It’s fun to have an airport close by.  This might sound odd as the first thing people think about is the noise, traffic and pollution.  But Tromsø airport is only built for light aircrafts – propeller planes and 747s.  No Jumbos are allowed to land here.  This is normal for the airports in Northern Norway. [...]

It was a race against time.  Sunset was at 1:17pm.  This was our only chance to catch the last sunset of the year.  The last day of sun is Sunday but work, school, travel and a cloudy week was going to get in the way.  It had to be today.  To get the perfect shot [...]

Tromsø University is big on conservation.  Being the highest university in the world, they focus on polar exploration and Arctic life.  The projects led by the university ‘addressed questions within diverse fields of geology, paleontology, ecosystem studies, oceanography, indigenous populations, contaminant transport and biomagnification, and marine mammals and seabirds’.  One of their major studies for [...]

The South shore of Tromsø Island.  The mountains, the rocky sand and the cold water.  I’m jealous of the little red boat shed as it has the best location.  In the distance the Hurtigruta liner is sailing in from Finnsnes. This is the last of our collection of photographs from this 7th of November sunset [...]