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Arctic Norway — Part 3: A Waterfall Hike in Rago National Park

Watch on YouTube: This is the third and final chapter of my solo road trip through Arctic Norway — and if you followed Part 1 and Part 2, you already know the weather had its own ideas. By this point I'd driven to a new stretch of coastline, and the forecast was, once again, relentless rain. So I did the only sensible thing: I leaned into it. Chasing light on the coast I started to spent driving the coast and stopping wherever a burst of light broke through — long exposure, b

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Jun 282 min read

Arctic Norway by the Sea — Part 2: Why I Shoot Long Exposures

Watch on YouTube: This is Part 2 of my solo road trip through Arctic Norway. If you caught Part 1, you'll remember it rained almost the whole time — so waking up on this second morning to actual sunshine felt like a small miracle. I spent the entire day working my way along the coast: rock slabs sliding into the sea, tidal pools holding perfectly still water, and mountains trailing me from one stop to the next. A morning on the coast My first stop was all about reflection. Th

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Jun 282 min read

Landscape Photography in Arctic Norway — Part 1: Embracing the Rain

Watch on YouTube: I'd been teasing this trip for a few videos, and here it finally is: two weeks in Norway. The plan was simple : give the entire first week to photography, chase whatever conditions the far north decided to hand me, and stop pretending I had any say over the weather. Spoiler: the weather had plans of its own... Hitting the road in the rain I landed, picked up a rental car, and pointed it north toward a remote stretch of Arctic Norway. For the first few days,

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Jun 282 min read

Three Days in a Strange place — Part 3: The Blade of Rock & a Last Sunset

Watch Part 3 on YouTube: There was one shot this trip owed me. On the first rainy day, I'd turned back from a towering blade of rock — the Lame de Facibelle — before I could photograph it. So naturally, the last day in the area, I went back to finish the job. The blade of rock It's an intimidating thing to frame: the rock blade rises insanely high, while the little waterfall at its foot is tiny and off to one side. The only way to fit it all was my widest lens, the Laowa 9mm,

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Jun 142 min read

Three Days in a Strange place — Part 2: Sunset in the Terres Noires

Watch Part 2 on YouTube: After the rain of the first day, the skies finally turned, and the trip opened up into something else entirely. Not far from my basecamp lies a landscape that still doesn't look quite real to me: the Terres Noires — the “black earth” — badlands of dark, crumbling marl folded into ravines and canyons. From a distance the hills look almost burnt, dark against the green pines and the pale summits behind. I set out one evening to hike through them and cha

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Jun 142 min read

Three Days in a strange place — Part 1: A Stormy Start at the Clue de Barles

Watch Part 1 on YouTube: Some trips announce themselves gently. This one arrived in a downpour. I had a four-day long weekend and a simple studio booked a few hours south of home, in the Barles country of Haute-Provence — a corner of the French Alps I'd been wanting to explore properly. I'd pictured mountain hikes. What I got, at least to begin with, was rain. But rain isn't the enemy of landscape photography that people think it is. So when I passed a dramatic roadside cany

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Jun 142 min read