Haytor #2

Dartmoor

Dartmoor #2

Looking towards Sharp Tor

Man in Black #4

New Bridge, Dartmoor

Abstract #6

Abstract #5

Abstract #4

Abstract #3

Abstract #2

Abstract #1

Solstice

The winter solstice is today at 05:30 GMT

River in winter

Yes, this photograph was taken in colour ...

Stavtjørn

Stavtjørn Alpinsenter (about 1¼ hours from Stavanger)

Snowscape #2

Snowscape

Gloppedalsura

Gloppedalsura #2

Stormy Sea #3

For a couple of weeks our coast has been battered by a series of severe storms, sometimes gusting as high as Force 11, and bringing horizontal rain/hail/snow with them. The conditions have not really been suitable for removing the lens cap!

Sky #11

Windmill

Hantum

Cat

Tromsø #10

This panorama is best viewed in big format - left click to enlarge

Tirpitz

On 12th November 1944 British forces bombed and sank a German battleship named "Tirpitz" off the Norwegian coast. About 950 people were killed. The only things left to be seen on the island of Håkøya now are the commemorative plaque and the wooden structure in the water that was the working platform used for the scrapping of the vessel. Bomb craters from the ones that missed are also still visible on the island.

Kvaløya landscape #4

Kvaløya landscape #3

Ice #8

Tree #9

Eidkjosen #2

Ice #7

Tree #8

Camp

Milky Way #2

Håkøya at night

Aurora #22

Beach at night

Belt of Venus

The anti-twilight arch or "belt of Venus" is the pink band that you sometimes see across the sky opposite the sunrise or sunset. It is caused by reddened sunlight mingling with the deep blue of the darkened sky. Below it you sometimes see a darker purplish band which is the shadow of the Earth itself on its own atmosphere.

For more information on this atmospheric optical phenomenon follow this link: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/earshad.htm

Summit

Arctic dawn

OK, it wasn't dawn - it was noon!

Tromsø #9

Kick-sled

The kick-sled is a popular way to make short journeys in northern Norway in winter.

Aurora #21

Horse

Sunrise #4

Kvaloya landscape #2

Aurora #20

Kvaloya landscape

Sunrise #3

Or was it a sunset?

This far north in November the sun puts in such a brief appearance that it evades definition.

Ersfjordelva

Yesterday's snow has melted, only to be followed by torrential rain, which means swollen rivers like this one.

Gapahuk