Category: Color
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Photographing Romsdalen in autumn. Misty Birches edition.
After four great days in Rondane, I decided to spend the last 2-3 available days further west. Romsdalen is mostly known for it’s mountains and waterfalls, but the forecast was grim with low clouds and rain. Not perfect conditions for mountainscapes. To my surprise, upon arrival in Åndalsnes in the afternoon, the weather was quite…
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Photographing Rondane, Norway. My annual photo-tour, 2024-edition.
Last year I made a post celebrating the 10-year anniversary of my annual mid-september visit to Rondane National Park. Fall-colors usually peak in mid-september, and it is always a pleasure to photograph colorful mountain-birches with snow-covered peaks as a backdrop. This year I might have been a week too late, as peak colors definitely was…
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Looking forward to autumn
Peak autumn is just around the corner. The high-season for every landscape-photographer! I kicked off this season with a few outings in my nearby woodlands, Bymarka in Trondheim. While nights are chilly, days are still sunny and warm. Perfect conditions for making some wonderful morning fog. This particular morning in the beginning of September I…
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Photographing spring in Tuscany
I have always loved to photographed pastoral, cultural landscapes. Old barns, winding roads and fields of flowers have a strong visual appeal to me, and bring feelings of times long gone. No wonder then, that Tuscany is one of my favorite areas to photograph. I have been fortunate to visit several times for photography and…
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A crisp December morning
Weather has been cold and clear here for the last 3-4 weeks. Fortunately, we got a modest dusting of snow early on, giving some light to the landscape. I have been out photographing a lot in this period. Sunrise is around 0930 am and sunset at 0230 pm. Between that, we have more or less…
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Frozen logs, sunrise
I visited this place three consecutive days earlier this november. The first morning, I fond the scene and started to plan the compositon. The second day, I was happy with the composition, but I was a tad too late and the light was too harsh. The third day I came there well ahead of sunrise…
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Netherlands, November 2023.
Netherlands has so much to offer the landscape-photographer. Although a small country, with no mountains and no waterfalls, both the coastline and the forests are world-class. Granted, I have a soft spot for beech-forests, but if that what you are after, Netherlands comes second to none. I recently returned from my 4th visit since 2018.…
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Finale!
Everyone that has followed my work for a while (hi mom!) probably know that I have a soft spot for photographing trees and woodlands. Of course, autumn is high-season. Every autumn I find myself browsing my favorite photography book, Intimations of Paradise by Christopher Burkett. His forest-work is wonderful and deeply inspiring. The quality of…
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Rondane, Norway. Annual September trip, 2023
Every year, for the last ten years, I have visited Rondane National Park for fall colors. Foliage usually peaks around september 15-20th, but there’s a slight variation from year to year, and if you’re unlucky and get an early autumn storm, everything might be gone before peak colors are reached. Mid-september may sound early for…
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Northern Norway – summer of 2023
Well, summer is definitely over here in central Norway. Mornings are chilly and damp and evenings come noticeably earlier for every day. I haven’t been very active on this blog for the last couple of months due to summer holidays and different projects. But I have had time for some landscape photography in between. A…
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Romsdalen – June trip 2023
Every year I try to pay a visit to Romsdalen in june. The higher altitude roads are open and the rivers and waterfalls are raging. And the main tourist season is yet to begin. Mid-june is a great time to visit. This year, we had scouted out a few new areas to visit in addition…
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Sunstar excellence: the AF-S Nikkor 20mm f1.8 G ED on Hasselblad X2D
You may like or dislike the rendering of the sunstar on the original Hasselblad lenses. That is of course a matter of taste. But if you want something different than the sharp 8-legged star courtesy of Hasselblad, you will need an adapted lens. The Nikkor 20mm f1.8 makes a different, but beautiful sunstar, and I…
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Spring, woodlands and very (very!) early mornings
It’s a pleasure being out in the woods this time of year. After the long, dark winter and (often) grey and dull early spring, the forests are now full of life. Birds tweeting, flowers blooming and the wonderful vibrant spring-foliage. My favorite time of day out there is around sunrise. The soft pre-sunrise light has…
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Clearing summer storm, Geiranger
This is an iconic viewpoint on the road down to Geiranger in Norway. I have passed here many times, always stunned by the view. The steep mountains are impressive enough, but the small turf-houses really make the scene for me. They add a sense of timeless romance and nurture thoughts around how life could be…
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Transitions
A collection of images captured over the timespan of about one hour last weekend. A photography buddy and I headed out into the local “wilderness” last weekend to capture a fresh dusting of snow on the spruces. We noticed that higher elevations were shrouded in fog, and headed up there. We found a nice area…
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Autumn drama
Autumn is by far my favorite season to photograph, as it is for many landscapephotographers. Of course the vibrant colors contribute to that, but it’s also something about the light and of course the changing weather. Last autumn I got to visit a few locations and photograph a lot. I still have a huge backlog…
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Fresh dusting
This image is 10 years old these days! It was captured in early March 2013. It was snowing quite heavy as I drove out to Unstad beach that morning, but as daylight emerged I got a small window to capture the fresh dusting of snow on the sandy shore. Conditions can be quite harsh here…
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Overlooked. Revisiting Venezia.
I have visited Venezia three times for photography so far. It is definitely a favorite of mine. The absence of cars, the canals, the gondolas and the rustic buildings and classic architecture all contributes to a timeless character and strong sense of place. As I have just started to plan a new visit, I was…
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Review of the Benq SW 321c – does the monitor matter?
Yes, the monitor matters! And this one is probably one of the very best out there for photographers. Read on if you want a few more details on why monitors are important for us photographers and why the new Benq is so good. This spring, Benq reached out to me and asked if I would…
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Mosquitoland
I don’t know if you have ever been to North-Norway, or even are planning a trip there. But in case you are, you should know this: Visiting during the summer months involves a very high risk of being in constant war with the fierce creatures somewhat erroneously called mosquitoes. We are not talking about the…
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