The all-encompassing blue hues so familiar to people in the Nordic countries, and actually, common to all high-latitude locations, might a bit tricky to capture on film or digital. Their persistent warmth is readily perceived yet conveying to the viewer is often fraught with difficulties.
Here is a winter scene where I think the warm blue might have survived. Taken in a wilderness area north of Oslo with the 45 mm lens on a Hasselblad Xpan camera. I had set up the camera for a 30 minutes exposure, but hadn't distanced myself away from the camera before I heard the soft click of its shutter closing. Puzzled, I rechecked my settings (B, a locked cable release to keep the shutter open the time it took for my to wade through the snow to my car and back again), found them okey, and redid the capture. Same behaviour this time, and then yet another. I gave up. Later, Hasselblad informed me that the maximum time for "B" was set to 8 seconds for "technical reasons". A later update had this increased to a whopping 32 seconds ....
One can imgine how underexposed the slides were. Only the pinprick lights of a far off village down in the valley could be vaguely seen, everything else was black.
Intent not to spoil the opportunity of a potentially good shot, years later I scanned the slide on a Nikon LS 8000 ED scanner set to 14 bit depth and 16X oversampling. I batch-scanned the same slide 64 (!) times, which took more than a day, and stacked the images to arrive at this final output image. It might be an exercise to redo this using a digital camera these days;
