This is a photo of the darkest day of the year in The Polar Night in Narvik. All though the sun is far from showing itself, we have a few hours in the middle of the day when the light is just Magical. The umber reflections of the sun below the horizon emanates the landscape and creates a special, dreamy warm light despite the cold up here.
All though we have no sun here in The Polar Night – the light is Magical! Narvik on the Winter solstice 2012
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21. December 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Christmas, General Information, Holidays, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Cold, light, Narvik, Polar Night, sun, Umber, Winter solstice | Leave a comment
Winter is here. I defied my crippling back pain and went out to shoot a few photos. Enjoy!
Snow showers coming in the Ofoten Fjord – Eibhlin of Panama is being loaded at pier 5
A tiny waterfall on Ankenes freezing up
Beisfjord and the mountain Beisfjordtøtta farthest away in between the snow showers
The alpine slope on Ankenes needs a little bit more snow to be in service
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25. October 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Everyday Life, General Information, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Alpine, Ankenes, Back pain, Beisfjord, Freezing, Narvik, nature, Ski slope, slope, snow, Snow showers, tiny waterfall, Waterfall, winter | 1 Comment
The lighthouse on Ankenes and Northern Lights up above behind some fast moving clouds. Taken on October the 13.
“The Light Machine” – Lighthouse on Ankenes and Northern Lights behind some fast-moving clouds up above.
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19. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Ankenes, Ankens, Clouds, Fagernes, Lighthouse, Narvik, Nordlys, Nordlysbilde, Northern Lights | Leave a comment
To round of a quiet night with practically no northern lights and some editing work on the aging computer – here is one of the big flashes from last night! Glad Wenche came out in time to see this! Better than fireworks – isn’t it!
One of the two biggest flashes last night.
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16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Better, Better than Fireworks, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fireworks, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment
I am crancking out Northern Lights Photos as fast as I can manage with this old computer. Here’s another one from last night
Beautiful Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord
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14. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder | Leave a comment
I am crazy busy today – but I just popped by my blog to show my readers an example of last night activity. The Kp-index was steadily around five, which at these latitudes is high (northern lights activity normally starts at Kp 2/3. Tonight there is a geomagnetic storm coming with an estimated strength of G1 (the scale goes from G0 – no activity to G5 where all hell breaks loose and satellites gets their curcuitboards fried and powergrids here on Earth fails).
Unfortunately there were strong winds and quite a bit of rain and partly cloudy yesterday. But still the build up to the storm was quite obvious in between the clouds!
Strong Auroral Activity is seen in between the Clouds last night.
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14. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Cloud, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, G0, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, Geomagnetic, Geomagnetic Storm, Geomagnetic Storm G1, Geomagnetic Storm G2, Geomagnetic Storm G3, Geomagnetic Storm G4, Geomagnetic Storm G5, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, nature, Nordlys, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Partly cloudy, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Physics, powergrids, science, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tonight, Tourist, travel, Veggen, weather, Yes | Leave a comment
Aurora borealis above the Ofoten Fjord with the mountain Veggen in the background as seen from Ankenes yesterday.
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: 3-Autumn, Ankenes, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, General Information, Geophysics, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Long Exposure, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Meteorology, Narvik, Nature's Delight, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Photos, Physics, Science & Technology, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
Standing there in the darkness – jumping up and down like a little kid at Christmas – and shouting -Yes! and Aaaah!, I probably look quite silly for a grown man, but every occasion like yesterday is exactly like Christmas to me! The Aurora borealis – Northern Light is so awe-inspiring that I wish all the japanese, Korean and Chinese tourist here in Norway could see it! They really are memories for a lifetime. Last night Kp-index was 3 (2 and above means chances to see northern lights at these latitudes). Today the Kp is even higher, at 5 – so I am soooo hoping for equally crisp, clear skies and even bigger lights!
I managed to get great many shots yesterday. And I had company. Danielle came down to the water with her boyfriend and I helped her getting into the fine techniques of shooting Northern Lights photographs.
And another bonus last night was the swarms of beautiful meteorites. I belive it must have been the orionides that should be passing just these days. Although my camera was pointed in the wrong directions, when I got home, I found that actually three of my photos had captured these beautiful sights. My head was obviously pointing in the wrong direction at these points, as I didn’t see them until I started flipping through the shots.
Well, here is a tiny fraction of last night’s phenomenal photo shoot. Enjoy!
Northern Lights stretching all the way form to the North of Narvik and all the way to the South-West above Vestfjorden. To the left Ankenes, and to the right Veggen and Forratangen. In the center Kjeldebotn.
Strong meteor (shooting star) between the lighthouse in Ankenes and aurora.
Northern Lights above the Narvik peninsula last night
Northern Lights photographer Danielle catching the last of the show
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Christmas, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
The conditions are good! Clear skies and moderate particle stream from the sun, so my camera is set, my wool clothes are all ready. Tripod? Check! Extra battery? Check! Flash light? Check! All systems nominal. Go, no-go for northern lights! WE HAVE A GO FOR AURORA BOREALIS!
In the news today we saw that 45. million readers have seen the Facebook page for Visit Northern Norway – and yet again my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen lundeimages. com made the frontpage with one of his stunning photos, the very photo I got his permission to show here to the right! It is an absolute beauty of a northern lights shot! The photo is taken in Bø in Vesterålen (Boe in Vesteraalen) – the beautiful group of islands between Lofoten and the main land.
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45 million visits to Visit Northern Norway (Norwegian)
Northern lights? -straight up, please!
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12. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Facebook, Friend's Achievements, From the archives, Geophysics, In the News right now, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Other Bloggers, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Aurora statistics, Battery, battery check, Camera, Clear conditions, Clear weather, Extra battery, facebook, Flashlight, Go, nature, No-go, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Particle flux, Particle stream, science, sun, Systems nominal, Tripod, Wool, Wool clothes | Leave a comment
Took this photo today of the Roasme Mountain range, and winter is just 1,000 meters away from us now. Soon we’ll be engulfed by the magic of snow..!
Winter is coming – the snow coveres mountain peaks gets whiter by the day
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23. September 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, General Information, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology | Tags: 000 meters, 1, Ankenes, Autumn, beautiful, Beautiful Landscape, Beautiful Sky, Iron Ore Carrier in port, Narvik, Narvik City, Narvik Harbor, Natures Delight, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, photography, RAW, Roasme, Roasme plataeu, Sky, snow, The Magic of Snow, weather, winter, Winter is coming, winter scene | Leave a comment
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