Vestpollen in Lofoten

Although winter pictures have been requested, even today’s picture is another one from last summer’s trip to Lofoten. The trip to Lofoten was a lot easier this year due to the mainland connection, which opened in November 2007. It includes several tunnels as well as a bridge across Raftsundet. This means however, that you drive to Lofoten without visiting Vesterålen, which of course is worth visiting itself.

I took the picture above from a rest stop at the E10 highway at Sundsneset close to Vestpollen in Lofoten, not far away from Laupstad. The church in the foreground lies on Sildpollnes, where you also find Sildpollnes Sjøcamp. I haven't done so myself, but it looks like a nice place stay overnight. From Sildpollnes, it is about 16 km to Svolvær.

Photo details: EOS 30D with my EF-S 17-85 mm at f/5.6 with a focal length of 73 mm. WIth ISO at 100, the shutter time was 1/125 seconds. The picture was edited in PhotoShop Elements with an adjustment layer with soft light.

This picture is part of my Lofoten set at flickr.

The Tjelsdund Bridge

The picture shows the Tjeldsund bridge, connecting the mainland with Hinnøya – the largest island of Norway. The bridge is part of the European highway E-10 ending in Å in Lofoton. I passed by here last July on a trip to Lofoten and stopped at the cafeteria from where I took this picture. Just across the bridge you take left to follow the E-10 to Lofoten and right to go to Harstad.

Photo details: Canon EOS 30D and the EF-S 17-85 mm lens I use most of the time as a standard lens. The focal length was 28 mm. I used Aperture priority at f/4,5 to achieve a shutter speed of 1/250 seconds. ISO settings were of course at 100. The picture is cropped and downsized.

This picture is part of my Lofoten set at flickr.

Tromsø City - birds eye perspective

Here is another picture from Tromsø, taken from Storsteinen against the city centre. The time of shooting was around 15:00, August 26th 2006. Hurtigruten "Finmarken" has just arrived at Prostneset. In the upper right you find the library and the city hall. The SAS Radison Hotel is the white tall building in the mid-right.

As you may see, the weather was really nice and sunny. It was pretty warm, too, with temperatures above 20 degrees Celcius. This is not too common that late in August in Tromsø.

This picture was taken using my Canon EOS 30D with the EOS 70-200 F4/L lens at 200mm.

Welcome!

Welcome to SAMs photo blog. Eventually, I will start posting blogs focusing on digital photograpy. Hopefully, I will post some nice pictures with short comments briefly describing them. Unless otherwise stated, the pictures are taken by me and the copyright belongs to me. Please let me know if you for some reason believe the copyright belongs to someone else.

As a start, the picture to the left is from Tromsø in northern Norway. The picture is taken from the southwest of the island of Tromsø at sunset August 25th 2006. The mountain in the background is called Blåmannen, and is one of many mountains surrounding the city.

The picture is taken with my Canon EOS 30D with a 70-200 lens at f/4.0 and 1/640 sec.