Northern Lights Photography

Do you want to know how northern lights are created? Or do you maybe wish to learn a few tips on how to take you own aurora photos? Or learn when the chances are best of seeing auroras? Our new ...

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The period of polar darkness, the most beautiful time of the year here up in the high north, is about to end and the Sun is now very close to rise above the horizon again after not having been se...

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While the blog updates have been suffering lately, I'd like to share this photo from last weekend's research trip celebrating the 100.000 hits on the Northern Lights Photography blog - thanks to ...

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Clear skies here in Northern Norway have offered an amazing view of the northern lights lately with the internet buzzing with green photos. However, what caught my own eye lately was rather the g...

http://nordlysfoto.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-everyday-greyness.html

With the Moon being only a thin waning crecent right now, the first really dark skies of the season could be glimpsed the other night - it's hard to believe that it's been half a year since last ...

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Tonight, the Northern Lights finally returned again! After the long midnight-sun period here in Northern Norway, where it's impossible to see even the brightest stars from end-April - early-Aug...

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Well camouflaged in an old woodpecker nest (probably), this pygmy owl brightened up one of my summer days not long ago here in Troms - perhaps one of the cutest birds ever and the smallest owl in...

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For some reason I photograph very little during summer and therefore the blog updates suffer. Instead, I have been re-designing my website  a bit lately and I have added some fresh images of Nor...

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Here in Northern Norway, the midnight-sun period is now in full swing and the sun is shining all the night. Yesterday evening me and a friend went out with our cameras to view the spectacular d...

http://nordlysfoto.blogspot.com/2014/06/great-snipe-in-midnight-sun.html

Last year, my first full-scale international photo exhibition was held in the Canadian capital Ottawa during the three-week long winter-festival "Winterlude". Later the photo exhibition was dis...

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Announcement: The official trailer of the new documentary - "The Northern Lights - A Magic Experience"  is now released. Watch the trailer in full HD at Vimeo  This is the official trailer ...

http://nordlysfoto.blogspot.com/2014/02/release-of-new-aurora-documentary.html

Still, the North-Norwegian fjords are filled with herring attracting killer whales, humpback whales and fin whales..          

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The aurora activity is picking up again and below is a short trailer from a longer Northern Lights documentary - The Northern Lights - A Lifetime Experience - special made for the Holmenkollen ...

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Right now, the fishing for herring is in full swing along the coast of Northern Norway. The herring does not, however, only attract fishermen, but also humpback whales and orcas who turn up to f...

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Finally a night with clear skies here in Northern Norway - and an opportunity for some astrophotography! While comet ISON is getting all the media-attention, the sky is filled with so many more ...

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With absolutely miserable weather for stargazing up here in Tromsø lately, the sky is finally starting to clear up a bit, and today the Sun - being littered with large sunspots - is shining ove...

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Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) with a recently caught evening-snack-vole on a rainy dark day here in Troms   Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) / Haukugle

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Following the discovery of the 'new' comet, named C/2012 S1 ISON, in September last year, public expectations of comet ISON have been sky-high, since it has been predicted to become one of the b...

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Each year, the prestigious international photo-competition "Astronomy Photographer of The Year" is arranged by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK and yesterday the winners of 2013 were announced...

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The moon-free nights in September is the perfect time to go out and watch the Milky Way - the combined glow of millions of stars in the disk of our galaxy. Since the Earth's nightside faces the...

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Most birds are leaving the high-north now after the breeding season - but not all In September, a tiny little warbler, no more than 9-10 cm, instead travels a very long distance westwards f...

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This week's bird-photo portraits one of the smallest and cutest birds that we have in our fauna - the Wren / Gjerdesmett (Troglodytes troglodytes). The northernmost distribution limit of  the...

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After a long summer without any proper nights since April, it has finally started to get dark enough in the evenings to see stars once again and now, on the night between 30-31 August, the firs...

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Autumn waders, like here young dunlins and little stints, are gathering in big flocks now before heading south. Dunlins / Myrsnipe (Calidris alpina) and Little Stints / Dvergsnipe (Calidri...

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Ooops, I've been really lazy lately and four weeks have passed without any updating of my 'weekly' posts of bird-photos.. The autumn migration is in full swing now and grey, rainy and windy weat...

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