For this past weekend's Voyages issue, the photographer Simon Norfolk traveled to the Lofoten Islands in Norway in search of the aurora borealis. He first learned about the Lofotens while researching an earlier project he shot for the magazine on rocket launches. He then encountered the northern lights on a separate assignment to photograph radio equipment in Norway:
Norfolk spent eight days in the Lofotens in February, but got only four nights of clear displays (a great aurora show depends on a combination of factors, like clear skies and a minimal amount of light interference). But he was struck by the light there generally, not just the aurora. "Before I went, my thought was that it was dark most of the time, and then a little daylight and then dark and miserable again," he says. "But because the sun just scrapes the horizon, the sunrises begin to put color into the sky at 7:30, and you have an hour and a half of predawn with golds and yellows. Then the sun rises blood-red at 9:15 but never manages to do much more than scrape along the horizon. All day is like a sunset."
The Nordic light made for long shoots, sometimes lasting 18 or 19 hours. Norfolk took breaks around noon when the sun was at its highest, and then again between the last moments of sunlight (around 6) and the first signs of the aurora (around 9).
An avid cyclist — he has completed a three-day ride across Bosnia and raced over a Tour de France stage — Norfolk plans to return to Norway this summer for the Lofoten Insomnia race. Beginning near the southwestern tip of the archipelago and going for about 150 miles, it will be the longest single-day ride he has completed. Experiencing the midnight sun in June will be a nice counterpoint to the all-day sunsets he witnessed this winter.
Despite being above the Arctic Circle in February, however, Norfolk says the temperatures were milder than he expected (mostly in the teens), thanks to the Gulf Stream winds. The trip felt like a holiday compared with those he has taken to remote and risky locations like Afghanistan, Yemen and Rwanda. And yet he adds: "It was a little hollow to see all that beauty on my own. I'd like to take Mrs. Norfolk one day. I can't say that of my normal assignments."
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