I let my view wander a little into the distance, along the Vesterålen island chain. The further away the mountain ranges are, the more they have taken on the purple hue of the morning atmosphere. A small wave crashes in the foreground.
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.
I arrived in Lofoten on a rainy day in February 2025. All the snow that had fallen on Lofoten & Vesterålen in the previous weeks was melting. Rain, storms, even the ferry connections to the Lofoten Islands were interrupted for days.
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A picture that can only exist in winter, when the morning sun is beautifully flat and gives the withered leaves of the young oaks a warm glow.
It’s been a long time since I let the drone fly on the edge of our residential area. On this frosty morning with the fog just lifting, it was a particular pleasure.
What makes this picture so special? It was winter, very heavy frost, but no snow had fallen! This meant that the water surface of the pond could simply freeze over and was dark from this height. The trees covered in hoarfrost stood out from the ice, but also from the surrounding picture. And if you look closely, you can see traces of frost that has fallen on the ice near the trees.
The former Kattenberg Nord development area can be seen in the background on the right.
A clear sky and a young oak tree covered in frost.
A picture that you rarely see in our damp and sometimes foggy winter days around the turn of the year.
At the beginning of the year it was foggy in Buchholz for days. But one Monday morning it had cooled down considerably overnight and we had frost down to minus seven degrees centigrade. And so, when it cleared up, the landscape had turned into a beautiful white frosty landscape. All the bushes and trees were thickly covered with hoar-frost. It reminded me a bit of the infrared photography I do in the summer!
Then there was the glorious sunshine, which gave the young oaks that hadn’t shed their leaves a beautiful warm glow!
The only small cloud in the sky added the finishing touch to this great photo — it’s a wonderful impression I was able to capture here! And only a few hundred meters away from my house.