Showing posts with label Lofoten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lofoten. Show all posts

Monday, 13 October 2014

Reflections of Narnia


A beautifully-sited mirror sculpture on Austvågøy in the Lofoten Islands, Norway.  Created by American artist Dan Graham in 1996

It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window there may have been a looking-glass. And as you turned away from the window you suddenly caught sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different - deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it meant more.”   

C S Lewis 

Friday, 25 March 2011

Trees #9


Thursday, 24 March 2011

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Viva Lofoten #2

This was the view from my window at Viva Lofoten guesthouse.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Viva Lofoten

"Viva Lofoten" guesthouse in Straumnes, photographed one stormy night with faint aurora visible.

Monday, 21 March 2011

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Svolvær


Saturday, 19 March 2011

Friday, 18 March 2011

Panorama

Left click to enlarge for better viewing of this panorama.

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Barn


Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Green

It was a very dark and stormy night .......
In fact to my eyes, it was almost completely pitch black. This is a 30 second exposure which has rendered the wild sea calm, and lit the landscape with the auroral glow from above the clouds. I have not adjusted the colour cast in this picture.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Sunday, 13 March 2011

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Stormy Sea


Thursday, 10 March 2011

Lofoten

Taken from Svolvær Airport, Lofoten, looking north.

Sunday, 13 June 2010

Reine #4


Saturday, 12 June 2010

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Reine