As a reminder, I am writing this on my iPad and therefore there may be some autocorrect mistakes and other things that happen when I touch the side of my hand down on the keyboard while typing! Eventually when I return, I will go through and edit all of these posts and also post photos with them. My app is not allowing me to post photos and I haven't had time to figure out why yet! For now, you get writing and I hope you're following along on instagram to see my daily stories! @photographybyrs
Norway. Wow. As bad as wow airlines was, wow is all I can say here. It is just stunning and magnificent! We stayed in Leknes last night and woke up bright and early around 5:45am to head out to shoot sunrise about 20 minutes away. Luckily checkout wasn't until 11 so we could leave, come back, eat breakfast and then pack up! We drove north of Leknes to Uttakleiv to find round rocks, ocean, mountains and a pretty sunrise! We spent quite some time exploring the beach and taking detail shots. There is some kelp here that is long and hard and wiggly... so hard to describe but it's huge! I will take a photo and post it when I can. After sunrise, we drove around a bit and explored the nearby beaches of Haukland and then stopped along a beautiful reflection area where we discovered people were below and they ended up being some photo friends of ours teaching a workshop! Fun to run into them and they are staying a bit further north of us so we will all communicate when the aurora come out about when to get up and Shoot! (Cross your fingers, the kp level is supposed to be high Tuesday though Thursday evenings!)
Back to the hotel to eat a nice breakfast, check out and then venture to the grocery store where we picked up some things to eat for the next few days as we are staying in a Rorbuer cabin with a kitchen so we can make our own food if we want.
If we had not explored or stopped at all, it probably would have taken us about thirty minutes to get here. However, almost every 500 feet we wanted to stop and take photos. It just got more stunning and beautiful every turn we made. We also scouted many locations for other shoots and flew the drone a few times!
It is gorgeous here. We checked into our cabin in Reine, which is situated directly on the water, overlooking fisherman and mountains. We have two bedroom with bunk beds, a living room, kitchen and bathroom. It's fantastic! I'm glad we will be here for three nights!
We had dinner in the next town over and I tried whale for the first time. I was not going to get it as whales are some of my favorite animals and I am very against it, however Iceland and Norway both still participate in whaling and this particular whale is not endangered (yet). It was delicious. I had a few scallops for dinner and some bread.
Back to the cabin and shotty internet, but a couple of hours of relaxing is nice, however we seem to not have any hot water, so a cold shower and some laundry time was what I did!
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