HEART OF THE ARCTIC WINTER - 4K Norway time-lapse

Believe it or not, we didn’t have that much of a winter. Even in Arctic Norway! Since November, 13 consecutive extra-tropical cyclones have brushed the coast of Norway affecting even the coldest places of the country. As a consequence, lots of positive temperatures and rain on top of the snow, somehow destroying the typical arctic wonderland. However in between the lukewarm rainstorms, the cold came back and allowed for short periods of freezing temperatures and snow. In these moments it was important for me to get out there whenever I could and capture all I could get. Cold also meant clearer skies and as a result aurora. Nonetheless it was never as easy as that because of the solar minimum we are at. It means lower auroral activity and fewer big shows. For this film I really wanted to show what few features we had in a different way. That’s especially true for the 4 opening scenes where I captured in ’macro-astro’ a forest of ephemeral and fragile hoar frost flowers. I am