Mountain 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.

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.