Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Apple iPhone 5 camera 19th December 2013. Click image for larger view. For the first time I have gone out fishing on the sea during the polar night period in Northern Norway. And what an experience that is. Even though we got no sunlight the light can be absolutely beautiful with different colors […]

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Taken with Olympus EPL-1 digital camera September 4th 2011. Click image for larger view. Here is have photographed a couple of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) that I caught in a net when I was visiting Northern Norway in September this year. The herring is one of the most important types of fish on the coast […]

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Taken with Apple iPhone 3GS camera August 11th 2010. Click image for larger view. Here is a picture of a fish called angler fish (Lophius piscatorius) that I caught in a herring net this summer. It was not a big fish, but the angler was a pleasant surprise as I have never caught one of […]

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A couple of weeks ago I caught a 24 kg (53 lb) heavy cod on a bottom-longline. This is the biggest fish I have caught in years so I was very excited when I dragged the huge fish up from the depth of the ocean. The head was so big that it alone completely filled […]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera February 28th 2008. Click image for larger view. I found this half eaten Rattail fish (probably a Roundnose grenadier, Coryphaenoides rupestris) laying in the middle of a field. I suspect that a sea eagle found the fish washed up on a beach nearby (there was sand all over the […]

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