MS Vesterålen 2018

In front of Oslo Central station on a winter morning. The photo was taken through the window during an early breakfast.

Winter morning (8.20 a.m.) near Måløy, view on black!

Morning sun on the footbridge over the railway tracks at Trondheim sentralstasjon

The wooden storehouses on Nidelven seen from Gamle Bybru Die alten Speicherhäuser am Nidelven von der Gamle Bybru aus gesehen

First sunrays and setting moon over the island of Rødøya HFF, folks!

Nordic sunrise at 9.13 a.m. with the moon still in the sky. Bolga is a 2,4 m² island on the Helgeland coast just north of the Arctic circle. It has about 100 permanent inhabitants and in summer is popular with anglers.

On board MS Vesterålen

Svolvær with very weak northern lights and a rising moon. The bright spotlight illuminates the Svolværgeita en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svolv%C3%A6rgeita Shot with Irix 15mm f/2,4 Svolvær unter sehr schwachem Nordlicht bei Mondaufgang. Der Scheinwerfer beleuchtet die berühmte Svolværgeita, einen Felsturm mit 2 Spitzen wie die Hörner einer Ziege.

Tromsdalen is the part of Tromsø situated on the mainland. It's connected to the city centre on Tromsøya via tunnel and the 1036 m long and 36m high Tromsøbrua. On the right is the so called Arctic Cathedral which in fact is not a cathedral but just Tromsdalen parish church. Tromsdalen ist ein Stadtteil von Tromsø auf dem Festland, der durch Tunnel und die 1036m lange und 36m hohe Tromsøbrua mit dem Stadtzentrum auf Tromsøya verbunden ist. Rechts im Bild ist die sogenannte Eismeerkathedrale, die eigentlich keine Kathedrale, sondern schlicht die Pfarrkirche von Tromsdalen ist.

TSC: look back through your photographs and pick your favourite photo you took this year. Not necessarily your best composed/exposed/technically perfect, though it may be so, but the one that means most to you, and tell us why. A difficult choice as I don't have one single favourite photo. This is a previously unpublished one from a winter journey on one of the older Hurtigruten ships. I love watching the night sky while the boat sails along the coast. There are few people outside and the ones that are appreciate the peaceful mood while above our heads the night shift on the bridge are at work. Once you've put up the tripod you keep your eyes glued to the sky, blindly hit the shutter every now and then and stay out until your toes are frozen;-) In the PiP one from the following night, finally some northern lights! Strong wind and the usual Barents Sea swell made photos more miss than hit and the stars turned into stripes or zigzags (this is the best of a bad lot, not fit for looking at in large size).

A very colourful sunrise at Havøysund. Warm low pressure led to ice rain by afternoon, virtually every surface was covered with 1-2 cm of clear ice.

A snowy HFF to all!

HFF, folks! Stay warm in the cold:-)

The boat in the background is the "Northern Enterprise", a Russian fishing vessel built in 1980 Das Schiff im Hintergrund ist die "Northern Enterprise", Heimathafen Murmansk. www.marinetraffic.com/de/ais/details/ships/shipid:351585/mmsi:273853400/imo:8016354/vessel:NORTHERN_ENTERPRISE

Sørøya is Norway's forth largest island with 811 km² and only ~1000 inhabitants. It lies in Finnmark and is separated from the islands of Stjernøya, Seiland and Kvaløya (and Hammerfest) by Sørøysundet . Sørøya ist mit 811 km² und nur ~1000 Einwohnern die viertgrößte Insel Norwegens. Sie liegt in der Finnmark und ist von den Inseln Stjernøya, Seiland and Kvaløya (und Hammerfest) durch den 4 km breiten Sørøysund getrennt.

A very colourful sunrise near Harstad. The old saying came true, the clouds crept in and the wind freshened up. Morgenrot schlecht Wetter droht- das stimmte in diesem Fall. Nach dem sehr farbigen Morgenrot zog es sich zu und ein stürmischer Wind kam auf.

Toppen is a 759m high mountain on the west coast of Grytøya island. Toppen ist ein 759m hoher Berg an der Westküste der Insel Grytøya.