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Nappstraumen

by Marc 04/04/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

After saying goodbye to the course participants and our two instructors Trym Ivar Bergsmo and Hans Strand, I planned to go further east to the Vestfjord for another two days — the small harbour town Hennigsvær was to be my destination. But I still had a lot of time and only 2 hours drive ahead of me. So I didn’t drive through the Nappstraumen tunnel, but stayed on the west side of the Nappstraumen. The Nappstraumen separates the two Lofoten islands Flakstadøya in the west and Vestvågøy in the east from each other and is a quite wide sea stream, so that a bridge there would have been too long. If you search for this stream on the Internet, you will find that there is an excellent fishing area between the North Sea and the Vestfjord.

Again and again I passed stockfish racks that stood on the fjord shore. But none was covered with stockfish so early in the year — the season was just beginning. A little further north I came to this destroyed rack. Again and again I had seen destroyed racks at the roadside, but never so decoratively with the mountains on the other side of the Nappstraumen.

What attracted me at the same time was the fact that the two standing parts here roughly depicted the mountain peaks in the background.

On the Norwegian Sea

by Marc 04/01/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Here it should be our farewell of the course participants from each other. Another short trip to the Norwegian sea coast, once again a few rocks on the beach in the surf and together we set up the tripods around the rocks. We stood in small groups on the beach and talked about how we could bring a little tension into the motif here. The surf was only weak, but at least the waves kept washing around the rocks.

I found it charming that the waves met on the land side and ran off through the small channel between the rocks. Somehow it was necessary to capture this dynamic in the picture. With the slightly longer exposure time I probably succeeded quite well.

Bridges of Fredvang

by Marc 03/30/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

The last day of classes on the Lofoten Islands. We wanted to make an excursion to one of the beaches together, but for once we wanted to leave much later. So I suddenly had 1 hour time before we had breakfast together and remembered the bridges of Fredvang, which were only 10 minutes away by car — and there was still blue hour. Typical for the Lofoten and luckily, this light atmosphere lasts for more than 1 hour in January.

Winter evening above the Arctic Circle

by Marc 03/28/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

In the evening, in the snow drift, on the coast north of the Arctic Circle. From the north the next snow front approaches. Between the snow showers, one can briefly suspect a settlement on the other side of the fjord. Only by a longer exposure the black coastline covered with snow appears at all.

I love this atmosphere, as it shows so much how winter evenings can look like on the Lofoten Islands. Simply impressive. I feel the atmosphere firmly in my memories.

Reine in Wintertime

by Marc 03/26/2020 | 2 IMAGES | No Comments

After the great beaches and a lot of attention to interesting compositions, on the second last day of the course a tourist magnet for photographers had to be approached in beautiful winter weather. Above Reine, of course without any parking possibility, because so many other photo enthusiasts were there, we had this wonderful view over the Reinefjord, more precisely over its southern extension of the bay Gravdalsbukta with the mountain Oltstinden in the background.

I also wanted to show this impressive landscape once again in the overview and therefore made a panorama to the square picture above.
Click on it, it is shown in over 3.000 pixels width here in the blog:

Black and White Sand

by Marc 03/21/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

With this picture I show again something typical of the Lofoten coast. This black and white sand is on Flackstadøya. I love how the structures of the two kinds of sand mix in the stream of the little creek and reveal so many details to our eyes.

In the background, one sees the surf of the northern sea and of course again some rocks in the beach, as also the snow-covered mountains as they are visible at each shore of a beach. In January, the sun rarely comes down to the beaches. Most of the times, only the clouds and/or the mountain tops are illuminated by it. But this does not do any detraction to the picture, as I think.

Black — blue — white

by Marc 03/16/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

A motif without a lot of waves, but with a stone coast that opens to the beach and the beautiful snow-covered mountain ridge in the sunlight. From the foreground, two watercourses draw themselves into the picture.

All without much drama, maybe that’s why I love this picture with its calm expression.

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