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On the way to Flakstadøya — Ramberg

by Marc 02/29/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

Finally my photo course with Trym Ivar Bergmo and Hans Strand at the northern edge of Flakstadøya Island should start. After a day full of snow and storm, the short drive over to Flakstadøya was quite tranquil but also without big highlights. But when I came to the north coast and saw the mountains and the village of Ramberg in front of me, I had to head for the next parking bay and take my time for this moment.

I had to capture this light mood in the north of the island with the soft pastel colours. How nice that Lofoten light can also be simply soft!

Hamnøy in a snowstorm

by Marc 02/25/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

I had always hoped to see the sunrays on the mountain tops during my time at Reinefjord. When I stood in the snowstorm on the bridge to Hamnøya and looked down to the red rorbuer, I had in between no view at all to the Festhelltinden that forms such a beautiful scenery behind Hamnøy. During the storm I even had difficulties to keep up at all and so I could only use a storm break to take this picture. Thereby, I even put my backpack under the tripod so that it was not blown over.

What I like so much about this picture is the surf on the rocks below me and at the same time the lots of snow in the background, which really cuts the Festhelltinden out of the rest of the mountain scenery.

The picture shows very typically the winter north of the polar circle.

Sakrisøya in a snowstorm

by Marc 02/22/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | 1 Comment

Almost lagoon-like, the small bay of the Reinefjord with the island Sakrisøya lay in front of me. In this area, the water is so shallow and with a sandy bottom that it glows green.

It was the day with blizzards and I had to stand behind a hut again and again in search of protection when the next storm front with snowfalls came. Mostly I had only 1–2 minutes to quickly set up my tripod again and make a longer exposure. On the picture you can clearly see the next snow shower approaching, the mountains in the west of the Reinefjord were only vague visible. It was important to me to reproduce the green of the water in the picture. This is why I had chosen a longer exposure in order to banish the restless surface of the waves from the picture.

Sakrisøya is so special because the Rorbuer cabins at the shore of the fjord are all painted yellow. Otherwise you can usually see red Rorbuer on the Reinefjord. Between the cabins you can see stockfish racks everywhere and high above everything there is an administration building on the rock.

Sun on the mountain tops!

by Marc 02/16/2020 | 2 IMAGES | No Comments

I had to wait 3 days for this moment, it was always overcast or even rainy during the day. When I was on Hamnøya that day, looking for motives with the stockfish racks, the sun came through the cloud cover for a short moment and illuminated the ridge next to Olstinden. I had so hoped to see the sun on the mountain itself or next to me on the Festhelltinden. But that’s nature for you, it doesn’t depend on the visit of a single photographer (even if there were hundreds of them!). What I like so much about this picture is the integration of the typical Lofoten landscape with its stockfish racks.

So I enjoyed the colour of the sunlight very much nevertheless. It is really impressive when the mountain tops start to glow like this. Only 5 minutes later this was already over before I could even change the location. But with a longer focal length I was able to take a second picture before.

Views from Hamnøya

by Marc 02/14/2020 | 3 IMAGES IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

The islands in the Reinefjord are home to many fishermen, you can still see modern fishing trawler at every corner. Every free space on the rocks is used to put up stockfish racks. On Hamnøya at the eastern end of the fjord you know the classic view from the bridge over to Toppøya. But it does not show some classic fishermen’s houses but modern holiday houses in the style of the rorbuer. Thus, I concentrated on a condensed view in the middle of the stockfish racks, even if with the mountain Olstinden in the background.

Reinefjord at dawn panorama

by Marc 02/09/2020 | 2 IMAGES | 2 Comments

The cover picture of this article is only an section of the panorama, so it’s worth opening the article to let the full magnificence of the picture take effect.

After I left my accommodation in Å in the morning hours still in darkness, I set off for Reine to finally see the sun on the mountain tops. It was still clear and I saw the stars above me when I arrived at Reinefjord. But what I got to see here made me forget the sun very quickly. It was nearly calm and so the mountain panorama was reflected in the water of the fjord! On the left is the Veinestinden, in the middle the iconic Oltstinden and on the right the Festhelltinden.

Moskenesøya at night

by Marc 02/08/2020 | 1 IMAGE IN THE BLOGPOST | No Comments

At night on the way to Reine, just out of the corner of my eye, I saw the snow-covered mountains above the small fjord and braked immediately (luckily there was nothing going on on the roads at that time!), turned around and drove back to the parking lot.

What a sight with the stars above the mountain tops! What was clear that I would be able to capture this atmosphere only with a wide crop and so I took this picture as a panorama with 3 portrait format images. I really wanted a lot of sky to be in the picture.

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