Explore #5 - 25/03/17

The second day in Tromsø, Northern Norway, saw us heading out towards the coast and the remote Islands around Hillesøy.

The weather had taken a real turn for the worst with extremely heavy snowfall overnight, it was about -16 degrees this morning and again the snow falling heavily right from the off, it was hard to see where getting any images would be possible at all.

As we drove further South there were a few of these small dwellings dotted about and but nothing that would make a decent composition and even more so due to the snow creating a white out environment for the most part. Further along we drove past this tiny house, as we passed it was bugging me as being a potential image, so we stopped and I decided to walk back and have a go at getting something here.

There was absolutely no way to get any nearer to this house due to the depth of the snow so I opted for a longer focal length and the lens hood on to try and keep the snow off the lens, after a few attempts I settled on this composition with the mountains directly behind and centered the house as to leave no doubt as to what the subject was against the background, if you look at the image you can see the snow is still falling hard here, but the low cloud had lifted just enough to reveal the mountains on the other side of the sea. Looking back I'm so glad I made the decision to go back for this, as for many reasons this is one of my favourite images from the trip, it sums up the area for me, desolate, and unforgiving.

I don't know who lives in this little house but I hope they have a big shovel, and damn good heating!

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