Notes on photographing the Milky Way
What actually made a difference after a few years of night skies in the north: timing, darkness, focus, foregrounds and a warm flask.
Notes from the northern edge of the map
Field notes and photographs from the far north of Europe: aurora nights, long walks in the mountains, fjords at blue hour and quiet villages in the polar night. Written by Elin, mostly in the cold.
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A lighthouse at the end of the road
Four hours of January daylight, a gravel track along the sea and a small lighthouse that switched on just as the colour faded.
Ridges in layers: four days on the plateau
A hut-to-hut loop across a high Norwegian plateau in early September, with ridge after ridge fading into blue.
The sun that wouldn't set
A week at a lakeside cottage above the Arctic Circle, where night is just a long, golden detour and sleep becomes optional.
Blue hour on the fjord
Five slow days at the inner end of a Norwegian fjord, waiting for the ten minutes when the sky and the windows are equally bright.
First night under the aurora
Three cloudy evenings, then a pale grey arch that turned into the most extraordinary two hours I have spent outdoors.
Snow, silence and a village of lights
A week of polar night in a small Lapland village: four hours of twilight a day, minus twenty, and every window glowing orange.