The Lofoten Islands, that's midnight sun and northern lights. Fish and sturdy boats. Grey/black mountains rise from the deep blue ocean high into the sky. At their feet there are small wooden fishing villages where cod dries on racks. Eagles circle above schools of herring, driven to the coast by killer whales. Otters on the rocks chew on the fish and crabs they just caught. The Norwegian archipelago the Lofoten, located above the Arctic Circle, is considered among the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. On this website photographer Eric Fokke shows why.
The first half of April, just like late August and early September, offers a good opportunity on the Lofoten to photograph the Northern Lights against an orange horizon. During that period, there is no complete darkness at night because the sun is low below the horizon in the north. We have had two weeks of beautiful weather, but now, in the last week of April, it is snowing again.
Lofoten now
