The sound of scrunchy snow under padded boots, the village laid-back that day, covers had fallen down from the sky overnight, winter sun rose within hours. The silver lining of Faroese winter, tailor-made for photoshoots, stunningly beautiful – and yet much more, in terms of “learning by looking closely“. Island knowledge and Faroese houses …
Read More
December Greetings And An Underwater Tunnel Jellyfish
The sands are running out, red-letter days ahead, another year is drawing to an end. This time next year things might be back to normal, almost, hopefully. For now, My Faroe Islands sends out its December greeting card, good wishes accompanied with a portraiture of Elduvík. What else is new? A giant underwater tunnel jellyfish. Take a look …
Read More
The Call Of The Waves
In our village, close to the old school (1887-inscription, waterside, its green corrugated iron roof being visible in the picture’s right upper corner), after I stopped following the muddy, rambling footpath and came to climb downwards that day, weathered rocks beneath my hands, boots and feet …
Read More
Elduvík, Drop Me A Line
We sat on a bench. Everything seemed to be childishly simple that day. Slow movement. Talking to the old houses of our village, in secret languages, and in confidence. Reciting nursery rhymes, accompanied by tiny little songbirds. Elduvík, poetically put …
Read More
Dripping Minutes, Towering Clouds And Nocturnal Creatures
The dripping minutes of a summer’s night. Dali’s melting clocks in the back of my mind, as I recall it. The watch hands attached to my wrist heading towards fusion while I kept on walking, leaving the village behind me, continuing another nightly stroll in silence …
Read More
Our Gorge: Welcome To A Secret Jewelry
Geological eras and water, creating secret coves, caves and mystic hollows all around the Faroe Islands, in the course of intangible periods of time. Also at our place. Welcome to nature’s jewelry. Wonderland. Our village has its own gorge. Parts of it are only accessible by water …
Read More
Land Of Water And Magical Cloudscapes
18 volcanic islands, surrounded by water, in the middle of the North Atlantic, where the warm waters of the Gulf Stream meet the cold waters of the Arctic, bathtub of the brave. And more water, constantly, from above, from the front, from behind, water everywhere, gurgling in crevices, beneath grasslands …
Read More