season.

Golden Grass

by Marc 03/29/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

At sunset, I went back to the coastal areas where I had spent the morning hours. In search of an interesting foreground motif, I had moved a little away from the beach and found the dried grass above the stony section of shore.

In many places there were large holes between the rocks, which were often filled with water. When the sun came through, the dry grass was just as vibrant as the vegetation on the mountain in the background. My motif!

Sunlight in the afternoon

by Marc 03/20/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

The sun came through for a long time and dramatically illuminated the mountains on the shore of the fjord. Enough time to get the drone ready and climb up to take a pano over the western mountains of Vesterålen.

I love the warm colors that resulted from the winter vegetation on the mountains and the flat sun. Plus the contrast of the dark blue sea.

I didn’t have much time to work with the remaining sun that day. But it was a relief after the stormy rainy days before.

Between Rain Showers

by Marc 03/14/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

The afternoon of the first day on Vesterålen brought more changeable weather. It was still way too warm, with strong to stormy winds and rain showers. But this also meant that the sun could come out for short moments. I was in the south of the island that afternoon and found some interesting backlight situations.

In the haze over the water, there is an island with two peaks in the background and a chain of islands in the distance in the backlight. The beach surrounded by rocks draws the eye into the picture.

Sun on the peaks

by Marc 03/09/2025 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOG POST | No Comments

It was 9:45 a.m., the sun was coming through the first incisions in the southern shores of the fjord and shining strongly on the small summit. Others were still in the shadow of the mountains on the fjord shore.

The sea kept crashing onto the beach, and as the waves receded, a reflection of the illuminated peaks briefly appeared in the wet sand.

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