About

Hi, I'm Elin. I live in a small town on the coast, a long way north of where most maps start to get interesting, and I spend as much of my free time as I can outside with a camera.

Northlight Notes began in the winter of 2024 as a place to keep my own field notes: where I went, what the light was doing, which settings worked and which didn't. It has slowly turned into something closer to a journal. I write about the aurora and the night sky, long walks in the mountains, quiet villages in the polar night and the strange, endless light of midsummer.

I'm not a professional. I have an ordinary job and take my trips in the evenings, at weekends and during the occasional precious week of holiday. Most of what I know about photography I learned by getting it wrong in the cold.

What I carry: one mirrorless body, a 14mm f/2.8 for night skies, a 24–70mm for almost everything else, a 70–200mm for layered mountains, and a small travel tripod. Spare batteries, always. A thermos, also always.

All words and photographs here are my own, so please ask before using them anywhere else. There are no ads, no tracking and no comments, just the notes. If you like to read things as they appear, there is an RSS feed.