https://ee.northlight-notes.com/ Personal notes on travel, photography and the northern sky. en Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/milky-way-notes/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/milky-way-notes/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 What actually made a difference after a few years of night skies in the north: timing, darkness, focus, foregrounds and a warm flask. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/lighthouse-end-of-road/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/lighthouse-end-of-road/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Four hours of January daylight, a gravel track along the sea and a small lighthouse that switched on just as the colour faded. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/ridges-in-layers/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/ridges-in-layers/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:00:00 +0000 A hut-to-hut loop across a high Norwegian plateau in early September, with ridge after ridge fading into blue. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/midnight-sun-lapland/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/midnight-sun-lapland/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:00:00 +0000 A week at a lakeside cottage above the Arctic Circle, where night is just a long, golden detour and sleep becomes optional. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/blue-hour-fjord/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/blue-hour-fjord/ Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:00:00 +0000 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. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/first-aurora-abisko/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/first-aurora-abisko/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000 Three cloudy evenings, then a pale grey arch that turned into the most extraordinary two hours I have spent outdoors. https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/village-of-lights/ https://ee.northlight-notes.com/posts/village-of-lights/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000 A week of polar night in a small Lapland village: four hours of twilight a day, minus twenty, and every window glowing orange.