From a voyage

[Bjørn J]

Winter voyage with the coastal liner "hurtigruten" along the coast of northern Norway.

[Frank Fremerey]

I love colors mood and geometry. Thank you.

[Gary]

I love the conflicting horizon lines in #1. Was this a pleasure cruise?

[Bjørn J]

I love the conflicting horizon lines in #1. Was this a pleasure cruise?

Thanks Gary. I was on my way to do some photography in Lofoten, and instead of driving for 10 hours on terrible winter roads I brought the car on the ship.
The "Hurtigruten" (Express route) started in 1893 as a way of transporting goods and local passengers along the coast, it calls at 34 ports on the way, twice a day. One southbound and one northbound. Only the last few years has tourists discovered it, and it is now just as much a cruise as a local transport. Tourists do the voyage in the winter to see the northern lights, and in the summer for the midnight sun

[smusesuse]

I love the conflicting horizon lines in #1.

+1
I especially like the second pic. And not only because of the little face.

[Jakov Minić]

The angle of the deck in that first shot is special

[Bjørn J]

Thank you. Yes, I was lucky with all the chairs to the left and the woman standing the way she does. Those two objects, combined with the ship's angle, gives an interesting balance.

Susanne, nr. 2 is a favourite for me.

[Olivier]

This must be a magnificient trip (probably very common for you but definitely not for me). It like the last one, maybe it is the clean and empty foreground contrasting with the wild background that I find so appealing.

[Ron Scubadiver]

Nice series, #1 is a bit scary.

[Jørgen Ramskov]

I can't decide between #1 and #2, both are excellent.

As for "hurtigruten", I believe there's actually made a (very long) "movie" that basically shows the entire trip, just like there are "movies" that shows various train rides.

[Bjørn J]

I can't decide between #1 and #2, both are excellent.

As for "hurtigruten", I believe there's actually made a (very long) "movie" that basically shows the entire trip, just like there are "movies" that shows various train rides.

Thanks Jørgen. Yes, the Norwegian broadcasting has become famous for the Hurtigruten "slow TV" project. They sent live on TV continously for 5 days, all day and night, the Hurtigruten voyage from Bergen in south of Norway to Kirkenes way up north. "Everybody" in Norway watched it, at least parts of it. It became almost like a national festival. A fantastic project, and one of the reasons I am so happy we have a non-commercial TV-station, financed with taxes. Commercial TV-stations would never do such a stunt. Technically it was a triumph, with several cameras on board, including a gyro-stabilized Cineflex with amazingly long zoom reach.
The movie you mention is a very cut-down version, only a few hours I think, available on DVD.

[armando_m]

the boat rocks and leans although the horizon is flat

wonderful contrasts boat vs landscapes

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Bjørn: I didn't know they had made a short version of it, I was thinking of the full version. DR, what I usually call "the danish BBC" when explaining it to people as most people know BBC, have broadcast some similar movies of train rides here in Denmark.