Hennigsvær, the fishing village on the Vestfjord. A football field surrounded by stockfish racks and two elongated islands with the fishing harbor in the middle. Today, many of the former storehouses and workshops have been converted into hotels and holiday … read more or write a comment …
A small bay, meadow grass down to the shore and a small creek that is searching its way down to the Nordic Sea — this is how I found this landscape. I quickly realized that I had to get to … read more or write a comment …
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 … read more or write a comment …
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 … read more or write a comment …
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 … read more or write a comment …
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. … read more or write a comment …
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 … read more or write a comment …
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 … read more or write a comment …
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, … read more or write a comment …
After I almost lost my tripod shortly before — only 5 minutes before it was standing with one leg where the surf shot through the gap * — I was able to take this beautiful motif with me. For me it … read more or write a comment …
The focus in this picture is on the sky in contrast to the previous picture, where I wanted to emphasize the surf. Only a quarter of an hour later and especially with a much larger angle of view I had … read more or write a comment …
The really beautiful thing about the Lofoten are the wide fjords. Again and again, one sees on the other fjord shore some great snow-covered mountain ridges, most of the times still with a great light in the sky above. One … read more or write a comment …