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.
There is no shortage of explosions on the sun, so there are plenty of northern lights above the Lofoten. But there are also a lot of showers, so the challenge is to find an opening between the clouds somewhere. Various mountain tops are now white and sometimes the ice has to be scraped off the windows again. At sea level, the precipitation is mostly rain, but sometimes also wet snow or hail.
Lofoten now
