The first time I saw this scene I nearly drove the car off the road. I wasn't expecting it. Such a remarkable reveal, as is typical of Senja and Tromso. One moment there's nothing but a wall of snow on either side of the road, the next there's a magical fjord or a cabin by the river, or a herd of reindeer or a fishing fleet. Magical place.

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That day we got snow falling pretty much from dawn to dusk but paused for a brief half hour and we stepped out to capture a more subtle impression of the landscape. I love the scale of softness in winter, the way snow hides all the imperfections. It even dampens the noise. There's no silence quite like a world layered in fresh snow.

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Sometimes I look back on these images and the weather conditions happening at the time and wonder what the hell I was thinking to even be out there on the roads. This location was subject to avalanche closures routinely during winter. Could never run a tour into this section of the fjords, in case you got stuck there for a week!

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I know you've heard this before, but photography is all about light. Everything starts with the light. This is one reason I love winter, because the angle of the light is lower and moments of inspiration can happen at any time of day.

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If I had all the money in the world I'd buy this cabin in the woods, hidden away in Norway's north.

It's half way up a hill-side, with a low flat hill behind it and a sweeping shoreline of the fjordbotn below. Imagine putting on Christmas lunch here one year with Shellie :)

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I've been lucky to know more than a few yacht owners in my time. I used to edit the magazine for Australia's Classic Yacht Association and I'd get invites with all kinds of people. Most of the lovely. Wooden boat people are nice people on the main.

So this fella in Grovfjord owns a gorgeous little restored sailing boat and we went out at -10°C. Heaven.

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When I first visited here over a decade ago this scene in Lofoten was empty. Nobody came in the winter, except for a few silly photographers like Bruce Percy, and then me.

With each year the doubled and doubled. By 2020 it was a traffic jam on the Hamnøy bridge, shoulder to shoulder tripods and elbows.

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