Landscape on Stan Grams Photography

Tromsø: Aurora over Kvaløysletta and the city

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100

On the fourth night, the aurora reached into the settled landscape of Kvaløysletta. Moonlit cloud, calm water, cabins, sheds, and the lights across Tromsø give each frame a fixed horizon while green bands sweep and split above it. The strongest displays appear almost architectural, rising behind wooden buildings before widening over the fjord. This final sequence brings the Arctic sky closest to everyday life.

Tromsø: Aurora in Tromsø, Håkøybotn and Brokskar

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100

The evening starts under Tromsø’s streetlights before moving south and west to darker shores. At Håkøybotn and Brokskar, green and violet curtains rise behind bare trees, stretch above snowy ridges, and reflect faintly in still water. Repeated viewpoints make the aurora’s movement visible: narrow rays gather, open into a broad arc, and dissolve into softer light across the mountains.

Tromsø: Aurora in Ersfjordbotn and Grøtfjord

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100

The first night west of Tromsø began beneath cloud and grew steadily brighter. Green arcs formed over Ersfjordbotn, gathered around mountain peaks, and broke into faster folds of light at Grøtfjord. Roads and village lamps anchor the final panoramas, giving scale to the sky and tracing the shore below. The sequence records the aurora changing from a distant ribbon into the dominant presence overhead.

Sunsets in Gdańsk

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This ongoing study follows evening light around the edges of Gdańsk: Górki Zachodnie, Nowy Port, Westerplatte, and the harbour approaches. The sun appears through grasses and branches, beside navigation lights, over waves, and beyond long stone breakwaters. As colour drains from the sky, cranes and passing ships take over, extending the sequence from golden hour into blue-hour industry.

La Palma Seaside

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The roads along La Palma’s coast repeatedly open onto the Atlantic. Black lava fields slope toward the water; at Fuencaliente, white salt mounds and pink evaporation ponds surround the lighthouse; higher up, a narrow road folds through a steep volcanic face. The final panorama gathers coastline, settlement, mountains, cloud, and open ocean into one continuous edge.

La Palma Sunsets

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

La Palma often places the sunset above, rather than at, the visible horizon. From the high forest, the ocean is replaced by a level blanket of cloud and a distant island; lower down, pines and mountain slopes become silhouettes against a narrow band of colour. On the coast, the sun finally touches the Atlantic beyond banana fields and a solitary lighthouse.

La Palma Nature

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

La Palma’s interior reveals its volcanic construction in layers. Terraced ridges catch the late sun below drifting cloud, while the Caldera de Taburiente dissolves into pale haze between jagged silhouettes. These two views look less at individual landmarks than at atmosphere and geology—the island’s steep folds alternately clarified and concealed by Atlantic weather.

La Palma Observatory

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

At Roque de los Muchachos, scientific instruments share a severe volcanic ridge above the clouds. Domes and telescope dishes appear first at the end of an empty road, then repeat across successive peaks. Low shrubs soften the red ground, mist erases the horizon, and the open framework of a large telescope stands brilliant against the blue. The observatory reads as both landscape and working architecture.

Around Teide

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Teide rarely appears alone. The route around the volcano frames its summit with Canary Island pines, places dry slopes against a sea of cloud, and looks outward across the caldera before returning to the mountain’s dark, symmetrical mass. These photographs use distance and foreground to show how the peak governs the wider landscape, even when it occupies only a small part of the frame.

Lubogoszcz Forest

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

This walk around Lubogoszcz moves through several kinds of woodland. Tall conifers give way to bright birch, dense beech slopes, and a marked ridge above the Kashubian landscape. Sunlight arrives in narrow shafts, catching fresh leaves and the curves of the path before the route opens onto a dry meadow. The photographs follow the rhythm of enclosure, elevation, and release.

Borsk

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

At Borsk, the disused runway and dry grass create a broad stage for flight. Canopies are laid out, checked, pulled into shape, and carried upward as pilots run across the field. Against the clear summer sky, scale shifts constantly: a wing fills the frame at launch and becomes a bright mark a few seconds later. The sequence follows preparation, lift, and return.

A Winter In Jantar

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Jantar beach is spare and graphic in winter. A bright fishing boat stands above the tideline, a lone shrub bends over the snow, and wind sends loose powder streaming across the sand. The last image turns toward the open Baltic, where gray-blue waves meet a narrow seam of peach light. Colour appears only in small, vivid interruptions against the cold shore.

A Weekend In Hel

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Late October brought sharp light to the Hel Peninsula. The low sun turned the water silver, reduced walkers on the broad beach to small silhouettes, and picked out every fold in the dunes. Farther along, a rocky breakwater traced the edge of the peninsula into the Baltic. These three photographs follow a short walk from open sand to the exposed end of the coast.

Autumn in Sobieszewo

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Sobieszewo Island compresses several landscapes into a single walk. Moonlight filters through branches at Górki, mushrooms and a slowworm occupy the forest floor, and warm sun reaches between the pines at Świbno. The path eventually opens onto an almost empty beach before dusk carries the eye back across the water to the distant cranes of Gdańsk port.

Summer in Madeira

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Madeira’s scale changes quickly: a headland crowded at sunset gives way to black sand beneath mountain walls, then to sheer cliffs and isolated sea stacks. At São Lourenço the island feels dry and exposed; in Fanal, old laurel trees disappear into green shade and mist. The sequence follows those contrasts, with the Atlantic acting as the constant edge.

Spring by the Baltic Sea

Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

One frame can hold an entire evening. At Łeba, the sun dropped beneath a bank of spring cloud while a ship waited near the horizon. Waves kept redrawing the foreground and the wet sand briefly carried the same orange and rose colours as the sky. The photograph is an early marker in this archive: a familiar Baltic shore made new by a few minutes of light.