Archive for June, 2008

There are some things that I would like to show you about the Faroe Islands, but I can’t take a picture of them that really does them justice.
Storms when the wind blows the waterfalls up hill, rather than down.
A still, foggy summer night when everything is quiet and sounds are muffled, and the silence is […]

We have had several lovely days this week, and usually the nights are even more lovely. Even though I have often been here in the Faroe Islands during June and July, I still find the long summer days remarkable. The sun sets somewhere on the other side of the mountain at about 11:30 […]

In early June I went up the mountain side with a neighbor, who was going up to mark a new-born lamb. Most lambs are born from late April to the end of May, but this one waited until the first week of June, after the sheep had all been moved back up to the […]

Here are some pictures about nothing in particular that I took when there wasn’t really anything going on.
First are a few pictures of people in and about Fuglafjørður - the young and the old. I actually seem to know a lot of people in this town.
With rain returning during the last week or […]

Recently I have made several trips to Tórshavn, the capital city of the Faroes, and one sunny day I spent some time walking along the waterfront and the old part of town. Tinganes, a rocky point of land in the harbor, has been the seat of the Faroese government since some time in the […]

There are trees in the Faroe Islands, lots and lots of trees.
I have mentioned several times that there are no trees on the hillsides or mountains in the Faroes, but that doesn’t mean that there are no trees. Here are twentyfour pictures of trees in gardens in Fuglafjørður, which I took during […]

What were you doing on Saturday night? Here is what I was doing.
At about 11:30 p.m., I was in a strange city standing in the rain in a parking lot behind a temporary platform waiting for the brass band (called a “horn orchestra”) to pack up their instruments to make room on […]

I have often noticed that the roofs in the Faroe Islands have a different character than the roofs at home. First, because of the winter snow, the roofs are mostly peaked roofs here, with a lot of attic gables and dormer windows. At home, flat roofs are very common. The most common […]

I recently heard from Anni Haraldsen saying that she has used some of my photographs from my website as inspiration for her art work. Anni is originally from Fuglafjørður, but she is currently living in Denmark. She uses different kinds of cloth and textiles to make her pictures. These are a few […]