Photography

Early Warning

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A week is still left of March, but spring is already here. Which is about a month earlier than we would expect. We have had an unusually mild winter here. We have hardly had any snow, and we have only had a few days where temperatures have been below 0˚C both night and day. We have had mild winters before, but this is something completely different. And it does feel ominous.

Snowdrops (1/100s @ f/8, MACRO 75mm equivalent, ISO 50)

Wintertime

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At the latitude where I live, the sun barely rises above the horizon this time of year. During the day the sun rises to just under 10 degrees above the horizon. (If you hold your hand at arm's length and close one eye, the width of your fist covers about 10 degrees of your field of view.) Dawn and dusk stretches out in time and the light is soft and warm, yielding nice sunrises and sunsets.

Winter sunrise (1/360s @ f/5.6, 35mm, ISO 400)

A Different Kind of Winter

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It is wintertime, but with temperatures between 0°C and almost 10°C it feels a bit more like we are in early spring rather than midwinter. Normally temperatures would be below minus 5°C at this time of year. What little snow we've had so far this winter, melted soon after it arrived. But with temperatures varying as much as they do, you can find nice frost patterns as the one in this image. These patterns form as the water starts to freeze, in this case from a shallow body of water on top of older ice.

Frost patterns (1/180s @ f/5.6, 50mm, ISO200, 16x9 crop)

Haukland Lofoten Islands

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I was browsing through some old photos, and found myself returning to this image. The image is taken a couple of years ago, and it is taken in the Lofoten Islands. The weather was like this for almost 10 days in a row. Nice "holiday weather", but for photography it can be a bit too nice. On the other hand, perfect conditions at night for watching the aurora.

Sjøbakken, Haukland (0.2s @ f/11, 28mm equivalent, ISO 50)