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Evening Hour (0664)

Evening Hour

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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.

Vesteralen - Golden Hour

Golden Grass

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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

Sunlight in the afternoon

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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 the rain showers

Between Rain Showers

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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.

Vesterålen - Sun on the peaks

Sun on the peaks

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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.

An early morning on the Vesterålen (0245)

An early morning on the Vesterålen

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After the two rainy days on the Lofoten Islands and the canceled ferry, I drove to Langøya via the eastern Vesterålen Islands and the town of Sortland. I wanted to spend the main part of my photo trip here. The journey was still affected by storms and rain and I was staying in a rorbuer, an old red fisherman’s house, on the Straumfjorden. What I hadn’t thought of when I booked the house was that the fjord is open to the west … and now we had a storm from the west, the night was quite restless, with the squalls shaking the wood of the fisherman’s house …

But the next day was going to be beautiful, so I went to one of the beaches early in the morning to soak up the atmosphere until sunrise. Not only were there rocks in the water with waves meandering around them, but there were also mountains opposite, which made the view very attractive. The rain had stopped and there were only a few thin bands of cloud in the sky. Unfortunately, as on the Lofoten Islands in the south, the snow had almost completely melted, but that didn’t detract from the atmosphere here.

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