After spending a few days expedition "prepping" (read negotiating UK's snow & floods) and celebrating Mon's Mum's 80th in Honiton UK (read downing a few Real Ales !) we fly out to Bodo Norway from London before ferrying across the Vestfjorden to the spectacular mountain peaked Loften archipelago right smack in the Artic Circle.
Our itinerary and timeline aims to give ourselves as best chance as possible to capture the spell binding Northern Lights against a series of spectacular landscapes ... anything that includes opening a door meets that description in Lofoten !
After spending a week digging our car out of the Lofoten snow (hopefully not) we head off to Iceland meeting up with our number 2 daughter Tegan and her husband Billy who are both snow bound "newbies" but well equipped with enough passion and enthusiasm to ensure that we keep going 24 hours a day (.. in Billy's case maybe 12) !
Our Iceland expedition will take us on a full circle (our 3rd visit) Island tour with overnights at locations that with or without the Northern Lights provide for potentially stunning photo opportunities - all we need between now and then is to find someone well enough skilled to take
them !
Set up with 2 Go Pro's, 1 Aerial Drone, 2 DSLR's, 1 Video Camera, 1 x 360 Camera as well as the obligatory tablets and I Phones there's a fair chance that the trip's post editing experience might extend a good year or two !
Regardless it is still one of those "top shelf" life adventures that even if it doesn't bring home that classic Northern Lights shot will still capture one hell of a picture framed memory.
Mike - March 2018
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All good things come to an end and this fabulous adventure that incuded nearly 2,000 kms circumnavigating breathtaking Iceand was no excepti...
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Iceland seems just a memory now as I sit in a warm (anything above 2 degrees) house and recover after running on empty attem...
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