Lucky you!
Lofoten seems so photogenic! A dream come true... By the way, I was planning to go near Murmansk with friends to chase the Lights but there was a challenge getting some access permits from the military as it is some kind of a military area and we've abandoned the idea.
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I'm not very lucky - at Lofoten we unfortunately really saw very little - this is about Aurora. But in general, yes, it was very beautiful there. But again, it was still not lucky with bright sunsets and sunrises, although I went out to shoot every morning and almost every evening. This is the weather, it is unpredictable :)
I don’t know where exactly near Murmansk you can’t just get there and you need to get permission (I didn’t recognize it, because I’ve not been there before), but just this year we are going to go to those regions, for a couple of days to visit Murmansk itself and spend a few days on the coast of the Barents Sea, waiting for the Northern Lights. There is such a beautiful place as the village of Teriberka - in the Kola district of the Murmansk region (Kola Peninsula), and there is no need for special permission. In recent years, it has become quite popular in Russia for tourism and photography; people often come to its surroundings to see the beautiful and photogenic North. Now I want to try to discover it for myself, I hope I will be able to see the Northern Lights there:)
True, weather is absolutely unpredictable by the sea/ocean :) When we were near Tromsø, I've noticed there were periods, each 5-6 days of either cloudless sky and freezing temperatures, -10, -15, -20 C or warm weather 0 - +5 C and sky fully covered by clouds. One of the days we even thought Aurora is kinda joking with us as we were able to see the glows behind the cloud curtain but making photos was impossible. So in total, from the 6 nights we spend there, we were able to properly photograph it only one night.
Thanks for that info, unfortunately I haven't been to Russia, we had plans to go to Санкт Петербург few times on a photo-trip but always something was coming in our way. Lately as I am getting old, hehe, my priorities shift from cities to less populated areas with beautiful nature :)
Well, at least one night is not bad :)
Perhaps you will succeed with Russia later. There is a lot of beautiful nature here, including untouched ones (but it is, however, sometimes difficult to get to it :))
I really hope I have that chance :)