Another Raabjerg Mile (Råbjerg Mile) Impression
Frozen Lake in Raabjerg Mile
Poul and Anders
My good friend Poul – who made this trip possible! It has been a fantastic and absolutely delightful week on the top of Denmark. A long with my friend Anders – the three of us has enjoyed a Gentlemen’s Vacation with Lavish Cuisines, Brilliant Wines, Beers, Whiskey and Port Wines, Grand Nature and Breathtaking Cultural Experiences. I am a really lucky man to be in such good company!
Poul in Raabjerg Mile
It’s like the Gobi Dessert – only a bit smaller
In the otherwise green northern parts of Denmark, sand is moving right across the country in the general direction of the wind from West to East. This flying sand is moving like a dessert, although the sand is quite moist. The moving sand has throughout history buried houses, farms, roads and churches and only after many years when the sand has passed the area, these abandoned farming community appears on the back side of this moving dessert. However, the sand erodes the fertile top soil and carries it away with the wind leaving barron marshes in it’s wake.
I shot this photo in a particular area called Raabjerg Mile (Råbjerg Mile).
Raabjerg Mile - Tuesday February 7. The lake in front is frosen.
The lighthouses of Skagen
On the very Northern tip of Denmark there are three distinct lighthouses – Grå Fyr (The Grey Lighthouse, still active) – Hvide Fyr (The White Lighthouse) and Vippefyr (The Tilt Beacon) which all signals the importance and necessity throughout history to guide ships safely around this northern point of Jutland.
Grå Fyr
Hvide Fyr
Vippefyr
Vippefyr (The tilt beacon) seen from the base to the tip. It tilts around the central axis which makes it possible to hoist the basked with the burning logs after it's been been lit.
“The Branch” – “The North Cape” of Denmark
I shot a thsi photos on Grenen (translated from Danish: “The Branch”), the very top of Denmark, where the North Sea meets Skagerag. It was bitterly cold with -7 degrees Celsius, moist air and wind so my wool underwear and sweaters was highly apreciated! The coastline is constantly moving and the seas and winds meets – often times – violently. This has been one of the most dangerous places on The Seven Seas, having lead in earlier times to numerous shipwrecks.
The tip of Denmark covered by ice - Next stop Norway
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!
Stunning auroral activity!
Yesterday was a fantastic night! All one could hope and dream for! Often times the Earth’s magnetic field pushes so hard back against the Sun’s magnestic field, that the particle from solar bursts never enter the ionosphere to create this spectacle. But yesterday was – luckily – a day when the magnetic field lines let slip particles deep down into the ionosphere to create these breathtaking views. With the good help of my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen, I managed to process the final details of my RAW photos to stand out like they are seen.
Enjoy!
Seen straight up!
Engulfed in light all around!
Have you ever gotten a present that just keeps on giving? This night was such a present! Northern Lights covering the entire night sky. Severeal times I just had to stop – I simply didn’t know which part of the sky I should shoot… Now that is a serious luxury problem! I have several hundred pictures ready for processing.
Here are just a few! More to come!
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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Suncovered Mountain Tops
The sun is approaching the low land fast! Heres today’s view of the surrounding mountain tops of Narvik and Ankenes.
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