The Moon and The Fagernes Mountain
A huge composite image of The Fagernes Mountain
Fagernes Mountain and the moon
Today’s HDR
What this photo doesn’t tell you is that i ran out and into an ankle deep slush ice to capture these photos that this HDR-photo (High Dynamic Range) consists of. It was cold… Sometimes one has to suffer to get a good shot. Please, enjoy behind a warm, cozy computer screen!
HDR of the Narvik peninsula 2nd of March 2012
HDR of a Snow Shower
Yesterday I made this HDR from 9 exposures of a snow shower moving through the Ofoten Fjord. Lovely contrasts!
HDR of a snow shower moving through the Ofoten Fjord 9 exposures
The Sleeping Queen – Sleeping in a bitterly cold storm
I caught this snapshot of the famous mountain The Sleeping Queen (1,576 m.o.s.) today. The wind was blowing approximately storm force at the tops, so the queen is misty from all the snow being blown off the mountain ridge.
IVS KANDA – a small ship
I caught this picture of the iron ore carrier IVS KANDA today. It is a relatively small ship in regard to what the usual tonnage of the carriers that come to Narvik usually are. IVS KANDA is from Singapore, she is going to take on iron ore at pier No 5 bound for Rostock. Right now she has been waiting in port for 11 days to get the load. It is quite busy here now with lots of carriers anchored up all around the fjord and harbor bassin. IVS KANDA is just 32,621 DWT, which is just 1/8 the size of the bigger ships coming in here to load up with the fines iron ore in the world.
So next time you thunder down the highway in your new car or you’re frying some meat in your frying pan, maybe they are made from steel that IVS KANDA transported from Narvik this cold and windy february in 2012.
Singapore's IVS KANDA waiting to be loaded with iron ore. Click the photo to see "The Big Picture"
The loader at LKAB
Weser Stahl is almost fully loaded and ready to set the course out Vestfjorden. The orange and blue machine in the background is the loader weighing 4,600 metric tonns. Below the tip of the loader you can see the black stream of iron ore pelets which has come all the way from deep down in the iron ore mines up in the Swedish mountains by train down to the all-year-round ice-free harbor of Narvik. That black stream of iron ore pellets being dumped deep into the cargo bays of the carrier is being dumped at a rate of 1-2 metric tonns per second.
Iron ore being dumped into the cargo bay of Weser Stahl today at a rate of 1-2 metric tonns per second
Snowy Silence by The Fjord
Snow is the most silent thing in the world. Today was calm, and snowy and really silent. Just the occasional bird and snow plow broke the silence.
Downtown Narvik with the harbor in front
Breakwater at the Ankenes Marina with the runway light beacon for the minicipal airport
A bit of Plane Spotting
I had 15 minutes at my disposal today. Enough to do a little bit of Plane Spotting. This is a Dash 8 belonging to Widerøe (Wideroe) an airline company under the SAS group. This specific plane has the call-sign LN-WIF and is named after the county Nord-Trøndelag.
But passenger traffic is not the only function of the airport. An ambulance plane arrives almost every day to evacuate patients from the local hospital to the university hospital in Tromsø (Tromsoe) Northern-Norway. A vital service that cannot be replaced any other way, neither by ambulance nor helicopter due to the extreme weather. But a new bridge project and the immensely huge ego of a handful politicians is now threatening to close the airport…
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-103 Dash 8 thundering down the Runway 19 - Narvik Airport - with a cloud of snow whirled up by the two powerful engines of 1,800 shp each
Take off from Narvik - in the background an iron ore carrier waiting to get to port
LN-WIF taking off from Narvik Airport (NVK / ENNK)
Wheels up and turning up against the wind bound for Bodø airport
And soon the Dash is just a dash on the evening sky
The New Record and The Waiting Game
Today my blog has reached a new time high! My last entry about with the Northern Lights photos has shot through the roof! Right now we are experiencing the biggest Sun Storm since 2005. This is really bad news for communication and navigation satelites. It is not very healthy being an airline passenger or crew neither. But for watching spectacular lights in the night sky, it is great. Right now there’s a lull in the activity, but as the Earth rotates a little bit more, we in Northern-Norway will be right on the backstream of the charched particles from the Sun.
I have already shot a few photos tonight and are waiting for more. Unfortunately there is a lot of clouds right now. And since it’s rather cold, people are throwing birch into the fireplaces – like ther was no tomorrow – which produces a lot of smoke particles which scatter the light even more.
I hope you enjoy these preliminary shots of tonights show!
It’s like ice-fishing – you freeze your behind off – whether you catch something, or not….
Yesterday I spent quite some time down by the fjord, trying to catch some northern lights. It’s a bit like ice fishing. Sometimes you get a good catch, sometimes you don’t. There was quite nice flashes, but by the time I had rigged my equipment and was ready to shoot, there was more or less nothing. Waiting and waiting… Practically nothing…
I swung my camera around and shot a couple of shots of the City (Narvik) and its suburb Ankenes and then drove home at 01:30 am.
Narvik seen from the Ankenes Marina
Ankens and the Ankenes Church seen from Ankenes Marina
Ankenes and the Ankenes Church seen from Ankens Marina
Moerkholla (Mørkholla) – The Dark Hole – not so dark anymore
In the Fagernes Mountain massive there is a place called Moerkholla (Norwegian: Mørkholla) – or ominously translated into English; The Dark Hole. As the name implies, not much sun reaches the bottom there, but it is somewhat brighter there now, than in the dark season during the winter.
The edge of Moerkholla
Delightful Winter
Popped out shortly to shoot a few pictures today. Here’s the first. A wide angle shot of the inner parts of the Ofoten Fjord.
Sun covered mountains by the Ofoten Fjord
SOPA / PIPA postponed indefinitely
The SOPA and PIPA law proposals are postponed indefinately! Which means the World’s Population – not the Entertainment Industry – still has the democratic control over the internet! (For now)
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