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The first time I saw this scene I nearly drove the car off the road. I wasn't expecting it. Such a remarkable reveal, as is typical of Senja and Tromso. One moment there's nothing but a wall of snow on either side of the road, the next there's a magical fjord or a cabin by the river, or a herd of reindeer or a fishing fleet. Magical place.

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That day we got snow falling pretty much from dawn to dusk but paused for a brief half hour and we stepped out to capture a more subtle impression of the landscape. I love the scale of softness in winter, the way snow hides all the imperfections. It even dampens the noise. There's no silence quite like a world layered in fresh snow.

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Sometimes I look back on these images and the weather conditions happening at the time and wonder what the hell I was thinking to even be out there on the roads. This location was subject to avalanche closures routinely during winter. Could never run a tour into this section of the fjords, in case you got stuck there for a week!

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I know you've heard this before, but photography is all about light. Everything starts with the light. This is one reason I love winter, because the angle of the light is lower and moments of inspiration can happen at any time of day.

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If I had all the money in the world I'd buy this cabin in the woods, hidden away in Norway's north.

It's half way up a hill-side, with a low flat hill behind it and a sweeping shoreline of the fjordbotn below. Imagine putting on Christmas lunch here one year with Shellie :)

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I've been lucky to know more than a few yacht owners in my time. I used to edit the magazine for Australia's Classic Yacht Association and I'd get invites with all kinds of people. Most of the lovely. Wooden boat people are nice people on the main.

So this fella in Grovfjord owns a gorgeous little restored sailing boat and we went out at -10°C. Heaven.

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Cod is king in Lofoten. It's everywhere and not just hidden away on racks on a rock either. In the middle of towns the boats unload and fish is hung in the sub-zero air and the pristine winter landscape is imbued with the scent of oily cod.

There's something about it all that I really really love :)

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Cod is king in Lofoten. It's everywhere and not just hidden away on racks on a rock either. In the middle of towns the boats unload and fish is hung in the sub-zero air and the pristine winter landscape is imbued with the scent of oily cod.

There's something about it all that I really really love :)

#bluenorway #norway #lofoten #hamnoy #happyplace #lumix #LUMIXS1R #photography #photographie #fotografie #monochrome #blackandwhite #notreallymonochrome

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When I first visited here over a decade ago this scene in Lofoten was empty. Nobody came in the winter, except for a few silly photographers like Bruce Percy, and then me.

With each year the doubled and doubled. By 2020 it was a traffic jam on the Hamnøy bridge, shoulder to shoulder tripods and elbows.

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One of the great challenges with working in a moody duotone series is what happens when the sun comes out?

Because that's a very common thing in the Arctic winter, and a special thing. Standing knee deep in powder snow with the sun flooding into the fjord is just magic.

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We drove over a hill and saw the coastline, partly illuminated and totally covered in powder snow. The sun is wrestling with the low cloud, and largely losing. More snow is drifting down.

For the next hour the sun came out lit up the shore and the ice. But it's the moody moment when we first arrived that I love.

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This fjord in Senja is an absolute favourite of mine. Have seen it in all kinds of weather, but there are moments when a gentle bit of sunlight pops out between the clouds and brushes against the slopes.

I don't use a telephoto often, but they are quite useful every now and then. This shot about 100mm, with a slow shutter.

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Adding to my Blue Norway thread today, with some heavy snow. I love when you can see the weather happening in front of you, when you watch the sky changing. One moment there is clouds out in the fjord, and the next moment they turn dark.

Look closely and you can see a ferry about to be enveloped by the clouds :)

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We're in Senja. The weather is a touch dramatic. Indeed we've had to bring out the snow chains to get the van up the laneway more than once. Temperatures are typically around -10°C at this time of year. January is pretty dark but things change quickly in February.

Those moments when the sun wrestles with the clouds are my favourite moments. That's when the magic happens.

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Welcome to Norway in winter!

This series is inspired by the snow. It embraces those days when the clouds lie low, and the wind pushes snow across the landscape.

This boat-shed was a favie of mine. A simple subject but rich in detail and mood. I have a lot of shots of this shed.

#bluenorway #norway #lyngen #tromso #happyplace #lumix #LUMIXS1R #photography #photographie #fotografie

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Welcome to Norway in winter!

This series is inspired by the snow. It embraces those days when the clouds lie low, and the wind pushes snow across the landscape.

This boat-shed was a favie of mine. A simple subject but rich in detail and mood. I have a lot of shots of this shed.

#bluenorway #norway #lyngen #tromso #happyplace #lumix #LUMIXS1R #photography #photographie #fotografie

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